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The Old Man in the Basement: Reflection on Old Age in the Films of Fernando Fernán-Gómez Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Manuel de la Fuente
The actor and filmmaker Fernando Fernán-Gómez embodies like few others the reflection on aging in contemporary Spanish cinema. His stage of creative maturity coincides with the arrival and consolid...
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Does Age Matter? Aging Masculinities in the Spanish Audiovisual Industry Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Raquel Medina
The Spanish star system is witnessing the aging of its most acclaimed and awarded male actors from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and the first two decades of the 21st century: male actors belonging to the sil...
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Aging, Masculinity, and Ecology: Celso Bugallo’s Multiple Insurgencies in Cenizas del cielo Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Alfredo Martínez-Expósito
Environmental drama film Cenizas del cielo (2008), set in a polluted area of the otherwise idyllic North-western region of Asturias, was internationally saluted as Spain’s first explicitly ecologis...
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Allegories of Aging Masculinity: The Myth of Don Quixote in Albert Serra’s Honor of the Knights Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Esther Zaplana
This article develops a discussion of Albert Serra’s Honor of the Knights (2006) and his radical interpretation of Don Quixote on a final journey before death. The analysis explores Serra’s portray...
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‘El mío no es un asilo’: Aging Masculinity, Disability, and Animalization in Mario Camus’s Los santos inocentes Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Ignacio Ramos-Gay
As an attempt to reflect 1960s rural Spain under Franco’s dictatorship, Mario Camus’s 1984 film adaptation of Miguel Delibes’s Los santos inocentes [The Holy Innocents], published three years befor...
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Aging, Inclusive Masculinities, and Media Celebrity Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Jorge Pérez
In this essay, I want to engage critically the concept of “inclusive masculinities” to argue that it needs to account for the dimension of age. As part of a third phase of masculinity research that...
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No Strangers: Older Gay Men in the Films of Ventura Pons Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Santiago Fouz-Hernández
In a career spanning more than five decades Catalan filmmaker Ventura Pons (Barcelona, 1945) has directed over 30 films. His eclectic filmography does not easily fit categories or labels of any kin...
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Aging Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Spanish Cinemas and Audiovisual Industries Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Josep M. Armengol, Raquel Medina
Published in Romance Quarterly (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Fatherhood Lullabies: Masculinity and Aging Paternity in the Basque Country as Portrayed in Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s Cinco lobitos Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Irene de Lucas Ramón
Even though Basque director Alauda Ruiz de Azua’s debut film, Cinco lobitos, revolves around motherhood and its two female characters bear the heavyweight of the narrative, set in a historically pe...
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Screening Older Men: Aging Men’s Sexualities in Contemporary Spanish Cinema and TV Series Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Josep M. Armengol-Carrera
Older men’s sexualities have recurrently been defined as either “asexual” or “in decline.” Their sexualities, when/if represented at all, have also been associated with the “dirty old man” stereoty...
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Cocaine Cowboys: Visualizing Aging Masculinities in Galician Narco Noir Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Catherine Barbour
Arguably the most recognizable figure of Galician manhood on screen today is the aging drug kingpin, as the burgeoning cinematic genre of Galician narco noir exposes global audiences to Galicia’s k...
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Spanish Greyhounds and ‘Greying’ Men: Animal Advocacy and the Representation of Aging Galgueros in Spanish Documentary Film Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Claudia Alonso-Recarte
In recent years, the image of the Spanish male hunter has drawn increasing suspicion from more progressive generations eager to question the meaning of such predatorial activity within the context ...
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Mario Verdaguer as Battlefield: The Struggles of a Name from Public Emergence to Memorialization Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Carles Ferrando Valero
Published in Romance Quarterly (Vol. 70, No. 4, 2023)
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“The Mystery Unsolved, Without Any Attempt to Solve It”: Detective Fiction and Waywardness in Norah Lange’s People in the Room Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-12-11 David Conlon
In 1950, Argentinian author Norah Lange published her experimental novel Personas en la sala [People in the Room]; she would later describe the novel (which is told from the perspective of an adole...
