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]
Saavedra was not Cervantes's last name, nor one that his direct ancestors bore. The writer assumed this surname after his return from Barbary, where he was a captive from 1575 to 1580. This surname acquires an extraordinary significance in the light of t
In this article, I try to offer a revision of the problems in the tradition and evolution of Charlemagne's youthful exploits epic legend and to reconsider the possibility of a Spanish epic poem on this subject. To do so, it is one of my concerns to expla
This article is intended to raise the question of whether sacrifice can be regarded as constituting a deep ethical structure in the relationship between patient and carer. The significance of sacrifice in a patient - carer relationship cannot, however, be
Although Ricoeur and Taylor are often grouped together, their conceptions of language, literature, and practical reason are very different. The first half of this essay focuses on Ricoeur's theory of triple mimesis and narrative, showing how his attempt
Objective: To evaluate climacteric symptoms among rural and remote, indigenous Australian women and to develop culturally relevant women's health midlife educational material. Design: A cross-sectional pilot survey based on structured interviews of women
It seems that the French particle done is not always used as a conjunction of argumentation, linking the antecedent to the consequent and presenting the consequent as a kind of logical result of the antecedent, as is the case in its inferential use: 'Il
Cases of variation between canonical and non-canonical negative forms are widespread across the world's languages. Typically, the difference between the forms is characterized as regulated by pragmatic factors, albeit fuzzy or undefined, such as emphasis
There is much controversy about the extent to which auditory processing deficits are important in the genesis of language disorders, particularly specific language impairment (SLI) and dyslexia (or specific reading disability-SRD). A review of the availab
Models of the perception of phonologically variant speech differ in the extent to which contextual information is used predictively versus regressively. These temporal disparities reflect corresponding differences in the experimental literature on the per
Accounts in the archaeological literature from 1898 onwards of the degradation and siltation of archaeological ditches, generally in the Chalk, are first briefly reviewed. These are often supported by a series of successive measured sections, showing a te
This paper examines the osteological evidence for a case of long-term labret use in pre-Columbian north Chile and the pathological conditions associated with it. The burials from the site of Solcor 3 (AD 400-900) included a complete skeleton associated wi
Ever since Plato's famous attack on artists and poets in Book 10 of The Republic, lovers of literature have felt pressed defend poetry, and indeed from ancient times down, to the present, literature and art have had to fight various battles against philo
For some time now, 'hybridity' has occupied a central role in discussions of 'ethnic' or 'minority' cultural production within both Asian American and postcolonial studies. However, existing approaches to 'hybridity' ultimately simplify more than
In Dialectic of Enlightenment, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer argue that the autonomy of aesthetic production ina modern society preserves a sense of premodern enchantment. This relationship between aesthetics and enchantment was literalized in periodi
This essay examines the workings of bad language in the early modern period, along with its social and political contexts--why and under what circumstances some words were deemed inappropriate for polite or moral discourse and literature. In early modern