Documents published in 2013 : Scipedia

Media literacy, participation and accountability for the media of generation of silence
M. del Moral Pérez, L. Villalustre Martínez

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 20

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The purpose of this research is to study the level of media literacy in a sample of elderly women, the so-called «silent generation», belonging to the Asturian Housewives Association, by means of a questionnaire to collect data on critical awareness in women. The questionnaire seeks information on the persuasive effects of advertising; the women’s evaluation of the information conveyed by the media, and their training, commitment and participation as media consumers. The survey also tries to identify the women’s demands and concerns, regarding the media they usually use, by conducting focus group discussions. Findings show that the women surveyed believe that advertising lacks credibility and claim that some TV stations offer information and content which is biased or has been manipulated to the extent that it goes against the law. Although such women know the channels for citizen participation, they do not know how to exercise their rights in the face of illegal content. In addition, certain training needs have been detected. This research points to the need to design a training plan for media literacy which will empower them with critical skills and foster participation as active and responsible consumers. It is also intended that such women will acquire specific knowledge about the media, as well as the psychological strategies, technical resources and audiovisual language the media use.
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The purpose of this research is to study the level of media literacy in a sample of elderly women, the so-called «silent generation», belonging to the Asturian Housewives [...]
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Disability in the Perception of Technology among University Students
A. Zubillaga del Río, C. Alba Pastor

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 19

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There is a widespread discourse across academic and scientific literature extolling the benefits of technology as an element of the educational process for people with disabilities that is based on many assumptions and implicit claims related to «the education, disability and technology» triangle. Although these assumptions and claims have a rationale, too often they have been considered valid, and therefore guide educational practice, without having previously undergone any process of scientific research that supports and justifies them. In this context, and in order to analyse one of these theoretical premises, this study aims to establish, firstly, whether the disability is involved in the process of giving meaning to technology and, secondly, to what extent the impact of disability is a differentiating factor in the perception and use of technology as an educational element. After gathering data from questionnaires completed by university students (28 with disabilities and 109 without), the results allowed us to establish two main conclusions. The first one shows that the most valuable dimension of technology as a teaching tool is its use as a tool for curriculum access and participation. As for the second, related to the perception of accessibility issues, it paradoxically revealed that students with disabilities find the use of technology easier than their peers without disabilities.
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There is a widespread discourse across academic and scientific literature extolling the benefits of technology as an element of the educational process for people with disabilities [...]
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The Notion of Violence in Television Fiction: Children’s Interpretation
S. Aran Ramspott, M. Rodrigo Alsina

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 18

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In this paper we analyse child viewers’ interpretation of television violence shown in television programmes specifically aimed at children. The justification for this work is based on the research that considers that more theoretical and empirical studies need to be carried out on the conceptualisation of violence, and about how much violence is legitimised and through what mechanisms such legitimacy is constructed. It is aimed at providing a notion of television violence as interpreted by child television viewers which takes these mechanisms into account. The methodology used is based on an analysis of the content and the dialogue of in-depth interviews conducted with sixteen children under the age of 12 years, after showing them two sequences of television programmes with types and various formalisation of fictional violence. The results, as well as providing a conceptual map of the responses, also show how children define and differentiate different types of violence. We can also verify how their reception process is framed by their cultural history and specific reading and consumption experiences, in which contextual narrative aspects play a very important role in children’s interpretation of violence. Thus, the results of this study indicate how children give an unrestricted significance to violence.
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In this paper we analyse child viewers’ interpretation of television violence shown in television programmes specifically aimed at children. The justification for this work [...]
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A Children’s Observatory of Television: «Observar TV», a Space for Dialogue between Children
J. Vega Casanova, A. Lafaurie Molina

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 17

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This paper presents the results of work on «Observar TV», a children’s observatory of television launched in the city of Barranquilla (Colombia) in which children participated as protagonists in research, training and spaces for dialogue centred on their observations of television broadcasts. The goals of the project included: 1) to ascertain the reflection and discussion of preferences and opinions (expressed by boys and girls) regarding television; 2) to identify and discuss their imagery around citizenship in relation to coexistence and peace, multiculturalism and democratic responsibility and participation; 3) to understand the development processes that contribute to the construction of their critical thinking abilities regarding television and its consumption; 4) to increase the visibility of children as active participants in setting the public agenda of their city. This study was developed using a participatory action research approach that employed qualitative methods (focus groups, workshops, and observations) for the simultaneous execution of three components: research, training, and visibility/interaction. The results demonstrate that the child participants displayed a critical attitude toward television and expressed their likes and dislikes regarding television content. The participants took up the challenge to discuss, transform, or reaffirm their imagery relating to citizenship and strengthened their capacities in language and communication. The children expressed the reflections that came up in the work of the observatory by participating in the television program «Learning to watch television», that was produced by the regional station Telecaribe.
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This paper presents the results of work on «Observar TV», a children’s observatory of television launched in the city of Barranquilla (Colombia) in which children participated [...]
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TV Broadcasters and Research on TV and Children
M. Ortiz Sobrino, J. Ruiz San Román, E. Díaz Cerveró

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 16

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This paper describes the main contributions of the TV broadcasters in Spain to the study of the relationships between television and childhood. It is justified by the need of compile and organise these contributions. Quality contents broadcasted for children, children consumption of television and the role of TV channels to transfer a positive image of the childhood have been the mainstays of this text. The information that we report is the result of the study carried out from Observatorio Comunicación y Sociedad. Methodologically, consulting scientific bibliography about television and childhood has made possible to put our study into context. After that, the use of questionnaire to people responsible of contents broadcasted for children by the main Spanish TV channels, and the analysis of the different experiences and work papers prepared by televisions, have allowed to create a setting with the broadcasters’ main contributions to a new paradigm which improves the relationship between minors and television. The conclusion from the analysis and the consultation to experts point that, except in the case of the public state television and some regional televisions, the research and the redesign of the childhood/television relationship is not one of the channels priorities. In fact, only TVE has an important scientific production in this field.
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This paper describes the main contributions of the TV broadcasters in Spain to the study of the relationships between television and childhood. It is justified by the need [...]
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Social Networks and Young People. Comparative Study of Facebook between Colombia and Spain
A. Almansa Martínez, O. Fonseca, A. Castillo Esparcia

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 15

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Social networks have become areas of social interaction among young people where they create a profile to relate with others. The way this population uses social networks has an impact on their socialization as well as the emotional and affective aspects of their development. The purpose of this investigation was to analyze how Facebook is used by young people to communicate among themselves and the experiences they gain from it. On the one hand, while teenagers claim to know the risks, they admit to accepting strangers as friends and to sharing large amounts of true data about their private lives. For this reason, it is necessary to understand the media and digital phenomenon that the youth are living through. Although they are legally prohibited from using Facebook until they are 13, the number of underage users of this social network is growing, without any restraint from parents or schools. This investigation compares the use of Facebook by youth in Colombia and Spain by using the content analysis and interview techniques. In Colombia 100 Facebook profiles were analyzed and 20 interviews carried out with students between 12- and 15-years-old attending the Institución Educativa Distrital Técnico Internacional school in Bogotá. In Spain, 100 Facebook profiles were analyzed and 20 interviews held with students of the same age group attending various secondary schools in Andalusia.
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Social networks have become areas of social interaction among young people where they create a profile to relate with others. The way this population uses social networks [...]
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Communication Technology in the Home Environment of Four-year-old Children (Slovenia)
J. Lepicnik Vodopivec, P. Samec

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 14

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Nowadays, we cannot ignore the fact that young children are over flooded with technologies. Only a proper action and a positive attitude from adults can prevent potential negative consequences, and prepares the child for a life where the usage of communication technologies (ICTs) is necessary for an individual’s social success. This article represents the child’s access to information-communication technology, its usage at home, the influence of child’s ICTs usage on his or hers development of competences, and the child’s relation with the ICTs at home. The data was gathered with the help of 130 parents who filled out a questionnaire and provided us with their opinions about their four-year-old children and their usage of ICTs at home. We found out that four-year-old children in their home environment regularly encounter ICTs. Besides that, we were also interested whether there exist differences according to the child’s gender and the parents’ level of education. Moreover, we present parents’ opinions at suggestions for further studying of this issue.
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Nowadays, we cannot ignore the fact that young children are over flooded with technologies. Only a proper action and a positive attitude from adults can prevent potential [...]
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The e-Research on Media & Communications: Attitudes, Tools and Practices in Latin America Researchers
C. Arcila Calderón, J. Piñuel Raigada, M. Calderín Cruz

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 13

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e-Research is changing practices and dynamics in social research by the incorporation of advanced e-tools to process data and increase scientific collaboration. Previous research shows a positive attitude of investigators through e-Research and shows a fast incorporation of e-Tools, in despite of many cultural resistances to the change. This paper examines the current state (attitudes, tools and practices) of e-Research in the field of Media and Communication Studies in Latin America, Spain and Portugal. A total of 316 researchers of the region answered an online survey during the last 2 months of 2011. Findings confirm an optimistic attitude through e-Research and an often use of e-Tools to do research. Even though, most of them informed to use basic e-Tools (e.g. e-mail, commercial videoconference, office software and social networks) instead of advanced technologies to process huge amount of data (e.g. Grid, simulation software and Internet2) or the incorporation to Virtual Research Communities. Some of the researchers said that they had an «intensive» (31%) and «often» (53%) use of e-Tools, but only 22% stated that their computer capacity was not enough to manage and process data. The paper evidences the gap between e-Research in Communications and e-Research in other disciplines; and makes recommendations for its implementation.
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e-Research is changing practices and dynamics in social research by the incorporation of advanced e-tools to process data and increase scientific collaboration. Previous research [...]
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New Media as a Tool for Civic Learning
E. Middaugh, J. Kahne

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 12

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Service-Learning, a popular approach to citizenship education in the US, provides youth with opportunities to define and address public needs while reflecting on the knowledge, skills, and relationships needed to do such work. This approach assumes education for democratic citizenship must help youth understand themselves as part of a larger community, increase their sense of agency and efficacy as civic actors, and increase their ability to analyze social and political issues. It also assumes that these outcomes are best learned through experience. Creating these conditions can be quite challenging in the context of schools, where students are typically separated from the community, highly controlled in their activities, and have limited time to grasp the complexities of a given topic. This piece responds to the growing role of new media in civic and political activity. Specifically, it examines how the integration of new media into service learning may facilitate or challenge the core pedagogical goals of this approach to civic education and the implications for the practice of supporting youth civic engagement in school settings. Based on a review of existing programs and research, the authors illustrate how new media can be used to support four primary goals of service learning – designing authentic learning environments, connecting to community, supporting youth voice, and encouraging engagement with issues of social justice.
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Service-Learning, a popular approach to citizenship education in the US, provides youth with opportunities to define and address public needs while reflecting on the knowledge, [...]
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Learning Lives Connected: Digital Youth across School and Community Spaces
O. Erstad, Ø. Gilje, H. Arnseth

