Cabeza de Vaca es un caso paradigmático de los sufrimientos que llevaba aparejada la gesta americana en la mayoría de los casos. Lo que relata en sus Naufragios abarca el campo semántico de la ...desdicha ligado a la adversa fortuna: hambre, frío, muerte, dolor, lágrimas, temor, heridas, desventuras, miserias, trabajos, sufrimientos, etc. Padecimientos físicos y morales que actúan en eco.
The Art of Meditation and the French Renaissance Love Lyricexamines the poetics of meditation in the French love lyric at the height of the Lyonnais Renaissance as illustrated by one of the country's ...most prominent writers.
Dans le cadre des recherches actuelles sur l’imitation poétique au Siècle d’Or, l’article propose une nouvelle source pour le sonnet de Góngora «Mientras por competir con tu cabello» : un sonnet ...d’Anton Francesco Raineti. Il propose aussi, secondairement, l’influence de deux sonnets-épithalames de Francesco Maria Molza sur la chanson, également épithalame, de Góngora «¡Qué de invidiosos montes levantados…!»
This paper concerns the development of soldering in early China. Soldering requires the use of an additional heating of metal to join two or more existing metal items together. The paper defines the ...different soft and hard soldering materials. It also describes the evolution from joining two pieces, an animal head and a vessel with additional pour of bronze as an extension of the casting process. The next step was the use of hard solder, using bronze or copper related materials. There were two ways to join the existing bronze sections: the most common was “tenon soldering”. Less common but equally significant was “injection soldering”. In the late Spring-and-Autumn Period, soft soldering with tin and lead was developed. This step allowed much more extravagant decoration of bronzes, leading to new bronze vessel styles and also to much greater sub-division of labor in the production process.
This paper deals with morphological productivity in diachrony, in particular it addresses the issue of the quantitative evaluation of productivity within a given time span. Adopting Baayen’s (1992; ...2001; 2008) corpus-based quantitative approach which considers productivity as the probability of encountering a new type when sampling a large corpus, the paper shows the evolution of two competing suffixes -mento/-zione in Old Italian from the 13th to the 16th Centuries. On the basis of four separate corpora drawn from LIZ 4.0 (Letteratura Italiana Zanichelli), it is demonstrated how the productivity of the suffix -mento, within the time span of four centuries, remains constant, while the suffix -zione displays diachronic variability. Apart from diachronic considerations regarding this situation, the paper also highlights some technical aspects, such as the use of LNRE models (implemented in the package zipfR, a tool for lexical statistics in R, cf. Baroni — Evert, 2006; Evert — Baroni, 2007; Baayen, 2008), as well as some well-known limitations and constraints inherent in quantitative analyses of diachronic corpora.
Published in 1542, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s La relación is a chronicle of the Pánfilo de Narváez’s 1527 expedition to the New World in which Cabeza de Vaca was one of the four survivors. His ...account has received considerable attention. It has been appreciated and critically examined as a narrative of conquest and colonization, a work of ethnographic interest, and a text of some literary value. Documenting and fictionalizing for the first time in European history the experience of travelling/trekking in the region which now constitutes the Southwest in the United States, Cabeza de Vaca’s story testifies to the sense of disorientation, as well as to the importance of psychological and cultural mechanisms of responsiveness and adaptability to a different environment. What allows the Moroccan-American contemporary writer Laila Lalami to follow that perspective in her book The Moor’s Account (2017) is an imaginative transfer of the burden and satisfaction of narrating the story of the journey to the black Moroccan slave whose presence in the narratives of conquest and exploration was marginal. In Lalami’s book, Estebanico becomes the central character and his role is ultimately identified with that of a writer celebrating the freedom of diversity, one who survives to use the transcultural experience of the past creatively in ways well suited to the needs of the current moment.
El tradicional e indiferenciado discurso acusador que impregna de tremendismo acrítico la conquista de América por parte de España se ha visto revisado con la aparición de dos importantes ...publicaciones en 2016. La primera de la historiadora malagueña María Elvira Roca Barea: Imperiofobia y Leyenda Negra. Roma, Estados Unidos y el Imperio español. Es un ensayo en el que la autora analiza la hispanofobia como un fenómeno en constante crecimiento desde la expulsión de los judíos de España y su consecuente recepción por parte de terceros países, en los que el antisemitismo deriva en hispanofobia. A partir de ahí, y con la presencia española en Italia, se difunde el contraste entre el español bárbaro e inculto frente al refinamiento italiano. Con la posterior conquista de América y las exageraciones de Las Casas, la casa de Orange instrumentó a este autor propagandísticamente en los Países Bajos, impulsando la traducción y edición de la Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias (en ediciones dotadas de las truculentas ilustraciones de Theodor de Bry) con el objeto político de desprestigiar a España. Se beneficiaba así el incipiente nacionalismo neerlandés, precisamente el nacionalismo que más partido político sacó a la Reforma.
The Anatomy of Melancholy, first published in 1621, is one of the greatest works of early modern English prose writing, yet it has received little substantial literary criticism in recent years. This ...study situates Robert Burton's complex work within three related contexts: religious, medical and literary/rhetorical. Analysing Burton's claim that his text should have curative effects on his melancholic readership, it examines the authorial construction of the reading process in the context of other early modern writing, both canonical and non-canonical, providing a new approach towards the emerging field of the history of reading. Lund responds to Burton's assertion that melancholy is an affliction of body and soul which requires both a spiritual and a corporal cure, exploring the theological complexion of Burton's writing in relation to English religious discourse of the early seventeenth century, and the status of his work as a medical text.
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