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El viajero Wilhelm von Humboldt y sus sucesores: caracterización cultural del País Vasco en las descripciones de viaje del siglo XIX

Berta Raposo Fernández e Ingrid García Wistädt (editoras)

Space and Gender in the Ancient Greek Novel

The plots of the five Greek novels of "love and Adventures" are set in two differentent spaces. First, a macrospace, a gigantic stage which mainly includes Eastern cities of the Roman Empire, where the protagonists live the so-called adventures. And second, the microspaces, depicted in Longus' novel and occasionally in the other novels. The love ideology is clearly conservative, and it has a specific practical purpose among the Hellenized higher classes in the Eastern Empire.

"Verwundete Orte" in Hettches Nox und Pareis Die Schattenboxerin

[EN] Body and space play a determinant role in the formation of societies, according to the social analyst Richard Sennet. His thesis that the configuration of spaces in history, such as that of the cities, is closely linked to the perception of the own body offers a relevant theorethical approach for the analysis of Nox (1995) by Thomas Hettche and Die Schattenboxerin (1999) by Inka Parei. In both novels bodies are perceived conscientiously by the self as a wounded and exhausted “I”, but also as a rebellious and fighting “self”. Both novels offer a concept of the body as an inadequate and wounded space, which is actually a key procedure to successfully face the similarly unstable geographical, social and political context of Germany after the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Virgilio Txerribuztangoerrekan. (I. Bukoliken eta Georgiken euskal itzulpenak)

[ES] Las traducciones de los clásicos antiguos empiezan a asomar en la literatura vasca a principios del siglo XIX: su objeto no es, en modo alguno, hacerlos accesibles a un público que de otro modo no podría leerlos, sino servir de ejercicio primero a los traductores y después a los lectores y, a un tiempo y sobre todo, dignificar la literatura vasca con obras de validez universal que, además, no implican la sumisión a ninguna cultura nacional. El que Virgilio haya sido siempre —con excepción del paréntesis romántico— el clásico por excelencia ha hecho que sus traducciones ocupen un lugar sobresaliente también en la historia de las letras vascas: el anónimo autor del manuscrito Melibeo del fondo Bonaparte, Iturriaga, Miangolarra, Arregi, Ibiñagabeitia y Orixe son los autores de esta porción —sin duda la más importante con mucho— del Fortleben vasco de Virgilio. Las traducciones de las Églogas y Geórgicas se analizan aquí desde la perspectiva que imponen la filología y la historia literaria: por un lado, se establecen las bases para, primero, interpretar correctamente dichas traducciones en su calidad de tales y, segundo, situarlas debidamente en el conjunto de la obras de sus autores y, en general, en la historia de la literatura vasca; por otro lado, se presta especial atención a las peculiaridades —notables— que la pervivencia de Virgilio presenta en el País Vasco.

Discurso falso en los personajes femeninos de la novela griega

[EN] This paper examines how the female characters in Greek novels have recourse to false speech. Based on an analysis of female speech in Attic tragedy, which was one of the literary genres that exerted the greatest influence on speech parts of the novels, a study is conducted to find out which characters in the novel employ false speech and their purpose in doing so. Two types of false speech were identified: the defensive one, used by the female protagonists or by secondary characters of similar social and ideological status, and the offensive one, used by characters of lower rank, and blameworthy morality within the ideological love's frameword publicized through the novel.

Metaphysics in the Work of Charles Darwin

It is not hard to see how two visions of nature are intertwined in Darwin’s Journal of Researches: one vision, the province of romantic authors depicting the sentiments awakened by certain landscapes, the other, the domain of natural scientists describing the world without reference to the aesthetic qualities of the scenery. Nevertheless, analyses of this double perspective in Darwin’s work are relatively rare. Most scholars focus on Darwin, the scientist, and more or less ignore the aesthetic aspects of his work. Perceiving the gradual transformation of Darwin’s world view, however, depends on analyzing the two different modes in which Darwin approached and perceived the world. While one can, on occasion, find commentaries on the beauty of the natural world in Darwin’s early work, the passage of time produces a modification in the naturalist’s manner of perceiving nature. This does not, however, mean that Darwin ceases to find beauty in nature; on the contrary, the disenchantment, in Max Weber’s words, that Darwin’s theory produces should not be understood in a pejorative, but rather in a literal sense. The theory of evolution, in effect, divests nature of its magical character and begins to explain it in terms of natural selection, according it, in the process a new and more intense attraction. In the present work, the metaphysical implications of this new vision of the world are analyzed through the eyes of its discoverer.

Estudio de los usos de πλήν ["plén"] y de su empleo en la novela griega antigua

Este trabajo ha sido realizado en el marco del PI UPV 106.130-HA092/99.

El sacrificio de Alcestis

[ES] La tragedia griega exige, para su comprensión, remitirse al contexto social y cultural en que fue compuesta. Tomar como referente el conocimiento que nosotros tenemos del modo de vida y pensamiento de entonces es algo fundamental, si se quiere entender la forma de actuar de las mujeres y de los hombres trágicos, como Alcestis y Admeto. Vistos bajo esta perspectiva, dejan de ser la heroína romántica y el pérfido esposo, para convertirse ella en el paradigma del ideal femenino en una sociedad donde el padre es el miembro más preciado de la familia, y él en el varón irreprochable. Todo esto bajo un discurso, el trágico, que se complace en difuminar la frontera mediadora entre lo masculino y lo femenino.

The Many Lovers of Jane Austen: Irony & Parody

Master in Literature and Literary Science