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 11

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Whereas most studies of learning explore intra-institutional experiences, our interest is to track individual learning trajectories across domains. Research on young people’s use of different media outside schools shows how practices of using digital media are different from practices in schools in both form and content. The major challenge today, however, is to find ways of understanding the interconnections and networking between these two lifeworlds as experienced by young people. Important elements here are adapted concepts like context, trajectories and identity related to activity networks. We will present data from the ongoing «learning lives project» in a multicultural community in Oslo. We will especially focus on students of Media and Communication studies at upper secondary school level. Using an ethnographic approach we will focus on how learners’ identities are constructed and negotiated across different kinds of learning relationships. The data will consist of both researcher-generated data (interviews, video-observations, field notes) and informant-generated data (photos, diaries, maps).
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Whereas most studies of learning explore intra-institutional experiences, our interest is to track individual learning trajectories across domains. Research on young people’s [...]
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Expanding Community: Youth, Social Networking and Schools
A. Stornaiuolo, J. DiZio, E. Hellmich

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 10

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This study examined the construct of community and its development in online spaces through a qualitative analysis of middle school students’ participation in a private social network. Drawing on notions of community inspired by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, we found that students, despite not knowing one another previously, were willing both to encounter and come to know each other, using the resources of the network to build the trust that became foundational to their online social relationships. They did so primarily through two kinds of interactional effort that we call «public work» and «proximity work». Negotiating their positions relative to one another (proximity work) and across public/private spaces (public work), youth used a variety of semiotic tools to establish relationships and address the considerable challenges of digitally mediated communication with unknown others. This study suggests that educationally focused social networks can be designed for, or their uses primed toward, communicative purposes and activities foregrounding reciprocal exchange that is ethically alert and socially aware, and that schools and other educational institutions, though historically resistant to technological innovation, have an important role to play in this process.
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This study examined the construct of community and its development in online spaces through a qualitative analysis of middle school students’ participation in a private [...]
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Everyday Racism and «My Tram Experience»: Emotion, Civic Performance and Learning on YouTube
S. Banaji

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 9

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Does the public expression and performance of shock, distress, anger, frustration and ideological disapproval of particular sorts of politics constitute a form of collective political expression from which individuals can learn about being citizens? When it comes to the expression of feelings of racial and other types of prejudice, has political correctness led to a deepening of entrenched racist beliefs with no channel for discussion? This article engages with such questions through a case study of YouTube responses to «My Tram Experience» a commuter-uploaded mobile-phone video of a racist diatribe on a tram in the UK. Using qualitative content analysis, and thematic analysis, it describes how these performed, networked and distributed moments of citizen angst demonstrate a limited but interesting range of civic engagements with and positionings towards racism, immigration, class and nationalism. For one reason or another these are not allowed to occur in other public for a such as the mainstream media or schools. The article argues that these vlogs are both a wide-ranging potentially therapeutic resource for those needing validation for their racist or anti-racist views, or for those who wish to express and garner solidarity for discomfort and pain caused by racism; they are also a significant though currently uncurated resource for citizenship education both formal and informal because of their engagements with technology, social context, emotional context and political rhetoric.
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Does the public expression and performance of shock, distress, anger, frustration and ideological disapproval of particular sorts of politics constitute a form of collective [...]
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Interactive Youth and Civic Cultures: The Educational, Mediatic and Political Meaning of the 15M
E. Hernández Merayo, M. Robles Vílchez, J. Martínez Rodríguez

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 8

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This contribution is justified by the necessity of analyzing the participative content that the interactive youth transmitted in the use of ICTs and social networks in the origin of the social movement of the Spanish Revolution. Our objectives have been focused on proving how young people feel, live and experience the democratic citizenship by means of audiovisual display systems, participating in public open spaces where a better informed digital citizenship is being formed among the technological convergence, hypertextuality and non linearity. We have tried to identify both the educational content of their interactions and implications and the use of audiovisual display systems in their organization as a group. The methodology we have used is the in-depth case study in the days when people occupied public spaces. We collected observations, interviews, information from the social networks (Twitter, Facebook, n-1, Tuenti), news in the media and also information, posters and photographs generated during the occupation by the participants themselves. From this techno-educational point of view we analyze how these young people widen their communicative relationships and get connected on line creating new meanings for educational, social and political issues. The analysis of their speeches shows us a reappropriation of the ICTs by these young people who express and communicate publicly and contributing in this way with new points of view for the citizenship education.
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This contribution is justified by the necessity of analyzing the participative content that the interactive youth transmitted in the use of ICTs and social networks in the [...]
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Learning about Power and Citizenship in an Online Virtual World
D. Buckingham, C. Rodríguez Hoyos

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 7

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This work presents a research study designed to analyse the development of power relations in a virtual world, known as Habbo Hotel, aimed at the child and teenage market. What motivated this work was the desire to understand how this company wielded its power through the different agents responsible for taking decisions on the behaviour of the users within this virtual world. Simultaneously, this research went deeply into the type of lessons learnt by users as to citizenship springing from the behaviour rules imposed by the company owning this space. In order to understand what young people were learning about the wielding of power, and the prototype model citizen within the virtual world, we analyse the systems of rules that govern what users can or cannot do, and we proceed to analyse the contents of spaces in which users will talk about the reasons why the company had expelled them from Habbo Hotel. The findings of this work reveal that the application of rules on the part of the company results in the experience inside this virtual world not always being fun, democratic, creative, participative or completely satisfying. This thus questions some of the main arguments proposed by different writers on these new forms of communication.
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This work presents a research study designed to analyse the development of power relations in a virtual world, known as Habbo Hotel, aimed at the child and teenage market. [...]
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The «i-Generation» and its Interaction in Social Networks. An Analysis of Coca-Cola on Tuenti
C. Marta Lazo, E. Martínez Rodrigo, L. Sánchez Martín

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 1

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Teenagers and young adults are increasingly using social networks as a means to interact and participate in constructing a multiple speech. Companies take direct options with followers in networks and use these virtual structures to approach their target. The purpose of this paper is to study, using empirical and observational methodology, how to build «Coca-Cola» brand image in «Tuenti», followed by the network over the public sector. Among other things, we will see how involved the brand and how followers, what are the issues that are introduced on the inputs and through what kind of formats. In conclusion, we noted that the interest in the brand of free speech to let the followers is just a strategy, the actual entries of «Coca-Cola» are very rare but they all have a high effect, a language that challenges the user to activate and resume his speech so directed. Moreover, there is no mechanism differentiating between information, entertainment and advertising, which combined with continued exposure to advertising impacts across different formats, leads us to propose the need for media education to encourage responsible use critic and social networks by young people.
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Teenagers and young adults are increasingly using social networks as a means to interact and participate in constructing a multiple speech. Companies take direct options with [...]
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Youth’s Usage of Leisure Time with Video Games and Social Networks
B. Muros Ruiz, Y. Aragón Carretero, A. Bustos Jiménez

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 6

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The aim of this article is to understand the behaviour of Secondary Education students during their leisure time when using some different virtual spaces. We report a study carried out in a Community Centre offering training and leisure services for youngsters. Due to the large number of technological activities offered, this study paves the way for analysis and reflection about the hidden reasons and motivations young people have to use virtual spaces. We also show the interpretations and reflections of youngsters in their personal relationships and models of cohabitation. Our study likewise approaches the relation that youngsters establish between real and virtual spaces, focusing our attention on the construction of interactions which stems from their personal experiences. For data collection we carried out observations, conversations, analysis of documents and interviews. We analyzed with special interest the meanings that youngsters assign to their experiences in relation with mediatic and civic processes during their leisure time. The results of the study help to know the initiative, motivations and manner of acting that the youngsters of this study have on their ways of socialization in community. Concretely, the aspects allied with the search of pleasure, entertainment, the maintenance of social ties and continuous stimulation uses.
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The aim of this article is to understand the behaviour of Secondary Education students during their leisure time when using some different virtual spaces. We report a study [...]
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Interactions of Young Andalusian People inside Social Networks
C. Bernal Bravo, F. Angulo Rasco

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 5

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Several studies on youth and social networks have generally revealed extensive usage of these Internet services, widespread access from almost any location and the special importance that the youth attach to these services in building their social relations. This article presents part of the analyses and results from a research questionnaire on «Scenarios, digital technologies and youth in Andalusia», administered to a population of 1,487 youth between the ages of 13 and 19. The discussion on young Andalusians and social networks revolves around the structure and configuration of their profiles, intended uses and the privacy and security involved. The results reveal a population with nearly unlimited access to social networks and with very little adult monitoring; moreover, those connecting are younger than the legal minimum age defined by the Internet services themselves. The motivations of Andalusian youth for using social networks fall into three areas. The first two, social and psychological/affective motivations, are also commonly found in other studies; the third refers to the need to use social networks in matters concerning everyday life. This paper suggests certain new aspects in its conclusions in order to explain the nature and meaning of the practices of Andalusian youth in social networks.
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Several studies on youth and social networks have generally revealed extensive usage of these Internet services, widespread access from almost any location and the special [...]
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Young People and Social Networks: Motivations and Preferred Uses
P. Colás Bravo, T. González Ramírez, J. de Pablos Pons

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 4

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This article presents the results of a study on the use of social networks among young Andalusians. The main objectives are to know the uses of social networks, their frequency and the motives behind their use. A questionnaire was used to collect the data. The sample includes 1487 adolescents in Andalusia. The results show that young people, for the most part, consistently used social networks. We identified two motivational aspects in this use: one social and the other psychological. There are not significant gender differences in frequency of use, but rather in the motivations for access. Boys tend to be the more emotional type, while girls were dominated by a more relational motivation. The results show similarities with international researches in environments that vary greatly from the present work. The conclusions suggest the need for future lines of work. This study also identifies the implications of social network uses for active citizenship and participatory training and social integration. These results are also important for the enrichment of dimensions such as social capital development and education.
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This article presents the results of a study on the use of social networks among young Andalusians. The main objectives are to know the uses of social networks, their frequency [...]
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Interactive Youth: New Citizenship between Social Networks and School Settings
D. Buckingham, J. Martínez Rodríguez

