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This volume explores the relation between identity and diversity as
the essential condition of interculturalism, and the sometimes
positive, sometimes negative, role that identity and diversity play
within intercultural dialogue in an increasingly globalised world.
An international conference, in Madrid, October 2003, brought
together scholars from four continents and allowed them to share
their knowledge and learn about the issues of « identity and
diversity: philological and philosophical reflections. The present
volume contains a selection of the conference papers. The
contributors explore the dynamics of identity as a process open to
differences. Although identity and difference are not exclusively
discursive, it is discourse and natural language that incorporate
them.
Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism starts from the premise that
the literary-cultural milieu we live in is characteristically
hybrid. To develop that premise, the present volume focuses on
explaining the strong impact that Japanese culture, especially
Japanese aesthetics, bore on Western intellectuals, Modernist
literary writers and artists from the second half of the nineteenth
century onwards, and, conversely, the impact of Western modernity
on Japanese cultural modernization from the Meiji Era onwards. Such
intercultural contact has brought on a renewal of cultural formats
that can be explained in terms of hybridity as regards both the
aesthetic and the intellectual production of the artists and
thinkers from Japan and the West throughout the twentieth century
and to the present. The outcome of modernization was the creation
of new cultural standards in Japan and the West and, with it, new
ways of understanding pedagogy and education, a reconceptualization
of the Nation versus the individual, a redefinition of the role of
women in modernizing society, also a revision of philosophical
thought and a new approach to the role of linguistic signs in the
production of meaning.
Este volumen embarca al lector en un viaje a traves de las
experiencias y emociones de cinco mujeres de elite que, en tiempos
de cambio, fueron protagonistas de sus vidas y escribieron sobre
ellas, regalando al interesado su memoria convertida en textos.
Todas ellas tuvieron oportunidades, convirtieron la posibilidad en
una necesidad, y su necesidad en una realidad, y contribuyeron, con
el relato de sus vivencias en Espana y America, a lo que mas tarde
llegaria a conformar un genero literario. Algunas viajaron gracias
a la profesion de sus conyuges (Caroline E. Cushing y Lady Louisa
Tenison). Otras buscaron en los viajes y la escritura una via de
escape a sus problemas sentimentales (Baronesa de Wilson o Isabella
Bird), o a sus necesidades intelectuales (Maria de Maeztu). En
todas, sin embargo, el viaje constituiria mucho mas: una verdadera
pasion.
New, carefully focused essays providing a thorough examination of
Hemingway's groundbreaking non-fictional work. Published in 1932,
Death in the Afternoon reveals its author at the height of his
intellectual and stylistic powers. By that time, Hemingway had
already won critical and popular acclaim for his short stories and
novels of the late twenties. A mature and self-confident artist, he
now risked his career by switching from fiction to nonfiction, from
American characters to Spanish bullfighters, from exotic and
romantic settings to the tough world of theSpanish bullring, a
world that might seem frightening and even repellant to those who
do not understand it. Hemingway's nonfiction has been denied the
attention that his novels and short stories have enjoyed, a state
of affairs this Companion seeks to remedy, breaking new ground by
applying theoretical and critical approaches to a work of
nonfiction. It does so in original essays that offer a thorough,
balanced examination of a complex, boundary-breaking, and hitherto
neglected text. The volume is broken into sections dealing with:
the composition, reception, and sources of Death in the Afternoon;
cultural translation, cultural criticism, semiotics, and
paratextual matters; and the issues of art, authorship, audience,
and the literary legacy of Death in the Afternoon. The contributors
to the volume, four men and seven women, lay to rest the stereotype
of Hemingway as a macho writer whom women do not read; and their
nationalities (British, Spanish, American, and Israeli) indicate
that Death in the Afternoon, even as it focuses on a particular
national art, discusses matters of universal concern. Contributors:
Miriam B. Mandel, Robert W. Trogdon, Lisa Tyler, Linda
Wagner-Martin, Peter Messent, Beatriz Penas Ibanez, Anthony Brand,
Nancy Bredendick, Hilary Justice, Amy Vondrak, and Keneth Kinnamon.
