Documents published in 2015 : Scipedia

Uses and Gratifications of Computers in South African Elderly People
T. Bosch, B. Currin

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2015). Vol. 23, (2), 21

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Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with residents at an old-aged home in Cape Town, South Africa, this study examines the main uses and gratifications elderly people get from computers. While the research focus in Africa has been on the health of elderly people, particularly with respect to HIV/AIDS, there is little research into their adoption of new technologies, as the research focus with respect to that topic has been primarily on youth. This study found that the participants use email and social media to maintain contact with family and friends outside of, and sometimes even within the neighborhood. Furthermore, keeping in contact involved not only communication, but also observation of activities - like news, photographs and discussions. Using a uses and gratifications framework, this study found that participants felt connected with society both through their communication with and observation of people, and through keeping themselves informed about news and current interest topics. By using the Internet the elderly people communicated with more people than they had before. Some of the participants felt less isolated and lonely because of their computer use. Nevertheless, use of computers did not weaken their interpersonal contact outside of computer use.
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Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with residents at an old-aged home in Cape Town, South Africa, this study examines the main uses and gratifications elderly people [...]
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Generation Z's Teachers and their Digital Skills
F. Fernández Cruz, M. Fernández Díaz

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2016). Vol. 24, (1), 10

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The presence of technological resources in schools and the high performance of socalled «Technology Generation» or «Generation Z» students are not enough to develop students' digital competence. The primary key is determined by the technological and pedagogical skills of teachers. In this paper, we intend to analyze the level of ICT skills of teachers in primary and secondary establishing a competency framework adapted to the Spanish educational environment, using as a basis the standards established by UNESCO in 2008 and reformulated in the year 2011. For this purpose, a questionnaire was done to show the profile of ICT teacher training faculty of the sample (80 schools and 1,433 teachers in the Community of Madrid) to study the characteristics of better trained for the development of teachers was conducted Digital jurisdiction under the Ministry of Education of Spain. The study results show a significant difference between optimal ICT skills and the low skills that teachers really have to develop learning activities with technological tools for their students. Teachers’ digital skills are very important in the development of learning processes to introduce technologies as tools in the service of education, and this study will allow us to make decisions in policy formation and throughout early career teachers.
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The presence of technological resources in schools and the high performance of socalled «Technology Generation» or «Generation Z» students are not [...]
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The Ubiquitous Possibilities of the Laptop: Spanish University Students’ Perceptions
M. Sevillano García, M. Quicios García, J. González García

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2016). Vol. 24, (1), 9

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University classrooms have been taken over by a new type of student, the «plurimodalicts». This society is characterized by the different ways its students relate to ICTs. This article analyses where, how and for what a sample of 451 students from five Spanish public universities use their laptop computers. The study uses an incidental non-random cluster sample design. Data collection was conducted via questionnaire based on a five-point Likert scale. The questionnaire was divided into three sections: computer use; location and frequency of use of the device; and laptop functions and applications. The study concludes that «plurimodalicts» use their laptops to produce academic work, as well as for exchanging class notes and searching for information. The distance or direct learning methodology and the respondent's gender also determine laptop use for academic tasks, which is greater at distance learning institutions and is more prevalent among women than men. These devices are mainly used at home and, in the case of the younger respondents, also in university libraries. The laptop functions vary according to age group, and the device is mostly used for gaming and as a study tool by the youngest students.
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University classrooms have been taken over by a new type of student, the «plurimodalicts». This society is characterized by the different ways its students relate to ICTs. [...]
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An Analysis of the Interaction Design of the Best Educational Apps for Children Aged Zero to Eight
L. Crescenzi Lanna, M. Grané Oró

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2016). Vol. 24, (1), 8

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The proliferation of mobile devices and their use by children of all ages raise issues among families and educators with regard to their quality and appropriateness. Given the absence of an industry standard or an official ratings system for children’s apps, specialist websites or blogs are frequently consulted when choosing apps. This article presents the results of a content analysis of the visual and interaction design features of 100 educational applications recommended by international experts for children from six months to eight years old. In addition, the adaptability of an application’s content to children was taken into account as a qualitative measurement. Four researchers participated in the definition of variables and the design of the observation instrument. This study focuses on child-computer interaction (HCI-CCI) from a pedagogical and developmental perspective, with the aim of discovering and promoting quality in mobile applications for children. The intention is to provide information on key criteria related to the design of applications for entertainment and learning. The results of the statistical analysis indicate a generally low-quality visual and interaction design in the sample group and content that mirrors problems in the school curriculum. Even applications with both content and design that are specifically targeted at children reveal issues that may impede user comprehension and interaction.
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The proliferation of mobile devices and their use by children of all ages raise issues among families and educators with regard to their quality and appropriateness. Given [...]
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Discriminatory Expressions, the Young and Social Networks: The Effect of Gender
D. Dueñas Cid, P. Pontón Merino, Á. Belzunegui Eraso, I. Pastor Gosálbez

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2016). Vol. 24, (1), 7

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In the framework of the «Project I: CUD» (Internet: Creatively Unveiling Discrimination), carried out in the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, Romania and Spain, we conducted a study into the expressions of discrimination used by young people on social network sites (SNS). To do so we designed a methodological strategy for detecting discriminatory content in 493 Facebook profiles and used this strategy to collect 363 examples for further analysis. Our aims were to compile information on the various types of discriminatory content and how they function online in order to create tools and strategies that can be used by trainers, teachers and families to combat discrimination on the Internet. Through this study we have detected patterns between young men and young women that reveal that there is a feminine and a masculine way of behaving on the Internet and that there are different ways of expressing discrimination on SNS. Men tend to be more direct in their posting and sharing of messages. Their messages, which are also more clearly discriminatory, focus more on discrimination towards ethnic groups and cultural minorities. Women, on the other hand, tend to use indirect (reactive) discriminatory strategies with a less obvious discriminatory component that mainly focuses on sociocultural status and physical appearance.
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In the framework of the «Project I: CUD» (Internet: Creatively Unveiling Discrimination), carried out in the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, Romania and Spain, we conducted [...]
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The Influence of School Climate and Family Climate among Adolescents Victims of Cyberbullying
J. Ortega Barón, S. Buelga Vasquez, M. Cava Caballero

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2016). Vol. 24, (1), 6

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Cyberbullying is a phenomenon of growing social concern that affects an increasing number of children and adolescents from all the developed countries. Although there is a large body of literature on the relationships between school bullying and the family and school contexts, few studies have examined the influence of these social environments on the problem of cyberbullying. Using a quantitative methodology, the main objective of this study was to analyse the influence of the school and family contexts on victims of cyberbullying. The sample consisted of 1,062 Spanish adolescents (51.5% boys and 48.5% girls) from 11 to 18 years old (M=14.5; SD=1.62). Three comparison groups were formed: severe cyberbullying victims, moderate cyberbullying victims, and non-victims of cyberbullying. The results of the analysis of variance indicated that severe cyberbullying victims, compared to non-victims, scored significantly higher on family conflict and obtained lower scores on the remaining family (family self-concept, cohesion and expressive¬ness) and school (involvement, affiliation, and teacher support) variables considered in the study. Regression analyses revealed that academic and family self-concept and some dimensions of family and school climate predict cyber-victimization in adolescence. These new results point to the importance of including the family and the school in cyberbullying prevention programs.
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Cyberbullying is a phenomenon of growing social concern that affects an increasing number of children and adolescents from all the developed countries. Although there is a [...]
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Cyberactivism: A new form of participation for University Students
M. González Lizárraga, M. Becerra Traver, M. Yanez Díaz

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2016). Vol. 24, (1), 5

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The purpose of this article is to show the results derived from a sample of students who were enrolled in different bachelor degree programs offered by the University of Sonora in Mexico. There was a double objective for this study. First, to identify cyber activist students through the answers gathered through a questionnaire taken electronically using as inclusion criteria the presence of high and medium levels of participation and commitment in different actions undertaken in four topic areas (environment, academic, social and citizen issues, and human rights). As a second objective, and after selecting three unique cases of cyber activist students, inflexion points were determined in the activities performed by these youngsters in digital social networks. Using personal narrative as a methodological strategy, the students described how they interact with others through different digital networks. Among the first categories identified in the indepth interviews are: interaction history (use, access and availability of technology at a young age), and active participation about topics of interest in social networks (organization and the perceptions of achievements made). As main findings, there are the availability of these resources from a young age, personal motivation in participating in diverse topics, enjoyment of expressing one’s opinion freely, electronic participation as a way to commit to a cause, and not joining an organization while participating.
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The purpose of this article is to show the results derived from a sample of students who were enrolled in different bachelor degree programs offered by the University of Sonora [...]
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Online and Offline Pornography Consumption in Colombian Adolescents
R. Rivera, D. Santos Velasco, V. Cabrera García, M. Docal Millán

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2016). Vol. 24, (1), 4

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Mass media consumption has increased markedly in recent years. One unintended consequence of this increase is the proliferation of risky consumption, including online and offline pornography. Although the literature has noted a series of predictive variables (age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and family structure), recent studies have suggested including values and lifestyles as relevant factors in consumption decisions. The objective of the present study was to examine whether adolescents’ lifestyles were relevant predictors of the consumption of pornography both on the Internet and in magazines or videos. A cross-sectional observational study design that included a representative sample of 9,942 Colombian adolescents (Mage=14.93, SD=2.47) was used. To control the effects of sociodemographic, structural, and individual variables, their lifestyles were examined using a multiple regression analysis and mediation analysis. The results indicated that a positive intrafamilial style was associated with a reduction in the consumption of pornography; however, both a negative intrafamilial style and a relational independence style increased consumption. In addition, the study suggests that family relational styles can mediate the relationship between positive values and risky behavior both online and offline. Finally, we discuss the results from the relational perspective, including its application in media literacy programs.
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Mass media consumption has increased markedly in recent years. One unintended consequence of this increase is the proliferation of risky consumption, including online and [...]
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European Newspapers’ Digital Transition: New Products and New Audiences
S. Peña Fernández, I. Lazkano Arrillaga, D. García González