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 3
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Media Programme (UE) - International Support for Media Education
J. Aguaded Gómez

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2013). Vol. 21, (1), 2
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Reviews Caplletra 54
A. diversos

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (1), 1

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Reviews Caplletra 54 (Spring, 2013) Héctor Càmara i Sempere, ressenya d'Eulàlia Miralles (ed.), Del Cinccents al Setcents. Tres-cents anys de literatura catalana, Edicions Vitel·la («Philologica: Sèrie Estudis»), Bellcaire d'Empordà, 2011, 574 pp.Mateu Rodrigo Lizondo, ressenya de La novel·la de Joanot Martorell i l'Europa del segle xv. Actes del Congrés Internacional (València, 14-18 setembre de 2010), coordinat per Ricard Bellveser. I tom en 2 vols., València, Diputació de València / Institució Alfons el Magnànim, 2011, 743 pp.Montserrat Piera, ressenya de Robert Archer, La cuestión odiosa: La mujer en la literatura hispánica tardomedieval. Trad. Marion Coderch Barrios. València, Diputació de València / Institució Alfons el Magnànim, 2011.Kenneth Brown, ressenya de Joan Santanach et alii, Llengua i literatura. Barcelona 1700, Barcelona, Ajuntament de Barcelona / Editorial Barcino, 2011, 287 pp.M. Àngels Francés Díez, ressenya d'Arnau i Segarra, Pilar & Luisa Cotoner Cerdó, Els subjectes de l'alteritat. Estudis sobre la narrativa de Carme Riera, Barcelona/Palma, Edicions UIB / Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat / Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics (col·lecció «Miquel dels Sants Oliver», núm. 41), 193 pp.Laia Climent, ressenya de M. Àngels Francés Díez, Montserrat Roig: feminisme, memòria i testimoni, Barcelona, Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 2012, 216 pp.Miquel Nicolás, ressenya de Vicent Pitarch, Pompeu Fabra, l'autoritat admirada pel valencianisme, Benassal, Fundació Carles Salvador, 2011, 149 pp.Salvador Climent, ressenya de M. Teresa Ynglés, El datiu en català: una aproximació des de la lingüística congnitiva, Barcelona, Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 2011, 335 pp.Amadeu Viana, ressenya de Lluís Payrató & Josep M. Cots (ed.), The pragmatics of Catalan, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2011, 391 pp.
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Reviews Caplletra 54 (Spring, 2013) Héctor Càmara i Sempere, ressenya d'Eulàlia Miralles (ed.), Del Cinccents al Setcents. Tres-cents anys de literatura catalana, Edicions [...]
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Reviews Caplletra 55
A. diversos

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (2), 12

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Reviews Caplletra 55 (Autumn, 2013) Henry Ettinghausen, ressenya de Gabriel Andrés, Relaciones de fiestas barrocas: Valencia. Textos y estudios, Editorial Académica Española, Saarbrücken, 2011, 277 pp.Joan Borja i Sanz, ressenya de Vicent Simbor, Joan Fuster: el projecte de normalització del circuit literari, València, Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2012, 312 pp.Brauli Montoya Abat, ressenya de María Victoria Navas Sánchez-Élez, El barranqueño. Un modelo de lenguas en contacto, Madrid, Editorial Complutense / Centro de Lingüística da Universidade de Lisboa, 2011, 319 pp.Ronald E. Surtz, ressenya de Bernat Metge, Book of Fortune and Prudence. Introduced and translated by David Barnett. Barcelona, Barcino / Woodbridge, Tamesis, 2011, 87 pp.Jordi Antolí, ressenya d'Antoni Ferrando (ed.), Estudis lingüístics i culturals sobre Curial e Güelfa, novel·la cavalleresca anònima dle segle xv en llengua catalana. Linguistic and Cultural Studies on Curial e Güelfa, a xvth century anonymous chivalric romance in Catalan language, Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company («Series Ivitra Research in Linguistics and Literarture», 3), 2012, xxi + 1193 pp.Vicent Simbor Roig, ressenya de Pere Molas, Eulàlia Duran i Josep Massot (directors), Diccionari biogràfic de l'Acadèmia de Bones Lletres, Barcelona, Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres / Fundació Noguera, 2012, 503 pp.Eulàlia Miralles, ressenya d'Estela Pérez Bosch, Los poetas valencianos del Cancionero general (Valencia, 1511 y 1514), València, Institució Alfons el Magnànim / Diputació de València, 2011, 671 pp.Rafael Alemany Ferrer, ressenya de Rosa Navarro Durán, El Tirant lo Blanc i la seva presència en el Lazarillo de Tormes i en les novel·les de Cervantes, traducció de Maria Pilar Perea, Castelló / Barcelona, fundació Germà Colón Domènech / Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat («Col·lecció Germà Colón d'Estudis Filològics»), 2011, 145 pp.
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Reviews Caplletra 55 (Autumn, 2013) Henry Ettinghausen, ressenya de Gabriel Andrés, Relaciones de fiestas barrocas: Valencia. Textos y estudios, Editorial Académica Española, [...]
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«Isabel Andrés Lorente en la poesia de Vicent Andrés Estellés durant 1956 i 1957»
F. Carbó

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (2), 18

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Aquest article fa un seguiment del tractament literari de la mort de la primera filla del poeta Vicent Andrés Estellés en la producció escrita durant el primer any des de la mort, és a dir, des de la primavera de 1956 fins a la de 1957. Aquest període abraça textos d’algunes obres significatives com, entre d’altres, «Primera soledad», «La nit», «Llibre d’exilis» o el tercer poema de «Coral romput». La ficcionalització literària d’aquesta vivència biogràfica condiciona i determina no sols la vida de l’autor sinó també la producció poètica del període.
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Aquest article fa un seguiment del tractament literari de la mort de la primera filla del poeta Vicent Andrés Estellés en la producció escrita durant el primer any des [...]
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«Els creadors de ficcions damunt l'escena: del "teatre autobiogràfic" a l'"autobiografia escènica"»
R. Rosselló

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (2), 15

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Aquest article se centra en modalitats diferents de construcció de l’obra teatral que tenen com a base una relació explícita, amb major o menor grau, entre el creador i la ficció: teatre autobiogràfic, teatre autoficcional i autobiografia escènica. Veurem com aquesta relació es fa present en el procés de recepció a través de diferents mecanismes, especialment a partir de paratextos, i com permet activar pactes de lectura entre obra i receptor de tarannà divers. En concret, aquest acostament a la metaficció autobiogràfica en el teatre contemporani es desenvolupa a partir de l’anàlisi de tres obres: «Indian summer» (1987), de Rodolf Sirera, «Currículum» (1994), de Pasqual Alapont i Carles Alberola, i «Com a pedres» (2006), de la companyia El pont flotant.
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Aquest article se centra en modalitats diferents de construcció de l’obra teatral que tenen com a base una relació explícita, amb major o menor grau, entre el creador [...]
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«"Memòria de Bretanya", de Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas, en el context de la literatura autobiogràfica contemporània»
A. Esteve

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (2), 13

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En aquest article ens proposem situar, interpretar i valorar «Matèria de Bretanya» dins la producció autobiogràfica catalana més recent. Per tal de satisfer aquest objectiu abordarem, de bon principi, la problemàtica i sempre discutible qüestió del gènere d’aquesta obra. Sense voluntat de perdre’ns entre teoritzacions estèrils però amb la intenció de posar de manifest la filiació de «Matèria de Bretanya» amb les formes de literatura del jo, mirarem de fer dialogar el relat de Sánchez-Cutillas amb algunes obres coetànies, especialment valencianes, que posaran en relleu l’existència d’una línia d’escriptura memorialística ben personal que arrenca amb «Matèria de Bretanya» i arriba fins a l’actualitat.
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En aquest article ens proposem situar, interpretar i valorar «Matèria de Bretanya» dins la producció autobiogràfica catalana més recent. Per tal de satisfer aquest objectiu [...]
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«Subjecte a la memòria. Autobiografia, ficció i autoficció en la narrativa d'Ignasi Mora»
A. Cabanilles

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (2), 20

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En aquest article s’analitza com la memòria dels espais primigenis que apareixen en l’obra literària d’Ignasi Mora intervenen decisivament en la modelació dels seus personatges. Són territoris documentats que l’escriptor pretén convertir en literaris, alhora que juga amb les històries i els personatges, en una indissoluble relació entre realitat i ficció. Els llibres de Mora, tant els biogràfics com els narratius, resulten de dificultosa o gairebé impossible classificació, proses del jo al pol oposat d’un llenguatge referencialista o essencialista, on la infància clou un temps i un espai mítics. Seguint aquest fil, al final de l’article aventurem una hipòtesi: un temps i un espai clausurats mesuraran tots els altres temps i tots els altres espais en l’obra de Mora.
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En aquest article s’analitza com la memòria dels espais primigenis que apareixen en l’obra literària d’Ignasi Mora intervenen decisivament en la modelació dels seus [...]
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«Autor, realitat i ficció en la narrativa de Jordi Sarsanedas»
C. Gregori i Soldevila

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (2), 17

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L’article analitza el tractament de la figura de l’autor real en els reculls de narracions de Jordi Sarsanedas. En el primer, «Mites», el prefaci auctorial ha estat interpretat en clau autobiogràfica, a pesar de l’absència de marques explícites, de la ficcionalització amb què s’hi elaboren alguns dels elements i de l’enunciació a càrrec d’un jo que es projecta fantasmagòricament en els narradors autodiegètics de les narracions de ficció. En el darrer, «Una discreta venjança», l’estatus del prefaci auctorial és ambigu perquè es confon amb la metaficcionalitat dominant en el recull, sobretot a causa de l’ús de la metalepsi de l’autor. També s’hi analitza el tractament de la figura de l’autor ficcional en la novel·la «El Martell».
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L’article analitza el tractament de la figura de l’autor real en els reculls de narracions de Jordi Sarsanedas. En el primer, «Mites», el prefaci auctorial ha estat [...]
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«La representació del col·loquial mediatitzat. Aproximació a un model de quatre constituents»
D. Paloma

