The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 is a thorough exploration of the meanings and values Hispanic poets and artists assigned to four iconic locations of modernity: the city, the cafés, means of transportation, and the sea, during the first decades of the 20th century. Joining important studies on S…[Read more]

Over the past year, artists, doctors, medical professionals, and international agencies such as the World Health Organisation have been using comics to communicate the risks of the SARS-CoV2 virus. The visual economy and a near-universal language of lines, balloons, and panels in comics makes them well suited to disseminate epidemic-related…[Read more]

It is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his readership. Scott’s adaptations of sentimentalism and of…[Read more]

This is a two-part publication that contains a facsimile of the original story “Vísceras de la ciudad” by Rosa Arciniega (including an introduction) and a 7,500-word academic critical analysis of the story. Of interest to specialists in urban literature, women’s literature, social literature, and popular culture.

*Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies,* Edited by Cristina León Alfar and Emily G. Sherwood, Routledge 2021, The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions. “Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne tells the story of Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and her ongoing di…[Read more]

FREE ACCESS: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0377919X.2020.1855933
For the last decade of his life, the Palestinian intellectual, author, and editor Ghassan Kanafani (d. 1972) was deeply immersed in theorizing, lecturing, and publishing on Palestinian resistance literature from Beirut. A refugee of the 1948 war, Kanafani presented…[Read more]

El área de estudio de la Filología Románica comprendía en su origen las provincias romanas de Africa, Numidia y Mauretania, como parte de una
Romania submersa, territorios donde el latín había dejado de hablarse en un cierto tiempo por diversos factores históricos, sobre todo migraciones. Entre los siglos VI y X d. C. se produce un gran cambio…[Read more]

El área de estudio de la Filología Románica comprendía en su origen las provincias romanas de Africa, Numidia y Mauretania, como parte de una
Romania submersa, territorios donde el latín había dejado de hablarse en un cierto tiempo por diversos factores históricos, sobre todo migraciones. Entre los siglos VI y X d. C. se produce un gran cambio…[Read more]

A concrete problem is addressed in this presentation: why vascones and vascos have been identified and why it has been assumed that the language of the seconds, Vascuence, Vasco or Euskera, would need to be the language of the first. Arguments that result from the interconnection of linguistics, archeology, history, biolinguistics and genetics are…[Read more]

A concrete problem is addressed in this presentation: why vascones and vascos have been identified and why it has been assumed that the language of the seconds, Vascuence, Vasco or Euskera, would need to be the language of the first. Arguments that result from the interconnection of linguistics, archeology, history, biolinguistics and genetics are…[Read more]

Los contactos entre hablantes repercuten en las lenguas mediante los procesos de bilingüismo y conmutación de códigos, que están hoy bien estudiados. Estos procesos afectan a la gramática y al léxico. Al segundo se orienta este estudio, en el cual se considera que precisamente es el bereber el que enmarca al latín en África, lo que justifi…[Read more]

Los contactos entre hablantes repercuten en las lenguas mediante los procesos de bilingüismo y conmutación de códigos, que están hoy bien estudiados. Estos procesos afectan a la gramática y al léxico. Al segundo se orienta este estudio, en el cual se considera que precisamente es el bereber el que enmarca al latín en África, lo que justifi…[Read more]

This work includes a series of aspects of the study of numerals, from different perspectives and with different applications. It is particularly relevant the application of diachronic analysis to the establishment of a date for the Libro de Alexandre. some of those aspects were already treated by the author in different publications; however, they…[Read more]

The syllabus for science fiction course offered Spring 2021 in the English Department at Davidson College.

Birds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]