Agust??n de Bethencourt y Molina : vida y obra (1758-1824)

Se elabora una conferencia, con motivo de la celebraci??n del d??a del libro, dedicada a la vida y obra del cient??fico e investigador del S. XIX Agust??n de Bethencourt y Molina. Dado que el CEO lleva su nombre y se cumple el 250 aniversario de su nacimiento, se realizan distintas actividades conmemorativas en el centro escolar, de las que forma parte esta conferencia y que finalizan con un hermanamiento oficial entre San Petersburgo, donde vivi?? y muri??, y la ciudad del Puerto de la Cruz, su lugar de nacimiento. Se contribuye con este trabajo al conocimiento de este cient??fico canario por parte de toda la comunidad educativa.

Reticent autobiography: Henry Green and Christopher Isherwood at the Hogarth Press

Christopher Isherwood’s Lions and Shadows (1938) and Henry Green’s Pack My Bag (1940) are accounts of the authors’ educations in the 1920s. Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press, these works use reticent narrators to test the limits of autobiography. In each case, authorial self-presentation complicates the work’s classification in the literary marketplace: Green paradoxically extends his use of a pseudonym to autobiography and Isherwood assigns his own name to his purportedly fictional protagonist, and yet Hogarth published both as novels. The two texts and their publication histories exemplify modernist autobiography’s blurring of the lines between fiction and personal history.

The logic of ideas in Christopher Hill's English revolution

This article examines the role played by ideas and their thinkers in Christopher Hill's histories of the English Revolution. Hill protested against a reductionist economic determinism with no place for the intrinsic power of ideas, but his account of ideas gave them a progressive logic parallel to, if not always easy to link with, that of economic development, and threatened to divorce them from their muddled and imperfect thinkers. This account of the logic of ideas had a striking impact on the way in which the more mainstream radicals of the English Revolution appeared in Hill's work, with both the Levellers and James Harrington being half assimilated to, and half pushed aside in favor of, the more thoroughgoing economic radicals who expressed, in however ragged a way, the intrinsic potential of their ideas. However, Hill's writings also betray a surprising attraction to religious over secular forms of radicalism.