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2016). Vol. 24, (1), 3

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The adaptation of traditional newspapers to new digital media and its interface, far from being a mere technical transformation, has contributed to a gradual change in the media themselves and their audiences. With a sample including the top general information pay newspaper in each of the 28 countries of the European Union, this research has carried out an analysis using 17 indicators divided in 4 categories. The aim is to identify the transformations that the implementation of digital media have brought to the top European newspapers. In general terms, the results show that most dailies have managed to keep their leadership also in online environment. Moreover, an emerging group of global media is growing up, based in preexisting national media. Digital and mobile media have contributed to the appearance of new consumption habits as well, where users read more superficially and sporadically. The audience uses several formats at a time, and digital devices already bring the biggest amount of users to many media. The Internet-created new information windows –search engines, social networks, etc. –are also contributing to the change in professional work routines.
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The adaptation of traditional newspapers to new digital media and its interface, far from being a mere technical transformation, has contributed to a gradual change in the [...]
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Internet and Emotions: New Trends in an Emerging Field of Research
J. Serrano-Puche

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2016). Vol. 24, (1), 2

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Emotions have become increasingly important in our time, in all realms of social reality. This revaluation of the affective dimension of the person is revealed in its common presence as subject of research in many fields of knowledge. Also in Media and Communications studies, and specifically in relation to the use of digital technology, there is an academic interest in emotions. This paper maps the field of study where emotions and digital technology converge, specifically in the use of the Internet. There appears a vibrant, wide and complex field of study in which come together approaches of different types, both on the theoretical plane and on the methodological one. The article provides an overview of research carried out in this subject, which includes the study of social media as spaces of interaction where emotions are displayed, the massivescale emotional contagion or the sentiment analysis in the digital platforms, among other topics. We conclude that the Net not only arouses emotions in users and serves as a channel for the expression of affection, but also influences the way in which this affection is modulated and displayed, as well as the configuration of the personal identity of the users of the Internet.
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Emotions have become increasingly important in our time, in all realms of social reality. This revaluation of the affective dimension of the person is revealed in its common [...]
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Communicating in 140 Characters. How Journalists in Spain use Twitter
G. Arrabal Sánchez, M. de Aguilera Moyano

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal (2016). Vol. 24, (1), 1

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The emergence of Twitter appears to be changing information practices. Hence, a great deal of recent research is based on its popularity among communicators, reaching the conclusion that it serves to increase interactivity with readers. But to what degree is it true that it contributes to a type of journalism which is more open to the public? This research aims especially to clarify two main questions: what specific uses do journalists make of Twitter and to what extent does twoway interaction with the public take place through this medium? It is based on the quantitative analysis of a sample comprising almost 5 million tweets posted by 1,504 Spanish media communicators, perhaps the largest sample studied so far. The analysis shows the existence of a twospeed Twitter (with a minority of influential communicators and a majority who have little impact), which has negligible interaction with followers. With few exceptions, the communicators establish endogamous relationships on Twitter. They respond to mention and retweet colleagues, failing to take advantage of the multidirectional potential offered by the platform. This research expands the empirical basis which can be used to consider and discuss the scope and limits of user participation in information events. Many authors have theorized on this subject, perhaps too enthusiastically and arguably from a somewhat utopian perspective.
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The emergence of Twitter appears to be changing information practices. Hence, a great deal of recent research is based on its popularity among communicators, reaching the [...]
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca, «Céfalo y Pocris», introd. Enrica Cancelliere, ed. Ignacio Arellano, New York, IDEA/IGAS, 2013.
V. Roncero López

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 3
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José María Viña Liste (ed.), Pedro Calderón de la Barca, «Comedias, Sexta parte de comedias», Madrid, Biblioteca Castro, 2010.
J. Cuñado Landa

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 22
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Reviews Caplletra 58
A. diversos

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 24

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Reviews Caplletra 58 (Spring, 2015): Lesley K. Twomey: Joan Roís de Corella, Psalteri: edició crítica. Edició, estudi introductori i notes, Josep Lluís Martos. València, Institució Alfons el Magnànim, 2013 («Biblioteca d’Autors Valencians», 59), 360 pp.María Luisa Guardiola Tey: J. M. Domingo i A. Llovera (eds.), De Realisme. Aproximacions i testimonis. Lleida, Punctum («El Vuit-cents, 9»), 2013, 423 pp.John Dagenais: Rosanna Cantavella, El Facet una Ars amandi medieval; edició i estudi. València/Barcelona, Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana / Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2013, 342 pp. («Biblioteca Sanchis Guarner», 81).Vicent Salvador: Lluís Payrató, El gest nostre de cada dia. La cultura al cos: la gestualitat emblemàtica com a patrimoni de la cultura popular. Ajuntament de Bellpuig / Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2013, 144 pp. (Obra guardonada amb el XXIV premi de Cultura Popular Valeri Serra i Boldú).Bárbara Barberá Matías: Mateu Rodrigo Lizondo (ed.), Col·lecció documental de la Cancelleria de la Corona d’Aragó. Textos en llengua catalana (1291-1420). Edició, estudi i índexs a cura de Mateu Rodrigo Lizondo. Selecció de textos de Jaume Riera i Sans. Preàmbuls de Carlos López Rodríguez i d’Antoni Ferrando Francés. 2 volums («Col·lecció Fonts Històriques Valencianes», 56A i 56B). Publicacions de la Universitat de València, València, 2013.
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Reviews Caplletra 58 (Spring, 2015): Lesley K. Twomey: Joan Roís de Corella, Psalteri: edició crítica. Edició, estudi introductori i notes, Josep Lluís Martos. [...]
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Models of literary and audio-visual translation in colloquial Catalan: the case of Quentin Tarantino’s «Jackie Brown»
D. Pujol

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 21

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Abstract: This article deals with the models of colloquial translation into Catalan in the case of the dubbed version (1997), the subtitled version (1997) and the translated script (1998) of Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown (1997). At the core of the article lies the analysis and the comparison of the phonetics, the morphology, the syntax and the lexicon of each Catalan translation, which is contextualized within the linguistic and translation models current at the time. The conclusion is that the three translations make use of different colloquial language models. The translated script constitutes a disruptive model, especially regarding phonetic representation and the Spanish lexicon deployed. The dubbed version follows TV3’s translation and dubbing criteria: on the one hand, its syntax is relatively colloquial (less colloquial than that of the subtitled version, but not so much as the translated script); on the other hand, its morphology is standard and under-exploits the colloquial resources of the target language. The subtitled version is more colloquial than the dubbed one, especially as far as the lexicon is concerned, using far fewer Hispanicisms than the translated script.Key words: literary translation, audio-visual translation, dubbing, subtitling, colloquial Catalan, colloquial translation models, Quentin Tarantino, Jackie Brown.
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Abstract: This article deals with the models of colloquial translation into Catalan in the case of the dubbed version (1997), the subtitled version (1997) and the translated [...]
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Language games on stage
J. Sellent Arús

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 29

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Abstract: This article deals with the presence on the Catalan stage of different versions showing a contrast of linguistic registers which contravene official language norms. The versions analysed are two theatre plays belonging to widely differing historical and socio-political contexts: Joan Oliver’s rendering (1957) of G.B. Shaw’s Pygmalion, and Joan Sellent’s version (2014) of Brian Friel’s Translations. Affinities and divergences are highlighted, both with regard to choice of linguistic material and to dramaturgical and ideological goals.The frequent violation by both versions of the norms established by the Secció Filològica de l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans is ultimately intended to vindicate the genuine character, expressive force and dramatic effectiveness of a set of linguistic options that official norms are unwilling to accept.Key words: translation for the theatre, grammatical norms, registers, genuineness, expressive adequacy vs. adjustment to norms.
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Abstract: This article deals with the presence on the Catalan stage of different versions showing a contrast of linguistic registers which contravene official language norms. [...]
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Corpus linguistics and the translation of 6th song of the «Odyssey»
J. Guzman

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 26

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Abstract: This paper is an analysis of four translations into Catalan of the Odyssey 6th song. Two of the texts were translated by Carles Riba, and published in 1919 and 1948, another one by Joan Aymerich in 1997 and the last one was translated by Joan F. Mira in 2011. From a descriptive perspective, the study apply instruments of corpus linguistics to focus on how the four translations deal with aspects related to the field of translation studies, such as simplifi cation, explicitation, normalization, interference and the use of some lemmas. In turn, the analysis allows us to explain the use of these lemmas in the cultural and historical context in which the author translated the text. Results from this analysis show that the translations are directly linked to the period in which they were produced and that this link can be deeply personal.Key words: translation, corpus linguistics, Odissea, Carles Riba, Joan Aymerich, Joan F. Mira.
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Abstract: This paper is an analysis of four translations into Catalan of the Odyssey 6th song. Two of the texts were translated by Carles Riba, and published in 1919 and 1948, [...]
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Some remarks on exile, language and translation
M. Bacardí

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 23

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Abstract: In the 1939 exile, translation played a somewhat subsidiary role. Original works were the priority, because saving words had become urgent. “Professional” translators had to use other languages, especially Spanish, while “vocational” translators translated into Catalan for themselves, for the future. The press in exile could only access a few token literary translations or anonymous translations of informational documents. The journals Full Català, Quaderns de l’Exili and Lletres, published in Mexico in the 1940s, illustrate differing conceptions of language and translation.Key words: Exile, translation, Catalan language, Full Català, Quaderns de l’Exili, Lletres, Lluís Ferran de Pol, Joan Sales, Agustí Bartra.
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Abstract: In the 1939 exile, translation played a somewhat subsidiary role. Original works were the priority, because saving words had become urgent. “Professional” translators [...]
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Two different languages of translation: Josep Carner’s two versions of «El malalt imaginari» (1905/1909 and 1921)
M. Ortin

