La emergencia del sujeto femenino en la escritura de cuatro ecuatorianas de los Siglos XVIII y XIX

Esta investigación se concentra en el análisis de la Autobiografía de la Vble. Madre Sor Catalina Jesús María Herrera (1717-1795), de la correspondencia que Manuela Sáenz (1797-1856) mantuvo desde 1834 hasta 1856 con Juan José Flores y Roberto Ascásubi, de la poesía y textos en prosa de Dolores Veintimilla de Galindo (1829-1857), y de los textos Páginas de Ecuador y Conferencia sobre Sicología Moderna de Marietta de Veintimilla (1858-1907), con el propósito de rastrear las distintas posiciones de enunciación y los enunciados que desde ellas generaron, las opciones vitales que adoptaron, las características de las estrategias no convencionales asumidas, orientadas a desenmascarar, compeler o descubrir las debilidades de un pensamiento patriarcal que se legitimaba a sí mismo, generando, a la vez, efectos de sentido que posicionaron otras formas de pensamiento y otros modos de ser y actuar, que re-evaluaron su posición dentro de un contexto social específico. Hemos leído los textos como dispositivos escriturarios que ponen en juego niveles de sentido y de relación con el contexto cultural y sus códigos de representación, como un sitio de encuentros entre diversos géneros de escritura –autobiográfico, epistolar, poético, ensayístico–, y como un espacio de diálogo entre distintas disciplinas –historia, literatura, sociología, política–, lo que nos ha permitido reflexionar sobre las relaciones de poder que fijan las instituciones sociales y culturales, reconsiderar los diálogos entre lo público y lo privado, explorar otros modos de pensar lo político, analizar los mecanismos de subalternidad y alternidad femeninos, a la vez que dar una orientación transdisciplinaria como propuesta investigativa que permita aportar a los estudios culturales, de género, literarios, y latinoamericanos.

Burnt offerings and harpies at Nasidienus’ dinner-party (Horace, Satires 2.8)

Horace's last Satire describes a disastrous dinner party hosted by the gourmet Nasidienus, which is ruined by a collapsing tapestry. The food served afterwards is presented in a dismembered state. This chapter argues that several elements of the scene recall the greedy Harpies of Apollonius' Argonautica, and that Horace's friend Virgil shows the influence of this Satire in his own Harpy-scene in Aeneid 3. It also argues that the confusion in the middle of the dinner causes the food cooking in the kitchen to be neglected and burned. This explains the state of the subsequent courses, which Nasidienus has salvaged from a separate disaster backstage.

Virginia Woolf, Hugh Walpole, the Hogarth Press, and the Book Society

This article explores the unlikely relationship and alliance between the novelists Virginia Woolf and Hugh Walpole. It examines the ways in which these typically highbrow and middlebrow writers influenced each others’ lives and work, and focuses in particular on the interactions between the Woolfs’ Hogarth Press and Walpole’s Book Society, the first book club to operate in Great Britain. The article uses a number of case studies drawn from the Hogarth Press archives to demonstrate how by the 1930s, the Hogarth Press was much more commercial in its operations and pursuits of reading markets than is often recognized.

Não-preferência para oviposição e alimentação de Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith, 1797) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) por cultivares de amendoim.

This study aimed to select peanut cultivars resistant to Spodoptera frugiperda, selecting non-oviposition and non-feeding preference in choice and no-choice tests. Peanut cultivars with upright growth habit (IAC 5, IAC 8112, IAC 22 and IAC Tatu ST) and runner growth habit (IAC 503, IAC 505, IAC 147, IAC 125, IAC Caiapo and IAC Runner 886) were evaluated. Tests of non-oviposition preference were conducted with newly emerged adults. Adults were fed a 10% honey solution, remaining in cages for 4 days until the start of the evaluations. The evaluations consisted of quantifying the number of eggs and egg masses, followed by calculating the number of eggs per egg mass. To perform non-feeding preference tests, leaf discs from different peanut cultivars were placed in disposable Petri dishes followed by releasing of a third-instar caterpillar for each cultivar. The attractiveness at 1, 5; 10, 15, 30, 60, 120, 360, 720 and 1,440 minutes was evaluated by counting the caterpillars that were feeding on cultivars. The leaf area consumed was evaluated at the end of the experiment for each cultivar. In the tests of non-oviposition and non-feeding preference, with choice or no-choice, none of the cultivars of the upright growth and runner growth habit influenced the oviposition or food of S. frugiperda. Thus, the peanut cultivars showed no resistance of the non-feeding and non-oviposition types.