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (2), 14

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L’article ofereix un model de representació del col·loquial mediatitzat que es defineix i es concreta en el marc de les sèries de televisió. Partint d’una dotzena desèries emeses per Televisió de Catalunya, tant de producció pròpia com de producció aliena, d’humor i no d’humor, es presenta un model que visualitza les relacions entre la llengua col·loquial, la llengua col·loquial normativa, la llengua col·loquial avalada pels llibres d’estil dels mitjans de comunicació i, finalment, la llengua col·loquial que ni és normativa ni és avalada pels llibres d’estil. L’article se centra en el lèxic que s’utilitza en les sèries de televisió sense renunciar a exemples singulars de fonètica i de morfosintaxi. Les diferents formes que identifiquen el col·loquial mediatitzat ajuden a veure la textura d’aquesta modalitat lingüística i, sobretot, la relació entre els quatre constituents que en conformen el model.
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L’article ofereix un model de representació del col·loquial mediatitzat que es defineix i es concreta en el marc de les sèries de televisió. Partint d’una dotzena [...]
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«(Des)obediències de la reducció vocàlica en el català de Mallorca»
C. Pons-Moll

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (2), 21

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En el català de Mallorca, el procés de reducció vocàlica de les vocals mitjanes de la sèrie anterior a e neutra en posició àtona no opera (o subaplica) en determinades circumstàncies: (a) en formes derivades productives amb una vocal àtona situada a la síl·laba esquerra o inicial del radical i alternant amb e tancada o e oberta en el radical de la forma primitiva; (b) en formes verbals amb una vocal àtona situada a la síl·laba esquerra o inicial del radical i alternant amb e tancada en una altra forma verbal del mateix paradigma flexiu; (c) en manlleus i paraules apreses amb una vocal àtona e situada, també, a la síl·laba esquerra o inicial del radical i generalment precedida d’una consonant labial. En aquest treball, argumentem que hi ha dos factors que conspiren perquè això sigui d’aquesta manera: (a) tal com ja s’ha fet notar en treballs anteriors, la voluntat d’aquestes vocals d’assemblar-se a les vocals corresponents que apareixen en mots del mateix paradigma derivatiu o flexiu, i, en el cas de la derivació, sobretot quan la relació derivativa és productiva; (b) l’estatus privilegiat de la síl·laba situada a l’esquerra o a l’inici del radical. Per donar compte del primer factor, proposem una nova interpretació dels fets emmarcada en la Teoria de la Correspondència Transderivacional i el model dels Paradigmes Òptims. Per donar compte del segon factor, que ha passat desapercebut en aproximacions anteriors a les mateixes dades, partim de la Teoria de la Fidelitat Posicional i de la Teoria del Marcatge Posicional.
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En el català de Mallorca, el procés de reducció vocàlica de les vocals mitjanes de la sèrie anterior a e neutra en posició àtona no opera (o subaplica) en determinades [...]
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«Èpica llatina per a Jaume I: el poema "Triumphus Valentinus" del "novator" valencià Josep Ignasi Barberà»
A. Biosca i Bas

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (2), 19

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El poema «Triumphus Valentinus» del valencià Josep Ignasi Barberà, obra encara inèdita i poc coneguda, està format per més de cinc mil hexàmetres llatins que narren la presa de Valencia per part del rei Jaume I. Es tracta d’un poema de principi del segle XVIII, amb característiques pròpies del gust neoclàssic i preil·lustrat, on coincideixen l’interès per la història valenciana, la tradició clàssica grecoromana i el reflex del canvi dinàstic a la corona hispànica. El model estètic seguit per l’autor és clarament l’«Eneida» de Virgili, tant per forma com per contingut. Malgrat l’interès mostrat per autors coetanis com Gregori Maians, l’obra ha passat pràcticament desapercebuda.
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El poema «Triumphus Valentinus» del valencià Josep Ignasi Barberà, obra encara inèdita i poc coneguda, està format per més de cinc mil hexàmetres llatins que narren [...]
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«Notícia d'unes "Exclamacions sobre la Passió de Crist" (BC, MS. 473) i la seva relació amb l'"Arbor" d'Ubertí de Casale»)
L. Cabré, M. Ferrer

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (2), 16

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En aquest treball es publiquen unes inèdites «Exclamacions sobre la Passió de Crist» procedents del manuscrit 473 de la Biblioteca de Catalunya, probablement confegit a Sant Jeroni de la Murtra a finals del segle xv. Les Exclamacions es relacionen literalment amb un text català ja conegut, inclòs a la «Vita Christi» d’Eiximenis i al manuscrit 451 de la Biblioteca de Catalunya, i al seu torn inspirat en l’«Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu» d’Ubertí de Casale i en les «Meditationes vitae Christi». Sembla que les «Exclamacions» són en substància una amplificació retòrica d’aquest text català, que transmetia ja un esquema de contemplació basat en les parts del cos de Crist en braços de la Verge. Les «Exclamacions», en canvi, aprofiten aquest esquema al llarg de la Passió, hi afegeixen altres motius i una llarga secció sobre les set paraules de Crist a la creu.
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En aquest treball es publiquen unes inèdites «Exclamacions sobre la Passió de Crist» procedents del manuscrit 473 de la Biblioteca de Catalunya, probablement confegit [...]
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La representació conceptual del gènere. Una revisió crítica
M. Cortès-Colomé

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (1), 4

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Des de la perspectiva psicolingüística, diversos treballs s’han preguntat si el gènere es representa a nivell conceptual. En el marc de les noves interpretacions de la hipòtesi del relativisme lingüístic, s’ha proposat que les diferències de gènere (masculí o femení) influencien la conceptualització. Aquest article fa una anàlisi d’alguns dels estudis de referència i argumenta que a partir d’aquests estudis no es pot concloure que el gènere tingui efectes en el pensament no lingüístic. La revisió feta indica que el gènere és una propietat lexicosemàntica dels noms i que es representa lingüísticament, la qual cosa és compatible amb la hipòtesi del Pensar per Parlar. Tanmateix, es defensa que a efectes del relativisme lingüístic aquest àmbit de la llengua no és pertinent perquè, a diferència del sexe, no té una base semàntica. Se suggereix que el debat es pot haver generat des de la representació semàntica de parlants de llengües que no tenen flexió de gènere.
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Des de la perspectiva psicolingüística, diversos treballs s’han preguntat si el gènere es representa a nivell conceptual. En el marc de les noves interpretacions de la [...]
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Els «criteris de visibilització de les dones» en català: límits sintacticosemàntics i discursius
N. Nogué Serrano

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (1), 3

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L’objectiu d’aquest article és analitzar els principals criteris que les guies d’estil recomanen per a visibilitzar les dones —o per fer un ús no sexista del llenguatge— des de dos punts de vista: el sintacticosemàntic i el discursiu. Des del punt de vista sintacticosemàntic, s’estudien bàsicament els fenòmens relacionats amb la coordinació, la concordança i la repetició o elisió d’elements (per exemple, especificadors del nom), i la manera com les diferents opcions afecten el significat oracional. Des del punt de vista discursiu, s’analitzen els fenòmens relacionats amb la coreferència; és a dir, la relació entre les diferents maneres d’expressar un mateix referent per mitjà d’elements nominals al llarg del text, i l’efecte que provoquen en el text en conjunt. Amb aquest objectiu, l’estudi analitza des d’un punt de vista qualitatiu les dades proporcionades per un corpus de textos procedents de tres àmbits (polític, administratiu i educatiu) en què s’apliquen sovint aquesta mena de criteris.
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L’objectiu d’aquest article és analitzar els principals criteris que les guies d’estil recomanen per a visibilitzar les dones —o per fer un ús no sexista del llenguatge— [...]
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El gènere en les llengües romàniques: quan el gènere expressa el nombre i el femení és neutre
X. Lamuela

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (1), 8

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L’etiqueta de gènere s’aplica a nocions gramaticals diverses: la distinció de classes convencionals de noms, la distinció de diverses categories semàntiques (particularment, els inanimats i el sexe dels animats) o la caracterització de pronoms referits a persones o a coses en general. Aquest article repassa el funcionament del gènere gramatical en les llengües romàniques. Comença per fenòmens coneguts en aquestes llengües, tals com les menes de distribució de les marques, l’existència d’una classe de noms ambígena en algunes llengües, la variació en l’atribució de gènere i els casos de concordança. En acabat, s’ocupa de manera especial de l’anomenat neutre de matèria, i també de l’oposició entre els pronoms referits a persones o a coses en general. Pel que fa als noms femenins col·lectius i al neutre de matèria, s’hi mostra com morfemes que són aparentment marques de gènere s’utilitzen per a expressar l’oposició entre comptable i no comptable, associada habitualment al nombre. Respecte a l’oposició entre els pronoms referits a persones i a coses en general, es dóna una explicació de l’ús de formes de femení amb pronoms que tenen valor de neutre.
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L’etiqueta de gènere s’aplica a nocions gramaticals diverses: la distinció de classes convencionals de noms, la distinció de diverses categories semàntiques (particularment, [...]
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Gènesi i evolució de la categoria de gènere en indoeuropeu
I. Adiego

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (1), 6

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Hi ha indicis, tant comparatius com interns, que el sistema de tres gèneres gramaticals (masculí, femení, neutre) present en la majoria de les llengües indoeuropees antigues és fruit d’un desenvolupament recent (en termes de cronologia relativa). No obstant això, els detalls d’aquest desenvolupament i la contribució de les llengües indoeuropees de la branca anatòlica al seu estudi són encara objecte de controvèrsia. En aquest article es traça un estat de la qüestió i s’intenta suggerir diferents escenaris per a la gènesi i evolució de la categoria de gènere en indoeuropeu.
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Hi ha indicis, tant comparatius com interns, que el sistema de tres gèneres gramaticals (masculí, femení, neutre) present en la majoria de les llengües indoeuropees antigues [...]
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Introducció
N. Nogué Serrano, M. Cortès-Colomé

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (1), 11

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Introducció al monogràfic.
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Cervantisme català i traducció: anàlisi d'adaptacions infantils i juvenils
R. Agost

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (1), 9

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Al voltant de 2005, quart centenari de la publicació de la primera part del Quixot, hem constatat l’aparició de vint adaptacions i versions al català per a joves i infants d’aquesta obra cervantina. La dada resulta especialment significativa si tenim en compte que durant els tres segles anteriors únicament se’n van editar set. En aquest article oferirem una relació i una anàlisi descriptiva que integra text i imatge, de totes les reescriptures derivades de l’obra original adreçades al públic infantil i juvenil, amb referència especial a aquelles publicades entre 2004 i 2005. Així mateix, analitzarem les dades obtingudes de l’anàlisi des d’una perspectiva holística que ens permet descriure alguns factors del context comunicatiu, especialment determinats aspectes sociològics de les adaptacions, estudiar la importància de determinats elements paratextuals i sistematitzar algunes estratègies i tècniques de traducció que s’han fet servir.
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Al voltant de 2005, quart centenari de la publicació de la primera part del Quixot, hem constatat l’aparició de vint adaptacions i versions al català per a joves i infants [...]
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Denominacions del crepuscle en llengua catalana
M. Massanell i Messalles, J. Torruella