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 20

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Abstract: This article offers a detailed critical comparison of the literary languages deployed by Josep Carner in two different Catalan versions of Molières’s Le Malade imaginaire. The first one, published in 1909, had been made in 1905 for a stage production by Adrià Gual; the second one was published in 1921 in Biblioteca Literària, a series of literary works in translation supervised by Carner himself. The main interest in comparing them lies in the fact that this is not a case of mere revision but a case of retranslation, and one which presents interesting cultural aspects. Not only had a stringent and thorough renewal of written Catalan taken place in the years between the two versions, led by Pompeu Fabra, but Carner had also changed his whole approach to the task of translation in respect of both its practice and its goals, in connection with the potential growth of literary language on the basis of this reform.Key words: 20th century literary Catalan, languages of translation, Josep Carner, Pompeu Fabra.
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Abstract: This article offers a detailed critical comparison of the literary languages deployed by Josep Carner in two different Catalan versions of Molières’s Le Malade [...]
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Introduction to the monograph «Traducció i models lingüístics»
J. Guzman Pitarch, J. Marco Borillo

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 28

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Introduction to the monograph «Traducció i models lingüístics», number 58 (Spring 2015) of Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia.
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La «"Peregrinació del Venturós Pelegrí" ab les "Cobles de la mort"»: A series of woodcuts in sixteen volumes from Cervera (circa 1730-1804)
J. Mahiques Climent

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 25

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Abstract: Among the many editions of the «Peregrinació del Venturós Pelegrí» ab les «Cobles de la mort» published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Cervera, we examine sixteen that reproduce the same series of woodcuts depicting some scenes of the visionary pilgrim or the ghost of purgatory. The bibliographical descriptions, with a review of copies located in libraries around the world, is accompanied by facsimiles reproducing the series of woodcuts, the front page of fifteen editions and the preserved first page of a unique acephalous copy. This series is remarkable, both quantitatively and chronologically, for being the most repeated and most documented of all those printed in editions of these works from the seventeenth century to the present day.Key words: University of Cervera, printed poetry, bibliography, iconography.
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Abstract: Among the many editions of the «Peregrinació del Venturós Pelegrí» ab les «Cobles de la mort» published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Cervera, [...]
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Appreciative suffixation in Catalan: lexical innovations and morphological consequences
M. Lloret

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 22

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Abstract: The position of the appreciative derivation within morphology is exceptional, because, although the limited information that grammars and dictionaries reveal as for its formation and use, speakers freely use appreciative forms in familiar and informal contexts and often create new words without the restraints traditionally imposed by grammatical norms. As we will see, although the shape of these forms presents some variation, it complies with some well-defined constraints. Th is paper presents new data in this fi eld collected through traditional corpora and internet, with a two-fold aim. The first purpose is to thoroughly examine the morphological characteristics of the appreciative suffixation in Catalan, with special reference to the categories usually ignored in the literature (i.e., appreciative forms derived from categories other than nouns, adjectives and verbs). The second purpose has to do with the distributional restrictions that traditional words and new creations show with respect to the endings they allow, in order to identify the true nominal inflectional marks of Catalan.Key words: appreciative derivation, neologisms, nominal inflection, inflectional marks, gender, Catalan.
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Abstract: The position of the appreciative derivation within morphology is exceptional, because, although the limited information that grammars and dictionaries reveal as [...]
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Is it the sighing of “The last flower of Latium”?
R. Da Costa, L. Fantin Vescovi

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 30

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Abstract: The work analyses the formation of the Portuguese language and its literary and historical parallels with Castilian and Catalan. With this aim, we first contextualize the linguistic and literary trajectory of Iberian-Romance languages, in order to highlight similarities and diff erences in Hispania. As case studies, we consider three authors who elevated and enhanced the Portuguese language of their own time: Pedro de Barcelos (1287-1354), with Crónica Geral de Espanha de 1344, the Jesuit and priest Antonio Vieira (1608-1697), with Sermão vigésimo do Rosário, and the Parnassian poet Olavo Bilac (1865-1918), with the poem Profissão de Fé.Key words: Comparative History of Literature, Castilian, Catalan, Count D. Pedro de Barcelos, Antônio Vieira, Olavo Bilac.
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Abstract: The work analyses the formation of the Portuguese language and its literary and historical parallels with Castilian and Catalan. With this aim, we first contextualize [...]
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A journey through the maze: interpreting Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas «Els jeroglífics i la pedra de Rosetta»
M. Francés Díez

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 27

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Abstract: This paper studies a unique and amazing work on the Valencian poetry scene of the 1970s: Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas’s Els jeroglífics i la pedra de Rosetta (1976). This unusual example of poetic prose represents a radical change from the realism that characterized her early poems towards the most extreme and cryptic formalism, which defies the ancestral and hieroglyphic silence imposed by the hostility of the environment. In the poem, a space where the author’s own words are combined with those borrowed from other texts, Bakhtin’s dialogism, heteroglossia and polyphony, and Kristeva’s intertextuality can be found. Thus, an extraordinary background of mythological, religious, scientific and historical references, which remind us of Salvador Espriu’s influence, construct the gloomy labyrinth of the poem, an alchemy that transforms the foundations of traditional culture into an expression of rebellion, of anger that underlies the written text, as in a palimpsest.Key words: Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas, Valencian poetry, dialogism, heteroglossia, polyphony, intertextuality.
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Abstract: This paper studies a unique and amazing work on the Valencian poetry scene of the 1970s: Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas’s Els jeroglífics i la pedra de Rosetta (1976). [...]
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Josep Gifreu, «El català a l’espai de comunicació. El procés de normalització de la llengua als mèdia (1976-2013)», Bellaterra / Castelló de la Plana / Barcelona / València, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Universitat Jaume I / Universitat Pompeu Fabr
M. Nicolás

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 7

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Book review: Josep Gifreu, El català a l’espai de comunicació. El procés de normalització de la llengua als mèdia (1976-2013), Bellaterra / Castelló de la Plana / Barcelona / València, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Universitat Jaume I / Universitat Pompeu Fabra / Universitat de València, 2014, 272 pp. [ Preface by Isidor Marí. ]
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Book review: Josep Gifreu, El català a l’espai de comunicació. El procés de normalització de la llengua als mèdia (1976-2013), Bellaterra / Castelló de la Plana / [...]
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Enric Bou, «La invenció de l’espai. Ciutat i viatge», València, Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2013, 332 pp.
V. Salvador

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 2

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Book review: Enric Bou, La invenció de l’espai. Ciutat i viatge, València, Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2013, 332 pp.
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Anna López Samaniego, «Las etiquetas discursivas: cohesión anafórica y categorización de entidades del discurso», EUNSA, 2014, 379 pp.
J. Ribera i Condomina

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 15

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Book review: Anna López Samaniego, Las etiquetas discursivas: cohesión anafórica y categorización de entidades del discurso, EUNSA, 2014, 379 pp.
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Josep Iborra, «Fuster, una declinació personal», València, Càtedra Joan Fuster / Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2014, 290 pp.
S. Ortells Miralles

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 10

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Book review: Josep Iborra, Fuster, una declinació personal, València, Càtedra Joan Fuster / Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2014, 290 pp.
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Agustín Rubio, «El patriciat i la nació: sobre el particularisme dels valencians en els segles XIV i XV», Castelló/Barcelona, Fundació Germà Colón Domènech / Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2012, vol. I: 335 pp. i vol. II: 348 pp.
B. Montoya Abat

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 5

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Book review: Agustín Rubio, El patriciat i la nació: sobre el particularisme dels valencians en els segles XIV i XV, Castelló/Barcelona, Fundació Germà Colón Domènech / Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2012, vol. I: 335 pp. and vol. II: 348 pp. [«Col·lecció Germà Colón d’estudis filològics», 9.]
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Book review: Agustín Rubio, El patriciat i la nació: sobre el particularisme dels valencians en els segles XIV i XV, Castelló/Barcelona, Fundació Germà Colón Domènech / [...]
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Vicent Andrés Estellés, «Obra Completa I» ?i «Obra Completa II», València, Tres i Quatre, vol. I: 2014, 550 pp. i vol. II: 2015, 328 pp.
M. Aparicio

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 18

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Book review: Vicent Andrés Estellés, Obra Completa I i Obra Completa II, València, Tres i Quatre, vol. I: 2014, 550 pp. and vol. II: 2015, 328 pp. [ Edited by Ferran Carbó. ]
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Book review: Vicent Andrés Estellés, Obra Completa I i Obra Completa II, València, Tres i Quatre, vol. I: 2014, 550 pp. and vol. II: 2015, 328 pp. [ Edited by Ferran Carbó. [...]
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Josep Miquel Ramis, «Autotraducció: de la teoria a la pràctica», Vic, Eumo, 2014, 173 pp.
A. Monferrer Palmer

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 13

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Book review: Josep Miquel Ramis, Autotraducció: de la teoria a la pràctica, Vic, Eumo, 2014, 173 pp.
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Albert Rossich & Jordi Cornellà, «El plurilingüisme en la literatura catalana», Bellcaire d’Empordà, Edicions Vitel·la, 2014, 474 pp.
M. Sunyer

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 8

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Book review: Albert Rossich & Jordi Cornellà, El plurilingüisme en la literatura catalana, Bellcaire d’Empordà, Edicions Vitel·la, 2014, 474 pp.
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Diachrony and neology: semantic change, subjectivization and the representation of thinking. The meaning of the Catalan verb "esmar", from ‘setting the price of’ to ‘inferring’ and ‘imagining’ and beyond
J. Martines

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 3

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Abstract: The study of neology is inextricably linked with the study of language change and, therefore, with diachrony. The aim of this paper is to describe the semantic change process undergone by the Catalan verb esmar, which is the etymological form of the Latin verb *ADAESTIMARE, parallel to the Latinism estimar. This research is corpus-based, using large corpora along with other manually processed materials. The concepts of subjectivation and inferences according to the Invited Inference Theory of Semantic Change (IITSC) have been applied to these materials. Key words: Diachronic semantics, inference, subjectivization, evidentiality, pragmatics, semantic change.
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Abstract: The study of neology is inextricably linked with the study of language change and, therefore, with diachrony. The aim of this paper is to describe the semantic change [...]
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Usage of loanword and learned and derivative compounding neology on TV programmes
I. Creus, J. Julià-Muné