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A Lost Copy of the Old French Vie (or Chanson) de Saint Alexis (Alexandrine Quatrain Version) Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Krista A. Milne
The Municipal Library of Tournai was struck in an air raid during the Second World War. Among the valuable manuscripts that were lost was Bibliothèque de la ville de Tournai MS 129, a fragmentary m...
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Toward the Digital Cultural History of the Other Silver Age Spain Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Thomas Antorino
Published in Romance Quarterly (Vol. 70, No. 4, 2023)
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Women’s Work. How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Marcela T. Garcés
Published in Romance Quarterly (Vol. 70, No. 4, 2023)
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Queer Futurity and Conflicted Feeling(s) in the Poetry of Ariadna G. García Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Paul Cahill
The work of Spanish poet Ariadna G. García (Madrid, 1977) occupies an unusual place within the archive of modern queer Spanish poetry. Collections like Construyéndome en ti (1997), Napalm. Cortomet...
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Transoceanic Animals as Spectacle in Early Modern Spain Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Micah McKay
Published in Romance Quarterly (Vol. 70, No. 3, 2023)
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Modernity, the Search for Meaning, and the Spanish Streetcar Experience in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Madrid: Clarín, Galdós and Pardo Bazán Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Stephen Luis Vilaseca
Using three Spanish short stories set in Madrid, Benito Pérez Galdós’s “La novela en el tranvía” (1871), Clarín’s “Doña Berta” (1892), and Emilia Pardo Bazán’s “En tranvía” (1901), this article spe...
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El dinero como principio de mecánica imprecisa en El hombre pobre todo es trazas (1637) de Pedro Calderón de la Barca Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Escudero Baztán Juan Manuel
Calderón de la Barca’s comedy, El hombre pobre todo es trazas, belongs to the genre of ‘capa y espada’ comedy. A very common comic genre in the Spanish theater of the seventeenthth century, highly ...
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Crear entre mundos: Nuevas tendencias en la metaficción español Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Esperanza González Moreno
Published in Romance Quarterly (Vol. 70, No. 3, 2023)
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Women, Letters, Alliances Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-15 María Carrillo Espinosa
Published in Romance Quarterly (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2023)
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Un puente epistolar entre las dos Españas: Cartas de escritoras exiliadas a Carmen Conde (1940–1980) Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Francisca Montiel Rayo
Resumen Miembro del grupo de poetas y narradoras españolas que trabajaron denodadamente durante los años de preguerra para hacer de la literatura su ocupación principal, Carmen Conde se mantuvo, en ese tiempo, en permanente contacto epistolar tanto con algunas de las personalidades más destacadas del Lyceum Club como con jóvenes socias de dicha asociación madrileña que, al igual que ella, iniciaban
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‘¡La Vaguada es nuestra!’: The Cultural Politics of Madrid’s First Shopping Mall Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Michael L. Martínez Jr.
This article adopts an urban cultural studies method to elaborate the historical-geographical formation of Madrid’s first American-style shopping mall, La Vaguada, in relation to important socio-sp...
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The Battle of the Widows: La Montálvez versus Clemencia Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego
Their liminality in a patriarchal society and the cultural apprehensions surrounding widows explain why literature has rarely been sympathetic to them. This has been particularly the case with the ...
