Showing papers in "Hispania in 1975"

The Anti-Castro Novel

Abstract: H ISTORICAL PARALLELS are usually risky affairs. They are just plausible enough to cause one to yield to the temptation of establishing "laws" and "movements." Yet the dissimilarities may be sufficiently significant to keep the critic from attempting to formulate neat categories. System building is merely the endeavor to introduce some degree of order into a world of seemingly chaotic and unclassifiable phenomena. Predictable categories make their appearance when one discusses the relationship of literature to social upheaval. The writer, in many instances, can be expected to react like a sensitive barometer and reflect the anxieties and aspirations of his readers. His work is an outgrowth of the social milieu in which he functions. He is situated in time and place. He is the result of definite social pressures; he may also be instrumental in contributing to social change. The problem acquires sharpened focus in the case of a society characterized by dictatorship and oppression. When the dictator is finally overthrown, the new "liberating" regime sets about consolidating its position. It will then expect the writer, the intellectual in general, to give of himself in the process of building the new order.

Use and Frequency of Occurrence of Verb Forms in Spoken Brazilian Portuguese

Abstract: rarely, if ever, used at all. The purpose of this study is to provide that information and is based on a count of some 89,200 verb forms taken from a corpus of over 400,000 words.2 There is no question that native speakers do have certain ideas-and these are generally quite accurate-as to how verbs function. However, they are usually unable to explain the processes involved. It is only after a large amount of data has been compiled, sorted, and analyzed that certain conclusions can be drawn.

Black Phobia and the White Aesthetic in Spanish American Literature

Abstract: ARCHETYPAL IMAGES OF COLOR and corresponding racial myths have had an enormous impact on the pattern of race relations in Spanish America. The association of the color black, on the one hand, with ugliness, sin, darkness, immorality, Manichean metaphor, with the inferior, the archetype of the lowest order, and the color white, on the other, with the opposite of these qualities partly explains the racist preconceptions and negative images of the black man projected-at times despite the authors' good intentions-in much of the literature of the area. The

Garcia Lorca and the Guitar

Abstract: T WOULD BE SURPRISING if Federico Garcia Lorca had not shown a predilection for the guitar in his life and work: the instrument plays an essential role in the world of Andalusian music and folklore, in which the poet was immersed from an early age. His enchantment with the guitar might be said to have obeyed a racial and family inclination. One of his father's ancestors, a certain Frasquito Garcia, was a professional guitarist who emigrated to Paris, married and died there.' Lorca's father had the custom of organizing flamenco sessions at his son's natal house

"Ars Praedicandi" and the Structure of "Arcipreste de Talavera," Part I

Abstract: The influence of the pulpit is an important although relatively neglected chapter in the history of medieval European and, most especially, Spanish literature.2 The Low Middle Ages witnessed a revival of the evangelical spirit of nascent Christianity, and the clergy, emulating the example of the Apostles of Christ and the primitive Fathers of the Church, turned once again to the people to spread the Word of the Lord. The essential mo-