"La Llumanera de Nova York" (1874-1881): la veu d'una burgesia catalana a favor d'una Cuba espanyola

Article que estudia 'La Llumanera de Nova York' a partir de l' objectiu prèviament establert d' analitzar el posicionament dels editors del periòdic amb relació a les aspiracions identitàries cubanes

Anti-aging : Una relectura contemporània de Dorian Gray

Partint de l'estudi del llibre El retrat de Dorian Gray d'Oscar Wilde s'analitzarà, des del punt de vista de la cultura actual, una societat que s'aferra a la joventut i utilitza tots els mètodes tecnològics per defugir de la vellesa.

La revista Biblioteconomía (1944-1976) o com l'anàlisi del contingut i els llenguatges documentals interessaven als professionals de l'època

Analysis of information on the classification and indexing of the entire run of Biblioteconomía (1944-1976), the bulletin of the School of Librarians of Barcelona. Selection criteria included items directly related to the issue at hand, such as documental languages (classifications and subject heading lists) and subject catalogues (in both alphabetic and shelf order). Although the intention was to achieve a comprehensive analysis, priority was given to the importance and value of the information selected. Only those items considered to be significant within the chosen theme were chosen.

Cuando Frankenstein encontró a Dorian Gray: dandysmo, post-identidad y sujetos virtuales

The appearance and popularization of the internet has created new forms of writing, which compel us to think anew about identity and subjectivity. Webjournals or blogs are specially interesting because they are a massive phenomenon that use autobiographical writing in a peculiar way. These forms of writing stress a particular paradox of the genre: the coexistence between a purpose of private, confessional and spontaneous writing and a public image, carefully built, as a result of its writing. The technology is new, but, in fact, the paradox is old. This paper tries to explore this old paradox, our eternal condition of cyborgs, our use of technologies in order to construct a public, unique and recognizably identity. In oder to do so, I will try to show the virtual condition of any written individual ¿this issue has already been dealt with by autobiographical studies¿, focusing on blogs, and especially on concrete example (Lord Whimsy¿s Journal). I will pay attention to gender as a technology that constructs identity and, at the same time, is deconstructed by the autobiographical narratives analyzed. In short, I attempt to show that virtual and autobiographical discourse do not bring forth a new kind of subject but the permanence of an old phenomenon "clearly developed by dandyism, for instance¿: the use of tehnologies to re-invent, re-formulate and re-construct us as multiple, hybrid and mixed subjects."

Taxonomy of the genus Chamaesyce S.F. Gray in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands

A taxonomic study is undertaken of the ten taxa (nine of them specific) belonging to the genus Chamaesyce S.F. Gray (Euphorbiaceae) which are present in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands and a dichotomic key is provided. The taxonomic chacarcteristics of ecology are given. The presence of Chamaesyce humifusa (Willd.) Prokh. in the Iberian Peninsula is confirmed and Chamaesyce humistrata (Gray) Small is recorded for the first time from Europe.

A proposito de los generos Aconitum L. y Consolida (DC.) S.F.Gray en la Peninsula Iberica.

Seguimos para este taxon, en lo nomenclatural, a TAMURA & LAUENER (1979:459), mientras no se tipifique de forma adecuada A. lycoctonum L., considerado nom. ambig. ya por TUTIN (1964:212), con pocas posibilidades de que no sea diverso de A. vulparia. A. pyrenaicum L. es también algo muy distinto del taxon que nos ocupa y, en caso de no ser aceptada la proposición de que se lo considere ñamen rejiciendum, hecha por TAMURA & LAUENER (Le.: 447), seria el nombre correcto para A. barbatum Pers. (=A. squarrosum DC.) de Siberia. Otro nombre que aún podría ser prioritario, A. altissimum Miller (WARNCKE, 1964:30; TAMURA & LAUENER, l.c), no puede usarse en tanto no se localice algún material de aquel en que se basó la descripción un tanto ambigua de Miller....

Notas corologicas balearicas de Chamaesyce S.F. Gray

Con el fin de allegar materiales para un estudio cariológico de Chamaesyce S. F. Gray que forma parte de una revisión genérica, objeto de la tesis de licenciatura de uno de nosotros J. J. Orell , se planteó la necesidad de visitar la isla de Mallorca. Fruto de la visita son las notas que siguen.

