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Who’s Afraid of the Black Fantastic?
Authors: Crawford Margo Natalie
Published: January 2018

This chapter uncovers the overcoming of the binary of surface and depth in the Black Arts Movement mobilization of the substance of style. Crawford shows that when we put the visual and literary art of the Black Arts Movement and the 21st century together, we can see the often unrecognized use of surface as surface (in both movements). This chapter argues that black post-blackness teaches us that the external must stop being pathologized and depth must stop being celebrated as the rejection of play and performance. This chapter analyzes the art and performances of Erykah Badu, Nikki Giovanni, Diana Ross, Haki Madhubuti, Glenn Ligon, Mingering Mike, and others.
Poetic Tension
Authors: Antliff Allan
Published: January 2018

This essay examines the politics of New York's Living Theater, from its founding in late 1940s to the mid-1960s. He will outline Julian Beck and Judith Malina's anarchist-pacifism, their involvement in anti-nuclear bomb protests during the 1950s and early 1960s, and the increasingly confrontational tenor of their theater productions. Topics to be discussed include the abstract expressionist paintings of Beck, Malina's interest in the Gestalt theories of Paul Goodman, and the group's collaborations with composer John Cage, poet Jackson Mac Low, and the artists of the No! Art! movement. The chapter will close with group's departure for Europe in1964.
Gordon Matta-Clark’s Anarchitecture
Authors: Wallace Erin
Published: January 2018

Gordon Matta-Clark’s ‘anarchitecture’ applied anarchist strategies of mutual-aid, direct action, and critiques of property to urban spaces in a bid to destabilize the top-down procedures of architecture and urban renewal. This chapter challenges scholarship's predominantly biographical approach to Matta-Clark’s work with a study of Window Blowout, a pivotal work that connects Matta-Clark to social justice and artist protest actions in 1960s-70s New York. Confronting the complacency of architects, Matta-Clark shot out windows at an architecture exhibition, placing photographs of South Bronx housing—blighted with broken windows—in the casements. With this action as a focal point, I explore Matta-Clark’s challenge to mainstream perspectives on violence, urban renewal, and vandalism in the context of New York’s urban crisis.
Invasion and Occupation
Authors: Prusin Alexander
Published: January 2018

Examines German rule imposed on Serbia after the collapse in Yugoslavia in April 1941. Obsessed with the preparation for the war against the Soviet Union, Hitler relegated Serbia to a source-depot of food supplies and raw materials within the Third Reich’s political-economic space. As a hinterland for the German forces in the Balkans, Serbia became a “state of emergency,” whereby the system of governing was simplified to the direct chain of command from top to bottom for the purpose of fulfilling specific tasks. Initially, the April catastrophe facilitated the image of Germany as an invincible military power and seemingly extinguished popular will to resistance.
The Logic of “Validity”
Authors: Dastur Françoise , Vallier Robert
Published: January 2018

This chapter examines R. Hermann Lotze's interpretation of the theory of ideas and how it influenced the development of Husserlian phenomenology by offering a reading of Lotze's third book of his Logic. It suggests that, although he had assimilated Lotze's theory of validity (Geltung) and theory of ideas, Edmund Husserl proposes a theory of knowledge that is different from Lotze's. It argues that, as Martin Heidegger did in his Winter Semester 1925–1926 course, Husserl rejoins Aristotle's theory of the reciprocal opposition of the known and the knower, and thus begins to escape the impasse to which the modern notion of object leads at the level of the sixth of his Logical Investigations. For, as Heidegger claims, with the Lotzian theory of Geltung, the final stage of the decadence of the question of truth is not yet achieved.
Phenomenology and History
Authors: Dastur Françoise , Vallier Robert
Published: January 2018