MiriamB. Mandel teaches in the English Department of Tel Aviv
University.
New scholarly essays providing a multifaceted approach to the role
of Africa in Hemingway's life and work. Hemingway's two extended
African safaris, the first in the 1930s and the second in the
1950s, gave rise to two of his best-known stories ("The Snows of
Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"), a
considerable amount of journalism and correspondence, and two
nonfiction books, Green Hills of Africa (1935), about the first
safari, and True at First Light (1999; longer version, Under
Kilimanjaro 2005), about the second.Africa also figures largely in
his important posthumous novel The Garden of Eden (1986). The
variety and quantity of this literary output indicate clearly that
Africa was a major factor in the creative life of this influential
American author. But surprisingly little scholarship has been
devoted to the role of Africa in Hemingway's life and work. To
start the long-delayed conversation on this topic, this book offers
historical, theoretical, biographical, theological, and literary
interpretations of Hemingway's African narratives. It also presents
a wide-ranging introduction, a detailed chronology of the safaris,
a complete bibliography of Hemingway's published and unpublished
African works, an up-to-date, annotated review of the scholarship
on the African works, and a bibliography of Hemingway's reading on
natural history and other topics relevant to Africa and the world
of the safari. Contributors: Silvio Calabi, Suzanne del Gizzo,
Beatriz Penas Ibanez, Jeremiah M. Kitunda, Kelli A. Larson, Miriam
B. Mandel, Frank Mehring, Philip H. Melling, Erik G. R. Nakjavani,
James Plath, and Chikako Tanimoto. Miriam B. Mandel is retired as
Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies
at Tel Aviv University.
Tolkien no habria estado de acuerdo con el empleo del termino
"Occidente" para hablar del espacio legendario y cultural que tenia
en mente cuando reconstruyo y re-mitifico el pasado literario en su
obra cumbre. El termino proviene de la Antiguedad Clasica y no
abarca en su origen los territorios del vasto Norte, cuyas
tradiciones literarias Tolkien tambien incorporo en su vision
mitificada del Oeste. El Oeste de Tolkien sintetiza leyendas y
expresiones literarias del oeste, norte y sur de Europa, y por ello
los personajes de El Senor de los Anillos a menudo hunden sus
raices en una multitud de generos literarios. El presente estudio
recorre la evolucion de los personajes principales de la obra de
Tolkien y explica, entre otras cosas, como el dialogo entre
diferentes generos literarios puede dar cuenta de las aparentes
incoherencias en el personaje de Aragorn, los diferentes papeles
genericos que desempena Gandalf a lo largo de la historia, o como
unos prosaicos hobbits, surgidos de la Inglaterra rural del siglo
XIX, son capaces de relacionarse con los antiguos mundos epicos de
Rohan y Gondor.
?Que importancia tenia la imagen mitificada del Oeste americano en
la imaginacion de King durante la elaboracion de El Pistolero?
Mucha, a juzgar por el resultado. Al mismo tiempo, parece que la
fertil imaginacion de King se conjura con las referencias
culturales contemporaneas. El propio autor confiesa su anhelo por
crear una novela que contega el espiritu de busqueda, aventura y
magia de El Senor de los Anillos (1954), pero situada en el espacio
del lejano Oeste americano al estilo de la pelicula de spaghetti
western El bueno, el feo y el malo (1966) de Leone. Con El
Pistolero, King da otra vuelta de tuerca al mito del Oeste, y con
el presente estudio pretendemos tender puentes entre diferentes
tradiciones literarias para entender la particular indosincrasia de
la obra de King, capaz de albergar las tradiciones narrativas de la
Antigu edad Clasica, la epoca medieval y la moderna, con sus tintes
goticos, romanticos y fantasticos, a la vez que desarrollar y
modernizar el mito del Oeste americano e introducir al lector
contemporaneo en un nuevo universo literario.
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