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 16

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Abstract: This contribution to neology in Catalan as used in the oral mass media, especially on television, allows us to confirm that loanword neologisms, i.e. words that name new objects and concepts, come mostly from English. In fact, English has become the global source of language innovation in a great variety of fields, especially in sports and technology. In addition to that, specialized terminology, made up of classical roots and learned affixation, contribute to renew and enlarge the expressive ability and communicative resources of languages in any scientific field as a result of the rapid evolution of our society. It includes various processes, such as learned derivation and compounding, word formation from proper names, blends and acronyms, as well as adaptation of new words to Catalan spelling and pronunciation rules.Key words: lexical borrowing, global English loanwords, language usage on TV, adaptation of new words on radio and TV, specialized terminology of classical origin, acronymy, blending.
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Abstract: This contribution to neology in Catalan as used in the oral mass media, especially on television, allows us to confirm that loanword neologisms, i.e. words that [...]
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Neology in society: 'verba sequuntur'
J. Freixa

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 11

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Abstract: The starting point of this article has a social nature: neologisms appear to refer to novelties and to cover the expressive needs of speakers. As speakers consider language to be their own and express unformed considerations on new words, this article deals with some of the most frequent questions on this subject: What is a neologism? Are certain neologisms more neological than others? Why do neologisms appear? Are they all necessary to the same extent? What are neologisms in Catalan like? Does Catalan create neologisms or does it only copy them from other languages? The article comes to the conclusion that Catalan, like any other language, has lexical creativity and hosts all kinds of neologisms: stable and ephemeral, new and old, deliberate and unintentional, correct and incorrect, denominative and expressive, well-formed and transgressive.Key words: lexical neology, neologicity, society, lexical creativity, lexical interference.
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Abstract: The starting point of this article has a social nature: neologisms appear to refer to novelties and to cover the expressive needs of speakers. As speakers consider [...]
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Shifting of meaning as a creative resource: Chromatic Neology
O. Domènech Bagaria, R. Estopà Bagot

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 6

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Abstract: Colour words have symbolic meanings, which have been acquired over the years and through different cultures. This is why «colour» words are widely used to create new lexical units. In this article, the authors analyse an aspect of the names of colours that is relatively unstudied: their role in the shifting of meaning of a language’s new lexical units. This linguistic study is based on fundamental linguistic anthropology concepts and also on the theoretical assumptions of Cognitive Semantics. After establishing fundamental notions, the study analyses a corpus of lexicographical polylexical neologisms containing a colour word. It focuses on the analysis of those units that include the word «green». The authors’ objective is to determine the semantic mechanisms and conceptual relationships that have generated new meanings of colour words or containing a colour word. Key words: neology, shifting of meaning, semantic change, colours, metaphor, metonymy, cognitive linguistics.
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Abstract: Colour words have symbolic meanings, which have been acquired over the years and through different cultures. This is why «colour» words are widely used to create [...]
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Neology and Grammar: between lexical neologism and syntactic neologism
J. Ginebra

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 19

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Abstract: This work is an attempt to clarify the concept of syntactic neology with the aim of finding a working taxonomic device. My proposal is to use the label syntactic neologism to refer to those changes in verbal government that are not linked to semantic change (which would qualify as semantic neologism), nor to other word formation procedures. Thus, a syntactic neologism is not a lexical neologism, a new word, as indeed is the case with semantic neologism. Nevertheless, when we say that syntactic neologism excludes semantic changes, we do not refer to the meaning related to the structural properties (thematic roles and aspect) that determine regular syntactic alternations in verb classes. Therefore, if a new transitive causative variant is formed upon an unnacusative verb (which previously did not have that use) the result would be a case of syntactic neology. So syntactic neology reclassifies verbs, but does not create new verbs. In addition to that, syntactic neology can provide the verb with a new variant that places the verb outside established syntactic classes. In this case we would be approaching the sphere of syntactical change.Key words: neology, lexical morphology, semantics, syntactic change, verb alternations.
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Abstract: This work is an attempt to clarify the concept of syntactic neology with the aim of finding a working taxonomic device. My proposal is to use the label syntactic [...]
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Neology, a new field in search of its scientific stabilization
M. Cabré Castellví

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 14

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Abstract: This text provides a comprehensive overview of neology as both a field of knowledge and a field of work. It also explores the relationships between neology and other areas such as psychology and sociology, and its connections with technology. Neologisms are the central object of neology as a field of knowledge. The paper shows the difficulty of clearly defining this object because it is a relative as well as a polyhedral object. Because of the relativity of neologisms, we are obliged to define them on the basis of a reference point from which a unit could be considered new: depending on its production, its reception or its social circulation. The paper also presents a set of principles which, if respected, could lead to the establishment of neology as a structured and stabilized field among different fields of knowledge.Key words: neology, science, theory, field of knowledge, scientific object, neologism, epistemology.
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Abstract: This text provides a comprehensive overview of neology as both a field of knowledge and a field of work. It also explores the relationships between neology and other [...]
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Introduction to the monograph «La neologia lèxica: darreres recerques sobre el català»
M. Cabré Castellví

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 9

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Introduction to the monograph «La neologia lèxica: darreres recerques sobre el català», number 59 (Autumn 2015) of Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia.
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La investigació sobre la promoció de la lectura en la 2.0. Anàlisi de casos
M. Monar van Vliet, G. Lluch

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 4

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Abstract: The article presents three case studies of reading promotion by using virtual technology in some Valencian schools, throughout the 2010-2011 academic year. The methodology is mainly qualitative, supplemented by investigation-action, since the resulting data have been used by mediators to improve their practice. Specifically, the study of the three cases has been carried out through participative observation in order to collect data. The process was then was completed with interviews, life stories and a questionnaire. Lastly, a discussion group contributed to the analysis, interpretation and triangulation as a method of evaluation.Key words: reading and Web 2.0, qualitative research, case studies.
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Abstract: The article presents three case studies of reading promotion by using virtual technology in some Valencian schools, throughout the 2010-2011 academic year. The methodology [...]
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The popular Valencian vocabulary in the literature of the first decades of the 20th century: the contribution of Faust Hernández Casajuana
J. Martí i Mestre

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 17

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Abstract: In his literary works, Hernández Casajuana used an interesting popular vocabulary, which in part connects with the linguistic tradition of 19th century Valencian playwrights, and in part represents an innovation, as it takes into account the social change and new customs arising in the 20th century, and which were reflected in the language. The article deals with Hernández Casajuana’s more innovative lexicon, though it also considers the work of other contemporary and earlier authors. It provides new ideas in relation to historical and etymological dictionaries and explains the motivation and origin of certain words and meanings; it also shows the presence of several neologisms at the time when they were being introduced into the Catalan language. Some of these new words have disappeared in today’s language, while others continue, but at the beginning of the 20th century, when they were as yet unconsolidated, they sometimes had different forms from those that have eventually prevail.Key words: history of the lexicon, 19th and 20th century literary language, popular vocabulary, neologisms, Hernández Casajuana.
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Abstract: In his literary works, Hernández Casajuana used an interesting popular vocabulary, which in part connects with the linguistic tradition of 19th century Valencian [...]
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Catalan and English Women Poets of the Interwar Years. One existing anthology and another in the making
J. Malé

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 12

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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to study the poetry of female Catalan writers during the interwar period using two methods: on the one hand, comparative literature, relating them to English writers of the same period, and, on the other hand, feminist criticism, using some of its paradigms. The second objective is to vindicate the quality of some of these authors, such as Roser Matheu, M. Teresa Vernet, Simona Gay, Maria Perpinyà and Cèlia Viñas, and to highlight their importance in contemporary Catalan literary history.Key words: women’s poetry, catalan poetry, english poetry, interwar period, literary criticism.
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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to study the poetry of female Catalan writers during the interwar period using two methods: on the one hand, comparative literature, relating [...]
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Medical, Moral and Culinary Texts from an Exceptional Valentian Codex. A Study of the Manuscript Valencia, University of Valencia, Historical Library, 216
J. Santanach i Suñol

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia (2015). Vol. 30, (2), 1

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Abstract: Study and proposal of reconstruction of ms. 216 in the Historical Library of the University of Valencia. It is a restored codex from the first half of the 15th century. Many pages of this manuscript were lost, and others were bound incorrectly. In the volume there are medical and didactic works, such as Catalan translations of the Thesarus pauperum by Peter of Spain, the Macer floridus by Odo of Meung, and book II of the Disticha Catonis. There are also works originally written in Catalan, such as the anonymous Llibre de Sent Soví, and Mil proverbis (Book of Thousand Proverbs) by Ramon Llull. The volume’s poor condition makes it difficult to be sure about some aspects of its compilation, which hints at possible problems in the past.Key words: codicology, handwritten transmission, manuscript 216, Historical Library of the University of Valencia, Llibre de Sent Soví, Mil proverbis, Ramon Llull.
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Abstract: Study and proposal of reconstruction of ms. 216 in the Historical Library of the University of Valencia. It is a restored codex from the first half of the 15th century. [...]
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Calderón’s Los dos amantes del cielo: Sources and Novelties on the Legend of Saint Crisanto and Saint Daría
M. Tobar Quintanar

