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Ressenya sobre el llibre de Miquel Àngel Pradilla, La catalanofonia. Una comunitat del segle XXI a la recerca de la normalitat lingüística, Barcelona, Institut d’Estudis [...]

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Book review: Enric Balaguer, Maria Jesús Francés & Vicent Vidal (eds.), Aproximació a l’altre. An approach to the other. Biografies, semblances i retrats. Biographies, [...]

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Book review: Francesc Martínez Sanchis, Premsa valencianista. Repressió, resistència cultural i represa democràtica (1958-1987), Bellaterra / Castelló de la Plana / Barcelona [...]

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Book review: Ferran Carbó, Paraules invictes. Cinc estudis de poesia catalana del segle xx, València, PUV, 2016, 224 pp. ISBN: 978-84-370-9908-8.

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Book review: Anna Maria Babbi & Vicent Josep Escartí (eds.), More about ‘Tirant lo Blanc’. Més sobre el ‘Tirant lo Blanc’, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins [...]

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Book review: Joan Veny & Mar Massanell: Dialectologia catalana. Aproximació pràctica als parlars catalans, Barcelona, Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona / Publicacions [...]

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Book review: Vicent Simbor (ed.), Ironies de la Modernitat. La ironia del Modernisme al Noucentisme, Barcelona, Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2015, 277 pp., ISBN: [...]

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Abstract: In this paper we argue that «passive sentence» is a cover term with no empirical import or explanatory interest, an epiphenomenon. The properties of passives are [...]

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Abstract: Absolute constructions are supposed to display the main syntactic and interpretive properties of adverbial subordinate clauses but, in contrast to them, they lack [...]

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Abstract: In Modern Italian (MI), negative additives are focalizing elements that typically obey negative concord with a clausal negation or another licensing negative element. [...]

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Abstract: This article discusses the evolution of degree wh-exclamatives from Old Catalan to Modern and Contemporary Catalan. Two major changes can be identified which transformed [...]

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Abstract: The Latin verbal ending -at, found in etymons of forms of the 3rd person present indicative (1st conjugation), present subjunctive (2nd and 3rd conjugations), imperfect [...]

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Introduction to the monograph «La gramàtica històrica i la teoria lingüística: una comunicació profitosa», number 61 (Autumn 2016) of Caplletra. Revista Internacional [...]

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Abstract: This work aims to deploy the term favourable sociolinguistic conditions framework proposed by F. X. Vila, M. Nogué and I. Vila in order to make it academically [...]

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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to describe the realization of the direct internal arguments of nouns in Catalan. It is based on the idea that some nouns, like verbs, are [...]

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Abstract: This paper analyses the multiculturalism in children’s and young people’s literature written in Catalan between 2002 and 2006, a period when there was a marked [...]

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Abstract: Maria Carratalà was president of the Lyceum Club in Barcelona, a forum for women with artistic and intellectual interests, between 1933 and 1935. Her friendship [...]

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Abstract: The article studies the development of the concept of Valencia as «Lost Paradise», from Sharq al-Andalus Arabic literature to the metrical romances developed in [...]

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Book review: Jennifer Duprey, The Aesthetics of the Ephemeral. Memory Theaters in Contemporary Barcelona, State University of New York, 2014, 274 pp.

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Book review: Maria Conca & Josep Guia (2014), La fraseologia. Principis, mètode i aplicacions, Alzira, Bromera/IIFV, 216 pp., ISBN: 9788490262818.

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Book review: G. Golobardes, Diccionari grec clàssic-català, Barcelona, PAM 2015, ISBN 978-84-9883-787-2.

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Book review: Francesc Massip Bonet (ed.), Repensar el sombrío Medioevo / Those Dark Ages Revisited. Nuevas perspectivas para el estudio de la cultura medieval y de la temprana [...]

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Book review: Enric Balaguer, Constel·lacions postmodernes, València, Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2015, 200 pp.

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Book review: F. Xavier Vila & Vanessa Bretxa (eds.) Language Policy in Higher Education. The Case of Medium-Sized Languages, Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2015, 218 pp.

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Abstract: This paper analyses the poetry that Josep Maria de Sagarra wrote during the twenties and thirties —excluding El comte Arnau, Poema de Nadal and his satirical poetry— [...]

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Abstract: This paper aims to study the importance of irony in Carles Soldevila by analysing his novel Valentina, published in 1933. Firstly, the author’s concept of irony [...]

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Abstract: In this paper we address the uses of irony of situation in the construction of 1920s bourgeois comedy, taking as a reference text J. M. Millàs-Raurell’s piece [...]

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Abstract: This paper reexamines the different types of irony present in La Glòria del doctor Larén (1936), Pere Calders’s first novel. These include meta-fictional reflections [...]

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Abstract: This paper is based on the assumption that the general conception of irony cannot be applied to the works by J. V. Foix. Instead, they should be considered in the [...]

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Presentation to the monograph «La ironia en la literatura catalana de preguerra», number 60 (Spring 2016) of Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia.

