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 paper challenges the prevalent misconception among many students that the grammatical gender system of Spanish is transparent (i.e., that the ending of a noun is a clear indication of gender, -o nouns are masculine, -a nouns are feminine). Data conce
Federico Garca Lorca's years in the Residencia de estudiantes immersed the poet in the interdisciplinary dialogue which characterized Spanish artistic, literary and scientific circles in the 1920s. Specifically, the prevalence of scientists, physicians a
This essay is an application of Rene Girard's critical models to the Celestina, specifically, the concept of mimetic or triangular desire and the model of violence and sacrifice. According to Girard, violence results from loss of difference, and sacrific
Bourdieu's development of the notion of 'habitus' has proved a rich vein for cultural theory. Habitus has been useful, with the growing interest in processes of embodiment, in countering the cognitive and representational bias in much cultural analysis
The first half of this article presents an overview, of theoretical and empirical issues raised by the phenomena of argument drop within the principles-and-parameters approach. with special attention to the comparison of the argument drop in Japanese and
The double question whether visual culture studies is a discipline or an interdisciplinary movement, and which methods are most suited to practice in this field, can only be addressed by way of the object. This article probes the difficulty of defining or
This study examines the telling of past troubles in three institutionally oriented interactions involving normative speakers of English of various Asian backgrounds and Australian native speakers. The analysis, based on conversation analysis, indicates th
Experiments demonstrate that a stone containing thenardite suffers great damage when exposed to water below the temperature limit of mirabilite stability. This is due to a transition between thenardite and mirabilite, and not to thenardite reprecipitation
The discovery of several shipwrecks during a recent excavation of the Etruscan and Roman harbour of Pisa (Tuscany) gives a rare opportunity to investigate archaeological woods buried for centuries under wet and anoxic sediments. Botanical analysis shows e
The Spanish avant-garde is been characterized by an almost complete absence of theoretical essays; one of the most important exceptions is the Sociedad de Artistas Ibericos (1925-1936), composed of critics of art, artists, writers... Since its foundation
Medical student, author of some essays, an anatomical study, three plays, Buchner was more and more concerned by mental disease. In Lenz, a short story, observers and witnesses are of sound mind, in Woyzeck everybody is mad, and, of course, the doctor too
The study of formal theories of agents has intensified over the last couple of decades, since such formalisms can be viewed as providing the specifications for building rational agents and multi-agent systems. Most of the proposed approaches are based upo
The study investigated the relationship between religion, belief in afterlife, and death attitudes (death anxiety and death acceptance) in an elderly population using instruments with sound psychometric properties. Survey data was collected from 71 elderl
This article presents an overview of recent work by Byzantinists on the Alexiad of Anna Comnena, in particular her account of the First Crusade. It suggests that, since the Alexiad was composed at the time of the Second Crusade, it reflects the concerns o
Informed by the Afrocentric quest to abandon ethnocentric and racist Systems of logic and to place the un-discussed in the center of discoursed' (Asante, 1990, p. 6), this article challenges oppositional culture theory and the idea of acting White. More