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- August 5, 2011
- 09:36 AM
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José Martí and Normative "American" Culture
by Bécquer Medak-Seguín in Hispanic Studies Forum
Photo by Bécquer Medak-SeguínAcademic reception of José Martí's writings seems to have come a long way in the last pair of decades since the publication in 1989 of the tidal-shifting Divergent Modernities (Desencuentros de la modernidad en América Latina) by Julio Ramos. In that work, which I've covered on this blog before, Ramos argues for an interpretation of the Cuban Apostle as an adversary of the uneven and culturally catastrophic advent of modernism that shook Latin America at th........ Read more »
Charles Hatfield. (2010) The Limits of "Nuestra América". Revista Hispánica Moderna, 63(2), 193-202. info:other/692687070
Alfred J. López. (2011) Translating Interdisciplinarity: Reading Martí Reading Whitman. The Comparatist, 5-18. info:/10.1353/com.2011.0024
- September 22, 2010
- 08:32 AM
- 456 views
Ortega y Gasset on the "Mission of the University"
by Bécquer Medak-Seguín in Hispanic Studies Forum
In a recent opinion article in The Chronicle, Kai Hammermeister, associate professor of German at Ohio State University, offers a critique of José Ortega y Gasset's 1930 extended essay Mission of the University that seems to purposely misread his arguments for a student-driven model of the university entirely. Hammermeister provides a general characterization of the article, with the odd embedded criticism, until reaching the final few paragraphs, where he bemoans the omission of "research" fro........ Read more »
Kai Hammermeister. (2010) Rereading the University Classics. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 57(3). info:other/
- September 3, 2010
- 10:56 AM
- 416 views
Debating Authorship and the Picaresque
by Bécquer Medak-Seguín in Hispanic Studies Forum
A piece appearing in PMLA last spring by Nancy Vogeley, Professor Emerita of Modern Languages (Spanish) at the University of San Francisco, attempts to reign in swathes of so-called picaresque literature and criticism that broadly interpret the genre as one that merely employs playfulness and mischief. Of course, the picaresque genre is vastly more complex than that and, as Vogeley notes, possesses an important extra dimension that many critics today ignore: social critique, particularly, of six........ Read more »
Francisco de Isla and Juan Antonio Llorente. Introduction and translations by Nancy Vogeley. (2010) Two Arguments for the Spanish Authorship of 'Gil Blas'. PMLA, 125(2), 454-466. info:/10.1632/pmla.2010.125.2.454
- August 24, 2010
- 11:01 AM
- 580 views
Tauromaquia Today
by Bécquer Medak-Seguín in Hispanic Studies Forum
A recent story of a bull leaping into the stands and injuring 40 during a bullfight in the town of Tafalla (in Navarra) rekindled memories of seeing the Museo del Prado's exhibition of Goya's La tauromaquia nearly a decade ago (roughly 2002) in Madrid. The image to your right, titled "Desgracias acaecidas en el tendido" ["Tragedies occurring in the stands."], was part of the exhibition of 33 etchings and impacted me at the time because, in a sense, it contrasted starkly with the rest of a collec........ Read more »
Nigel Glendinning. (1961) A New View of Goya's Tauromaquia. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 24(1/2), 120-127. info:other/
- August 18, 2010
- 12:13 PM
- 346 views
Borgesian Numerology
by Bécquer Medak-Seguín in Hispanic Studies Forum
Nadine Bornholt, a graduate student at Yale, has an interesting article on numbers in Jorge Luis Borges's "Death and the Compass" (1944) in the December issue of CiberLetras.Toward the onset of the article, Bornholt references the role that the work of Edgar Allen Poe played in Borges's thought, indicating that, for him, "Poe invented a new type of reader, the reader of the detective story, who doubts everything present in a literary work and whose attitude toward the text is one of suspicion." ........ Read more »
Nadine Bornholt. (2009) Numbers in Jorge Luis Borges’ “Death and the Compass”. CiberLetras: Journal of Literary Criticism and Culture. info:other/
- August 12, 2010
- 12:32 PM
- 533 views
Cortázar and Antonioni
by Bécquer Medak-Seguín in Hispanic Studies Forum
An article in the latest issue of Dissidences by Ken Burke and Héctor Mario Cavallari, professors at Mills College, discusses one of the most fundamental aspects to the work of both Cortázar and Antonioni. The underlying framework that unites the two artists with each other's artistic medium, and the concern that drives much of this article, is semiotics.As Burke and Cavallari explain,Just as Cortázar uses literary signs to both chaotically construct a diegetic narrative and deconstruct even ........ Read more »
Ken Burke and Héctor Mario Cavallari. (2010) Julio Cortázar and Michelangelo Antonioni: Words, Images, and the Limits of Verbal and Visual Representation. Dissidences: Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism. info:other/
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