The complexity of Medieval Iberia’s linguistic, religious, and cultural diversity is a commonplace. Descriptions abound of the lands that are now modern Spain and Portugal as a “melting pot” or a “multicultural” space. However, modern literary history, with its tendency toward monolingual, national narratives, has produced a vision of medieval…[Read more]

This essay brings together cognitive literary theory and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogic imagination to illuminate the construction of social class in the eighteenth-century novel. It offers a close reading of selected passages from Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778), made possible by combining Bakhtinian and cognitive poetics. It also dis…[Read more]

This presentation will introduce the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences) initiative, which aims to develop and support a values-based framework of indicators for excellence for the humanities and social science in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. This value-based evaluation paradigm uses metrics only…[Read more]

In La meitat de l’ànima and Temps d’innocència Carme Riera looks to the family album and personal history to reconcile with Spain’s turbulent past. The fictionalization of history emphasizes the unstable nature of the past and the improbability of “truth.” Through letters and photographs the past lives in the present yet remains elusive as m…[Read more]

Presentació del dossier de la revista “Lectora” dedicat a Carme Riera

The influence of Italian culture on the creative writing of Jordi Sarsanedas seems almost
anecdotal, although the author’s work is marked by an Italian phase, a three-year period that
straddles the fifties and sixties. The aim of this article is to give evidence of some Italian
sources and readings of the author, analyse his t…[Read more]

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Review of Robinson, Cynthia. Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile: The Virgin, Christ, Devotions, and Images in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. Originally published in Revista Hispánica 69.1 (109-112).

The historical novel Waking the Dead is now available at ResearchGate. This data file (there are 20) introduces Jane Addams

“Oración vindicativa del honor de las letras y de los literatos” (1763) del dominico poblano Cristóbal Mariano Coriche es un ensayo novohispano que nace como respuesta a un discurso cuyo supuesto autor era nada menos que Jean Jacques Rousseau. En este discurso se sostenía que el trabajo intelectual desarrollado en distintas etapas históricas hab…[Read more]

Fantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture. What kind of behavior do we expect from such conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?