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A Place for Us: Spatial Proximities in the Correspondence Between Maria Casarès and Albert Camus (1944–1959) Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Eugenia Helena Houvenaghel
Abstract This study elucidates the process of Maria Casarès’ identity construction in her correspondence with Albert Camus. I focus on how space and identity are entangled in their letters by zooming in on the correspondents’ construction of a spatial identity through their epistolary dialogue. In their epistolary relationship, Casarès and Camus exchange depictions, feelings, drawings, and postcards
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“Y ahora voy a contarte despacio todo”: La dimensión confesional en las cartas de Elena Fortún a Inés Field (1948–1951) Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-07-06 María del Carmen Alfonso García
Published in Romance Quarterly (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2023)
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Mediación cultural y poesía: Cartas de las poetas españolas exiliadas a Concha Lagos Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-07-06 María Teresa Navarrete Navarrete
Resumen El objetivo de este artículo es analizar las cartas que las escritoras Concha Méndez (1898–1986), Marina Romero (1908–2001) y Julia Uceda (1925–) sostuvieron con Concha Lagos, cuando esta dirigía desde Madrid la revista Cuadernos de Ágora (1956–1964) y la colección de libros Ágora (1955–1973). Las cartas estudiadas pertenecen al “Archivo Personal Concha Lagos” alojado en la Biblioteca Nacional
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Flujos comunicativos y puentes culturales: Cartas de Maruja Mallo desde el exilio (1939–1962) Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Inmaculada Real López
Resumen Los epistolarios conservados de Maruja Mallo en el exilio son escasos y están dispersos en archivos nacionales e internacionales. De forma progresiva han ido saliendo a la luz la correspondencia que mantuvo con Alfonso Reyes, Jorge Oteiza, Silvia Mistral o la carta enviada a Luisa Sofovich. Sin embargo, hasta ahora no se había hablado abiertamente del breve epistolario que intercambió Mallo
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Correction Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-03
Published in Romance Quarterly (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Creating Epistolary Spaces of Proximity: Spanish Women’s Letters from Exile Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Eugenia Helena Houvenaghel
Published in Romance Quarterly (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2023)
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Le Clézio’s La Guerre and Les Géants: Counter-Hegemonic, Situationist, User Manuals for the Post-Modern Subject? Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Keith Moser
This article proposes a Situationist reading of Le Clézio’s novels La Guerre (1970) and Les Géants (1973). Debord and Le Clézio illustrate that it is not by accident that the rise of multinational ...
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“¿Qué mandáis hacer de mí?” Una historia desvelada de relecturas teresianas en el contexto cultural de entresiglos Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Josefina C. López
Published in Romance Quarterly (Vol. 70, No. 1, 2023)
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Historia cultural de los hispanohablantes en Japón Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-01-06 David R. George Jr.
Published in Romance Quarterly (Vol. 70, No. 1, 2023)
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The Possibilities of Gender Representation in Enlightenment Spain: The Case of Leandro Fernández de Moratín’s El viejo y la niña (1790) Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Julia C. Barnes
Abstract This article reconsiders the legacy of Leandro Fernández de Moratín’s first play, El viejo y la niña (1790), particularly in comparison with his much more famous last play, El sí de las niñas (1806). Analyzing three aspects of El viejo, I argue that this play is more willing to question and undermine prevailing notions of gender and authority in Enlightenment Spain. First, the surprise ending
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Planetariedad en El mal de la taiga, de Cristina Rivera Garza Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez
Abstract En este artículo, examino los elementos narrativos a través de los que la novela El mal de la taiga (2012), de Cristina Rivera Garza, moviliza múltiples vertientes referentes al concepto de la planetariedad. Entre tales vertientes destacan el contraste entre lo global y lo planetario, el desarrollo de un sentido de conectividad al nivel del planeta, y la articulación de un sujeto de tal índole
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Lorca After Life. Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Jeffrey Zamostny
Published in Romance Quarterly (Vol. 70, No. 1, 2023)
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White Horror in Bacurau Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-12-20 David M. Mittelman
Abstract Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Bacurau (2019 Bacurau. Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. Kino Lorber, 2019. [Google Scholar]) was released to significant hype in Brazil and around the world. The film has been widely received as an interpretation of Brazilian society as plagued by the ravages of predatory global capitalism and U.S imperialism combined with
