El libro del duque de los verdaderos amantes
Christine de Pisan ; study and translation by Evelio Miñano
University of Murcia Publications Service, 2014.
216 pages, ISBN: 978-84-16038-21-3
A principios del siglo XV, una mujer recibe el encargo de escribir la historia de amor que le cuenta un alto personaje que prefiere guardar el anonimato. Con el Livre du duc des vrais amans, Christine se confirma así como una de las escasas autoras de una literatura cortés casi exclusivamente escritas por hombres, aunque la mujer fuera en ese universo de ficción, al menos en teoría, un sujeto fundamental. (compte-rendu du traducteur)
Ariel et autres textes
José Enrique RODÓ
Translation, preface and notes by Brigitte Natanson et Emmanuelle Rimbot
Presses Universitaires de Saint-Etienne, 2014, 218p.
In 1900, Uruguayan humanist José Enrique Roldo addressed the youth of Latin America. At the age of 29, he took on the role of an old professor, Prospero, addressing his disciples. He appeals to Ariel, the genius of the spirit, against Caliban, the symbol of matter. He invites young people to take their country's destiny into their own hands, by choosing Greco-Latin values and those of 19th-century French thinkers, against the utilitarianism and mercantilism of the United States. His appeal was an immediate and resounding success, sparking off “Arielism”, a movement that would spread throughout Latin America. It is this appeal, untranslated into French until now, that we present today, followed by other texts by this author on Americanism and Latin America's relations with France. In particular, it aims to highlight the double empathy towards Spain (the “mother country”, but weakened by the war of 1898) and France, i.e., a feeling of latinity beyond hispanicity among many Latin American intellectuals. (4th cover : Brigitte Natanson)
Educating Ireland
Schooling and Social Change, 1700-2000
Karin Fischer & Deirdre Raftery (dirs)
Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2014, 250p.
- An engaging and comprehensive look at the Irish education system and its indelible impact on Irish society.
- Diverse range of topics discussed such as the education system’s ties to a tense relationship between Church and State.
- From the 17th to the 20th century, this book gives an illuminating account of the evolution of the national system, as well as the relevance of unique Irish institutions, such as the hedge schools.
This significant and timely study traces the relationship between education and social change in Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, marking the effects of the successes and failures of educational policy on the conditions of Irish society. Incisively written by a leading group of contributors, this text is both sweeping and thorough in accounting for the various manifestations of education in Ireland from the 17th century onwards. The book’s material measures how the education system altered the times as well as how it changed with them. Combining scholarly rigour and lively analysis, this material is presented in a manner that is varied yet thematically unified – it is a narrative concerning Irish education history that highlights a number of specifically Irish developments, while other trends find their place within the wider perspective of historical developments across Europe.
Texts by Jane Martin, Deirdre Raftery, Antonia McManus, Christine Lennon, Christopher McCormack, Eilis O’Sullivan, Tony Lyons, Clara Cullen, Catherine Nowlan-Roebuck, Martina Relihan, Brian McCarthy, Marie Clarke, Karin Fischer.
Book presented to the public by the President of University College, Dublin, Professor Andrew J. Deeks, at the annual conference of the History of Education Society (UK) on November 22, 2014.
https://irishacademicpress.ie/product/educating-ireland-schooling-and-social-change-1700-2000/
Luis Antonio de Villena dans ses essais et sa poésie (1971-2007)
Une culture de vie contre une culture de mort
Françoise Morcillo
Palinure collection edited by Daniel-Henri Pageaux, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2014, 384p., ISBN 978-2-343-00706-9, 36 €.
In this volume, Françoise Morcillo provides a precise analysis of the cultural and literary materials that nourished and underpinned Luis Antonio de Villena's poetic creation. She shows how the writer, who turned twenty in 1971, i.e. still under Francoism, experienced several types of dissidence, dreams of exile in France, the violent rejection of the Spanish bourgeoisie and a certain type of Catholicism, to freely choose to travel between foreign cultures, without forgetting Spanish literature, in particular that of the Golden Age, by writing poetry, translating poets (Callimaque, Joachim Du Bellay... ), composing artists biographies (Oscar Wilde, Constantin Cavafis, etc.), always linked to poetry in one way or another. The author highlights what Villena had sought out and found in these artists, and how he extracted forms from them to write poems in which he brings the creators' voices to life through his own voice, thus in a resolutely contemporary language. The result is a vast intertextual weave, as rich as it is contrasting, at times vertiginous. We see how a “contemporary humanism” is forged, how a verse by Fray Luis de León leads to becoming an “aristocrat of the word”, how reading Cavafis leads to the praise of paganism, to the presence of the street in poetry and to the amorous celebration of the male body, how Oscar Wilde, the elegant libertine, plays an ethical rather than a formal role here. Particular attention is paid to the bending of rules in the “dissident” sonnets of Villena, translator of the sonnets of Du Bellay and Michelangelo. A reception of Villena's work transmitted in a privileged relationship with the reader, celebrating the Barthian grain of voice. (4th cover Marie-Claire ZIMMERMANN)
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