Occupations and Prisons: Writing, Thought and Affected Spaces Apropos Patricia Heras, Marina Garcés and Mireia Sallarès

Starting from texts by poet and activist Patricia Heras, philosopher Marina Garcés, and artist Mireia Sallarès, this article will focus on the affective value of spaces in the public sphere. Heras, Garcés and Sallarès converge in an emotional appropriation of shared spaces that generates new forms of commitment to the community. Their works also constitute synergic affective atmospheres that confer value on anonymous or stigmatised subjects. Space and emotion are thus united in emotopes that, starting from individual experiences, transcend them to become incipient symbols of the transformation of a city, the resistance to the state authority or the survival of a country wounded by wars.

C. George Peale y Javier J. González Martínez (eds). Luis Vélez de Guevara: La conquista de Orán

Review of: Peale, C.G.; González Martínez, J.J. (eds) (2020). Luis Vélez de Guevara: La conquista de Orán. Newark (DE): Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 118 pp.

Marcella Uberti-Bona. Geografías del diálogo

Review of: Uberti-Bona, M. (2019). Geografías del diálogo. La traducción en la obra de Carmen Martín Gaite. Milán: Ledizioni, 227 pp.

«¿Y si empezamos por arriba a la derecha?» The Functioning of Proposals in Task-Oriented Dialogues in Spanish and Italian

Within the field of Cross-Cultural Pragmatics, the analysis on the working of the linguistic act of proposing in Spanish and Italian hasn’t attracted enough attention if compared to other acts such as, among others, requests, invitations, refusals and compliments. In this study we approach this topic starting from the hypothesis that two languages that are perceived to be close from a cultural perspective should activate similar pragmatic strategies when proposing something. Through the analysis of 16 pragmatically oriented conversations we will see that, along the lines of previous studies, Italian and Spanish speakers activate slightly different strategies when formulating a proposal despite the starting point.

Philological Glosses (VI): “Tot muda i tot roman” or “Tot roman i tot muda”? Rhythm and Rhyme in J.V. Foix

This article traces the most crucial moments in the friendship between poets J.V. Foix and Gabriel Ferrater focusing on what could be considered its culmination: the poem that Foix wrote in the summer of 1973 in Port de la Selva after the death of his friend. Particularly, the study proposes an interpretation of what Foix achieved with the changes he made, in the various versions of the text that have been preserved, in the famous two lines that close the poem. The analysis stresses its effects on rhyme, prosody and rhythm.

Javier Marías. Tomás Nevinson

Review of: Marías, J. (2021). Tomás Nevinson. Madrid: Alfaguara; Penguin Random House, 680 pp.

Revisiting the Code: The Vortical Transparency of the Space On Natália Correia’s Poetry

In this article, we intend to explore the author’s ability to transform, subvert and recreate (spatial and/or cultural) referents that the reader recognises immediately but are presented in a disconcerting manner, always implying a critical and epistemological re-evaluation. Irreverence, an indispensable engine in Natália Correia’s poetics, is interstitially insinuated in the smallest details called for, whether they be the explicit reference to places or the appropriation of different styles. In O progresso de Édipo, Sonetos Românticos or O Anjo do Ocidente à Entrada do Ferro, Epístola aos Iamitas and many other volumes, we find the same transgression of the code, the same (ir)reverence, the same complicity with the reader.

Gabriele Bizzarri. “Performar” Latinoamérica

Review of: Bizzarri, G. (2020). “Performar” Latinoamérica. Estrategias queer de representación y agenciamiento del Nuevo Mundo en la literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea. Milano: Ledizioni, 219 pp.

Olga Novo. Felizidad

Review of: Novo, O. (2020). Felizidad. Trad. de X. Abeleira Zaragoza: Olifante, 168 pp.

Marco Bechis. La solitudine del sovversivo

Review of: Bechis, M. (2021). La solitudine del sovversivo. Milano: Ugo Guanda Editore, 348 pp.