This chapter examines the philosophical reflections of Wilhelm Dilthey, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger regarding the link between phenomenology and history. The philosophies of historicity developed in the climate of relativism that marked the failure of Hegelianism announce a new confrontation with G. W. F. Hegel and a new perspective on the relation of truth and history, which must not be confused with mere anthropocentrism. It is this new perspective on history that we see unfolding in the horizon opened by Husserl's phenomenology and prepared by certain aspects of “life- philosophy.” The chapter first considers Dilthey's concept of “historicity” before discussing the similarities of the Hegelian and Husserlian manners of thinking the subject of history. It also analyzes Heidegger's claim that finitude and historicity are essentially interconnected, with mortality constituting the hidden ground of the historicity of existence.
The Phenomenology of Finitude
Authors: Dastur Françoise , Vallier Robert
Published: January 2018

This chapter examines the philosophical reflections of Jan Patočka and Martin Heidegger regarding the phenomenology of finitude. It considers Patočka's reading of Heidegger by discussing three texts: the second volume of The Crisis of Meaning, which establishes a parallel between Heidegger and Tomáš Masaryk; a short manuscript entitled “Martin Heidegger, Thinker of Humanity”; and Patočka's Varna lecture from September 1973. The chapter also analyzes Patočka's own thought: the call to sacrifice as the most radical accomplishment of humanity, as the assumption of finitude, and as the revelation of effective freedom.
Worldliness and Mortality
Authors: Dastur Françoise , Vallier Robert
Published: January 2018

This chapter examines the philosophical reflections of Eugen Fink and Martin Heidegger regarding worldliness and mortality. For Fink, the problematic of finitude was inseparable from the problem of the worldliness of the world—that is, from the recognition of the non-thingly status of the world and of what he called “cosmological difference,” which is both different from and similar to Heideggerian ontological difference. Fink also developed the idea that death, along with work, the battle for domination, love, and play, properly characterize the humanity of humans. The chapter considers the difficulty of thinking the cosmological difference on the model of the ontological difference, along with Fink's argument that the relations to being and the relations to the world are not the same thing—in other words, cosmology must encompass ontology rather than the inverse.
Italy as a Laboratory for Imagi-Nation: The Citizenship Law between Inbound and Outbound Flows
Authors: Fiore Teresa
Published: January 2018

The Conclusion discusses a thorny and pressing issue in Italy: the reform of the citizenship law (n. 91) toward the inclusion of a mild jus soli that would recognize the presence of hundreds of thousands of young people who were born from immigrant parents and who have no access to citizenship until the age of 18, if not later. Three projects are the focus of this conclusion: Maria Rosa Jijon’s short video Forte e Chiaro, Fred Kuwornu’s documentary 18 Ius Soli, and the educational project “Cultural-Shock.” While all advocating for the so-called second generation, these projects adopt different styles and ideological approaches, reflecting the tension between assimilation, integration, and intercultural questioning. In attempting to define Italy as a potentially unique laboratory in matters of migration, perhaps conducive to Franco Cassano’s “imagi-nation,” the conclusion proposes to read current immigration through the experience of past migrations and colonial legacies, painful and contradictory though they may be. In lieu of sterile or nostalgic forms of national identity spurred by territorial defense and economic insecurity, Italy has the potential to use its trans-national archive to re-map its present scenario of multi-cultural social relationships.
The Rise of Prophecy: Figural Neuter, Desert of Allegory
Authors: Gallagher Lowell
Published: January 2018

Chapter two lingers on Maître François’ design, treating its suggestive ambiguity as a premonitory witness to the twentieth-century postwar turns to the Sodom archive in Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas’ delicate yet fraught philosophical conversation about the ethical aptitude of artworks. The Sodom archive’s figural suggestiveness guides Blanchot and Levinas’s shared predisposition to identify the primordial affinity of artworks with the disruptive urgency of prophecy and its figural analogue, the desert. Lot’s wife’s subliminal association with the prophecy/desert nexus becomes the site of an ecumenical settlement between Blanchot and Levinas over the captivating and dislocating aesthetic power of artworks. On this note, Maître François’ image and the late modern moment of philosophical hospitality between Blanchot and Levinas speak to each other across centuries. Through different registers of discernment, the two scenes conjure the figure of Lot’s wife as the material remains of a thinking beyond the limit of the phenomenal face of appearances and cognition, so as to give witness to the radiant and interruptive force of artworks’ worlding and unworlding dimensions.
The Vulnerability of Precious Things
Authors: Cha Yoon Sook
Published: January 2018