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 14

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This article unravels the probable source of Calderón’s Los dos amantes del cielo, a «comedia de santos» that dramatizes the legend of the martyrs Crisanto and Daría. The study of its hagiographic tradition reveals the textual dependence of the dramatic work on the books of saints in the Spanish Golden Age based on Laurentius Surius’ De probatis sanctorum historiis: the Flos sanctorum by Alonso de Villegas, the Segunda parte de la hagiografía y vidas de los santos del Nuevo Testamento by Juan Basilio Sanctoro and the Flos sanctorum by Pedro de Ribadeneyra. Some exclusive concordances between the texts by Villegas and by Calderón point to the first one’s Flos sanctorum as the main source of the comedy. Based on these assumptions, the article analyses the most important changes introduced by Don Pedro in the legend: the larger development of some characters, the omission of some secondary episodes and the intensification of three elements of the history: the religious one, the spectacular and, especially, the profane (the amorous secondary plot, the conflict between father-son and the humorous element).
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This article unravels the probable source of Calderón’s Los dos amantes del cielo, a «comedia de santos» that dramatizes the legend of the martyrs Crisanto and Daría. [...]
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On Calderón and Legends: La puente de Mantible and Historia de Carlomagno
A. Sáez

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 7

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The approach to the chivalric plays of Calderón starts fi rstly with the examination of the treatment of the novelistic hypotext. Because of that, the process of dramatic rewriting that transforms the Historia del emperador Carlomagno y de los doce pares de Francia into La puente de Mantible is analyzed in this work, focusing on the work of selection, the changes in the characters and the key of decorus, between other subjects. Finally, some comments about the reasons of the play and the dramatic genre are given.
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The approach to the chivalric plays of Calderón starts fi rstly with the examination of the treatment of the novelistic hypotext. Because of that, the process of dramatic [...]
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“Salió el sembrador a sembrar…”: Calderón and Lope: Two Playwrights Face the Sacramental Genre
D. Rodríguez Ortega

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 26

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This article is an attempt to establish a comparison between two sacramental plays: La siega by Lope de Vega and La semilla y la cizaña by Calderón de la Barca, both texts written in the 17th century. The similarity hypothesis starts from the fact that they share the same biblical story to build their plot, the parables of the sower and the one of the tares. From there, each author draws a religious piece with specific and own characteristics, as we may prove, presents many differences with the parallel text. While Lope de Vega delves the lyrical aspect in detriment of the cathequetical essence, Calderón de la Barca builds a solid dramatic architecture that would present the audience a theological proposal able to cause the catholic exaltation pretended by the writing and representation of the autos.
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This article is an attempt to establish a comparison between two sacramental plays: La siega by Lope de Vega and La semilla y la cizaña by Calderón de la Barca, both texts [...]
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Ekphrasis and Mythology in La vida es sueño: The Myth of Zephyr and Chloris
C. Mattza

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 18

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Pointing to the presence of the myth of Zephyr and Chloris in Calderón de la Barca’s La vida es sueño, this article studies the significance of the mythological goddess Flora, the metamorphosed Chloris in the play. Her role is clarified through the analyses of the mythographies composed in Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The study compares the different descriptions of this deity offered in these manuals as hermeneutical keys that allow a better understanding of the complexity of the symbolism behind the goddess Flora as she can be glimpsed through the fi gure of Estrella in Calderón. The work can be read as a mirror of princesses where Estrella as Chloris (Flora) serves to remind the Queen of Spain of her main role at Court.
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Pointing to the presence of the myth of Zephyr and Chloris in Calderón de la Barca’s La vida es sueño, this article studies the significance of the mythological goddess [...]
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Conventions of calderonian theatre in the Librettos of Apostolo Zeno
M. Martín Echarri

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 11

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Apostolo Zeno’s libretti have many conventions in common with Calderón’s dramaturgy: «correlaciones», dreaming speeches, interventions «al acaso»... This is unexpected in such a detractor of Baroque as the rationalist reformer of opera seria. Though some of them can be shared with other authors, it is possible to hypothesize that Zeno had direct contact with Calderón’s work. In order to prove this, we have considered the coincidence of some plots and the presence of a volume of Calderón’s Autos in Zeno’s private library, but we have examined in particular his own libretti in search of these conventions which are parallel to Calderón’s. We may exclude hazard as an explanation: Zeno returns to certain elements of Calderón’s style which had proven their effectiveness, at least when they are not in contradiction with the main conditions of the rationalist reform of his time.
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Apostolo Zeno’s libretti have many conventions in common with Calderón’s dramaturgy: «correlaciones», dreaming speeches, interventions «al acaso»... This is unexpected [...]
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The Historical Myth of Cleopatra in Calderón And His Contemporaries
E. Marcello

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 4

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This paper analyses the treatment of Cleopatra’s myth in five plays —four Spanish and one Italian— of the seventeenth century. The elements used for my analysis are the proverbial beauty of the Egyptian Queen and her suicide. The ways of expressing them provide guidelines to understand the significance of this historic figure and to verify her redemption, a process then in progress on the stage. They are Calderón’s El mayor monstruo del mundo, Marco Antonio y Cleopatra (a play printed in one suelta attributed to Calderón), Rojas Zorrilla’s Los áspides de Cleopatra, Belmonte Bermúdez’s Los tres señores del mundo and Giovanni Delfino’s La Cleopatra. Of the five, perhaps Calderón’s is the least relevant, because in it (unlike the other four) Cleopatra’s story is not the central dramatic point. All others have dramatized it with special emphasis on the beauty of the queen but also highlighting her final sacrifice as an extreme example of love —a clear triumph. The apex in this process of redemption the Egyptian queen is Delfino’s La Cleopatra, where her beauty becomes a moral attribute and her nobility becomes evident in the manner in which she faces death.
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This paper analyses the treatment of Cleopatra’s myth in five plays —four Spanish and one Italian— of the seventeenth century. The elements used for my analysis are [...]
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A Show Suiting “private noblemen”: Con chi vengo vengo at Palace Girifalco (Naples 1665)
P. Maione

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 23

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In 1665 the palace of the Duke of Girifalco hosts a selected group of aristocratic people for a rich performance inspired to Calderón’s Con quien vengo vengo, in order to show the magnificence of the house as well as its loyalty to the Spanish king. This event testifies both to the myth of Calderón in Naples in the 17th century and to the performing strategies in private houses. The text was staged using typical resources of Neapolitan theatres, such as prologues, musical insertions, dances between the acts and multiple language scenes, and was entrusted to a troupe formed by talented amateurs and skilled practitioners. Technical solutions and other «messages» constitute a propagandistic «liturgy» aimed at emphasizing the tribute of the Duke (and of his entourage) to the Spanish power. The glamour and the myth of the «catholic» nation is based also upon such events, where different «languages» and bold experiments are combined. At that time Naples is gaining (and bringing to perfection) an artistic role, which will soon turn into an absolute primacy in Europe.
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In 1665 the palace of the Duke of Girifalco hosts a selected group of aristocratic people for a rich performance inspired to Calderón’s Con quien vengo vengo, in order [...]
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Iconic Strategies in Mythological Comedies of Calderón
E. Cancelliere

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 15

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This paper explores the Horacian topic «ut pictura poiesis» which has offered such good results on the analysis of calderonians texts, but not only: it also incorporates the relationship of other arts (music, scenery, etc.) to study the complex network of mythological comedies that Calderón were represented in court environments. Thus, the author traces the interactions between existing artistic works of outstanding importance as the palatial party La fiera, el rayo y la piedra, La púrpura de la rosa or El hijo del sol, Faetón.
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This paper explores the Horacian topic «ut pictura poiesis» which has offered such good results on the analysis of calderonians texts, but not only: it also incorporates [...]
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An Approach to Meta-theatrical References in the Last Verses of Calderón’s Plays
Z. Vila Carneiro, A. Vara López

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 8

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In Calderón’s plays, metatheatrical elements are especially concentrated in the last verses, where the characters break the theatrical illusion and address the audience to refer to aspects of the work itself and its representation, in search of applause. This article analyzes the endings of 73 calderonian plays and classifi es captatio benevolentiae formulas that appear in them, related to the Baroque taste for metaliterary artifi ce. The study of the chronological evolution of the selection of such references, so codified, is not only essential to understanding the modus scribendi of Calderón, but can also be considered a new tool for the dating of certain works.
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In Calderón’s plays, metatheatrical elements are especially concentrated in the last verses, where the characters break the theatrical illusion and address the audience [...]
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The Manuscripts of Calderón’s Hado y divisa de Leonido y de Marfisa
M. Tobar

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 27

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The aim of this article is, through a careful analysis of intrinsic and extrinsic elements of each of the three manuscripts from the 17th century that are preserved of Hado y divisa de Leonido y de Marfisa from Calderón (9373 and 6743 BNE and 8314 Arsenal Library Paris) and a comparison of its variants, demonstrate: the interdependence between the ms 9373 of the BNE and 8314 (both contain bief pieces and the Descripción from Fernández de León) as ms. 8314 is a copy of ms. 9373; the Parisian manuscript is the one that copied José Guerra to send to the imperial court; that both were written at the time of release, therefore, probably both derive from the copy that Peñarroja made of calderonian draft; that the ms 16743, however, is called copy of the as known pseudo Matos Fragoso and has many variations compared to the other two.
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The aim of this article is, through a careful analysis of intrinsic and extrinsic elements of each of the three manuscripts from the 17th century that are preserved of Hado [...]
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How to Describe the Writing-process in Calderón’s Autographs? A Taxonomy of the Corrections
S. Kroll

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 19

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The present article proposes a new lector schema for the analysis of autographs. This schema presents a taxonomy of the corrections according to the stages of production of a discourse in ancient rhetoric: inventio, dispositio and elocutio. This taxonomy allows to describe Calderón’s writing process in a better way. Applying this taxonomy during the analysis of an autograph it should be possible to determine more precisely which phase of textual production the autograph in question reflects.
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The present article proposes a new lector schema for the analysis of autographs. This schema presents a taxonomy of the corrections according to the stages of production of [...]
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Calderón in his Lab: The Evidence of Cast Lists and Comments by Text Marked for Cutting
M. Greer

