Anuario de Letras Modernas

15-24

Authors: Alonso Ríos González

This essay intends to make a short review of the main aspects of medieval car-tography, especially of the maps of the world made during this period. Among the main characteristics to observe in these forms of representations of the world, one can find the lack of attention to distance and scale accuracy, as well as to the functional nature of cartography imposed by Cartesian thinking. To the contrary, medieval mappaemundi seem to efficiently exemplify the “map” definition given by Peter Jackson for whom this concept includes every graphic representation of knowledge. Finally, the reading here proposed about medieval world maps is made under the perspective of lefebvrian space theorizations, specially from the point of view proposed by the French philosopher about the role of representation in the process of the production of social space.

49-63

Authors: Gerardo Altamirano

One of the several passages in which Cervantes, in "El ingenioso hidalgo don Qui-jote de la Mancha", uses the ekphrasis as a rhetorical technique is that one in which the author describes “el primero cartapacio”; it means, a kind of antique folder on which the battle between Don Quijote and the Vizcaíno was supposedly drawn. In this paper, I try to propose this passage as one of ekphrastic nature, and, besides, I do explain some specific characteristics that it contains, such as the use of enargeia and the plays or roles of looking addressing that are proposed by the author.

85-100

Authors: Pedro Hugo Alejandrez Muñoz

According to Pierre Costabel, until the late Seventeenth Century the scientists thought that there wasn’t evolution in the Nature. In this essay, we analyze a poem of one of the most known libertines of that century: Théophile de Viau. We explore his conception of the metaphor for a new poetical expression, to provide some resources to see if it is possible to read how the time passes by and lets the Nature bloom, as a response of the poet to the science.

111-132

Authors: Berenice Ortega Villela

"La philosophie dans le boudoir" written during Sade’s twelve-year imprisonment in La Bastille, but published after his release in 1795, is one of the three novels ("La nouvelle Justine ou les infortunes de la vertu, suivie de Juliette, sa sœur" and the unfinished "Les 120 journées de Sodome") in which the Marquis expands the components of the deviant narrative world that has transcended him. In this trilogy, the concept of what has come to be known as sadism (the pleasure originated from applying vilence onto others) is developed. However, this term, although used by experts and amateurs alike to discusssadean themes, is a misnomer and problematic. This is because it not only creates a variety of prejudices about what the reader may encounter in the text, but also because it disregards the concept that the Marquis himself created to name his concept of Being (Sein) in the world: isolism, a term commonly forgotten in Sadean studies even though it is one that originates Sade’s experience in prison and has a complexity only matched by the structure of the stories that surround the concept itself. This article establishes the relation between isolism, imprisonment, and temporality based on Paul Ricœur’s ideas of triple mimesis and the structural analysis of "La philosophie dans le boudoir".

145-154

Authors: Aurora Piñeiro Carballeda

Bearing Linda Hutcheon’s ideas on the theory of adaptation in mind, the aim of this article is to analyse “Albert Nobbs” (1918 and 1927), the novella by Irish writer George Moore, as a source that triggered Simone Benmusa’s drama adaptation (in 1977) and Rodrigo García’ film adaptation (in 2011). The analysis will focus on the characterisation strategies used by each artist to create the central figure of the story, and on how the theme of gender identity acquires distinctive traits which are made possible via the skillful use of conventions particular to each medium, as well as the principles of composition each one of the artists adopted in the process of recreating the story, taking into account the chronologic and lingüistical distances involved in every new rendering.

167-182

Authors: Nair María Anaya Ferreira

Sixty years after the publication "Things Fall Apart" in 1958, Chinua Achebe’s novels continue to offer interesting perspectives of the historic conditions that gave origin to modern African society. The aim of this article is to analyze the ways in which through a complex use of intertextuality, Achebe interrogates the intercultural relationships arising from European expansion, as well as the ways in which such relations shaped the hybrid societies of today. I contend that in his novels, Achebe not only examines Nigeria’s history from the colonial era to the first years after independence, but also offers a complex metacommentary on the literary modes of representation of modern Africa.

195-214

Authors: María Elena Isibasi Pouchin

Ever since he won the Reina Sofía and Cervantes prizes, there has been a renewed interest in José Emilio Pacheco’s poetry, narrative, essays, journalism and translations. The latter, very often misunderstoood because of the ambiguity that arises because a single endeavour encompasses two different intentions, has inspired much discussion lately although there is yet no clear distinction between Pacheco the translator and Pacheco the “aproximator”, to use his own word. This essay is an effort to clarify the divide between the “traitor” and the “creator”.

235-239

Authors: Robert Browning

Texto traducido por Gabriel Linares Gonzáles.

248-250

Authors: Francisco Javier Cerón Luna

Reseña de Laura López Morales, comp., Ausencias y espejismos. Francofonía literaria. México, FCE, 2017.

253-256

Authors: Alma Delia Miranda Aguilar

Reseña de Juan de Cigorondo, Comedia a la gloriosa Magdalena. Est. introd. y ed. crítica de Alejandro Arteaga Martínez. México, Bonilla Artigas Ediciones / UACM, 2016.