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Abstract: The paper analyses the relationship between the ideology of university students from the region of Valencia and their linguistic behaviour. Apart from the traditional [...]

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Abstract: Parliamentary debate is essentially an argumentative genre because members of parliament defend a stance regarding a topic of discussion. This position is embodied [...]

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Abstract: Research on the Catalan dialects, often include mistakes in the interpretation of the Algherese vowel phonemes, and especially of the mid vowels /e, ?, ?, o/. The [...]

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Abstract: During creative crisis at the end of 19th century, Narcís Oller dedicated himself to translation. One of the translated works is Un llibre trist, a collection of [...]

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Abstract: This article examines a brief dramatic prelude found after La comedia del marqués de los Vélez (1641) in the archives of the Barcelona History Museum. Due to its [...]

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Calderón deals with uxoricide following adultery in several of his works, providing different solutions according to the dramatic genre: human, commutative justice [...]

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Women play a very important role in the Spanish comedy of the 17th century. Female characters control the play action, manipulating the rest of the characters in order to [...]

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This article analyzes the technique of duplication focusing on the motive of the garden in La fiera, el rayo y la piedra, Apolo y Climene and Ni Amor se libra de amor. It [...]

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En este artículo se pasa revista a la visión poco halagüeña de la crítica teatral del diecinueve con respecto al teatro calderoniano, la llamada «querella calderoniana». [...]

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The aim of this paper is to analyse the features of calderonian writing in a partially autograph manuscript. The manuscript Res-79, by which the second version of El mayor [...]

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For Emilio Carballido, theatre was a pedagogical tool that could reach young people. Not only did he put several plays that dialogue with Spanish classical theater on stage, [...]

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Amongst the numerous interpretations of El médico de su honra, Adolfo Marsillach’s adaption stands out for respecting the original ambiguity of the work through [...]

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I analyze Andrés Barajas’ illustrations of Calderón’s El gran teatro del mundo, manifesting the philosophical and theological hypertexts with iconographic [...]

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The present article analyses Raúl Ruiz’ movie Memoria de apariencias: La vida es sueño (1986) in relation to Calderón de la Barca’s La vida [...]

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This essay examines a classical work of Spain’s Baroque theater, La dama duende (1629) by the dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and a classical movie of Argentinean [...]

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This article analyses the Spanish television adaptation of Calderón’s sacramental play La vida es sueño by Alberto González Vergel (1965), focusing [...]

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Saint Teresa of Jesus is the most important modern model for feminine religiosity. Nevertheless, in her times, her actions and her persona were under the ecclesiastical hierarchy’s [...]

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This paper studies the influence of sceptic philosophy in the formation of the myth of the «good savage». The first part analizes the importance of scepticism in the XVIth, [...]

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In baroques labyrinths it get consumed the perverse pleasure of artificious complexity, the enthusiasm for a virtual architecture able to metaphorise the endless trajectories [...]

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This study analyzes part of the lexicon of «Book Sixteen» and «Book Seventeen» of the Comentarios de Erudición by Bartolomé Jiménez Patón, in light of the discovery, [...]

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Review of Ignacio Arellano, Duilio Ayalamacedo y James Iffland (eds.), El Quijote desde América (Segunda parte), New York, IDEA, 2016, 309 pp. Colección Batihoja, 24. ISBN: [...]

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Review of Juan Manuel Gauger, Autoridad jesuita y saber universal. La polémica cometaria entre Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora y Eusebio Francisco Kino, Nueva York, IDEA, [...]

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The crisis is the political upheaval that accompanied the ascent of Olivares to power. Its repercussions on the religious and literary career of Fr. Gabriel Téllez/Tirso [...]

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The festive background of late Baroque Spain has been until not long ago considerably ignored by the critics, which is why it has become mandatory to delve into the study [...]

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Julian Garcés was the first bishop of Puebla de los Ángeles, playing a fundamental role in the founding of the new city, in a territory where the indigenous population was [...]

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This article aims to analyze the text entitled Llanto sagrado de la América Meridional written by the Augustinian friar Francisco Romero. The work presents a kind of spiritual [...]

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Review of Luis de Miranda, Romance, ed. Silvia Tieffemberg, Madrid/Frankfurt/Pamplona, Iberoamericana/Vervuert/Universidad de Navarra, 2014, 196 pp.  ISBN 978-84-8489-832[...]

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Analysing the errors committed by Calderón himself during his writing amplify the perspective on his complex composition process. The aim of this paper is to offer an initial [...]

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Giulia Poggi denies, in a recent study, that «De pura honestidad templo sagrado» describes the small sculpture of the Virgin of Villaviciosa in the Cathedral-Mosque of Córdoba, [...]

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Biopics of writers abound in cinema; however, of all the canonical Spanish Golden Age authors, only Lope’s biography has attracted cinematographic attention. In this paper [...]

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Review of Tarifa Castilla, Mª José, «El convento de Nuestra Señora de la Victoria de Cascante», Cascante,VICUS, 2014, 221 pp., ISBN: 978-84-617-2795-7

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Review of Richard Parra, «La tiranía del Inca. El Inca Garcilaso y la escritura política en el Perú colonial (1568-1617)», Lima, Ediciones Copé, 2015, 508 pp., ISBN [...]