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 12

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This essay is devoted to the editorial treatment of passages marked for possible omission, with or without brief marginal notes and suggested alterations, in autograph and partially autograph manuscripts of Calderón de la Barca. Comparing the calligraphy of the notes and the ink color employed in marking the passages with Calderón’s handwriting in the text of the manuscript, I investigate to what degree it is possible to determine which cuts the playwright might have suggested, accepted, or rejected, and the treatment of such passages by certain editors. I also consider certain evidence we can derive from the handwriting in the cast lists of some calderonian manuscripts.
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This essay is devoted to the editorial treatment of passages marked for possible omission, with or without brief marginal notes and suggested alterations, in autograph and [...]
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The Parerga of An Autograph Manuscript: The Example of Basta callar of Calderón (BNE, Res. 19)
R. Folger

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 5

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Manuscript Res. 19 of the Biblioteca Nacional de España, a copy of Calderón’s court spectacle Basta callar, partially written by the author himself, paradigmatically illustrates the logic and working of Jacques Derrida’s notion of the parergon («frame»). In the manuscript, we observe the (graphic) intrusion of the frames into the text. These frames were used by stage directors and/or the authors to mark sections to be suppressed in a particular representation. They both contain and suppress elements which are dispensable because they seem not to contribute to our understanding of the central notions of the play: The high nobility’s renunciation of passion for the sake of state and power. A detailed analysis of the barred materials shows that perversion, in its 17th-century meaning of a corruption of the «good customs» (ethical, sexual, and religious), is the necessary supplement of the logic of power.
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Manuscript Res. 19 of the Biblioteca Nacional de España, a copy of Calderón’s court spectacle Basta callar, partially written by the author himself, paradigmatically illustrates [...]
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From the Two Versions of Calderón’s El divino Orfeo to Dionysius the Areopagite: Rewriting and Intertextuality
J. Duarte

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 24

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The author of this article begins with a comparative summary of the two versions of the sacramental play El divino Orfeo, following the theoretical principles of intertextuality and rewriting, to analyse a phrase that is repeated in many works. This phrase refers to the words attributed by Dionysius the Areopagite in the earthquake after the death of Christ. Although this segment is very short and it does not take more that two or three verses, it is accompanied by music and noises of earthquake, giving the passage certain relevance before the end of the work where the allegory is solved. Calderón does not only use this expression in different works, but he is able to inspire himself with this short passage to organise a complete sacramental play such as A Dios por razón de Estado, whose protagonist is precisely Dionysius from the Areopagus.
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The author of this article begins with a comparative summary of the two versions of the sacramental play El divino Orfeo, following the theoretical principles of intertextuality [...]
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The Author’s Work on Himself: Lope Writes La nueva victoria de don Gonzalo de Córdoba
D. Crivellari

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 16

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Starting from the observation of the autograph of La nueva victoria de don Gonzalo de Córdoba, dated October 8, 1622 —a few days after the facts that constitute the historical background of the play—, this article analyzes the modalities and possible reasons for the changes made by Lope. In particular, the paper focuses on the deletions, additions and modifications of the text, made by the Fénix de los Ingenios and by the autor de comedias, as the study of the stratifi cation of different phases and hands in the compositional process of the play offers an interesting view on the gestation and life, sometimes difficult, of the dramatic manuscript.
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Starting from the observation of the autograph of La nueva victoria de don Gonzalo de Córdoba, dated October 8, 1622 —a few days after the facts that constitute the historical [...]
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The Process of Reviewing in Calderón: The Hand-written Comedies
E. Coenen

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 9

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Calderón’s autograph comedia-manuscripts which have been preserved are not rough drafts, but versions prepared by the author to be delivered to a user, normally a theatre company. They should therefore be studied as final products of the process of composition. The authorial corrections they contain are nearly always the fruit of the revision of a previously composed text, and aim to be intelligible for an outsider. The abridgements tend to have no other end than abbreviating the text and thus, also, the memorization of the texts by the actors and the duration of the performance. Finally, various passages Calderón copied on a folio he glued on top of the earlier version, the two drafts preserved of two pages of El mágico prodigioso, and the relocated passages of Yerros de Naturaleza y aciertos de la Fortuna bear testimony of the zeal with which Calderón polished his verses even as he copied them.
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Calderón’s autograph comedia-manuscripts which have been preserved are not rough drafts, but versions prepared by the author to be delivered to a user, normally a theatre [...]
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The Process of Composition in the Hand-written Sheets of Cada uno para sí
P. Casariego Castiñeira

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 1

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One of the preserved testimonies of the calderonian comedy Cada uno para sí is a partly autograph manuscript which contains seven folios written by the author, fi ve rough pages and four fair copy folios. The aim of this paper is the comparative study of the rough and fair copies in order to analyse the composition process of Calderón.
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One of the preserved testimonies of the calderonian comedy Cada uno para sí is a partly autograph manuscript which contains seven folios written by the author, fi ve rough [...]
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Calderón in his Workshop: Remarks on the Autographs of Sacramental Plays
I. Arellano

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 20

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This paper examines some significant autographs of Calderón’s sacramental plays, analyzing the information provided by the process of writing and amendment reflected in the changes and interventions by the own hand of the poet on this manuscripts, in several categories, including the mistakes and slips of the pen.
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This paper examines some significant autographs of Calderón’s sacramental plays, analyzing the information provided by the process of writing and amendment reflected in [...]
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El pensamiento vestido de loco. Escritura e inspiración en la obra de Calderón
W. Aichinger

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 13

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In Calderón’s plays, the act of writing is often viewed as a battle between reason and passion, the result left on the paper therefore being unforeseeable. Calderón’s ideas about the creative process, the transformation of nocturnal visions into works of art, the power of dreams and visions which confront the dreamer with his double, take him into another sphere of time and can heal him from evil powers are of astounding modernity and can be found in passages of all dramatic genres that he worked in.
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In Calderón’s plays, the act of writing is often viewed as a battle between reason and passion, the result left on the paper therefore being unforeseeable. Calderón’s [...]
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Adriana Cortés Koloffon, «Cósmica y cosmética. Pliegues de la alegoría en sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y Pedro Calderón de la Barca», Madrid / Frankfurt, Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2013.
S. Kroll

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 6
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca, «La cena del rey Baltasar», ed. Antonio Sánchez Jiménez y Adrián J. Sáez, Kassel / Pamplona, Reichenberger / Universidad de Navarra, 2013.
F. Plata

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 25
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca, «El pleito matrimonial», ed. Mónica Roig, Kassel / Pamplona, Reichenberger / Universidad de Navarra, 2011.
F. Gilbert

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 17
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Luis Vélez de Guevara, «Virtudes vencen señales», ed. William R. Manson y C. George Peale, Newark, Delaware, Juan de la Cuesta, 2010.
L. Galván

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 10
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Prefacio
W. Aichinger, S. Kroll

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 2
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Bibliografía calderoniana 2014
A. Sáez

ACal (2015). Vol. 8, (1), 21
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Hipogrifo, 3.2 (2015). Table of Contents
Á. Baraibar

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 43

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Hipogrifo, 3.2 (2015). Table of Contents
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Presentation. The Political and Literary Discourse in the Relationships between Spain and Portugal
J. Usunáriz

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 38

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Presentation
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Anuario Calderoniano, 8 (2015): «Calderón in his Laboratory»
Á. Baraibar

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 30

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New about the publication of the Anuario Calderoniano, 8 (2015).
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The Collections «Batihoja» and «Peregrina» by the Instituto de Estudios Auriseculares (IDEA)
Á. Baraibar

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 25

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New about the Instituto de Estudios Auriseculares's Collections.
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Review of María Fernández López (Marcia Belisarda), Obra poética completa, ed. Martina Vinatea Recoba, New York, IDEA, 2015, 483 pp. ISBN: 978-1-938795-03-9
D. Rodríguez Ortega

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 41

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Book review: María Fernández López (Marcia Belisarda), Obra poética completa, ed. Martina Vinatea Recoba, New York, IDEA, 2015, 483 pp. ISBN: 978-1-938795-03-9
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Scenes of Cervantes in Chile: the Case of «Memorias de un perro escritas por su propia pata» by Juan Rafael Allende
J. Castro Rivas

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 34

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It is possible to recognize the influence of Cervantes in Spanish America from the moment its works arrived to our continent in the XVII century. The Chilean literature is not out of that process: in the literary field one of the highlights is the writer Juan Rafael Allende, from mid XIX Century, who’s novel Memorias de un perro escritas por su propia pata (1893) shows a clear inspiration on one of the Exemplary novels titled Coloquio de los perros. Rafael Allende’s work, narrated according to the XVII century picaresque novel principles, tells about the life’s ups and downs of a dog named Rompecadenas, who constantly changes owners and get a good number of experiences that allow it to make its performance as a pícaro even better and, by the way, to display a series of pictures of Chilean social reality.
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It is possible to recognize the influence of Cervantes in Spanish America from the moment its works arrived to our continent in the XVII century. The Chilean literature is [...]
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Table of contents, Hipogrifo, 3.1, 2015
Á. Baraibar

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 23

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Table of contents
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Two bibliographical projects of Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert
A. Wigger

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 22

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Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert reached the number 100 of its prestigious book series “Bibilioteca Áurea Hispánica” with a volume dedicated to the Sacramental Plays of Calderón and it has also recently published La Obra Completa of Mateo Alemán, first edition of the Complete Works of the sevillian author.
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Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert reached the number 100 of its prestigious book series “Bibilioteca Áurea Hispánica” with a volume dedicated to the Sacramental Plays [...]
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Santa Teresa de Jesús in Romania. Interview with Christian Tămaș, the Translator into Romanian of St.Teresa’s Works
A. Sandu-Andries

