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]
From 1966 to 1977 Kenneth O. May led a team of University of Toronto staff and students that aimed to produce the most comprehensive general reference tools to date for the history of mathematics. The major published result was the 1973 Bibliography and R
Literary education in Primary and Secondary School must follow comprehensive plans based on the actual principles of Literature and Criticism. In English-speaking countries during the last decades plans have been based on the literary and educational thou
Members of the Henry Williamson Society talk of what fiction reading does for them. Their experience of literature is connected to their appreciation of the author Henry Williamson as a central and mythic figure. How Henry is composed determines the kind
In The Haunting, The Changeover, and The Tricksters, Margaret Mahy fuses supernatural iconography of witchcraft and magic with images of ordinary and domestic adolescence. This article argues that Mahy's 'fantastic realism' illuminates aspects of femal
The question this article addresses is. Is Artemis art? That is, how successful is Eoin Coffier's attempt to combine disparate forms, such as fairy stories, science fiction stories and thrillers in the three ArtemisFowl novels? Basic elements of story, s
This essay explores how and why, during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, a studio nationalizes and reforms a potentially problematic Spanish colonial figure, transforming her into a symbol of national identity. La monja alferez (1944) stars Maria Felix a
In the picture book Shortcut (1995), the mediated telling of the fabula (the story) by David Macaulay results in a nonlinear and non-sequential syuzhet (the plot). Several metafictive devices used in the construction of the syuzhet of Shortcut draw attent
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels is a complex, uninhibited, savage satire that concludes with the narrator's descent into madness--harldy a likely candidate for children's reading. In the nearly three hundred years since it was first published, how
Like their counterparts elsewhere, Australian children favour humorous novels; comedic writers consistently dominate the pre-teen and early teen fiction market in Australia. Regardless of its popularity, however, in comparison to more 'serious' writing,
This article deals with the use of a language of disinheritance in the coup d'etat by which Henry Bolingbroke overthrew Richard II in 1399. This rhetoric is placed in the context of its importance in informal political ideas. It is argued that disinherit
This article offers a new understanding of Spanish 'Modernismo' which places this concept in that wider trend of Western culture at the beginning of the 20th century generally known as 'Modernism' in the anglo-saxon world. Beauty is the central concep
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.