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Educational Innovation to Address Complex Societal Challenges
In modern education, students and teaching methodologies face many challenges that hinder smooth development. The digital age presents students with information overload, impeding the cultivation of their critical thinking skills. Traditional language teaching methods must be revised to prepare students for the intricacies of a globalized, multilingual world. The rise in academic demands contributes to heightened stress levels among students. Despite the urgency of environmental challenges, educational systems need a cohesive focus on eco-conscious practices. The abrupt transition to virtual learning during crises has exposed challenges in adapting to and fully realizing the potential of vir...
Managing Pandemic Isolation With Literature as Therapy
"This publication helps explain the positive medical and psychological effect of literature and writing during a disease/pandemic at a time when isolation prevents people from engaging with others socially with a secondary purpose of encouraging cross-disciplinary research involving the sciences and the humanities"--
Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing Through Bibliotherapy
In a world that's constantly on the move and full of stress, finding ways to take care of our mental health can be a challenge. With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting our lives in unprecedented ways, prioritizing our mental wellbeing has become even more critical, especially for those who are older or living in suburban areas; feelings of isolation and anxiety can be overwhelming. That's why the therapeutic benefits of reading are being rediscovered and are gaining renewed attention. However, what needs to be added is a comprehensive resource that delves deeper into the therapeutic value of reading, particularly in the context of bibliotherapy. Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing Through Bib...
Chivalry, the Mediterranean, and the Crown of Aragon
Chivalry, the Mediterranean, and the Crown of Aragon constitute the threefold axis of this collection of essays. The three are at the forefront of a real struggle among civilizations that took place around the borderland surrounding the Mediterranean in the late Middle Ages, namely in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas and the Balkans. In fact, it could be said that the late medieval Mediterranean came to be defined precisely because of this struggle. Chivalry thrived in its milieu both in real and fictional terms amidst conquering kingdoms, ethical chevaliers and knight kings that helped shape the identity of the Catalan-speaking territories. This collection of articles includes the work of: Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, Abel Soler, Vicent Martines, Montserrat Piera, Gabriel Ensenyat Pujol, Ferran Garcia-Oliver, Òscar O. Santos-Sopena, Joan Molina Figueras, Vicent Josep Escartí, and Veronica Orazi. This book is number 14 in Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs' Medieval Literature Studies Series.
Medieval and Renaissance Spain and Portugal
The career of Arthur L-F. Askins is celebreated in a panorama of current scholarship on the Iberian peninsula during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This volume is dedicated to Professor Arthur L-F. Askins, whose scholarship on Spanish and Portuguese literatures of the Medieval and Renaissance periods is esteemed by colleagues around the world. Many North American and European scholars have contributed with essays of an exceptionally high scholarly quality, in English, Spanish and Portuguese, to this wide-ranging tribute, dealing with Spanish and Portuguese literary culture from the end of the fourteenth to the late sixteenth century. Some tackle problems concerning manuscripts, texts, ...
Vita coaetanea / A Contemporary Life / Vida coetánea / Vida coetània
The Vita coaetanea (A Contemporary Life) is an autobiographical account of Ramon Llull’s life dictated by himself to a friend in 1311 when he was seventy-nine years old. In it Llull reviews his works in the context of a life dedicated to God and motivated by the desire to disseminate the message of the Christian faith among the infidels. Llull, the self-labeled troubadour of books, wrote this account in part as a self-justification of his life and work, in part as self-consolation for his unending toils and travails. It is very likely that he also had in mind the Council of Vienne (1311) which he was about to attend and where he submitted petitions dealing with the establishment of adequate places to study languages for the preaching of the Gospel to every creature and the founding of a Christian military religious order that waged permanent war against the Saracens until the Holy Land is reconquered. Llull wanted to frame these petitions within a well thought-out justificatory account of his life and works that exudes passion, commitment and love for his fellow man. This volume contains the Latin original, as well as translations into Catalan, Spanish, and English.
Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance
Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance offers a broad disciplinary, linguistic, and national focus by analyzing the literary depiction of Iberia in two European vernaculars that have rarely been studied together. Emily Houlik-Ritchey employs an innovative comparative methodology that integrates the understudied Castilian literary tradition with English literature. Intentionally departing from the standard “influence and transmission” approach, Imagining Iberia challenges that standard discourse with modes drawn from Neighbor Theory to reveal and navigate the relationships among three selected medieval romance traditions. This welcome volume uncovers an overemphasis in prior scholarship on the relevance of “crusading” agendas in medieval romance, and highlights the shared investments of Christians and Muslims in Iberia’s political, creedal, cultural, and mercantile networks in the Mediterranean world.
The Story of Leander and Hero, by Joan Roís de Corella
Joan Roís de Corella is one of the most renowned authors of fifteenth-century Catalan literature. His Story of Leander and Hero uses a well-known Vergilian and Ovidian motif of unremitting love that turns into tragedy. Corella retells the story adding to it a great dose of suspense and pathos and recasts it in the fashion of sentimental prose, a genre famous at the time and a clear precedent of the great narrative genre to flourish during the Renaissance in the Iberian Peninsula and Europe: the novel.
Celebrating Flamenco's Tangled Roots
This collection of essays poses a series of questions revolving around nonsense, cacophony, queerness, race, and the dancing body. How can flamenco, as a diasporic complex of performance and communities of practice frictionally and critically bound to the complexities of Spanish history, illuminate theories of race and identity in performance? How can we posit, and argue for, genealogical relationships within and between genres across the vast expanses of the African—and Roma—diaspora? Neither are the essays presented here limited to flamenco, nor, consequently, are the responses to these questions reduced to this topic. What all the contributions here do share is the wish to come together, across disciplines and subject areas, within the academy and without, in the whirling, raucous, and messy spaces where the body is free—to celebrate its questioning, as well as the depths of the wisdom and knowledge it holds and sometimes reveals.
Second and Third Language Acquisition in Catalan-Speaking Regions
The Center for Catalan Studies (CCS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara in cooperation with Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs presents seven studies of Second and Third Language Acquisition in Catalan-Speaking Regions.