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 20

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Saint Theresa of Ávila lived in Spain, during the complicated XVIth century. A life of obedience, dedicated to writing and to the foundation of Carmelite monasteries. The present interview (a modest homage upon the celebration of 500 years since the birth of the saint) allows us to approach the life and works of a top rank personality of the Occidental religious literature from the perspective of a translator, more precisely from the perspective of the man who transposed her words into Romanian. A specialist in Arabic language and literature, a novelist and translator from Italian, Catalan, French, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Irish and English, Christian Tămaș published, between 1994 and 1998, four of the main works of the Spanish writer, being the first to present her thoughts and ideas to the Romanian reader at that time. A lucid witness of times when openness and intelectual curiosity were highly valued, the translator evokes certain aspects regarding the way in which she has been perceived in Romania, pinpointing the difficulty of the Theresian text and speaking of the role of religious translation, the present state of the act of reading, the lights and shadows of a society —the modern day, Romanian one.
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Saint Theresa of Ávila lived in Spain, during the complicated XVIth century. A life of obedience, dedicated to writing and to the foundation of Carmelite monasteries. [...]
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The Duchess and Altisidora: Two Enemies of Dulcinea
A. Iriarte

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 31

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Don Quixote creates Dulcinea of El Toboso, the beloved of the knight-errant, out of his recollections of Aldonza Lorenzo. The character of Dulcinea is very different from the peasant woman who inspired her creation, to the point that the latter is entirely effaced, while the imaginary Dulcinea, as she has taken possession of don Quixote’s inner world, becomes stronger and plays an increasingly important role in the novel, exerting influence on the development of events. This will be more evident in the second part of the novel, where two women at the duke’s court, the duchess herself and Altisidora, take on the task of unmasking the nonexistence of Dulcinea, and induce don Quixote to fall in love with a real woman, a role assumed by Altisidora. In this essay, I argue that the more these real women question Dulcinea, the stronger will be don Quixote’s feelings for his imaginary beloved. This process takes place within one of the central conflicts of Cervantes’ novel: the struggle between the creatures of the imagination and those we accept as real.
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Don Quixote creates Dulcinea of El Toboso, the beloved of the knight-errant, out of his recollections of Aldonza Lorenzo. The character of Dulcinea is very different from [...]
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Ricote, a Spaniard outside of Spain: Identity and Spaces for Freedom in Cervantes
F. Plata Parga

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 26

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This paper offers a reading of the Morisco character Ricote (Quijote, II, 54) from the perspective of the experience of emigration and exile of a Spaniard outside of Spain. The paper offers also a reflection on the related issues of Ricote’s identity as a «Spaniard», as well as that of the spaces created by Cervantes within the novel to present, with a certain degree of freedom, both a moving portrait of the character, and a defense of his expulsion from Spain.
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This paper offers a reading of the Morisco character Ricote (Quijote, II, 54) from the perspective of the experience of emigration and exile of a Spaniard outside of Spain. [...]
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Golden Age Theatre Bills Revisited
M. de los Reyes Peña

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 19

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The present work updates research on Spanish Golden Age comedy bills and reproduces the so far known ones. It also offers valuable new information, in the light of current databases, meticulous library and archive catalogues, and the constant research carried out by qualified specialists in the field of Golden Age theatre manuscripts.
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The present work updates research on Spanish Golden Age comedy bills and reproduces the so far known ones. It also offers valuable new information, in the light of current [...]
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Poetry in Fiction: an approximation to the structure of «El curioso impertinente»
S. Santa Aguilar

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 35

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The present work analyzes how poetry breaks into the structure of El curioso impertinente. Firstly, it should be highlighted that El curioso impertinente is a novel considered as fiction within the don Quixote’s frame of reference (fictional plane), and in which characters are constantly acting fake situations, that ends up becoming true, which leads them to a renewed need to feign or to lie. From this perspective, the work focuses on the paradox that, given this plane fixed so far from the reality of the reader, the three poems recited by the characters come from a world outside fiction since they have actual authors in Cervantes’s time. Furthermore, the two sonnets ‘written’ by Lotario belong to the more serious Cervantine poetry, and thus belong to Spanish Golden Age lyrical tradition. Another paradox is also present: the five poems, which are rated as literature by the characters of the novel, foreshadow the events that will take place in the novel’s reality; unveiling a structure in which reality is constantly imitating fiction.
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The present work analyzes how poetry breaks into the structure of El curioso impertinente. Firstly, it should be highlighted that El curioso impertinente is a novel considered [...]
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Don Quixote Intends to give us Music; and Being his it will not be Bad
L. Sancho

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 27

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The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha is crossed with a quantity and variety of poems that result being eco of the events that happen in the narration. In this opportunity the romance is analyzed and commented. «Mighty Love the hearts of maidens», of chapter XLVI of the Second Part, is an example of the Cervantes poetics of love and cavalry that weaves relationships with other events, themes and poems, inserted in the Cervantes novel.
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The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha is crossed with a quantity and variety of poems that result being eco of the events that happen in the narration. In this [...]
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Fame and Infamy of Duke of Braganza in the Spanish Golden Age Theatre
F. Domínguez Matito

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 44

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«Portuguese matter» is a subject that inspired a large amount of plays of the Spanish Golden Age. This is especially the case in the period of the dual monarchy, in which the outstanding episodes in the history of Portugal and their main protagonists are dealt, in general, from a Castilian-centered perspective. This article specifically focuses on the events involving the dukes of Braganza. These events were of great importance not only for the history of Portugal but for the Austrian monarchy. They also served as the source of a number of comedies of the theatre in the Golden Age. Several of Lope de Vega’s plays are analyzed including El duque de Viseo, El más galán portugués, with the intention of contrasting them with the Granada playwright Cubillo de Aragón’s La tragedia del duque de Berganza. The analysis of the dramatizations evidences the different attitudes of both playwrights towards the house of Braganza. It also evidences the different assessment of Portuguese nobility in relation to the historical circumstances that they experienced during the reign of John II of Portugal. In the case of Lope de Vega, during the same time period as the dual monarchy, the plays are written in order to ennoble his image and, in the case of Cubillo, to validate his reputation as a traitor, following the uprise against the monarchy of Phillip IV, which lead to the secession of Portugal.
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«Portuguese matter» is a subject that inspired a large amount of plays of the Spanish Golden Age. This is especially the case in the period of the dual monarchy, in which [...]
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The Mario Vargas Llosa’s «niña mala»: Literary Descendant from the Picaresque?
G. Pollarolo

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 18

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The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship, from an intertextual perspective, between Las travesuras de la niña mala by Mario Vargas Llosa (2006), and the picaresque genre developed in Spain during the 16th and 17th century. In order to achieve this aim, I will take into account the filiation discourse and the appearance of the picaresque canon, as well as the female picaresque works ignored by the critics. Vargas Llosa draws the character of the «niña mala» gathering charateristics which belong both to male and female picaro.
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The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship, from an intertextual perspective, between Las travesuras de la niña mala by Mario Vargas Llosa (2006), and the [...]
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The «Epistle of Amarilis to Belardo», a Missive from Mestizo Peru to Spain
J. Aladro Font, R. Ramos-Tremolada

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 17

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This article is a new interpretation of the Epistle of Amarilis to Belardo. Using a close reading of text and a detailed analysis of the text’s sources, we discover that it is more than just a complaint from one of Lope’s female admirers, finding that the letter by Amarilis, in the tradition of El Inca Garcilaso, is the Peruvian mestizo’s cry (Amarilis) for «another» homeland —«Spain», as symbolized by Lope.
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This article is a new interpretation of the Epistle of Amarilis to Belardo. Using a close reading of text and a detailed analysis of the text’s sources, we discover that [...]
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Review of Fray Toribio de Benavente, “Motolinía”, Historia de los indios de la Nueva España, ed. Mercedes Serna Arnaiz y Bernat Castany Prado, Madrid, RAE/CECE, 2014, 559 pp. (ISBN: 978-84-617-0715-7)
G. Serés

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 16

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Book's review
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On the Meanings of Bilingualism in Jorge de Montemayor’s «Diana»: the Symbolic Dimension of the Mondego Fields
M. Teixeira Anacleto

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 42

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This article discusses the meanings of bilingualism in Jorge de Montemayor’s Diana. This microanalysis aims to demonstrate the centrality of this novel within the aesthetic framework of Iberian baroque. In a close reading analysis, the fleeting love story between the two Portuguese shepherds, Duarda and Danteo, located in the last book of the Siete Libros de la Diana, is viewed as a strategic mise en abyme for the construction of a ‘modern’ perspective on the baroque universe of the «libros de pastores», and the consequent transition from bucolic lyricism to bucolic narrative. This will be the central argument for this reflection, anchored on a plural vision of the interconnections between Portugal and Spanish literature in the «Siglo de Oro».
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This article discusses the meanings of bilingualism in Jorge de Montemayor’s Diana. This microanalysis aims to demonstrate the centrality of this novel within the aesthetic [...]
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Mechanisms of Secrets and Secrecy in «El secretario confuso» by Jacinto Cordeiro
M. Insúa Cereceda

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 36

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This article studies the mechanism of secrets and secrecy in El secretario confuso (1634), comedy by Jacinto Cordeiro; he is a playwright that belongs to the group of lusitan authors that write in Spanish during the Dual Monarchy period (1580-1640). This work, that can be included in the secretario subtype of comedia palatina genre —based on the infatuation between a noble lady and her secretary— shows thematic and structural coincidences with the main comedies of this modality —El perro del hortelano by Lope de Vega and El vergonzoso en palacio by Tirso de Molina—, but providing new variations to this corpus focussed on the communicational dynamics of remaining silent, concealing and declaring love between the different characters.
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This article studies the mechanism of secrets and secrecy in El secretario confuso (1634), comedy by Jacinto Cordeiro; he is a playwright that belongs to the group of lusitan [...]
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An Approach to the Topic of Cheating in some Comedies by Lope de Vega
J. Martínez Berbel

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 21

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This paper gives an overview of the different mechanisms of deception in the plays of Lope de Vega. The typology of these delusions is reviewed and then applied to several Lope de Vega’s plays.
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This paper gives an overview of the different mechanisms of deception in the plays of Lope de Vega. The typology of these delusions is reviewed and then applied to several [...]
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The Dramatic Hidden Details in the Hagiographical Comedies by Pérez de Montalbán. The Case of «El divino portugués, san Antonio de Padua»
J. Escudero