Cuando Frankenstein encontró a Dorian Gray: dandysmo, post-identidad y sujetos virtuales

The appearance and popularization of the internet has created new forms of writing, which compel us to think anew about identity and subjectivity. Webjournals or blogs are specially interesting because they are a massive phenomenon that use autobiographical writing in a peculiar way. These forms of writing stress a particular paradox of the genre: the coexistence between a purpose of private, confessional and spontaneous writing and a public image, carefully built, as a result of its writing. The technology is new, but, in fact, the paradox is old. This paper tries to explore this old paradox, our eternal condition of cyborgs, our use of technologies in order to construct a public, unique and recognizably identity. In oder to do so, I will try to show the virtual condition of any written individual ¿this issue has already been dealt with by autobiographical studies¿, focusing on blogs, and especially on concrete example (Lord Whimsy¿s Journal). I will pay attention to gender as a technology that constructs identity and, at the same time, is deconstructed by the autobiographical narratives analyzed. In short, I attempt to show that virtual and autobiographical discourse do not bring forth a new kind of subject but the permanence of an old phenomenon "clearly developed by dandyism, for instance¿: the use of tehnologies to re-invent, re-formulate and re-construct us as multiple, hybrid and mixed subjects."

The Catalan migration to New York. A view from La Llumanera de Nova York (1874-1881)

The first issue of La Llumanera de Nova York came out in November 1874 and was not published until 1881. The challenge was certainly complicated: editing a newspaper in Catalan in New York, with the aim of influencing a group of potential readers who were distributed in the United States and, at the same time, become a medium that would bring the ideas of a new era, both from a political and cultural point of view

Més noticies a l'entorn del període americà de Josep Pijoan Soteras (1881-1963)

[cat]El coneixement de la trajectòria dels catalans exiliats, com és el cas de Josep Pijoan Soteras, Francesc Cambó Batlle i Josep Gudiol Ricart, entre altres, és fascinant perquè permet comprendre i valorar el seu itinerari personal, alhora que projecta un dramàtic resplendor sobre la cultura catalana de l"època. En aquest article es plantegen dues qüestions. La primera se centra en Pijoan com a agent d"art, aspecte molt poc conegut fi ns ara; mentre que en la segona part tracta de Pijoan com a escriptor d"art i la problemàtica que es va produir amb motiu de la seva intervenció en el llibre Les pintures romàniques de Catalunya dins la «Monumenta Cataloniae», col·lecció patrocinada per Francesc Cambó. [eng]Knowledge of the pathways of Catalan exiles -as in the case of Jose Pijoan Soteras, Francesc Cambó Batlle and Jose Gudiol Ricart, among others- is fascinating because it permits understanding and evaluation of their personal itineraires while at the same time casting a dramatic light on Catalan culture of the epoch. In this article two questions are presented: the first is centered on Pijoan as an art dealer, an aspect very little known until now, while the second deals with Pijoan as a writer on art and the problems raised by his participation in the book on Romanesque painters of Catalonia in the «Monumenta Cataloniae», the collection of whitch Francesc Cambó was patron.

Mistificat o infravalorat?, Urbanista o polític?: la figura d'Ildefons Cerdà a través de La Vanguardia, 1881-2010

La figura de l’urbanista i enginyer osonenc Ildefons Cerdà (1815-1876) ha estat objecte de controvèrsia entre els intel·lectuals de cada època. Però, públicament, no va ser fins als treballs de l’economista Fabià Estapé (1968-1971) que es va recuperar i reivindicar finalment el llegat del dissenyador de l’Eixample de Barcelona. En l’any que es commemoren els 150 anys del Pla Cerdà, aquest article té per objectiu revisar què n’ha dit la premsa d’època d’Ildefons Cerdà, usant com a base el material hemerogràfic de La Vanguardia.

Euphorbia chamaesyce L. dentro del genero Chamaesyce S.F. Gray (Euphorbiaceae)

Desde antiguo, los caracteres morfológicos han permitido agrupar las especies de Chamaesyce, bien con rango genérico independiente (Chamaesyce S. F. Gray, Anisophyllum Haw., Xamesike Rafin.), bien supeditándolas a Euphorbia L. a nivel subgenérico (E. subgen. Chamaesyce Rafin.) o seccional (E. sect. Anisophyllum Roeper). Los resultados de los estudios comparativos sobre el tipo de crecimiento, fisiología del metabolismo, morfología de los granulos de almidón del látex, carpología, fitodermología, boiquímica y palinología (cf. KOUTNIK, allertonia 4 : 331-387, 1984) aportan datos más que suficientes para considerar Chamaesyce segregado genéricamente de Euphorbia. Una vez aceptado el género Chamaesyce, se plantea el problema de la inclusión en dicho género de Euphorbia chamaesyce L.