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Don Quixote and Catholicism: Rereading Cervantine Spirituality Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Jessica Nichols, John Beusterien
Published in Romance Quarterly (Vol. 69, No. 4, 2022)
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Inquietudes tardías, aprendizajes ociosos: Breath, Eyes, Memory, de Danticat, y L’Exil selon Julia, de Pineau Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Giselle Román Medina
Abstract La novela de formación se ha caracterizado, de acuerdo con Franco Moretti, por elevar la juventud a categoría simbólica de la modernidad, acentuándose entre sus atributos la inquietud, la movilidad y la transitoriedad. En las novelas Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), de Edwidge Danticat, y L’Exil selon Julia (1996), de Gisèle Pineau, leídas desde el marco genérico del Bildungsroman, analizo el
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La conquista sónica del desierto: La Pampa como paisaje sonoro en el canon literario argentino del siglo XIX1 Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Cristina E. Pardo Porto
Abstract El lugar común de la Pampa desértica, vacía e inconmensurable se erige en la cultura letrada como el espacio emblemático para la reconstrucción de la nación argentina en el siglo XIX. La necesidad de refundar el estado-nación que exige el avance estrepitoso del capital hace que el desierto sea vaciado de cuerpos, pero saturado de representaciones. Ese espacio no cartografiado, “incierto, vaporoso
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Losing Our Heads: Expanded Cinema and Unreason Between Javier Téllez and Carl Theodor Dreyer Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Thomas Matusiak
Abstract Recent decades have seen the rise of film installation as a consequence of cinema’s displacement in the digital age. This expansion of film exhibition to the gallery has given rise to what Raymond Bellour terms an other cinema, or a cinematic praxis that opens new possibilities for the theorization of the moving image, its history, and its relation to other disciplines. In a cinematic landscape
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Unsettling Colonialism: Gender and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Global Hispanic World Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-09-22 María Elena Soliño
Published in Romance Quarterly (Vol. 69, No. 4, 2022)
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Decadence and Regeneration in d’Annunzio’s Il piacere (1889) Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Guylian Nemegeer
Abstract This paper considers the dialectics between national decadence and regeneration in d’Annunzio’s Il piacere. It argues that the novel’s fin-de-siècle reception was conditioned by the author’s prior classification as an immoral, anti-national writer in the wake of the poetry collection Intermezzo di rime. This classification determined a reading of d’Annunzio’s debut novel in terms of decadence
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Eric Calderwood. Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Eva Woods
Published in Romance Quarterly (Vol. 69, No. 3, 2022)
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César Ferreira and Jorge Avilés-Diz, editors. Narrar lo invisible: Aproximaciones al mundo literario de Sara Mesa Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Rebecca M. Bender
Published in Romance Quarterly (Vol. 69, No. 3, 2022)
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Maupassant, Conrad, Quiroga, una genealogía: Perversiones de la historia en “La Mère aux monstres”, “The Idiots”, y “La gallina degollada” Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Gustavo Faverón Patriau
Abstract Este artículo estudia la relación de filiación y reescritura que vincula a los cuentos “La Mère aux monstres,” de Guy de Maupassant (1883); “The Idiots,” de Joseph Conrad (1896); y “La gallina degollada,” de Horacio Quiroga (1909). A partir de ideas de Peter Brooks y J. Hillis Miller, y una discusión de la nociones de ‘clinamen’ (Bloom) y ‘telos’ (en Aristóteles y Hegel, pasando por Nietzsche)
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Performing Classical Masculinities and Old Age: Josep Maria Pou in Alberto Iglesias and Mario Gas’s Sócrates. Juicio y muerte de un ciudadano Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Ignacio Ramos-Gay
Abstract This article analyzes the representation of classic aging masculinities in Mario Gas and Alberto Iglesias’s play Sócrates. Juicio y muerte de un ciudadano (2015), featuring the leading performance of Catalan actor Josep Maria Pou. I will examine the physicality of Pou’s idiosyncratic bodily performance upon the stage in order to discuss how age is construed as a means to reinforce the Greek
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Latin Fragments and Catalan Verses: Printing Linguistic and Devotional Metonymy in La dolorosa passio del nostre redemptor Jesuchrist (Barcelona, 1518) Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Christina E. Ivers
Abstract In sixteenth-century Barcelona, printing houses mainly produced books in Catalan, Castilian, and Latin. At times, imprints contained combinations of these languages. This analysis of a printed compilation of Passion-centered poetry employs metonymy to study the intersections of whole and partial texts within La dolorosa passio del nostre redemptor Jesuchrist (Barcelona, 1518) alongside the
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The Comedia Unbound Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Barbara Fuchs