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (1), 7

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En aquest article d’orientació geolingüística i diacrònica, basat fonamentalment en dades de l’Atles lingüístic del domini català (ALDC) i del Corpus Informatitzat del Català Antic (CICA), s’analitzen més de vuitanta denominacions catalanes del crepuscle. D’una banda, se’n proporciona una doble classificació per criteris morfosintàctics, primerament, i motivacionals, després. De l’altra, se n’estudia la distribució geogràfica actual per lexemes, que s’ofereix cartografiada, i quan és possible, es ressegueixen les traces històriques de les diverses denominacions.
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En aquest article d’orientació geolingüística i diacrònica, basat fonamentalment en dades de l’Atles lingüístic del domini català (ALDC) i del Corpus Informatitzat [...]
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Quan el traductor és sobretot escriptor: el cas de la traducció d'«El guepard» de Tomasi di Lampedusa
C. Briguglia

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (1), 5

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Aquest article exposa, en primer lloc, les relacions entre l’escriptor sicilià Tomasi di Lampedusa i el mallorquí Llorenç Villalonga. L’anàlisi de les afinitats i les divergències estilístiques entre els dos autors té com a objectiu l’estudi descriptiu de la traducció catalana de la novel·la Il Gattopardo, a fi de destacar les estratègies adoptades pel traductor Villalonga i els canvis que suposen en comparació amb l’original. L’estudi intenta buscar les raons dels canvis en la poètica pròpia del traductor i arriba a la conclusió que, en la traducció de Il Gattopardo, va tenir un pes notable el diferent plantejament estilístic entre els dos autors: gras i barroc, Lampedusa; prim i essencial, Villalonga. Aquesta diferència porta l’escriptor mallorquí a adaptar l’obra mestra lampedusiana a l’estil propi, rebutjant i escurçant els excessos de l’escriptor sicilià.
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Aquest article exposa, en primer lloc, les relacions entre l’escriptor sicilià Tomasi di Lampedusa i el mallorquí Llorenç Villalonga. L’anàlisi de les afinitats i [...]
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Poder i submissió a la lírica cortesa medieval provençal, catalana i valenciana
M. Coderch

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (1), 10

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La qüestió dels orígens i el desenvolupament de la lírica cortesa a les corts occitanes durant les últimes dècades del segle xi i al llarg del xii continua ocupant la crítica literària. Alguns dels estudis que s’hi han dedicat han identificat les claus de l’èxit d’aquesta lírica amb alguns aspectes que consideren innovadors per al públic de l’època, com ara l’exaltació de l’amor humà i la posició de poder en la qual apareix la dona. Aquest argument resulta poc convincent per dues raons: d’una banda, no considera la varietat de la casuística amorosa que presenta la lírica trobadoresca; d’una altra banda, no té en compte que aquests motius ja eren presents en altres manifestacions líriques. En aquest article mostrem que l’atractiu de la lírica cortesa per a la seva audiència no raïa en aquests trets, sinó en altres aspectes exclusius d’aquesta manifestació i, per tant, innovadors. També afirmem que la sobirania que s’ha atribuït a la dona en la lírica cortesa és, en realitat, fictícia. Il·lustrem aquests arguments amb textos dels trobadors provençals i dels poetes catalans i valencians dels segles xiv i xv que van donar continuïtat a la tradició trobadoresca.
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La qüestió dels orígens i el desenvolupament de la lírica cortesa a les corts occitanes durant les últimes dècades del segle xi i al llarg del xii continua ocupant la [...]
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La variable sexe en les llengües del món
M. Junyent

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2013). Vol. 28, (1), 2

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El sexe és una de les variables més freqüents en els diferents recursos lingüístics per a identificar els interlocutors en les llengües del món. El fet que s’hagi confós el gènere gramatical (procediment de classificació dels substantius) amb el sexe, i la consegüent inclusió dels elements identificadors en la categoria «gènere», ha provocat una certa confusió sobre la naturalesa d’aquests fenòmens. En l’article es proposa una classificació en quatre tipus dels mecanismes per a la identificació dels interlocutors en la llengua, per bé que tots poden ser entesos com a part d’un continu que va des dels elements gramaticals obligatoris fins als lectes específics per a homes i dones. Entremig, s’analitzen els recursos semàntics i els díctics. A banda dels aspectes estrictament lingüístics, es recorden alguns treballs històrics que permeten situar els diferents enfocaments dins de la història de la lingüística.
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El sexe és una de les variables més freqüents en els diferents recursos lingüístics per a identificar els interlocutors en les llengües del món. El fet que s’hagi [...]
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Lauer, A. R. (ed.), P. Calderón de la Barca, «El tesoro escondido», Pamplona/Kassel, Universidad de Navarra/Reichenberger, 2011. ISBN 978-3-937734-95-8
A. Sánchez Jiménez

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 33
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González, A., Serafín González, S. y L. von der Walde Moreno (eds.), «Cuatro triunfos áureos y otros dramaturgos del Siglo de Oro», México, El Colegio de México/Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana/Asociación Internacional de Teatro Español y Novohispano de
J. Castro Rivas

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 21
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Galar Irurre, E. (ed.), P. Calderón de la Barca (atribución insegura), «El convite general», Pamplona / Kassel, Universidad de Navarra/Reichenberger, 2010. ISBN: 978-3-937734-78-1
D. Rodríguez Ortega

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 9
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The Sun-King as a Dramatic and Scenic Element of Court Theatre by the Time of Felipe IV, Exemplified by the Loa Preceding Fieras afemina Amor
J. Vélez Sainz

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 40

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The present article analyzes the scenic and dramatic functions of the Sun-King myth. A number of uses of the myth within texts of praise of the Habsburg monarchy are employed to extrapolate possible uses within court theatre. The article uses the Aristotelian analytic differentiation between ergon and parergon and exemplifies it in the loa at the beginning of Calderón’s Fieras afemina amor. This loa makes use of the Sun-King myth to perform the theatrical praise of Mariana de Austria on the stage, at court and within the entire cosmos.
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The present article analyzes the scenic and dramatic functions of the Sun-King myth. A number of uses of the myth within texts of praise of the Habsburg monarchy are employed [...]
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A Courtier Playwright’s Activity in Times of Mourning (1665-1671): Calderón and Pseudo Matos Fragoso
A. Ulla Lorenzo

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 28

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It has been traditionally accepted that from 1651 on, when Calderón de la Barca became a priest, the playwright exclusively wrote court plays and autos sacramentales. This idea has to be reviewed with respect to the period of mourning the death of Felipe IV, between 1665 and 1671, a time in which court theatre and autos sacramentales were forbidden. The present article analyses Calderón’s dramatic activity between 1667 and 1670, when the playwright carried out a program of recovery and rewriting of ancient comedies for their representation in the corrales. The copyist Pseudo Matos Fragoso cooperated in that process. He copied several plays by Calderón that were to be represented in the two corrales madrileños by the companies of Manuel Vallejo and Antonio de Escamilla.
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It has been traditionally accepted that from 1651 on, when Calderón de la Barca became a priest, the playwright exclusively wrote court plays and autos sacramentales. This [...]
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Theatrical Feasts of the Spanish Baroque: Models, Norms and Characteristics
M. Trambaioli

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 16

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In spite of many relevant contributions to the Baroque court drama that collect data, gather information and trace the peculiar code of this dramatic genre, numerous critical essays within the sphere of Anglo-Saxon Postmodernism ignore certain aspects of the historical and cultural contextualization of this dramatic genre. In particular, these essays reveal a political interpretation of the myths and a conviction that the tragic genre is compatible with the court feast that are questionable. In accordance with theatrical semiotics, the present work tries to synthesize the main aspects that characterize the court drama as a very peculiar artistic work with specific rules, considering that we have to interpret it within the communicative circuit of the court as the place where it is produced and performed. The court dramas of Lope and Calderón, expressions of two different theatrical visions, allow us to define the code of the Spanish Baroque court drama within its two fundamental stages of development.
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In spite of many relevant contributions to the Baroque court drama that collect data, gather information and trace the peculiar code of this dramatic genre, numerous critical [...]
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Light, Shadow and Astonishment: Reading La estatua de Prometeo
L. Iglesias Feijoo, A. Vara López

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 4

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La estatua de Prometeo clearly illustrates the love of the artificial that Calderón exhibits in his fiestas cortesanas.The elevated style of the play, based on the principles of duality and contrast in various dimensions, aims to focus the audience’s attention on the extraordinary nature of the events presented on stage.The frequent references to the strangeness of the prodigios and portentos, and to the asombro and perturbación they caused the characters to feel, would provoke admiration and surprise in an audience invited to lose themselves in a fantastic universe of appearances and realities, lights and shadows. This paper strives to provide a stylistic and interpretative analysis and of La estatua de Prometeo, in which the symbolism, contrasts and claroscuro technique, along with other key elements such as staging, create a total spectacle.
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La estatua de Prometeo clearly illustrates the love of the artificial that Calderón exhibits in his fiestas cortesanas.The elevated style of the play, based on the principles [...]
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Reflections of Power: Eco y Narciso by Calderón meets Las meninas by Velazquez
M. Greer

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 35

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Calderón’s court spectacle play Eco y Narciso was first performed in 1661 to celebrate the tenth birthday of the princess Margarita, the infanta in the center of Velázquez’s painting Las meninas (1656). Calderón opens the drama with a celebration of the birthday of the shepherdess Echo, thus suggesting an analogy between the mythical nymph and the princess. This analogy, together with the reflections between the characters within the drama, invites us to see in this courtly play, as in Velázquez’s famous painting, a reflection on the nature of subjectivity, desire and monarchical power.
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Calderón’s court spectacle play Eco y Narciso was first performed in 1661 to celebrate the tenth birthday of the princess Margarita, the infanta in the center of Velázquez’s [...]
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Lope and the Courtly Spectacle: Between Tradition and Innovation
T. Ferrer Valls

