1929 Zenobia A. James

1929-1930 Queen of the Quill

Os artigos federalistas : a contribuição de James Madison, Alexander Hamilton e John Jay para o surgimento do Federalismo no Brasil

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Independent and combined analyses of sequences from all three genomic compartments converge on the root of flowering plant phylogeny

Plant phylogenetic estimates are most likely to be reliable when congruent evidence is obtained independently from the mitochondrial, plastid, and nuclear genomes with all methods of analysis. Here, results are presented from separate and combined genomic analyses of new and previously published data, including six and nine genes (8,911 bp and 12,010 bp, respectively) for different subsets of taxa that suggest Amborella + Nymphaeales (water lilies) are the first-branching angiosperm lineage. Before and after tree-independent noise reduction, most individual genomic compartments and methods of analysis estimated the Amborella + Nymphaeales basal topology with high support. Previous phylogenetic estimates placing Amborella alone as the first extant angiosperm branch may have been misled because of a series of specific problems with paralogy, suboptimal outgroups, long-branch taxa, and method dependence. Ancestral character state reconstructions differ between the two topologies and affect inferences about the features of early angiosperms.

El palacio del Buen Retiro y sus colecciones durante los reinados de Felipe V y Fernando VI: de "villa de placer" a residencia oficial del monarca (1700-1759)

La tesis tiene por objeto el estudio de los usos y funciones que tuvo el palacio del Buen Retiro durante los siglos XVII y XVIII, y cuál fue el proceso de formación, disposición y dispersión de las colecciones de obras de arte que alhajaban sus estancias, y en especial de las pinturas. Para llevarlo a cabo, hemos revisado la amplia bibliografía disponible, y consultado numerosas fuentes relativas al real sitio, a los artistas que trabajaron en él o realizaron obras que formaron parte de su decoración, y a la visión que tuvieron del Retiro los representantes diplomáticos y los viajeros a lo largo de los siglos XVII y XVIII. De este modo, hemos creado un sólido corpus documental que nos ha permitido reconstruir la serie de inventarios que se realizaron de las obras de arte que decoraban el Retiro, y también fechar las distintas marcas que fueron recibiendo las pinturas. La combinación de ambos datos ha resultado ser de enorme importancia para poder individualizar los principales espacios del palacio, los programas decorativos que albergó, y localizar con ciertas garantías buena parte de las obras de arte pertenecientes al Retiro. El amplio capítulo dedicado al siglo XVII, indispensable para poder comprender qué usos tenía el real sitio y verificar cuáles fueron los cambios que experimentó la colección a lo largo del siglo XVIII, ha permitido comprobar y documentar cómo, con la decisión de ampliar el cuarto real de San Jerónimo en 1632, se puso en marcha uno de los proyectos más interesantes de la historia del coleccionismo europeo del siglo XVII. Gracias a distintos documentos inéditos hemos podido precisar cómo y cuándo se produjeron los encargos destinados a alhajar el palacio, entre los que destacan las series de pinturas de paisajes con eremitas, la de escenas de la Antigua Roma, y la de san Juan Bautista...

Mary, Quite Contrary: The Novels of Mary Davys, 1700-1727

As a relatively unknown author, Mary Davys (1674-1732) has garnered scant scholarly attention and little admiration for her work. Those who have written on Davys’s prose fiction most often mention the last three texts she published, Familiar Letters betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady (1716), The Reform’d Coquet (1724), and The Accomplish’d Rake (1727), yet rare mention is made of her first three novels. Moreover, of her later novels, many scholars read them as socially conservative and as representations of Davys’s support of and belief in patriarchy. My project disproves the long-standing and generally agreed upon conceptions regarding Davys’s writings and demonstrates the significance of her life’s work to studies of the novel. By investigating contemporary cultural issues, discussing the popular genres and modes of early eighteenth-century England, and comparing and contrasting Davys’s fiction to other authors’, I explore the myriad ways in which Davys experimented with the formal properties of the novel. Also, by closely examining each novel independently, I foreground Davys’s willingness to engage with charged contemporary topics such as rape, suicide, the laws surrounding inheritance, and male privilege. Not only does she engage with these topics; there is a discernable voice of protest imbedded in the narratives. At times, the techniques Davys employed and the plots she created in her work obscured her social concerns, yet with close reading, subversion also surfaces as one of Davys’s methods. An analysis of Davys’s experimentations with prose fiction and form illuminates the ways in which those innovations allowed Davys to criticize the culture in which she lived. Furthermore, an investigation of the whole of Davys’s work and the totality of her novels—looking at both form and content—exemplifies the importance of Davys for students of feminist thought and the development of the novel.

James Turrell and the Northern romantic tradition

"This paper discusses the work of contemporary artist James Turrell as framed by the philosophy of the sublime. Focusing on the artist’s use of the medium of light, it addresses Turrell’s scientific approach to creating artworks and discusses his resolution of the problematic relationship between science and spirituality. This relationship is discussed through the examination of the artist’s use of total visual fields known as ganzfelden and other perceptual phenomena, such as those encountered while piloting aircraft"

Exception or extension? : reorienting the Peacock Room among James McNeill Whistler's interior designs

"Although famous for his paintings and etchings today, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was also an important interior designer in the nineteenth-century British Aesthetic movement. Whistler‘s most famous and only extant interior design is Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (1876-77). It is also his most puzzling interior. Long considered an exception to the rule of Whistler‘s other interiors, the Peacock Room has often been overlooked in the few studies of the artist‘s interior designs"

Raluca L. Radulescu and Cory James Rushton, eds. 2009: A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance. Studies in Medieval Romance 10. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. XIV + 209 pp. ISBN 9781843841920

This review is part of a research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (ref. FFI 2008-02165).

Una mostra de traducció de literatura juvenil: James and the Giant Peach

En aquest Treball Fi de Grau (TFG) farem una anàlisi comparativa de James and the Giant Peach i les seues traduccions al català i al castellà. Pararem especial atenció al fet que es tracta d’un exemple de literatura juvenil, a l’hora d’analitzar els elements típics d’aquest gènere, com ara noms propis, elements culturals, expressions pragmàtiques, etc. El nostre objectiu principal serà extraure unes conclusions ben fonamentades sobre les tendències pel que fa a la traducció de literatura juvenil.