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Lewis, Christopher T. – Hispania, 2020
Critics have commented on the power of writing--the biblical Word as creation--in Bernardo Carvalho's work. It forges connections through words between others who are out of place, searching for order in what appears to be chaos. However, this motif from both Genesis and the New Testament is also mediated by another creation narrative: the Big…
Descriptors: Novels, Biblical Literature, Authors, Christianity
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Brian T. Chandler – Hispania, 2018
This article examines the tension between chance and determinism in Jorge Volpi's novel "En busca de Klingsor" and how this relationship is treated both in the narrative as well as in debates regarding physics, history, and politics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning from the understanding that the novel is a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Novels, Philosophy, Literary Criticism
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López González, Luis F. – Hispania, 2018
"Celestina" scholarship has overlooked the important role Lucrecia plays in the unfolding of Calisto and Melibea's sexual relationship and in the configuration of Rojas's "Tragicomedia." Critics have branded Lucrecia as the archetype of the disloyal servant who looks out for her own interests over those of Melibea. Contrary to…
Descriptors: Spanish Literature, Role, Sexuality, Interpersonal Relationship
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Brougham, Rose Marie – Hispania, 2019
A grief-stricken daughter calls out to her deceased mother asking if she can see her--"Si me puedes mirar"--and thus recognize her pain. This title appears in Olga Orozco's "Los juegos peligrosos" (1962), an elegy in which a poetic voice (in this case a daughter) laments the loss of her mother, the woman who recognized and…
Descriptors: Poetry, Spanish Literature, Grief, Daughters
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Hakobyan, Liana – Hispania, 2018
This article examines Julio Cortázar's short story "Las babas del diablo" from a visual perspective and at the intersection of Roland Barthes's ideas on photography and Severo Sarduy's theory on the Neobaroque. I propose that in "Las babas del diablo" photography and the Neobaroque--two seemingly unrelated concepts--interact…
Descriptors: Novels, Imagery, Photography, Narration
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Francis John Troyan; Pete Swanson; Victoria Russell – Hispania, 2023
Both within the field of world language (WL) teacher education and across teacher education in other disciplines, critiques of the edTPA have increased over the past several years. In WL language education, scholars have identified issues related to raters' use of edTPA rubrics and a serious lack of transparency about rater expertise. To better…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Performance Based Assessment, Language Teachers, Teacher Certification
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Phillips, Nick – Hispania, 2021
This essay examines the state of Digital Humanities work in the subfield of literature from the Spanish speaking world. It provides a case study of a multiyear digital mapping project conducted with undergraduate students at a highly selective liberal arts college. This project serves as a means of examining the digital state of the field and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Fiction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lewis, Christopher T. – Hispania, 2016
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's poem "Soneto de Natal" and the chapter "Um soneto" from his novel "Dom Casmurro" exhibit striking points of intersection that describe the same process: the creation of a sonnet. In the novel, Bentinho abandons his attempt with only a first and last line. "Soneto de Natal"…
Descriptors: Poetry, Spanish, Imagery, Vocabulary
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Jerónimo, Heather – Hispania, 2018
Elvira Lindo's novel "Una palabra tuya" (2005) explores the ways in which shifting familial roles affect the identity of individual family members, highlighted by Encarnación and Rosario's changing mother/daughter relationship, which is impacted by dementia. This debilitating illness converts the roles of parent and child to those of…
Descriptors: Dementia, Parent Child Relationship, Caregiver Child Relationship, Parent Background
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Darhower, Mark; Smith-Sherwood, Dawn – Hispania, 2021
Research on the language-literature divide in undergraduate second language programs documents the challenge of engaging literature learners in classroom discourse which is conducive to their developing interpersonal speaking skills as measured on the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Scale. In this study, Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs) were…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Spanish
Thornton, Megan – Hispania, 2014
Salvadoran writer Horacio Castellanos Moya offers a provocative example of postwar cynicism in his 1997 novel "El asco: Thomas Bernhard en San Salvador." By telling the story of Edgardo Vega, an emigrant who returns to El Salvador in the mid-1990s after living in Canada for eighteen years, "El asco" represents the mass exodus…
Descriptors: Authors, War, Novels, Spanish Literature
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Franco, Bridget V. – Hispania, 2015
This paper reveals and analyzes the cinematographic, political, and aesthetic transitions intersecting two Southern Cone films that premiered concurrently in 1991: the award-winning Chilean movie "La frontera" by Ricardo Larraín and the forgotten Argentine independent production "La redada" directed by Rolando Pardo. Despite…
Descriptors: Spanish, Films, Teaching Methods, Democracy
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Manickam, Samuel – Hispania, 2014
In Marcela del Río's science fiction novel "Proceso a Faubritten," utopia comes in the form of eternal life for all of humanity, thanks to Dr. Alexander Faubritten's "Bomba L." This polyphonic work includes diaries by Faubritten and his Mexican lover, María Corona. In my analysis of these two diaries, I will show how…
Descriptors: Spanish Literature, Diaries, Scientists, Authors
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Lunn, Patricia; Frantzen, Diana – Hispania, 2017
Linguists are an increasing presence not only in graduate programs but at undergraduate institutions as well, and this could lead to positive interdisciplinary changes in curricula. Literary/cultural texts contain masterful examples of how linguistic features are used to communicate meaning, and learners need to notice these features in order to…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish Literature
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Goldberg, Nancy Sloan – Hispania, 2014
Ventura García Calderón (1886-1959) was a Peruvian man of letters and a diplomat who was at the center of the hispanophone community in Paris in the first half of the twentieth century. Known as a proponent of Spanish American literature, García Calderón achieved a global celebrity for his dramatic, colorful, and ironic short stories. These…
Descriptors: Authors, French, Spanish, Spanish Literature
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