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This article describes the Buscón’s editio princeps from a material point of view. Special attention is paid to the material examination of the busiest pages and of the [...]

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This study examines textual evidence in Titu Cusi's Instrucción in order to review the mediation that fray Marcos Garcia had in the production of this document. From a critical [...]

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From the 15th century on, the practitioners of the mechanical arts obtain a new self-confidence and do no longer want to be regarded merely as manual workers. In this context, [...]

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Review of Tirso de Molina, «Amar por arte mayor», edición crítica, estudio y notas de Enrique García Santo-Tomás, New York/Madrid/Pamplona, IDEA/IET, 2015, 176 pp. ISBN: [...]

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In this paper I will study the presence and use of the words do, vide y vido in Lope de Vega’s works, by analyzing twenty seven critical editions based on Lopean holographs. [...]

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We analyze some works of art representing St. Teresa of Ávila, within the corpus of sermons, paintings and sculptures of the New Spain, to investigate its proximity or their [...]

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Review of Fray Toribio de Benavente, Motolinía, «Historia de los indios de la Nueva España», ed. Mercedes Serna y Bernat Castany, Madrid, Real Academia Española/Centro [...]

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This article, embedded in the field of Philology —with an historical approach and a linguistic viewpoint— and in the history of the Spanish language, discusses the acceptability [...]

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Review of Alessandro Martinengo, Al margen de Quevedo. Paisajes naturales. Paisajes textuales, New York, IDEA, 2015, 158 pp. ISBN: 978-1-938795-10-7

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Pirate representation is studied in a series of Epic poems in the late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century. The ambiguous image of the English enemy is read in [...]

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Mistical suspension, silence, time, absolute, ontology, ineffability, aletheiaIn the mystical ecstasy there is a sensorial and intellectual suspension when contemplating the [...]

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The purpose of this article is to present the letter signed by Santa Teresa de Jesús donated by the Bishop of Arequipa, Don Agustín Ugarte and Sarabia, for the foundation [...]

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This essay posits certain political-philosophical perspectives on the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s Primera parte de los Comentarios reales de los Incas (1609). To this purpose [...]

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The castle of Las moradas, by santa Teresa, has attracted the attention of scholars, who have tried to guess its sources. Also some artists have been interested on it and [...]

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The convent architecture of the Teresian Carmel developed over the centuries of the Early Modern Time (XVI-XVIII) was designed by friars of the Order, as brother Alberto de [...]

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In this paper we propose a re-reading of three types of texts in which the 17th and 18th century Jesuit missionaries in the New World described their experiences as missionaries [...]

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This article is a preview to the critical edition and annotated text of Desengaño y reparo de la guerra del reino de Chile (1614), by Alonso González de Nájera. Not only [...]

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This selective survey of the studies on Saint Theresa in Spain between 1861 and 1963 focuses on how and why this saint proved so acceptable to non-Catholic quarters, and could [...]

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The life and work of Santa Teresa of Jesus had a great influence on the New Spain spiritual atmosphere by enabling a more intimate and direct relationship of women with God [...]

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The ekphrasis has attracted the recent literary criticism as a key for poetic interpretation. We will check her particular presence in El Bernardo of Balbuena, noted by Frank [...]

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The aim of this paper is to analyze the burlesque style in Martin del Barco Centenera’s epic poem Argentina y conquista del Río de la Plata. In the first place, the notion [...]

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At the time of the Counter-Reformation the litanies of the Virgin, of the Holy Name of Jesus and of the Blessed Sacrament play an important role in the liturgical field, but [...]

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This article analyzes the function of Hernán Cortés’ tears in the Historia verdadera by Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Some critics have read Cortés’ weeping as a sign [...]

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The following discussion offers a panorama of the hermeneutical horizon from which the philological annotation apparatus of the Libro de los ritos critical edition was created. [...]

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After an introductory discussion of textual issues of the Historia eclesiástica indiana, the article studies certain rhetorical aspects of this chronicle: the abundant biographies [...]

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Epic poetry has always been considered a masculine genre. The eruption of a group identity, masculine, white, aristocratic and christian, is the result of the representation [...]

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In the following article we present an unpublished and unknown text of Galician discoverer Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. The letter, wrote in Latin, was send to Lord Burghley, [...]

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Lope de Vega’s late poem «Ayer vi la librería» appears at first sight to be a laudatory description of King Felipe IV’s personal library. Upon close inspection, and [...]

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Despite of the influence of the Arabic literary models and themes they were relegated into the background after the Middle Ages; nevertheless it is possible to trace those [...]

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A current tendency in Spanish Golden Age theatre studies is dramatic segmentation. In this sense, we must emphasize Marc Vitseʼs methodology, which suggests structuring the [...]

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Horace’ Ars poetica experienced up to four different Spanish translations, adaptations and/or scholium in the last decade of the 16th century: Vicente Espinel’s (1591), [...]