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 23

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This paper focuses on the period of Lope de Vega’s activity as a playwright in order to reconstruct the theatrical and festive activity related to the court of the Austrias, based on gathering existing information and archival documents. It reviews this tradition of spectacle, on which we have increasing information, as a background that allows us to understand and correctly contextualize the great spectacle-plays that Lope de Vega wrote from early stages of his career until shortly before his death, with the aim of unveiling the transformations that he brought to this tradition.
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This paper focuses on the period of Lope de Vega’s activity as a playwright in order to reconstruct the theatrical and festive activity related to the court of the Austrias, [...]
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The Imprecise Pattern of Calderón’s Courtly Loas
J. Farré

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 11

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This paper analyses the variants found in the courtly loas of Calderón de la Barca according to the generic type of this dramatic genre in the second half of the seventeenth century. The conclusion shows how the imprecise pattern noticed in the Loa de Los tres mayors prodigios (1636) and in the Loa de El golfo de las sirenas (1657) can be explained by taking the rest of Calderon’s plays into account and considering the increasing popularity of the comical within the court theatre at that time.
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This paper analyses the variants found in the courtly loas of Calderón de la Barca according to the generic type of this dramatic genre in the second half of the seventeenth [...]
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The Labyrinth, a Sacral Motive in the Works of Tirso and Calderón
J. Escudero Baztán, B. Oteiza

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 41

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The present article analyses the motive of the labyrinth in two autos sacramentales of the 17th century: El laberinto de Creta by Tirso de Molina and El laberinto del mundo by Calderón de la Barca. It is conceived within the framework of a more amplified study with the aim of uncovering the use of the labyrinth as a nuclear concept of 17th century theatre. A lecture of both texts reveals profound transformations with respect to the allegory’s design, structure, metrics, and usage. The comparative study sheds light on a more skillful dramatization by Calderón, whereas in Tirso a structural decomposition is evident.
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The present article analyses the motive of the labyrinth in two autos sacramentales of the 17th century: El laberinto de Creta by Tirso de Molina and El laberinto del mundo [...]
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Similarities and Distinctions between Public and Court Theatre
J. Díez Borque

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 29

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The plays performed in the palace were not exclusively large spectacular productions but also, and most striking, the same or similar plays as in the public theatres were performed here. In this context, I study the similarities and distinctions between public and court theatre, paying attention to the economic excesses of the court theatre and the protests that they produced.
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The plays performed in the palace were not exclusively large spectacular productions but also, and most striking, the same or similar plays as in the public theatres were [...]
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Timantes and the Speaking Painting in El mayor encanto, amor
F. de Armas

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 17

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El mayor encanto amor includes an enigmatic character that is almost hidden in this spectacle play.Timanthes, who only speaks some twenty lines in the play, represents an onomastic mnemonics, as his name reminds a learned spectator of the famous painter of classical antiquity. Calderón includes him as a character in Darlo todo y no dar nada and alludes to him in other works such as La vida es sueño. Timanthes can be seen as a way to praise Cosimo Lotti, the «painter» or scenographer of the play. But he also refers to the playwright who manipulates the text so as to hide political meanings in a play performed at the palace of the Sun King, Philip IV. Since Timanthes´ most famous painting is The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, where Agamemnon´s facial expression is veiled, we can locate clear parallels with the veiling of Achilles in Calderón’s play. Veiling/concealing errors or defects is Timanthes’ trademark.
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El mayor encanto amor includes an enigmatic character that is almost hidden in this spectacle play.Timanthes, who only speaks some twenty lines in the play, represents an [...]
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El Templo de Palas» by Francisco de Avellaneda
D. Cruickshank

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 5

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Francisco de Avellaneda is one of the less famous dramatists of the seventeenth century: he acted as a censor, and is best known as an entremesista, but he also wrote a zarzuela, El templo de Palas. One of the British Library’s collected volumes of Spanish plays (T.1737) contains a copy of the only known edition (Naples, 1675) of the play, premiered in July 1675, probably in the Coliseo del Buen Retiro. The suelta provides the only known details of this performance, naming the actors who took part in the loa, entremés and mojiganga, and includes a letter from Calderón to Avellaneda, apologising for missing the performance because of his «poor health», thanking Avellaneda for lending him the borrador to read, and assuring him that he was able to imagine the performance from the written text. Avellaneda wrote one of the approbations for Calderón’s Cuarte parte in 1672, but the extent of his friendship with the dramatist is not clear.
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Francisco de Avellaneda is one of the less famous dramatists of the seventeenth century: he acted as a censor, and is best known as an entremesista, but he also wrote a zarzuela, [...]
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Stage and Iconographic Prototypes in three Productions of the Fable of Andromeda and Perseus: Pio di Savoia, Corneille, and Calderón
T. Chaves

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 36

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The circulation of printed books and engravings containing the texts and the scenes for the staging of Perseus and Andromeda myth in XVII century’s European theatres made possible the creation of stage and iconographic prototypes. Those prototypes were of common and recurrent use in spectacles describing the adventures of such characters. Playwrights and stage designers remade the plot, reusing some dramatic sketches and types of scenes coined at the end of the XVI century, which passed over to the next century on many European courts. Authors such as Pio di Savoia, Corneille and Calderón put on stage their particular interpretations of the myth in collaboration with the Italian stage designers Guitti, Torelli and Del Bianco, who designed the scenes and the machines gene-rating visual effects.PALABRAS CLAVES / KEYWORDS: escenografía, estampas, iconografía, máquinas / scenes, engravings, iconography, machines.
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The circulation of printed books and engravings containing the texts and the scenes for the staging of Perseus and Andromeda myth in XVII century’s European theatres made [...]
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Amor and Psyche. A Fable of the Figurative Arts and its Hermeneutics in Calderonean Theatre
E. Cancelliere

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 24

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The present article focuses on studying the argumentative structure of the fable of Amor and Psyche in Calderón’s play Ni amor se libra de amor. The analysis is based on three aspects: the reference to taxonomies within the iconic tradition; meta-theatre; the iconological dimension with respect to the status of the image.
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The present article focuses on studying the argumentative structure of the fable of Amor and Psyche in Calderón’s play Ni amor se libra de amor. The analysis is based on [...]
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Mesa redonda sobre la interpretación política de las fiestas calderonianas
S. Fernández Mosquera

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 12
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Presentación
A. Ulla Lorenzo

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 42
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Bibliografía calderoniana 2012
A. Sáez

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 30
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Ruiz Pérez, P., «El siglo del arte nuevo 1598-1691», en «Historia de la literatura española 3», dir. J.-C. Mainer, Barcelona, Crítica, 2010. ISBN: 978-8498-92069-7
F. Antonucci

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Gentilli, L. y R. Londero (eds.), «Emocionar escribiendo. Teatralidad y géneros literarios en la España áurea», Madrid/Frankfurt, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2011. ISBN: 978-8484-89578-7
L. Hernández González

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 6
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Fernández Biggs, B., «Calderón y Shakespeare: los personajes en “La cisma de Ingalaterra” y “Henry VIII”», Madrid / Frankfurt, Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2012. ISBN: 978-8489-673-9 / 978-3-86527-723-7
A. Zúñiga Lacruz

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 37
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Cruickshank, D.W., «Calderón de la Barca. Su carrera secular», trad. J. L. Gil Aristu, Madrid, Gredos, 2011. ISBN: 978-84-249-204-87
L. Iglesias Feijoo

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Calderón de la Barca, P., «La selva confusa. Edición crítica y adaptación», ed. E. Coenen, Kassel, Reichenberger, 2011. ISBN: 978-3-937734-86-6
Z. Vila Carneiro

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Checa, J. (ed.), P. Calderón de la Barca, «Amar después de la muerte», Kassel, Reichenberger, 2010. [Teatro del Siglo de Oro. Ediciones críticas, 167]. ISBN: 978-3-937734-66-8
M. Villegas Gerena

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 1
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Azaustre Galiana, A. y S. Fernández Mosquera (eds.), «Compostella Aurea. Actas del VIII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro», Santiago de Compostela, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2011, 3 vols. ISBN: 978-84-9887-555-3
I. Sainz Bariain

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Aichinger,W. y S. Kroll (ed.), «“Laute Geheimnisse”. Calderón de la Barca und die Chiffren des Barock», Wien/Berlin, Turia + Kant, 2011. ISBN: 978-3-85132-620-8
A. Schömann-Finck

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 19
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The Ideological Contribution of Spanish Theatre during the Golden Age Period
C. Strosetzki

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 7

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For José Antonio Maravall, the 17th century in Spain is, in contrast to the 16th century, marked by a reestablishment of the absolutist monarchy that is based on an apparatus of repression and domination. In this context, Maravall underlines that the Spanish theatre of the 17th century is made for the emotions of the mass, that it is purely propagandistic and without any ethical dimension, and, finally, that the religious aspect is only marginal. In this article it will be shown that, in the case of Calderón, the situation is essentially different. First, it will be shown that the representation of political reflections, models and arguments is not at all emotional, but rational. Second, ethical questions and pedagogic lessons within the work of Calderon will be made evident. Finally, it will be proved that religious subjects are treated by Calderón according to all their complexity and that Catholicism thus is not just a simple model of emotional identification.PALABRAS CLAVE / CONCEPTS-CLÉS / KEYWORDS: Calderón, Maravall, propaganda, ética, catolicismo, lex divina, lex positiva, lex naturalis / Calderón, Maravall, propagande, éthique, catholicisme, lex divina, lex positiva, lex naturalis / Calderón, Maravall, propaganda, ethics, catholicism, lex divina, lex positiva, lex naturalis
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For José Antonio Maravall, the 17th century in Spain is, in contrast to the 16th century, marked by a reestablishment of the absolutist monarchy that is based on an apparatus [...]
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“De un efeto dos venganzas”: Cloak and Sword in Calderon’s Hagiographic Plays
J. Rubiera

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 38

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This article analyzes and characterizes the presence of cloak and sword episodes or incidents («lances de capa y espada») in the limited corpus of Calderon’s five comedias which have a hagiographic content. The peculiarities of each of the comedias will be observed in relation to the way in which the plot and subplot are constructed from the scheme of the episodes that make the main dramatic conflict, with a religious character, more human and complex.These characteristic elements of the cloak and sword plays, once introduced in a comedia of saints, transform some of its typical aspects: they reduce their comic or playful nature and they are generally driven by divine or infernal forces, like in the two famous scenes with the veiled lady in El mágico prodigioso and the muffled figure in El purgatorio de San Patricio.
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This article analyzes and characterizes the presence of cloak and sword episodes or incidents («lances de capa y espada») in the limited corpus of Calderon’s five comedias [...]
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Trisected Cloaks and Drawed Swords in Some of Calderon’s Comedies
N. Rodríguez Valle

