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Uno sguardo anglofono: Introduction to the Special Section “Changing the (Cultural) Climate with Ecocriticism and Ecolinguistics”
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Introduction to the special section “Changing the (Cultural) Climate with Ecocriticism and Ecolinguistics.“
Avances en la creación de BIDISO TEXTOS. Edición académica digital de relaciones de sucesos
No full textSe informa de los avances en la configuración de un repositorio de textos asociado al proyecto Biblioteca Digital Siglo de Oro (BIDISO) –denominado BIDISO Textos–, en particular, en lo relativo a la colección de relaciones de sucesos. Se establecen aspectos clave de nuestro modelo de Edición Académica Digital para este género editorial informativo de la Edad Moderna relacionados con la delimitación de nuestro corpus, los destinatarios de las ediciones, los objetivos, los mecanismos para la obtención de los textos y la codificación, basada en el esquema TEI. Con ello, se realizan progresos para subsanar la carencia de textos de este género susceptibles de análisis sistemáticos precisos para realizar estudios estadísticos y cuantitativos rigurosos que permitan avanzar en el conocimiento de las relaciones de sucesos mediante la aplicación de nuevas tecnologías.Progress is reported on the configuration of a text repository associated with the Biblioteca Digital Siglo de Oro (BIDISO) project –called BIDISO Textos– related to the collection of relaciones de sucesos. Key aspects of our model of Digital Academic Edition of this informative publishing genre of the Modern Age are established. Such aspects are related to the delimitation of our corpus, the recipients of the editions, the objectives, the mechanisms for obtaining the texts and the encoding, based on the TEI scheme. We move forward to remedy the lack of texts of this genre that are susceptible to precise systematic analysis to carry out rigorous statistical and quantitative studies that allow us to advance in the knowledge of the relaciones de sucesos through the application of new technologies.Se informa de los avances en la configuración de un repositorio de textos asociado al proyecto Biblioteca Digital Siglo de Oro (BIDISO) –denominado BIDISO Textos–, en particular, en lo relativo a la colección de relaciones de sucesos. Se establecen aspectos clave de nuestro modelo de Edición Académica Digital para este género editorial informativo de la Edad Moderna relacionados con la delimitación de nuestro corpus, los destinatarios de las ediciones, los objetivos, los mecanismos para la obtención de los textos y la codificación, basada en el esquema TEI. Con ello, se realizan progresos para subsanar la carencia de textos de este género susceptibles de análisis sistemáticos precisos para realizar estudios estadísticos y cuantitativos rigurosos que permitan avanzar en el conocimiento de las relaciones de sucesos mediante la aplicación de nuevas tecnologías
Courtly literature and chivalric fiction: the «Aventura del monte Ida» in El cortesano (1561) by Luis Milán
No full textEl presente artículo analiza la presencia de la ficción caballeresca en el El cortesano (1561) de Luis Milán. En la primera parte, se realiza una aproximación histórica y cultural de la obra y se explica la vinculación de la ficción caballeresca y el entorno de la literatura renacentista española, y en concreto la producida en la corte virreinal valenciana. La segunda parte consiste en el análisis de la denominada «Aventura del monte Ida», se exponen los motivos por los que consideramos este episodio como heredero directo de la ficción caballeresca.El presente artículo analiza la presencia de la ficción caballeresca en el El cortesano (1561) de Luis Milán. En la primera parte, se realiza una aproximación histórica y cultural de la obra y se explica la vinculación de la ficción caballeresca y el entorno de la literatura renacentista española, y en concreto, la producida en la corte virreinal valenciana. La segunda parte consiste en el análisis de la denominada Aventura del monte Ida, se exponen los motivos por los que consideramos este episodio como heredero directo de la ficción caballeresca. This article analyses the presence of chivalric fiction in Luis Milán\u27s El cortesano (1561). In the first part of the article, a historical and cultural approach to the work is made and the link between chivalric fiction and the environment of Spanish Renaissance literature, and specifically, that produced in the Valencian viceregal court, is explained. The second part consists of an analysis of the so-called Adventure of Mount Ida, and the reasons why we consider this episode to be a direct heir to chivalric fiction are set out
The Posthuman ‘Othering’ of the World in Mary Oliver’s Poetry
No full textThe essay argues that, in her poetry, Mary Oliver represents a ‘world’ that is made up of nonhuman animals, vegetables, and minerals, in which she ‘others’ organic and inorganic beings and entities in a posthuman attitude. This is posited by relating to the “earth-others” (Braidotti) on equal terms and in a perspective that decenters and de-emphasizes the human subject by reconceptualizing agency as a shared and interconnected ongoing process. Moreover, Oliver substitutes imagination for reason and language as the distinctive human faculty, which, paradoxically, she proposes at the same time as the interpretive tool that may allow us to ‘cross over’ into the consciousness of the nonhuman. Thus, Oliver performs—and suggests—a cognitive leap that may bring us in touch with the different, embodied and embedded, ‘logic’ in which the earth-others inhabit the ecosystem, and one that human animals may fruitfully learn from in order to honor and preserve that same ‘world.
