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ALEJANDRO TAPIA PERURENA EUSKAL IDAZLEA
No full textJOSE M. SATRUSTEGI. ALEJANDRO TAPIA PERURENA EUSKAL IDAZLE
Un liberalismo extravagante: La Sataniada, de Alejandro Tapia y Rivera
No full textThis article examines the long poem La Sataniada (1878) by Puerto Rican author Alejandro Tapia in terms of both content and form. It discusses the limitations of previous studies and demonstrates the axis of the text is the dilemma of Nineteenth-Century European liberalism that sought to dismantle absolutism while avoiding the excesses of revolution and Jacobinism, to criticize the cult of moneyed wealth without promoting anti-bourgeois rebellion, and to attack the privileges of the Catholic Church without embracing atheism. The article examines how this dilemma is also present in other works by Tapia, such as Mis memorias and Póstumo el transmigrado. It examines how the combination of bold mix of epochs and historical figures with the strict adherence to an invariable strophic forro (around one thousand octavas reales) also corresponds to that wish for political change while avoiding its possible excesses.El artículo discute el extenso poema La Sataniada (1878) del autor puertorriqueño Alejandro Tapia desde el punto del contenido y forma. Se examinan las limitaciones de los estudios anteriores y se demuestra que el eje central de la obra es el dilema del liberalismo europeo del Siglo XIX que aspira a superar el absolutismo, pero evitar los excesos de las revoluciones y del jacobinismo, criticar el culto del dinero sin fomentar la rebelión anti-burguesa y atacar los privilegios de la Iglesia Católica sin abrazar el ateísmo. Se demuestra que este problema está igualmente presente en otros textos de Tapia, como Mis memorias y Póstumo el Transmigrado. Se discute cómo la audacia en la combinación de épocas y figuras históricas con una invariable y estricta forma estrófica (alrededor de mil octavas reales) corresponde al mismo deseo de cambio político a la vez que se evitan sus posibles excesos
"Ponernos el espejo por delante": Staging Race in Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's La cuarterona
No full textÚnico por ser texto abolicionista escrito para estrenarse en la esfera pública del teatro, La cuarterona (1867), del puertorriqueño Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, ofrece un estudio nítido de las operaciones de la raza en el Caribe hispánico colonial. Este artículo considera el contexto de la creación y la performance del drama, las conexiones entre la obra y otros textos abolicionistas narrativos, y la cuestión de cómo y por qué Tapia se vale del teatro para tratar el tema de la raza y el colonialismo. Semejante a otros textos decimonónicos, La cuarterona proyecta la imagen de una identidad colectiva emergente que refleja el reformismo liberal de la época. Como pieza de teatro, sin embargo, se distingue por su presentación de la dinámica del poder ver y ser visto en una sociedad en la cual las identidades raciales híbridas hacían que la diferencia racial se hiciera cada vez más difícil de percibir. (Article is written in English).Peer reviewed
Hermetic Text and Subtext: Paranormal Phenomena in the Works of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera and Benito Pérez Galdós
No full textThis research seeks to establish a connection between the Hermetic tradition and the paranormal phenomena found in the works of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera --- “Un alma en pena” (1862), Póstumo el transmigrado (1872) and Póstumo el envirginado (1882) --- and Benito Pérez Galdós´s La sombra (1870) and “Celín” (1871). By establishing a Hegelian influence in their works, we uncover the possible origin of these paranormal events.
German Idealism, so widespread during the first half of the 19th century, seems to have given both authors access to new currents of thought, allowing them to explore the union of art with the metaphysical. Thought is given precedence over sensation and Idealism prevails over Empiricism. Nature is now seen to be spiritual, as well as spatial, and among the major exponents of this movement is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), whose philosophy states that human knowledge is based on the “Idea,” a concept in which nature and spirit fuse.
Hegel holds the traditional hermetic conception of philosophia perennis that supposes a universal truth common to every culture, religious tradition, and belief upheld by humankind. By examining the Hegelian influence in the works of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera and Benito Pérez Galdós, and relating major passages of their works to the precepts contained in the Corpus Hermeticum, the Emerald Tablet, and the Kybalion (1908), we uncover a subtle, sometimes explicit, presence of this esoteric doctrine, which allows the authors to explore the metaphysical side of life
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On Becoming Virginia: The Story of a Man Who Crashed a Woman's Body: A Translation of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's Postumo el envirginiado [1882]
No full textThis thesis establishes a biographical and critical context pertaining to the life and work of the nineteenth-century Puerto Rican author Alejandro Tapia y Rivera (1826-1882), and presents a proposed translation of his final novel, Póstumo el envirginiado o la historia de un hombre que se coló en el cuerpo de una mujer (1882). In a discussion of Tapia’s life and work, I highlight important historical factors for comprehending the text’s and Tapia’s relatively obscure status. Then I turn to the text itself to analyze key themes and narrative techniques, referring to literary scholars of Póstumo in order to provide a general interpretive frame work for contemporary readers of the text in translation. Next, I address the functions and metaphors of translation in the novel, and how these relate to discussions in translation theory around the metaphorics of fidelity, gender, and cosmopolitanism, before finally presenting my translation of the novel itself.Master of Arts (M.A.
Dualidades in/armónicas y singularidades identitarias en Alejandro Tapia y Rivera
No full textEn uno de los mejores ensayos que se ha escrito sobre las dos novelas más sobresalientes de Alejandro Tapia y Rivera (Puerto Rico, 1826-1882), Póstumo, el transmigrado (1872) y Póstumo, el envirginiado (1882), Marta Aponte Alsina explica que “[…e]l conjunto de temas esotéricos plantea, en un nivel interpretativo elemental, la problemática de la identidad” (46). Inmediatamente, Aponte Alsina comenta sobre cómo Tapia utilizó el motivo del doble (Dopplegänger) y del esoterismo, entre muchas de sus estrategias, para explorar el tema de las identidades.1 Añadiría a esto que Tapia y Rivera también se vale de un agudo sentido del humor para llevar a cabo una observación crítica sobre las diferencias sociales y políticas tanto en España como en el Puerto Rico de finales del siglo XIX. Tal sentido del humor ayuda a Tapia a explorar las contradicciones inherentes a una ciudadanía emergente en el contexto de los procesos de modernización, pero otorgándole una cierta carga de liviandad a la seriedad del asunto: la vida es una broma muy seria. Más adelante, en su lúcido ensayo y en referencia al contradictorio personaje de Póstumo, la misma autora señala
Alejandro Tapia
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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