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 26

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In this article, we analyze how Calderon transforms capes, swords and duels into a literary and poetic (rather than scenic) language; moreover, how he uses symbolic elements from the folkloric as well as erudite imagination that belong in the semantic field of capes and swords in order to create specific scenes and ambiences. Within this context, it will be shown that Calderon sublimates some of the genre’s topics and conventions by transforming them into words.
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In this article, we analyze how Calderon transforms capes, swords and duels into a literary and poetic (rather than scenic) language; moreover, how he uses symbolic elements [...]
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El agua mansa and Rewriting within the Cloak and Sword Plays of Calderon
A. Ontiveros

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 14

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This paper analyzes the way Calderon rewrote Cada loco con su tema by Hurtado de Mendoza in order to create El agua mansa. One of the main modifications is that the female characters are constructed in a completely different way. This has central implications for the play, because the dramatic conflict rotates around the transformation of the female characters.
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This paper analyzes the way Calderon rewrote Cada loco con su tema by Hurtado de Mendoza in order to create El agua mansa. One of the main modifications is that the female [...]
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Letters and Documents in Calderon’s Cloak and Sword Plays: Gender, Intrigue, Suspense
O. Higashi Díaz

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 2

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This article attempts to show the different ways letters and documents are used in Calderon’s cloak and sword plays (1627-1635). The aim is to clarify the contribution of both to a definition of genre and to analyze the use of the letter and the document as a scenic convention that, as will be shown, becomes the principal scenic device which organizes the plot and suspense in plays like No hay burlas como el amor or Con quien vengo, vengo.
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This article attempts to show the different ways letters and documents are used in Calderon’s cloak and sword plays (1627-1635). The aim is to clarify the contribution of [...]
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On Spatial Multiplicity within Calderon’s Cloak and Sword Plays
A. González Pérez

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 32

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The present work analyses the presence of multiple scenic spatiality sequences in cloak and sword plays of Calderon. Multiple scenic spatiality is understood as the use of simultaneous and contiguous dramatic spaces, from a simple ingenious circumstance or a comic scene up to a complex situation of space that is the centre or dramatic core of the argument and can also have symbolic values. The article points to some of the functions of multiple scenic spatiality, moreover to the forms of creation and the different types that we find in the work of Calderon.
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The present work analyses the presence of multiple scenic spatiality sequences in cloak and sword plays of Calderon. Multiple scenic spatiality is understood as the use of [...]
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Reflections on the presence of prisons in Calderon de la Barca’s theatre
P. García Abad

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 20

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The present article analyses the description of prisons within Calderon’s work, parting from a main distinction between real prisons, where the characters are retained before they are executed, and metaphorical ones, which serve to limit people’s reasoning. Firstly, some elements are identified to explain why some enclosures are chosen to restrain people’s freedom, such as urgency, location and, exposure to public. Then, there has been established a typology of these places, followed by their characterization. It can be concluded that playwrights pay little attention to this subject, which has led me to reflect on the genre itself as it was seen at that time. In an action genre such as this, description lacks importance, since the emphasis is on the farce element in the Baroque theatre. The insistent presence of this phenomenon in this Calderon responds to his worry for man’s freedom.
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The present article analyses the description of prisons within Calderon’s work, parting from a main distinction between real prisons, where the characters are retained before [...]
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The Cloak and Sword Play in the Mythological Festivals of Calderon
S. Fernández Mosquera

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 8

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The cloak and sword play should be directly linked to mythological festivals, not only because of the common plot structures of both, but also because of further important elements from the cloak and sword play that are adopted by mythological comedies with respect to dramatic rhythm, verisimilitude, and closeness to the spectator. Moreover, the cloak and sword play taught the court audiences to appreciate the complex and exotic mythological productions.
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The cloak and sword play should be directly linked to mythological festivals, not only because of the common plot structures of both, but also because of further important [...]
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Duality and Parallelism in Calderon’s Casa con dos puertas, mala es de guardar
L. Iglesias Feijoo, I. Hernando Morata

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 39

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This paper examines the dualities, symmetries and paralelisms of Casa con dos puertas, mala es de guardar, which affect to several aspects of the play, as the argument, the structure, the characters, the spaces and the dialogues. The study of the Calderón’s «perfect mathematics» allows to understand better the shape of this famous cloak and sword play is a better way.
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This paper examines the dualities, symmetries and paralelisms of Casa con dos puertas, mala es de guardar, which affect to several aspects of the play, as the argument, the [...]
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Conventions of Cloak and Sword Plays in the Decade of 1630: El doctor Carlino, of Antonio de Solís
J. Farré

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 27

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This study presents an analysis of the conventions of the cloak and sword play and their parodic inversion in Solís’ El doctor Carlino. In the decade of 1630 the cloak and sword play becomes wittier and this essay studies how Solís experiments with these new ways by mixing the prominence of this false doctor —a character drawn from Gongora—, the treatment of space and time and the generalisation of the comical effect.
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This study presents an analysis of the conventions of the cloak and sword play and their parodic inversion in Solís’ El doctor Carlino. In the decade of 1630 the cloak [...]
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Generic Dislocations in Calderón. The striking Case of No hay cosa como callar
J. Escudero Baztán

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 15

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This paper discusses the genre of a play by Calderon No hay cosa como callar. Critics usually define this play either as comedy or as tragedy. The work is in fact unusual because, under an apparently comical structure, it appears to be a serious work with an ending that leaves all the main characters insatisfied.
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This paper discusses the genre of a play by Calderon No hay cosa como callar. Critics usually define this play either as comedy or as tragedy. The work is in fact unusual [...]
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The Construction of the Supernatural Lie in La dama duende and El galán fantasma
D. Cazés Gryj

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 3

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In Calderon’s La Dama Duende and El Galán Fantasma the main characters are presented in way that might lead other characters to believe that they are supernatural beings. This is not done as an intentional trick but, rather, as the result of the circumstances in which they must operate. This paper explores how the performance and dramatic elements, as well as cultural references, come together and cause this error in the perception of these characters, which becomes the propelling force of actions and entanglements.
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In Calderon’s La Dama Duende and El Galán Fantasma the main characters are presented in way that might lead other characters to believe that they are supernatural beings. [...]
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‘Love à la mode’ in Mañanas de abril y mayo
Y. Campbell

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 34

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Some critics believe that love à la mode is simply a theatrical convention. However, the possibility remains that conventional notions of love and this new conception of relations between man and woman, whose focus was power rather than sentiment or sexual desire, existed side-by-side in seventeenth-century reality. Thus, whilst it is true that Mañanas de abril y mayo is a playful comedy, full of comical instances, whose tangled plot is founded on the contrast between these two types of relations, it is also true that the play is a sign of its times and as such channels the hierarchical conflicts between the men and women in the Spanish Golden Age. A study of the views expressed by contemporary moralists reveals concerns about female behavior that are manifested in the comedy in the free and outspoken characterization of doña Clara. Her scornful disregard for the demands of her lover, and her desire to make him suffer, testify to a feminine desire and determination concern to have the power to choose her own destiny in marriage. In the midst of all the fun generated by jokes, puns, witticisms, and a rapid succession of entrances and exits, concealments and discoveries, therefore, it is possible to observe an underlying conflict which the playwright leaves unresolved.
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Some critics believe that love à la mode is simply a theatrical convention. However, the possibility remains that conventional notions of love and this new conception of [...]
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Juan Everardo Nithard, Protagonist of Calderon de la Barca’s La estatua de Prometeo
C. Brain

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 22

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This article discusses Greer’s controversial interpretation of La estatua de Prometeo’s political text, which argued that the protagonist, the enlightened Prometeo, is a dramatization of the Queen´s enemy, Don Juan José of Austria and that Calderón is suggesting him as the best option for governing the troubled Spanish Empire. This article provides an alternative interpretation that better aligns with the personal and political position of the Queen regarding the political events that are being dramatized and resolves the contradictions that arose from Greer’s interpretations. This, in turn, contributes to our understanding of the level of freedom of expression enjoyed by Golden Age playwrights.
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This article discusses Greer’s controversial interpretation of La estatua de Prometeo’s political text, which argued that the protagonist, the enlightened Prometeo, is [...]
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Burlesque Poetry as a Dramatic Resource in No hay burlas con el amor
R. Barragán

ACal (2013). Vol. 6, (1), 10

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Burlesque poetry was a resource that playwrights like Calderon used to renew worn mechanisms of comedies. In this sense, No hay burlas con el amor is a paradigmatic work, since Calderon, apart from creating humor by inverting dramatic formulas, used some resources of burlesque poetry, which, in terms of performance, showed that the work was an artifice and that it provoked laughter within the audience. The aim of this article is, precisely, to show how this process worked through the dialogue that is established between the dramatic text and the spectacular text of the work.
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Burlesque poetry was a resource that playwrights like Calderon used to renew worn mechanisms of comedies. In this sense, No hay burlas con el amor is a paradigmatic work, [...]
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Men’s Studies and the Siglo de Oro: An Exemplary Reading of The Two Damsels
C. Grünnagel

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2013). Vol. 1, (2), 37

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This article offers an interpretation of Miguel de Cervantes’ exemplary novella The Two Damsels (1613). Its theoretical and methodical basis is informed by the achievements of recent approaches from men’s studies and one of its most important representatives, R. W. Connell’s foundational work on Masculinities (2005). My reading elucidates what pre-modern readers identified as «masculine» in a literary text, particularly in cases where women dressed as men, a literary artifice and social practice which, following Judith Halberstam, I read as an example of pre-modern «female masculinity». I thus show how theories stemming from postmodernity can open up new approaches to interpreting and understanding pre-modern cultural phenomena while insisting on the distance that separates us from these pre-modern conceptions of what «being a man» signified in a long-gone culture and society. Given these twin aims, this article explains historical alterity via a current theoretical model but does so without translating that alterity immediately into concepts that may sound familiar —perhaps deceptively so.
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This article offers an interpretation of Miguel de Cervantes’ exemplary novella The Two Damsels (1613). Its theoretical and methodical basis is informed by the achievements [...]
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Secrets and Secrecy in Calderón's Comedies and in Spanish Golden Age Culture. Outline of a New Research Focus in Calderonian Studies
W. Aichinger, S. Kroll