Abstract While the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic was disastrous for theater companies everywhere, the comedia was arguably energized by its constraints. The En compañía de los clásicos initiative in Spain, the theatrical presentations at the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT) virtual conference in July 2020, and the reimagined virtual LA Escena Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater suggest
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This Bitch: Self-Fashioning and Social Media in an Adaptation of El perro del hortelano Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Laura Muñoz
Abstract This article examines how self-representational practices in the online sphere have been interpreted in an adaptation of Lope de Vega’s play El perro del hortelano (1618). This Bitch: Esta Sangre Quiero, written by playwright Adrienne Dawes and performed on Zoom as part of the University of Arkansas virtual ArkType Festival in January 2021, reimagines the role of honor and honra in the early
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Confinement, COVID, and the Comedia in Mexico City Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-01-28 Erin Alice Cowling
Abstract The COVID19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the arts, particularly the performing arts, where live audiences are an important part of the creative process. In spite of the immense roadblocks created by this crisis, artists around the world began to shift their craft online. No where do we see a more rapid shift than in Mexico City, propelled in part by the theater department at the Universidad Nacional
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La última carta de José Luis Guerin a Jonas Mekas: La estética de la empatía en la mirada cinematográfica Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Alicia Cerezo
Abstract La última carta fílmica de José Luis Guerin a Jonas Mekas (2011) para la exposición Todas las cartas. Correspondencias fílmicas constituye un diálogo intimista entre sus orígenes como cineasta, el reciente tsunami acaecido en Japón y el viaje místico realizado por él a este país un año antes, entre otras cosas, para renovar la botella de sake que el año previo había dejado en la tumba de Yasujiro
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Rape, Sex, Violence, and Disgrace in the Legends and Epic Texts of Medieval Spain Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-01-21 Peter Mahoney
Abstract This article identifies and explores two ways in which sex and violence are manifested in several medieval Spanish texts. In the first group of stories analyzed, rape and sexually-related violence are condemned as treacherous affronts that result in the dishonor of the female victim as well as a male figure in her orbit—namely, her father or her betrothed. Nevertheless, these episodes shed
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En otro reino extraño or, Lope de Vega and the Digital Stage Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Esther Fernández
Abstract As a result of the global pandemic, in the spring of 2020 Madrid experienced a restrictive confinement for over three months. While theaters were forced to close, such measures did not put a stop to cultural initiatives in the city. From May through June, the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico (CNTC) developed a pioneering audiovisual piece, En otro reino extraño, built around different texts
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Introduction: The Comedia Under Siege Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Erin Alice Cowling, Esther Fernández, Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas
Abstract This introduction engages with the meaning and socio-cultural impact of a variety of artistic contributions within the realm of Hispanic theater that have been carried out in the Spanish-speaking world in order to keep production of the comedia afloat during the confinement due to COVID-19. It discusses what this implies for an inherently live medium such as the theater and, ultimately, introduces
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Grumelot & Escuela Nave 73: Defying Traditional Stage Presence Through Digital Media Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas
Abstract As COVID-19 brought significant changes to the art industry, it forced creators to re-invent the way they collaborate and produce their work. Within Hispanic Classical Theater, these unforeseen circumstances led playwrights, directors, and performers to seek new ideas and venues of dissemination that may change the course of Spanish comedia productions for years to come. However, the proliferation
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El ‘absurdo existential’ en Mortal y rosa de Francisco Umbral Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-11-08 J. A. Garrido Ardila
Abstract A partir de unas declaraciones de Francisco Umbral, en las que apuntaba que Mortal y rosa se concibió como obra sobre el “absurdo existencial,” este artículo acomete un análisis textual del tema de la muerte y la existencia en esa novela o, según se expresa en ella, de la concepción de la vida como “navegación agónica hacia la muerte.” Sopesamos primeramente la muerte del hijo, el deseo sexual
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Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-11-05 Gema Vela
(2022). Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory. Romance Quarterly: Vol. 69, No. 1, pp. 56-57.