In this article, we examine how an Auto de fe from seventeenth-century Cuba shows us a historical mirror of life, society and imagination. Through it we witness the story of Paula de Eguiluz, a black ...slave owned by the Warden Mayor of Santiago de Cuba, who was tried under the accusation of witschcraft by the Inquisition in Cartagena de Indias between 1623 and 1635. The document, considered a contextual proof in its time, today becomes a proof of historicity. Its thematic, symbolic and anthropological scope connects it to the legacy of magical and hidden rituals that survived in the Hispanic Caribbean, and whose origin dates back to Classical Antiquity. Among the texts that testify this connection, we will consider the poem “The Sorceress” by Theocritus of Syracuse , author of the Idylls. This poem tells how Simeta prepares an elixir for the young man she desires, and describes the ritual, and the emotional circumstances that surround it, in detail. In this article, we introduce the connections between the magical imaginary described by Theocritus, and the beliefs that in seventeenth-century Christian Europe were still part of popular culture and that, transferred to America, were hybridizing with indigenous traditions and beliefs coming from Africa through the Atlantic slave trade.
Estudio de la serie Penny Dreadful donde se aplica la tematología, metodología propia de la literatura comparada. La serie se muestra como un pastiche de historias conocidas interrelacionadas entre ...sí por medio de un tema esencial del siglo XXI: el empoderamiento. En una narrativa caracterizada por la hibridación, existen cada vez más series de calidad en las que la identificación del tema nos facilita un elemento de cohesión entre las unidades micro y macrotextuales, además de la posibilidad de analizar los personajes del pasado literario o cinematográfico. PALABRAS clave: Tematología, Penny Dreadful, metodología, series de televisión. Analysis of the series Penny Dreadful using thematology, a methodological model of comparative literature. The series is shown as a pastiche of well-known stories, interrelated through several plots where a predominant theme is extracted: the empowerment. Nowadays, in a narrative characterized by hybridization, there are increasingly more quality series in which the identification of the subject provides us a cohesion element between micro and macro-textual units, as well as the possibility of analyzing the characters recovered from the literary or cinematographic past. KEYWORDS: Thematology, Penny Dreadful, methodology, television series.
The emigration of Slovaks to overseas countries had a mass character at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. This phenomenon led to the emergence of a cultural-anthropological and subsequently ...literary topos of the Amerikán – “Americaner” (a person who returned from emigration to America to their homeland). Vojvodina Slovak writers in the early 20th century – the realistic prose writer Ján Čajak (1863 – 1944) and the prose writer and modernist playwright Vladimír Hurban Vladimírov (VHV, 1884 – 1950) among others – also addressed this topic. They perceived modernization processes differently, as evidenced by their choice of the genre. J. Čajak, in his moralistic short story Vysťahovalec (The emigrant, 1904), emphasises tradition, religion, stability, and the order of the old world; he sees emigration as a destructive element. VHV incorporated the same social theme into the genre matrix of melodrama in the short story Dievča zo slepej uličky (The girl from the blind alley, 1913). He critically captures the conservatism of the domestic environment and the mentality of Vojvodina Slovaks. Through the gradation of situations of emotional uncertainty, he introduces modernist poetic techniques into the traditional rural realistic short story. The thematological article primarily follows the relationship of both texts to the modernist discourse of the period.
Comparative literature is made up of transnational assemblages. The literary works employed here include Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and HAMKA's Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck. The purpose of ...this research is to identify a theme in order to determine the explanation for the theme in these two novels. The focus of this study is on the matching that takes place between England and Minangkabau, Indonesia. This study employed Guillen's (1993) Thematology to expose the theme's concept and a comparative literature method with documentation technique to collect data. The data categories are qualitative data gathered from original sources i.e. Pride and Prejudice and Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck. Thematic approach is be utilized to find patterns of the topics that are employed in the novels under investigation. This study concludes, not only women, but also men, are victims of matchmaking, which causes both parties to have a disadvantageous experience. Matching also causes men to suffer and women to rebel as a result of matchmaking that is impacted by economic factors, social status, and the meeting of old and new traditions.
Architects and fiction writers share the same ambition: to imagine new worlds into being. Every architectural proposition is a kind of fiction before it becomes a built fact; likewise, every written ...fiction relies on the construction of a context in which a story can take place. This collection of essays explores what happens when fiction, experimental writing and criticism are combined and applied to architectural projects and problems. It begins with ficto-criticism - an experimental and often feminist mode of writing which fuses the forms and genres of essay, critique, and story - and extends it into the domain of architecture, challenging assumptions about our contemporary social and political realities, and placing architecture in contact with such disciplines as cultural studies, literary theory and ethnography. These sixteen newly-written pieces have been selected for this volume to show how ficto-critical writing can be a powerful vehicle for creative architectural practice, providing new opportunities to explore modes of writing about architecture both within and beyond the discipline.The collection represents a broad range of geographical and cultural positions including indigenous and non-Western contexts, and includes a foreword and afterword by important thinkers in the domains of architectural criticism (Jane Rendell) and cultural studies/ethnography (Stephen Muecke).
Vysťahovalectvo Slovákov do zámoria malo na prelome 19. a 20. storočia masový charakter. Tento jav viedol k vzniku kultúrno-antropologického a následne i literárneho toposu Amerikána (reemigranta, ...človeka, ktorý sa vrátil z Ameriky naspäť do vlasti). Zo slovenských dolnozemských spisovateľov žijúcich v srbskej Vojvodine ho na začiatku 20. storočia tematizovali napríklad realistický prozaik Ján Čajak (1863 – 1944) a prozaik a modernistický dramatik Vladimír Hurban Vladimírov (VHV, 1884 – 1950). Modernizačné procesy vnímali odlišne, čo ukazuje už ich výber žánru. J. Čajak v mravoučnej poviedke Vysťahovalec (1904) dáva dôraz na tradíciu, náboženstvo, stabilitu a poriadok starého sveta; vysťahovalectvo vníma ako deštrukčný prvok. VHV v próze Dievča zo slepej uličky (1913) zakomponoval rovnakú sociálnu tému do žánrovej matrice melodrámy. Kriticky zachytáva konzervativizmus domáceho prostredia a mentalitu dolnozemských Slovákov. Prostredníctvom gradovania situácií emocionálnej neistoty vnáša do tradičnej dedinskej realistickej poviedky postupy modernistickej poetiky. Tematologický príspevok primárne sleduje vzťah oboch textov k dobovému modernistickému diskurzu.
Although the question of prioritizing either the level of content or that of form has often been controversial, most contributions of this volume treat them as internally connected. They undertake ...analyses of motifs, metaphors, and topoi, and thereby not only prove the relevance of rhetorical and thematic study, but also contribute to flourishing fields such as literary multilingualism, literature and emotions, and ecocriticism.
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