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Maria Victoria Atencia: Legend of Myself
No full textIn this collection of 65 short poems, Roberta Quance exemplifies the range, vitality and mysticism of work by one of Spain’s foremost, if controversial, contemporary female poets, drawing on the contents of a number of Spanish collections
Staley, Roberta
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BA (University of Calgary)
Diploma Journalism (Grant MacEwan)
MA Liberal Studies (Simon Fraser University)
Roberta Staley is an author, a magazine editor and writer, and a documentary filmmaker who has reported from such places as Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Kenya, El Salvador, Haiti, Colombia, Cambodia, South Africa, Israel, and New Zealand. She currently edits Enterprise magazine, and is a contributor to BC Business, the South China Morning Post Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Trek, the Canadian Chemical News, Corporate Knights, and Sculpture, among others. She is also a columnist for Just for Canadian Doctors/Dentists magazines. Roberta has published her first book, titled Voice of rebellion : how Mozhdah Jamalzadah brought hope to Afghanistan. It is a biography of Afghan-Canadian human rights activist Mozhdah Jamalzadah
Norah Borges Illustrates Two Spanish Women Poets
No full textEn este artículo se examinan las ilustraciones que la artista argentina Norah Borges (1901-1998) preparó para dos libros de poesía: Canciones de mar y tierra (1930), de Concha Méndez, y Júbilos (1934),de Carmen Conde. Argumentando que el estilo de la artista y su preferencia por la representación de niños y ángeles son ambos ambiguos, Quance viene a sugerir que las ilustraciones pueden ajustarse a diferentes imágenes de lo femenino, ya consistan en la rebeldía y brío de que hace gala la protagonista de Méndez, o en la nostalgia y dulzura con que Carmen Conderecrea su propia niñez. Los dibujos interpretan los textos, por más que la artista cultivara la discreción y la reticencia al respecto.This article examines the illustrations that Argentine artist Norah Borges (1901-1998) provided for two volumes of poetry written by Concha Méndez and Carmen Conde in the 1930s, Canciones de mar y tierra (1930) and Júbilos (1934). Arguing that the artist’s style and her penchant for the representation of children and angels is an ambiguous one,Quance suggests that the illustrations can accommodate both Méndez’s spirited rebellion and Conde’s nostalgic recreation of herown childhood. She suggests that the drawings interpret the texts,despite the artist’s wish to remain unobtrusive
Norah Borges Illustrates Two Spanish Women Poets
No full textEn este artículo se examinan las ilustraciones que la artista argentina Norah Borges (1901-1998) preparó para dos libros de poesía: Canciones de mar y tierra (1930), de Concha Méndez, y Júbilos (1934),de Carmen Conde. Argumentando que el estilo de la artista y su preferencia por la representación de niños y ángeles son ambos ambiguos, Quance viene a sugerir que las ilustraciones pueden ajustarse a diferentes imágenes de lo femenino, ya consistan en la rebeldía y brío de que hace gala la protagonista de Méndez, o en la nostalgia y dulzura con que Carmen Conderecrea su propia niñez. Los dibujos interpretan los textos, por más que la artista cultivara la discreción y la reticencia al respecto.This article examines the illustrations that Argentine artist Norah Borges (1901-1998) provided for two volumes of poetry written by Concha Méndez and Carmen Conde in the 1930s, Canciones de mar y tierra (1930) and Júbilos (1934). Arguing that the artist’s style and her penchant for the representation of children and angels is an ambiguous one, Quance suggests that the illustrations can accommodate both Méndez’s spirited rebellion and Conde’s nostalgic recreation of her own childhood. She suggests that the drawings interpret the texts, despite the artist’s wish to remain unobtrusive
Reviews
No full textObra ressenyada: Manuel AGUIRRE, Roberta QUANCE, Philip SUTTON. Margins and thresholds: An inquiry into the concept of liminality in text studies. Madrid: The Gateway Press, 2000
Postface. Pour une esthétique hétéronome et plurielle
No full textBy discussing the essays collected in the volume, Roberta Dreon's paper focuses on the reasons that justify the very idea of a pragmatist aesthetic. This is done by considering that the association between the traditional, contemplative, disinterested, and anti-instrumental conception of aesthetic experience seems to preclude the possibility of characterizing it in practical or pragmatic terms.
The author argues that this is achieved on the one hand by a rethinking of the very notion of the "aesthetic" found in the philosophies of James and Dewey. This allows for supporting the idea that artistic practices are grounded in ordinary experience, and particularly in their aesthetic-qualitative aspects. On the other hand, the author argues that Dewey's aesthetics was convincingly pragmatist to the extent that it lucidly focused on the consequences of the autonomist conception of art and proposed a continuist, meliorist, and pluralist alternative capable of providing effective contributions to democratic and inclusive development
È possibile una teoria della razionalità? Il contributo di Hilary Putnam
No full textSecondo Putnam argomentare sulla natura della razionalità è l’attività per eccellenza dei filosofi. Sulla traccia di Putnam, l’autore esamina le principali teorie della razionalità presenti nel pensiero contemporaneo. Tali concezioni hanno il difetto di essere unilaterali, mentre la nozione di razionalità si rivela complessa, quindi una teoria della razionalità è possibile, benché non possa essere definitiva. In seguito l’autore cerca di individuare le caratteristiche fondamentali che competono alla razionalità, in opposizione tanto alla concezione positivista quanto al relativismo.According to Putnam, arguing about the nature of rationality is the typical task of philosophers. Following Putnam, in this paper the author examines the main theories of rationality to be found in contemporary thought. Whereas such views betray their own one-sidedness, the idea of rationality is very complicated. As a consequence, a theory of rationality is possible, but cannot be definitive. Furthermore, the author tries to highlight the chief features pertaining to rationality, opposing positivsm as well as relativism
Reviews
No full textObra ressenyada: Manuel AGUIRRE, Roberta QUANCE, Philip SUTTON. Margins and thresholds: An inquiry into the concept of liminality in text studies. Madrid: The Gateway Press, 2000
First person - Roberta Besio
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Roberta Besio is first author on 'Cellular stress due to impairment of collagen prolyl hydroxylation complex is rescued by the chaperone 4-phenylbutyrate', published in DMM. Roberta is a postdoc in the lab of Antonella Fortino at University of Pavia, Italy, investigating collagen and genetic diseases of the connective tissue
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