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 28

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This article focuses on the mechanisms and the dramatic features of the hagiographic comedies of Juan Pérez de Montalbán, from the analysis of a little-studied drama, El divino portugués, San Antonio de Padua, an excellent example of comedia de santos gender and a good example of the dramatic art of Pérez de Montalbán.
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This article focuses on the mechanisms and the dramatic features of the hagiographic comedies of Juan Pérez de Montalbán, from the analysis of a little-studied drama, El [...]
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Tirso de Molina's comedy «Las Quinas de Portugal» and Salazar's censorship
A. Apolinário Lourenço

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 45

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In March 1968, Portuguese censors stopped the broadcast on public television —which was the only television network at the time— of Tirso de Molina’s comedy Las quinas de Portugal. This play stages the most important creation myth for the Portuguese nation: on the eve of the battle of Ourique, a crucified Christ appeared and offered Count Afonso Henriques his five holy wounds as a symbol for the Portuguese coat of arms. In this article, I intend to understand the ethical and political reasoning of the censors who read this play, written by one of the most important playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age
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In March 1968, Portuguese censors stopped the broadcast on public television —which was the only television network at the time— of Tirso de Molina’s comedy Las quinas [...]
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Francisco Botelho de Morais e Vasconcelos, Iberian poet of Pre-Illustration and Founder of the Academy of the United
C. d'Abreu Ferreira Machado

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 39

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Francisco Botelho de Morais e Vasconcelos (1670-1747), a Portuguese poet of Castilian language, lived and bonded with remarkable Spanish intellectuals of his time; he reached fame while still alive, he was raised to the status of Honorary Member of the Spanish Royal Academy, and he left us a legacy which includes a prolific and ground-breaking poetic and literary work. He set up a literary academy in his own hometown, an episode we will further explore, by including an unpublished manuscript authored by some of its members. He is, notwithstanding, an insufficiently celebrated author within the ambit of Iberian Studies.
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Francisco Botelho de Morais e Vasconcelos (1670-1747), a Portuguese poet of Castilian language, lived and bonded with remarkable Spanish intellectuals of his time; he reached [...]
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Portugal in the Works of Bartolomé Jiménez Patón (1569-1640)
J. Garau

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 32

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Throughout his works, Bartolomé Jiménez Patón mentions Portugal and some of its writers on a number of occasions. In the books that have been recovered of his Comentarios de erudición (1621), he cites authors such as Fernando López de Castañeda or Joao de Barros, who are associated with the popular vogue of the period for portentous works, of which the Spanish Humanist was so fond of. A large number of his commentaries concerning Portugal center on justifying dynastic unity, based on his interpretation of the history of Gregorio López Madera, who he admired so much, which has as its background the image of Hispania. To a certain extent, the new government of Olivares would try to carry out this policy. Of no less interest is his description of the city of Lisbon in which he presents the idea of ‘exemplariness’, a notion he has in common with other descriptions by Mateo Alemán, Cervantes or Tirso, although in Patón’s, such exemplariness appears in contrast with the picturesque depiction of the rogues of the Rua Nova.
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Throughout his works, Bartolomé Jiménez Patón mentions Portugal and some of its writers on a number of occasions. In the books that have been recovered of his Comentarios [...]
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Review of Diferentes y escogidas. Homenaje al profesor Luis Iglesias Feijoo, Santiago Fernández Mosquera (ed.), Madrid/Frankfurt, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2014, 548 pp. ISBN: 978-84-8489-819-1
V. Casais Vila

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 11

Abstract
Book's review
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Christ as a Gambler in «Auto Sacramental del Juego del Hombre» by Luis Mejía de la Cerda
D. Rodríguez Ortega

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 12

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This article contains a deep analysis of the sacramental play Auto Sacramental del Juego del Hombre written by Luis Mejía de la Cerda in 1625. The piece is composed taking a card game as the core topic and representing Christ as a player betting amongst the Death, Devil and World. One of the most remarkable characteristics is the absolute presence of the play in a devote text, because of the combination of such mundane and religious features. But it is necessary to say, that this way of leisure was very popular during the Golden Age period, where people of every social class were willing to enjoy.
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This article contains a deep analysis of the sacramental play Auto Sacramental del Juego del Hombre written by Luis Mejía de la Cerda in 1625. The piece is composed taking [...]
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Erudition, Dialogue and Instruction in «Noches claras» by Manuel de Faria e Sousa
P. Silva Pereira

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 37

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In Noches claras by Manuel de Faria e Sousa, among discourses and chapters which serve different purposes, an intense programme of cultural divulgation starts to take form, which offers the readers themes of social and religious nature as well as of moral philosophy, stimulating their intellectual curiosity. By combining the strong didactic aesthetics of the miscellanea, as it was cultivated in the Iberian Peninsula in the 16th and 17th centuries, with the specific features of dialogue, the project gained density and gave way to a more pleasant use than the mere occasional search for information. The variety in themes and sense of erudition, resulting from a wide range of ancient and modern cultural and religious sources, are now seen as part of a more coherent composition, thus overcoming the risks of fragmented reading. On the other hand, the autobiographical drive which can be found across a significant part of Faria e Sousa’s literary production, allows him to come closer to the essay genre, as the author is regarded as the one who is responsible for carefully choosing the material, organizing and exposing it based on his knowledge and life experience which were the marks of the discrete man.
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In Noches claras by Manuel de Faria e Sousa, among discourses and chapters which serve different purposes, an intense programme of cultural divulgation starts to take form, [...]
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The Lisbon Dreamed up by Tirso de Molina
A. Dotras Bravo

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 29

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My purpose is to go back to the description of Lisbon, always depicted rather polemically by the critics, on El burlador de Sevilla by Tirso de Molina, who divided the academic world in regards to the relevance of don Gonzalo’s parliament to king Afonso XI, in the first act. Besides I intend to carry out a new analysis, on the one hand, on the hierarchy of elements presents, from an interpretative perspective of the fragment, taking as baseline, also to diverge, the most complete work about the description of Lisboa, of Marc Vitse, published in 1978.
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My purpose is to go back to the description of Lisbon, always depicted rather polemically by the critics, on El burlador de Sevilla by Tirso de Molina, who divided the academic [...]
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Lope, Reader of Jorge Ferreira de Vasconcelos
S. Pereira

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 24

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This work takes as its starting point Eugenio Asensio’s affirmation that the greatest admirer of Jorge Ferreira de Vasconcelos and his comedies would have been Lope de Vega. He attempts to prove this thesis by pointing out the similarities between the Eufrosina (1555) and Lope’s La Dorotea (1632) and, to a certain extent, even the Aulegrafia (1619). Other points of contact between the lives and works of these two great figures of the Iberian theater are also considered, in order to understand how Lope de Vega processed his reception of the works of the Portuguese comedy writer of the sixteenth century
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This work takes as its starting point Eugenio Asensio’s affirmation that the greatest admirer of Jorge Ferreira de Vasconcelos and his comedies would have been Lope de Vega. [...]
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Kings, Saints and Husbands: Portuguese Characters in the Golden Age Theatre
M. Álvarez Sellers

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 40

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The Portuguese reality is part of the thematic heritage of the Spanish Golden Age theatre which highlights from the Lusitanian their courage at war and their excess in passion. Literary interactions took place in two senses: the Lusitanian tradition was treated in Spanish pieces, and Portuguese playwrights wrote in Castilian following Lope de Vega in his Arte nuevo de hacer comedias en este tiempo (1609). Although history and hagiography will be the most exploited aspects due to the impact of their protagonists, on other occasions Portugal will be used as a setting to universal conflicts. Kings such as D. Afonso Henriques, D. João II and D. Sebastião star in works of Tirso de Molina, Lope de Vega or Cubillo de Aragón; and El príncipe constante by Calderón and Caer para levantar by Moreto, Matos Fragoso and Cáncer relate, respectively, the lives of two Portuguese saints, S. Fernando and S. Gil. We will analyse El príncipe constante and A secreto agravio, secreta venganza by Calderón and Las quinas de Portugal by Tirso de Molina, with the aim of discovering the degree of involvement between the dramaturgical approaches and historical context that includes or propitiates them, in order to try to reveal the elements that motivated the rise and the decline of Portuguese topics in the seventeenth century Spanish theatre.
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The Portuguese reality is part of the thematic heritage of the Spanish Golden Age theatre which highlights from the Lusitanian their courage at war and their excess in passion. [...]
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Portugal y los portugueses en el teatro cómico breve del siglo XVII: de los entremeses a los villancicos
E. Borrego Gutiérrez

Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 33

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La figura del portugués en el teatro cómico breve del siglo XVII, y su posterior paso a los villancicos, no ha sido aún estudiada a fondo ni sistematizada, salvo alusiones en estudios de conjunto, junto a otras figuras geográficas y étnicas. En este artículo se procede a un recorrido cronológico por la obra de un nutrido número de entremesistas de la época y del análisis de un corpus de 142 pliegos de villancicos (en su gran mayoría anónimos) para determinar la presencia del personaje, no solo cuantitativamente, sino desde el punto de vista de sus rasgos definitorios. En el entremés es una figura cuya presencia es secundaria pero constante y perfectamente tipificada: sus rasgos más típicos —ya presentes en las farsas del siglo XVI— son su carácter enamoradizo, su arrogancia y su condición de músico, que se ve reforzada en los villancicos, pues el portugués es protagonista en numerosas ocasiones de piezas monologadas, de mayor componente lírico. Sin embargo, en los villancicos de tipo dialógico mantienen los demás rasgos del personaje, incidiendo en la fanfarronería, en el enamoramiento fácil y en la rivalidad con Castilla, aunque se alude especialmente a la vanidad genealógica del portugués, rasgo apenas perceptible en los entremeses.
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La figura del portugués en el teatro cómico breve del siglo XVII, y su posterior paso a los villancicos, no ha sido aún estudiada a fondo ni sistematizada, salvo alusiones [...]
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