Fernando Sanz-Lazaro
@oeaw.ac.at
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Literature and Literary Theory, Language and Linguistics, Arts and Humanities
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Simon Kroll and Fernando Sanz-Lázaro
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Se analiza con un nuevo método de humanidades digitales diferentes aspectos de la obra teatral de Lope de Vega. De esta manera se presentan las nuevas herramientas escritas para analizar desde una perspectiva distante aspectos métricos de los textos. En concreto el ritmo del octosílabo resulta una marca importante que puede señalar autorías y en algunos casos también el género literario, al aplicarse distintos métodos de análisis estadístico a la diferente frecuencia de los patrones rítmicos del octosílabo. Finalmente se observa que también a nivel de los personajes de una obra (en este caso El castigo sin venganza) pueden darse diferencias en el uso de los diferentes octosílabos. La lectura distante del metro produce por tanto resultados prometedores tanto para el análisis de autorías, como para los debates de género literario y análisis de personajes concretos.
Fernando Sanz-Lázaro
Instituto de Estudios Auriseculares
Fernando Sanz-Lázaro
Instituto de Estudios Auriseculares
Picaresque novels traditionally begin with the protagonists recounting
their origin, which often includes references to their birth. This literary genre boldly
portrays the daily life of Spain in its Golden Age and, being pregnancy and childbirth
aspects inalienable from that experience, the picaro does not miss the opportunity
to give testimony about them, whether as a protagonist, observer, or a third party referring
the story. By doing this, the picaresque novel reveals the circumstances that
colluded in the childbirth of the Spanish early Modern period but, most importantly,
evidences the wide range of picaro typologies from a starting point as symbolically
laden as the birth and challenges the determinist character of the picaresque
as a genre. This article scrutinises passages from picaresque novels and related
works of the Spanish Golden Age illustrative of the obstetric experience considering
their social and anthropological aspects. As different ways of understanding the
childbirth in the Spanish Golden Age emerge from the picaresque pages, differing
conceptions of the picaro model appear in turn, some stressing predestination, the
low extraction of the protagonist, or both but also others that reject birth determinism,
in which social extraction and morality of the environment seem irrelevant and,
thus, challenge those characteristics as distinctive features of the genre
Fernando Sanz-Lázaro
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
This article analyses the intertextuality of the novel Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin, a French-Canadian take on the road novel. The aim of the paper is to examine not only the relationships between Volkswagen Blues and its culturally diverse sources, but also to show how those multicultural intertexts permeate the road novel genre. In order to achieve this purpose, the study identifies in the novel instances of intertextuality which are analyzed within Genette’s framework for transtextuality. Considering the intertextual presence in Volkswagen Blues, the analysis ponders whether it is limited to this novel or is a manifestation of Americanness and, thus, a piece of evidence of multiculturality in the hegemonic American discourse. The study shows how Poulin depicts the crucial role of non-Anglo-American identities in contemporary American culture and explains the influence of world literatures in Poulin’s work