Epistemologies of the Coast: From Columbus to Esi Edugyan’s “Washington Black”
No full textIn this essay, I put two distinct periods in conversation, namely the modernizing era (1500-1850) and the recent present, to offer a very brief history of an Atlantic coastal imaginary over the long durée. I first look at how the European iconography of Atlantic coastal encounters developed in the early modern period, redefining the geography and the epistemology of divine-human relations and participating in the invention of racial difference. I then look at how a contemporary Black historical novelist, Esi Edugyan, working in the genres of the neoslave narrative and the scientific adventure tale in her 2018 novel Washington Black, uses circumatlantic coastal locations to imagine the making of a Black naturalist—a naturalist who, importantly, shifts the definitions of knowledge, race, and the sacred he has inherited from imperial British science. The essay thus offers two glances at coastal transformations, the first at European promises of Atlantic expansion offering divine redemption, and the second at a contemporary story, written during a time of rising coastal peril, of how historical Black risk-informed knowledge might help us reimagine our relation to the nonhuman world now
“My Hands on the Turbine”: Joan Didion, Water, and Control
No full textWater – California water – is a recurring presence in Joan Didion’s work, both her fiction and nonfiction; it is, indeed, an “obsession. In this article I argue that water control – as epitomized by the Hoover Dam and California water history – has its counterpart in control over writing, the total command of Didion’s obsessively honed prose. I do so by analyzing two essays of the 1970’s (“At the Dam”, “Holy Water”) and her 2003 memoir Where I Was From.
Introduction to “Coastlines, Oceans and Rivers of North America: Encounters and Ecocrises”
No full textIntroduction to the special section “Coastlines, Oceans and Rivers of North America: Encounters and Ecocrises”.
Rappresentazioni en abyme della scrittura romantica: Qualche considerazione preliminare
No full textI contributi che formano questo nuovo numero monografico di «Romanticismi» sono frutto dell’ultimo, partecipatissimo convegno internazionale organizzato dal Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale sull’Europa Romantica (C.R.I.E.R.) dell’Università di Verona, tenutosi il 5-6 novembre 2020. Sollecitante come sempre, nella tradizione ormai consolidata dei convegni C.R.I.E.R., il tema proposto: Il testo en abyme. Rappresentazioni della scrittura nell’Europa romantica.
 
Of Monsters and Men. The Search for the Human in P.O. Enquist’s «Nedstörtad ängel»
No full textThe issue of what a human being is, often connected to a more specific issue regarding the author’s own personal identity, frequently recurs in Per Olov Enquist’s oeuvre. However, the work where it is most clearly stated and amply dealt with is Nedstörtad ängel (1985), a short but dense novel with a complex structure. Drawing on contributions from Body and Disability Studies, this article analyses how the theme of human nature is handled in the novel through the lens of the human body.The issue of what a human being is, often connected to a more specific issue regarding the author’s own personal identity, frequently recurs in Per Olov Enquist’s oeuvre. However, the work where it is most clearly stated and amply dealt with is Nedstörtad ängel (1985), a short but dense novel with a complex structure. Drawing on contributions from Body and Disability Studies, this article analyses how the theme of human nature is handled in the novel through the lens of the human body
Užasy, užasy, užasy… / Horror, Horror, Horror...
No full textPresentiamo una lirica del poeta ucraino Danik Zadorožnyj, scritta in russo pochi giorni dopo l’inizio dell’invasione.We present a lyric by Ukrainian poet Danik Zadorožnyj, written in Russian a few days after the start of the Russian invasion