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Monuments to Mestizaje and the Commemoration of Racial Democracy in Puerto Rico
Abstract In this paper, I argue that monuments to mestizaje (miscegenation) in Puerto Rico reaffirm the myth of a harmonious mixture between the White Spaniard, Black African, and Indigenous Taíno. This racial triad, originally conceived in the nineteenth century, was institutionalized in 1956 by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture to legitimize the ...
Rafael V. Capó García
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The linguistic characterisation of Galdós’s characters in his last play, Santa Juana de Castilla
Abstract In this work I propose to examine the linguistic characterisation of the characters in Galdós’s last play, Santa Juana de Castilla (Saint Joanna of Castile, 1918). The analysis will show that in addition to the use of archaic language, the purpose of which may be to evoke the era, the linguistic style of the play is characterised by the use of
Miguel Á. Perdomo‐Batista
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Sweet Femininities: Women and the Confectionery Trade in Eighteenth‐Century Barcelona
Abstract This article examines the intersections between sweetness, femininity and the confectionery trade in eighteenth‐century Barcelona, at a time of growing consumption of sugar and slavery. Drawing on a range of underexplored archival material, this study traces the stories of women of different social groups, namely, elite housewives, nuns and ...
Marta Manzanares Mileo
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Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script
In 1706 Cristóbal de Villalpando signed a painting with an unusual, intensive calligraphic flourish, and sent it from Mexico City far to the north. This essay describes Villalpando's decision to invest so much pictorial energy in letterforms against this geographic backdrop.
Aaron M. Hyman
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Ante las unidades líquidas y consonantes nasales del español y su presentación en la NGLE
Revisamos en este trabajo las estructuras e interrelaciones de los subconjuntos fonemáticos de realización vibrante, lateral y nasal en español. Confrontamos diversas propuestas interpretativas en la historia de la fonología española y procedemos, en ...
Alexandre Veiga
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A Fatherland of Free Men. Virility and ‘Frailty’ in Spanish Liberalism (1808–1814)
Abstract The ideal of the patriotic citizen‐soldier familiar from civic humanism re‐emerged in Spain in the context of the Napoleonic Wars. Spaniards were required to uphold a model of masculinity that was continually threatened by ‘effeminacy’. The study of this model is approached through an analysis of literary texts: the main neoclassical tragedies
Xavier Andreu‐Miralles
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Del pan y del vino en un texto médico del siglo XIV
Este artículo trata de dar a conocer lo que del pan y del vino medicinal nos dice Juan de Aviñón en su tratado de medicina galénica, Sevillana medicina (Sevilla, 1545).
José Mondéjar
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La historia como recurso explicativo y apoyo codificador en la obra académica actual
El presente trabajo quiere mostrar la profundidad con la que la historia y la diacronía lingüisticas impregnan la labor codificadora llevada a cabo por la Real Academia Española y la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española en sus recientes obras ...
María Teresa Echenique Elizondo
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Palabras y formas de la "Historia de la lengua española"
Palabras y formas de la "Historia de la lengua española"
Manuel Ariza Viguera
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Monumento a la palabra, máxima obra gramatical y sintáctica de la lengua castellana, una catedral, un palacio enorme, monumento lexicografico de la historia cultural de la lengua española, y, según Gabriel Garcia Márquez, una novela de la palabra, son ...
Jasmina Markič
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