scholarly journals El espejo y la máscara: dos versiones de Alexander Selkirk en Jorge Luis Borges y William Cowper

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
Gabriel Linares González
Keyword(s):  
Jorge Luis Borges ◽  
Robinson Crusoe ◽  
William Cowper

En 1963, Jorge Luis Borges publicó un soneto titulado “Robinson Crusoe”. Posteriormente, cambió el nombre de su composición a “Alexander Selkirk”. El presente artículo explica dicho cambio como un intento por parte de Borges por subvertir la figura icónica del náufrago emprendedor, representada no sólo por Crusoe sino por los recuentos contemporáneos del Selkirk histórico, una de las inspiraciones de Defoe. Por otro lado, se compara el poema de Borges con una de sus posibles fuentes, un texto del poeta de finales del siglo XVIII, William Cowper. Ambos poemas están escritos en una primera persona cuya voz poética se identifica con Selkirk, por lo que pueden ser estudiados como monólogos dramáticos.

The Soul's Imaginings: Daniel Defoe, William Cowper

PMLA ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 420-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Meyer Spacks
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Daniel Defoe ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Robinson Crusoe ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
William Cowper ◽  
Complex Functions ◽  
Spiritual Autobiographies ◽  
Christian Fellowship

The authors of eighteenth-century spiritual autobiographies and of their fictional imitations demonstrate the complex functions of imagination as a component of the spiritual life and of its records. Robinson Crusoe and William Cowper’s Memoir (1816) both delineate detailed sequences of emotional and imaginative development as the foundation of religious experience. Crusoe progresses to self-understanding by recognizing and mastering his own fear and anger and developing his capacity for love and by enlarging the resources of his imagination. Cowper asserts that his conversion and the Christian fellowship that followed it dominate his experience, but his account, with dark imagistic undertones, may also be read as revealing the persistence of despair. The unconscious shaping which produces this counter-pattern enriches the memoir’s implication. In novel and autobiography alike, the divergence between what the author asserts and what he suggests, reflecting varying possibilities of the imagination, can generate fruitful literary effects.

Actin filaments in two spermatozoa of crustacea decapoda

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-71
Author(s):  
E. Dupré ◽  
G. Schatten
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Actin Filaments ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Robinson Crusoe ◽  
Decapod Crustaceans ◽  
Actual Participation ◽  
Voltage Scanning ◽  
Scanning Electron

Sperm of decapod crustaceans are formed by a round or cup-shaped body, a complex acrosome and one a few appendages emerging from the main body. Although this sperm does not have motility, it has some components of the cytoskeleton like microtubules, which are found inside the appendages. Actin filaments have been found in the spike of penaeidae sperms. The actual participation of the crustacean decapod sperm cytoskeleton during fertilization is not well understood. Actin is supposed to play an active role in drawing the penaeidae shrimp sperm closer to the egg after bending of the spike. The present study was aimed at the localization of actin filaments in sperm of the Robinson Crusoe island lobster, Jasus frontalis and in the crayfish Orconectes propincus, by fluorescent probes and low voltage scanning electron microscopy.

El Determinismo en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Eduardo Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Jorge Luis Borges

Los barrios de Buenos Aires en Adrián Gorelik y Jorge Luis Borges 1900-1936

revistapuce ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inés Del Pino Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Jorge Luis Borges ◽  
Siglo Xx

El ensayo trata sobre dos textos que trabajan la historia urbana de Bue­nos Aires: La grilla y el parque escrito por Adrián Gorelik y El Buenos Aires de Borges de Carlos Alberto Zito. El primero analiza la ciudad desde la historia urbana y la cultura y el segundo reflexiona desde su propia experiencia el Buenos Aires que reinventó Borges, la ciudad en la cual na­ció y vivió y a la que siempre se refirió con afecto. El examen de los textos sugiere que el investigador académico, sensible al mensaje del lenguaje literario, puede traducirlo en la clave de la disciplina que trata sobre la historia y el espacio urbano y elaborar un concepto apropiado para la identidad de barrio en el Buenos Aires del primer tercio del siglo XX.

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