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Modernism on the Fringe: Spain’s Far-Right Avant-Garde
No full textSpanish modernist writers on the left of the political spectrum, such as Lorca, Unamuno, and Rafael Alberti, have garnered much critical attention in Anglophone scholarship. In contrast, their peers who embraced parafascist Nationalism and Falangism in the 1920s and 1930s have been largely overlooked. This paper sheds light on three prominent authors on the ultraconservative vanguard, who are nevertheless virtually unknown outside of Spain: Ernesto Giménez Caballero, Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, and José María Pemán. Despite their controversial politics, they significantly influenced the country’s cultural and intellectual history. The study underscores the impact of Falangist and Fascist ideologies on modernist production in Spain during the Second Republic and its aftermath. Unlike politically radical avant-garde movements like Futurism, Spanish right-wing modernism lacked international recognition, adopting an insular aesthetic that glorified the nation’s imperial past and conservative Catholicism. Aligned with the Franco dictatorship, the movement underwent a transformative phase during the Spanish Civil War, shaping the ethnonationalist concerns of these writers. As the historiography of modernism evolves, the paper advocates acknowledging Spain’s far-right avant-garde as a significant cultural force, challenging the prevailing Anglocentric perspective on modernism’s development
Gravitational Pull: A Filmmaker in the Orbit of the Modernist Sun
No full textThe massive, still-burning modernist sun exerts a powerful gravitational pull on my filmmaking, setting me in orbit around the modernists in its core. Arcing solar flares of filmic and poetic modernism burst out at me: Maya Deren’s cine-poems, rhythmic editing, elisions of time/space; Ezra Pound’s imagism, T.S. Eliot’s objective correlatives. The form-expanding classical reception of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) in Helen in Egypt sparks my imagination and experimentation in my film grounded in the Homeric view of Penelope.As I continue my orbit, there are more modernists pulling on me: Alain Resnais with his enigmatic editing structures and entanglements of memory; Michelangelo Antonioni’s emotional color and form present as objective correlatives, which lead me back full circle. One bright solar flare draws me repeatedly to Chris Marker’s La Jetée, in which a powerful image of the past fractures history. As I continue making films informed by and incorporating my receptions of the past, I remain warmed by the modernist sun’s force of attraction
“The Interval Is Where the Action Is”: Mosaic Readings T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos and Marshall McLuhan’s Counterblast
No full textComparing the Gutenberg Galaxy with what he called the Marconi Constellation (Understanding Media, 1964), Marshall McLuhan discussed “the effects of radio [as being] quite independent of its programming” (that is, “the medium is the message”), noting that electronic media represent “an ever-simultaneous flow which is a very far cry indeed from the one direction, one level flow of the printed page, or of the lecture platform.” Thinking of what he calls “the typographic trance of the West [that] has endured until today” (Playboy interview, 1969), McLuhan prophesized the shift from the visual culture of print to the acoustic culture of the electronic: “[T]he Gutenberg Galaxy is being eclipsed by the constellation of Marconi.” I propose that this concept has its roots in McLuhan’s deep interest in modernism but also that it leaves its imprint on his progressive pedagogy as formulated in “Education in the Electronic Age” (1967, 1970) where he proposes an experiential, collaborative, student-centered, project-based, integrated learning as a way of “the training of [students’] perception.” In this paper, I compare two brief passages, one from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) and the other from McLuhan’s Counterblast (1954) as examples of the progressive heuristic tool of exploration McLuhan called “mosaic” and offered as a tool for the training of readers’/students’ perception. Eliot’s poem offers a paradigm of a modernist experiment in which the reader is invited to inhabit the text’s intervals, learning to read the page which, though visual, aspires to be polyphonic, simultaneous, and (in McLuhan’s terms) acoustic--instead of just visual. The paper therefore argues that McLuhan’s emerging, radical, future-looking, electronic, post-modernist poetics is firmly rooted in the modernist praxis of “making it new” that looks both to its modernist past and the electronic/media/digital future.
Διαθρησκειακές προσεγγίσεις στην πολυπολιτισμικότητα. Ο ρόλος της εκπαίδευσης
No full textΣτο πλαίσιο δημιουργίας ενός θεσμικού πλαισίου και ρυθμιστικών κανόνων που θα λαμβάνουν υπόψη τις πολιτισμικές και θρησκευτικές ιδιαιτερότητες μαθητών διαφορετικής εθνοπολιτισμικής καταγωγής στην Ελλάδα αρκετοί θεωρητικοί μελετητές της εκπαίδευσης πιστεύουν πως το σχολείο με τη διδασκαλία του μαθήματος των θρησκευτικών θα πρέπει να συντελεί στη δημιουργία ανθρώπων με επίπλαστη ευρύτητα πνεύματος, με πολλαπλή ταυτότητα, με ποικιλία σε όλες τους τις πνευματικές και πολιτισμικές εκφάνσεις, ανθρώπων πολυπολιτισμικών και πολυθρησκευτικών. Στον αντίποδα αρκετοί θεωρητικοί της εκπαίδευσης αποτείνονται ότι στο πλαίσιο του πολυπολιτισμού προωθείται ανάμεσα στα άλλα ο θρησκευτικός πλουραλισμός και η "θρησκειοποίηση" της επιστήμης, ενώ με τη διαδικασία των πολυθρησκευτικών γνώσεων και εμπειριών σχεδιάζεται ο εμποτισμός των μαθητών με ένα υποκατάστατο πνευματικής ζωής, δηλαδή με μία εκκοσμικευμένη διαθρησκειακή πνευματικότητα. Είναι γεγονός πως η διαλεκτική μεταξύ των διαφορετικών προσεγγίσεων για το χαρακτήρα του μαθήματος των Θρησκευτικών απαιτεί πνεύμα ανεξάρτητο σκοπιμοτήτων και θρησκευτικο-μηδενιστικών αντιλήψεων. Το μάθημα σε καιρούς πνευματικής κρίσης και πολιτισμικής αποδόμησης συνιστά πρόταση για σοβαρό στοχασμό και απαιτεί προσέγγιση παιδαγωγική, θεολογική, ιστορικοπολιτισμική και ηθική.
