This article explores the relationship between literature, childhoods, and youth in the educational sphere during the Popular Unity administration (UP... [more]
This essay reflects on the paradox of how the twenty-first-century opening up of comparative literature to non-Western literatures under the aegis of ... [more]
This work studies the influence of classical mythology and tradition on Rosas de Hercules by Tomas Morales (1884-1921). Special attention is paid both to the poet's rewriting of classical myths and to his own mythical imagery.
The purpose of this article is to highlight the significance, the role and the functions stemming from the presence of live plants in the interiors during the 19th and 20th centuries. The resulting historical perspective, here proposed, leads to the perce
The first part of this article examines the construction of the history of the high politics of Late Stalinism by reviewing five episodes in the period c. 1946 to 1953. I suggest that these episodes are usually narrated as examples of monolithic orthodoxy
With documents of Ibanez Martin archives, the authors explain several political negotiations in order to obtain Franco's amnesty for the poet Miguel Hernandez in 1940.
This article intervenes in the debate about the pedagogical import of Heinrich Hoffmann's Der Struwwelpeter. Should this book be regarded as a typical example of black pedagogy or as a form of subversive children's literature? I argue in favour of the l
This essay traces how Jack Gantos' Joey Pigza trilogy undermines many common stereotypes about the disabled, focusing in particular on its rejection of the literary tradition that sets the impaired child up as a passive object of empathy. Inverting this
The field of spirituality and medicine has seen explosive growth in recent years, due in part to significant private support for the development of curricula in more than half of all U.S. medical schools, and for related residency training programs and re
This article claims that J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, with its use of magic, frightening storylines, and character ambiguity is beneficial to children who are dealing with issues related to terror and terrorism. The author explains that the scenar
Inquiries concerning the nature of 'biographical aging' within the emerging field of 'narrative gerontology' have pointed to the need for a detailed consideration of the parallels between lived texts and literary ones. This article draws on a number o
This is a participant-interpreter study of how issues of loyalty, ethics and ideology condition the action of a literary translator. A case-study is presented of the author's socioethical dilemmas and decisions while translating Bosnian, Croatian and Ser
Nu (Non), a volume of critical essays, was Eugene Ionesco's first publication in Romania in 1934. In this work he reveals contempt for Romanian Literature, Literary politics and, indirectly, politics itself. At the same time Ionesco the critic already di
Although a concern with patients who do not follow their prescribed therapies can be found in Hippocratic writings, the description of a patient as specifically 'noncompliant' did not rise to prominence in the Anglo-American medical literature until the
In the tales and narrative collections of the Spanish writers, different arts and genres can be encountered. This article focuses upon the study of one dialogue between El vocabulario de los balcones, published by Almudena Grandes in 1998, and Aunque tu n
Religion's effects on mental health have been debated for years, yet only in the last half century have these theories been empirically tested. While a number of mental health constructs have been linked to religion, one of the most prevalent and debilit
This article outlines the philosophical background to spiritual psychology and selectively reviews Western and Eastern literature on the subject. The world views of theism, atheism, and agnosticism are defined and critiqued, and the boundaries of scientif