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2013). Vol. 1, (2), 27

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The public enactment of secrecy is part of the Spanish Golden Age culture. This article presents a research project, which pursues three objectives:  A study of secrecy as a core characteristic of Spanish Golden Age culture, on the basis of historiographical studies, sources and cultural theories of secrecy.  A study of Calderonian comedies of secrecy in the context of Golden Age theatre.  A case study of the comedy El secreto a voces, including a critical edition that also explores the aesthetics of secrecy and the history of early staging in Madrid and Vienna.  With this threefold approach we aim at a deeper understanding of both Calderón’s originality and of the secret patterns of Baroque culture.
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The public enactment of secrecy is part of the Spanish Golden Age culture. This article presents a research project, which pursues three objectives:  A study of secrecy [...]
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Berganza and Pedro de Urdemalas, Two Cervantin Characters Walk on the Stage
A. González Puche

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2013). Vol. 1, (2), 34

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The author as a theatre director, compares Pedro de Urdemalas, the principal hero of Cervante’s comedy, with Berganza, from the Converstaion of the Dogs. In the parallel of these two meta-theatrical works, he establishes some differences between the dramatic and the phililogical analysis.
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The author as a theatre director, compares Pedro de Urdemalas, the principal hero of Cervante’s comedy, with Berganza, from the Converstaion of the Dogs. In the parallel [...]
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Juan C. González Maya, «Entremeses nuevos» (1643), Newark, Juan de la Cuesta, 2012, ISBN 978-1-58871-214-1
I. Arellano

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2013). Vol. 1, (2), 33

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Table of contents
Á. Baraibar

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2013). Vol. 1, (2), 41

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Linguistic Norms at the Crossover: The Verbal Tenses and Modes, and the Structure of the Predicate in «Libro decimosexto» from Comentarios de erudición by Bartolomé Jiménez Patón
J. Monterrubio Prieto

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2013). Vol. 1, (2), 36

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This study examines verb modes and tenses as well as the predicate structure in «Libro decimosexto» of Bartolomé Jiménez Patón’s Comentarios de erudición in an effort to demonstrate how the text straddles the line between Medieval and Golden Age norms. Jiménez Patón, thus, combines traits already considered archaic at the time, due perhaps to his solid training in grammar and his linguistic awareness, with those modern solutions which, towards the end of the 1500’s, were forging the new Spanish language (that of the «plain style», which he championed), one that was gradually being refined in order to take its place as the language of culture.
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This study examines verb modes and tenses as well as the predicate structure in «Libro decimosexto» of Bartolomé Jiménez Patón’s Comentarios de erudición in an effort [...]
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Diego de Aguilar y Córdoba. «El Marañon». Estudio, edición y notas de Julián Diez Torres. Madrid / Frankurt, Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2010. 422 pp.
L. Sancho

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2013). Vol. 1, (2), 35

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A María Teresa León’s Fictional Biography: Cervantes, el soldado que nos enseñó a hablar
M. Vinatea

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2013). Vol. 1, (2), 30

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Our purpose is to study the limits between reality and fiction in the central chapters of the story of the foundation of the Convento de la Encarnación of Lima by Father Antonio de la Calancha. The convent was founded in 1556 by Leonor de Portocarrero and her daughter Doña Mencía de Sosa, widow of the crown’s traitor Francisco Hernández Girón. Despite the chronicles are consider a «hybrid genre» between literature and history by contemporary critics, Father Calancha’s story is basically historic as it follows the model of humanist histography of the XVI century. We argue that in this model aesthetic values are functional to the interpretation.
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Our purpose is to study the limits between reality and fiction in the central chapters of the story of the foundation of the Convento de la Encarnación of Lima by Father [...]
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The Evil Trinity: a Real Devil in Three Different Speeches
R. Pérez Martínez

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2013). Vol. 1, (2), 31

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This article provides an analysis of the Devil as a character in three genres of discourse. The Devil appears in different guises, according to the specific persuasive purpose of each genre. Thus it is possible to infer the existence of at least three different devils brought to New Spain. A malevolent devil, the son of European Manichaeism, is useful in judicial discourses, as a character to be identified with pre-Hispanic gods, justifying the persecution of idolatry. A poetic devil appears in panegyric discourses, such as the chronicles of religious orders, where he introduces the supernatural into the writing of history. Finally, a devil who collaborates with God is present in deliberative discourses, such as some Jesuit sermons. His fate is active participation in evangelization and the reforma de costumbres.
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This article provides an analysis of the Devil as a character in three genres of discourse. The Devil appears in different guises, according to the specific persuasive purpose [...]
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Animal World and Rhetorical Devices in Jornadas náuticas by Fray Jacinto de Carvajal
J. de Navascués

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2013). Vol. 1, (2), 32

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Jornadas náuticas (1647). Carvajal was a dominic friar and he was integrated in the expedition leaded by captain Ochagavía with the objective of discovering the union between Apure and Orinoco rivers. His chronicle brings a very rich information about animals, flora and customs of the natives. Animal world is described with rethorical strategies which are habitually learned at universities and seminars of Spain and America. Besides, I suggest that Carvajal writes for an implied reader living in America.
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Jornadas náuticas (1647). Carvajal was a dominic friar and he was integrated in the expedition leaded by captain Ochagavía with the objective of discovering the union between [...]
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Laud and Satire of the Authority during Peruvian Viceroyalty: the Loa al corregidor Valdivieso, an Unknown Piece from the City of Piura (1775)
M. Prendes Guardiola

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2013). Vol. 1, (2), 38

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The present work states the existence of a short theatrical piece represented in 1775 during the celebrations for the coming to power of Matías de Valdivieso as corregidor (crown official) of Piura. Prior to the transcription of the text, it summarizes and comments its contents, and identifies its features as typical of the post-Calderon courtier loa (introductory piece) gender, conceived not as a laudatory discourse but as a «miniature comedy». Also, it conducts an approximation to the circumstances in which the loa was represented and which explain its conservation in records of a judicial process because of insults against in Piura’s authorities.
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The present work states the existence of a short theatrical piece represented in 1775 during the celebrations for the coming to power of Matías de Valdivieso as corregidor [...]
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The Power of Darkness: the Devil and his Troops in Baroque Festivals
G. Torres

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2013). Vol. 1, (2), 26

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This paper examines the images of Devil in the baroque festivals. The Devil is a familiar figure in these festivals and shows strong inclination to assume comic, ridiculous and grotesque forms, becoming target of popular mockery, perhaps with the aim of provide a remedy against the terrifying vision that appears at other occasions and genres.
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This paper examines the images of Devil in the baroque festivals. The Devil is a familiar figure in these festivals and shows strong inclination to assume comic, ridiculous [...]
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About the Inconstancy of Fortune: the Presence of the Grotesque in Constante Florinda by Gaspar Pires de Rebelo
S. Augusto

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2013). Vol. 1, (2), 24

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Reading the Infortúnios Trágicos da Constante Florinda of Gaspar Pires de Rebelo (divided in two parts published respectively in 1625 and 1633, in Lisbon), causes a remarkable impression on the reader, even on the most prudent one. This work aims to show how this impression results from the application of the grotesque to the universe of the Portugueses exemplary novels, and it also tries to explain the contours and the results of this situation within the context of Baroque literature.
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Reading the Infortúnios Trágicos da Constante Florinda of Gaspar Pires de Rebelo (divided in two parts published respectively in 1625 and 1633, in Lisbon), causes a remarkable [...]
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Alternative Stages: The Language of Puppets in Cervantes’ Fiction
E. Fernández Rodríguez

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2013). Vol. 1, (2), 25

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Don Quixote’s fascination with Master Peter’s puppet show has spurred artists and stage directors from the 19th century to the present, creating and recreating a definitive repertoire of adaptations for puppets based on Cervantes’ works. As might be expected, in terms of sheer numbers the Don Quixote itself leads off the list of marionette performances on national and international stages. This article, however, focuses on the staging of Manuel de Falla’s opera Master Peter’s Puppet Show (1923) and the Eduardo Vasco’s sole dramatic adaptation of the epic poem Journey to Parnassus (2005). Moreover, this study investigates the aesthetics of puppetry through a close reading of these two creations, broadening the cultural and artistic legacy of Cervantes during the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Don Quixote’s fascination with Master Peter’s puppet show has spurred artists and stage directors from the 19th century to the present, creating and recreating a definitive [...]
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El pastor Quijótiz by Camón Aznar and Unamuno
E. Fernández Rivera

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2013). Vol. 1, (2), 40

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In El pastor Quijótiz (1969), Camón Aznar resorted to the antagonism ideal vs. reality, characteristic of many recreations of Cervantes’ masterpiece, to explore the problem he had in combining the ideas of his freethinking youth with his later role as an active intellectual under Franco. El pastor Quijótiz is an attempt at saving the liberal intellectuals’ utopianism of the early 20th century by transforming it into a form of private spirituality that serves as a comforter in the face of the surrounding social injustice. Camón Aznar builds upon the figure of the rebellious Don Quixote created by Unamuno, who he had admired in his youth. However, he changes the figure by adding a resigned victimization of Stoic- Christian origin.
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In El pastor Quijótiz (1969), Camón Aznar resorted to the antagonism ideal vs. reality, characteristic of many recreations of Cervantes’ masterpiece, to explore the problem [...]
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Arellano, Ignacio, «El ingenio de Lope de Vega. Escolios a las “Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos”», Nueva York, IDEAS/IGAS, 2012. (ISBN: 978-1-938795-84-8)
F. Rodríguez Mansilla

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2013). Vol. 1, (2), 28

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From Politics to Dogma during Colonial Mexico Festivities: Notes on Coloquios Esperituales by Fernán González de Eslava
B. Mariscal Hay

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2013). Vol. 1, (2), 23

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An important part of the dramatic representations that took place during the Colonial period in Mexico (New Spain) was meant to explain religious dogmas. In this paper, I address the relationship between the representation of dogma and politics in two of Fernán González de Eslava’s Coloquios Espirituales: the Coloquio Quinto, De los Siete Fuertes que el Virrey don Martin Enríquez mandó hacer… and the Coloquio Doce, De la Batalla Naval que el Serenísimo príncipe don Juan de Austria tuvo con el Turco.
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An important part of the dramatic representations that took place during the Colonial period in Mexico (New Spain) was meant to explain religious dogmas. In this paper, I [...]
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