Les doublons juridiques et la double composition des contrats
No full textLes doublons du non-droit et ceux du droit partagent des moyens de style, tels que la figure littéraire de pléonasme. En droit, au niveau terminologique, dans certains cas il existe des pléonasmes historiquement justifiés, dont le « juge judiciaire » en France et la « démocratie pluraliste » en Afrique. Quant à la fabrique des lois, le cas de modification explicite de certaines dispositions de la loi grecque n° 3316 de 2005 relative à des contrats publics par d’autres dispositions dans les mêmes processus et texte législatifs a constitué sans doute une singularité mondiale. La France depuis 2003 a fait preuve d’une politique de simplification du droit, qui est comparable avec la consécration de la transparence. En outre, les doublons disposent d’un champ distinct, celui du contrat, lequel consiste en accord de deux manifestations de volonté opposées. En principe, de cette double composition il résulte une double responsabilité des parties contractantes de bloquer tout doublon dysfonctionnel du contrat. Dans cet ordre d’idées, la fixation unilatérale des conditions des contrats administratifs par l’Administration est contrebalancée par des formes modernes d’auto-contrôle administratif, illustrées par les autorités administratives indépendantes spécialisées
Η χρήση πολυτροπικών κειμένων στην ανάπτυξη δεξιοτήτων αφηγηματικού λόγου στο πλαίσιο διδασκαλίας της Νέας Ελληνικής ως δεύτερης / ξένης γλώσσας
No full textThe development of technology was the factor that helped textual genres to enter the field of teaching. Τhe so-called ‘multimodal texts’ use a combination of modes such as speech, image, sound, movement, rhythm etc. to create a complex whole. These texts are very common in teaching of Modern Greek as a second/foreign language, because they present the language material with a very pleasant and creative way. This paper presents activities that use multimodal texts (comics, commercial and video clip) for the development of narrative skills, specifically the narration of a story at the base of narrative structure by adult students who are taught Modern Greek as a second/foreign language
Συγκατασκευή ψηφιακού κειμένου και διεπίδραση σε περιβάλλον κειμενογράφου
No full textText construction commonly requires team collaboration in the case of distance education. For instance, participants exchange files with comments, additions and improvements, so as to gradually co-construct the final text. In that case, the text processing environment acts as a space of interaction for team. The aim of the paper is to present a way of analyzing asynchronous interaction, as it happens within a text processing environment. By using tools derived from Conversation Analysis, it highlights the structural characteristics of interaction but also the conversational patterns that participants use, in order to collaborate with each other
Conjunctive wh-clauses as nominal complements
No full textA standard assumption in the literature on clausal complement selection is that a predicate like ‘believe’ selects only a declarative that-clause. In this paper, we show, with empirical evidence from Modern Greek, that a proper subclass of believe-type predicates may also select a wh-clause with a factive interpretation. What defines these predicates as a distinct subclass is their ability to take either Free Relatives and/or DPs as complements. Given that Free Relatives (and factives) have been treated as CPs headed by Ds (hence, compared to DPs), we analyze the wh-clause that believe-type predicates combine with as a CP introduced by a null D-head. From this perspective, our analysis is directly comparable to other approaches that take clausal complements to be “nominal” elements, such as Adger’s Quer’s (2001) Unselected Embedded Questions and Agouraki’s (2005) Future wh-clauses
Different political party, different political concerns? A study on metaphor use in Greek parliamentary debates
No full textThe article explores metaphor employment in Greek parliamentary discourse, and draws a link between metaphor and politicians’ ideology. Embracing Conceptual Metaphor Theory and adopting a corpus-assisted discourse analysis approach, metaphors which were used by the representatives of SYRIZA, ND, GD, DISI and KKE are put under the spotlight. Metaphor use reveals the MPs’ concerns, and since they prioritize different topics in their agendas, metaphor employment is thought to be related to their ideology. Additionally, it is suggested that metaphor-driven political discourse analysis should not be limited to the individuals’ political affiliation – politicians’ general background should be taken into consideration
Polysemy in the era of constructions
No full textEarlier studies of polysemy routinely associated meanings with invariant forms. The rise of constructional frameworks, on the other hand, has highlighted the need to refine the form-meanings association by recognizing that a given meaning may be linked to verbal or noun forms at a lower level than the lemma or to specific syntactic configurations and/or discourse contexts. In the present work, I take up this issue with respect to two sets of data from Greek, namely the polysemy of challenging ela and the multifunctionality of the grammatical marker pu. For both, corpus-based research strongly supports the need to associate the relevant meanings and functions with specific morpho-syntactic and prosodic forms and with specialized pragmatic features. In this respect, the work reported here highlights the appropriateness of constructions for representing meanings in polysemy networks