This chapter, a reading of “La Personne et le sacré,” asks how an ethics modelled on self-dispossession might recognize and respond to the cry of the other, specifically to his demand not to be harmed. The difficulty of such recognition is reflected in the expression of the demand, which Weil characterizes as being below semantic intelligibility and appeal. The demand nevertheless contains an ethical address in the binding character of its summons and the obligation to preserve the other from harm that ensues even when that demand entails one’s own subject dislocation and impels one toward impersonal being. Drawing upon the model of ecstatic relationality offered by Judith Butler and Emmanuel Levinas, this chapter considers how the other’s claim upon oneself propels us towards an ethical relationality based on subject displacement and vulnerability, asking how self-dispossession might be a passage to the other.
Formative Years
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: January 2018

Jean-Luc Nancy describes how he initially became interested in philosophy. He discusses his strange curiosities as a young person, his childhood in France and Germany during and after the war, his Christian activist youth, his creative years writing poetry and doing theater, his experience of 1968, and his first encounters with Heidegger and Derrida.
People and Democracy
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: January 2018

Nancy thinks about democracy by deconstructing the notion of a “people.” Nancy then suggests that a true notion of a “people” would depend on a people’s ability to make new declarations for itself and about itself—ones that have no ties to a superior authority or to outworn traditions.
Political Affects
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: January 2018

Nancy considers the necessary role that affects play for political cohesion or common belonging. Nancy discusses the role of love in the Christianity, Machiavelli, and the French Revolution, as well as in the work of Blanchot, Duras, and Bataille.
Whither Partition?
Authors: Yusin Jennifer
Published: January 2018

This division constructs a dialogue between the materiality of trauma and the postcolonial condition through a sustained focus on the establishment of new geographical borders during the 1947 Partition of British India. The border is treated as an assigned place without proper destination. The chapter pays particular attention to the ways in which the temporality and formation of forms of nation during the Partition situate the living being and subject as the center of interaction to the extent it challenges the western tradition’s ideological tendency to assume life as irremediably divided between its symbolic and empirical, material aspects. The case of the Partition makes clear that the event as it is governed by the axiological principle of the “always already” in the psychoanalytic conception of trauma is overcome by the emergence of partition as another regime of events that asserts a coincidence between the material and symbolic domains of life.
Introduction: Marriage and the Body of Christ
Authors: Stockton Will
Published: January 2018

This introduction begins with a brief survey of Reformation contests over the sacramental status of marriages. It discusses the different models of marriage on offer in the Bible, and argues that Shakespeare’s plays reflect these different models. It also sets this book’s Christian critique of monogamy against the backdrop of recent moves to legalize gay marriage.
Paul in Ephesus: Self and Sexual Difference in The Comedy of Errors
Authors: Stockton Will
Published: January 2018

This chapter read The Comedy of Errors as a materialist farce that reduces all persons, in language of Ephesians 5, to bodies. In Shakespeare’s Ephesus, the fiction of indistinguishable twins couples with the commodification of personhood to deprive its characters of interiority. The body of Christ, this play summarily suggests, is nothing more than body; it is flesh without inwardness, an outside without an inside. Yet to what degree does the body admit differences in sex and status among its members? To answer this question, this chapter looks to Ephesians 5:28, where Paul enjoins husbands “to love their wives, as their own bodies.” The instruction echoes with a difference the commandment to love one’s neighbour as oneself. In both first-century and Renaissance contexts, the translation of neighbour to body aids in the one-sex disappearance of the female within a male body that is both the husband’s and Christ’s. Shakespeare’s materialist farce nonetheless invites us to read for the return of the repressed neighbour as the undomesticated dimension of the marital self.
Introduction: Genre Trouble
Authors: Longo F. Dominic
Published: January 2018

The question at the heart of this inquiry regards the theological significance of the queer literary genre of Qushayrī’s Grammar of Hearts and Gerson’s Moralized Grammar. While other writings intermix the spiritual and the grammatical or the religious and the linguistic, the genre of “spiritual grammar” is based on the metaphor of the self embedded in the grammatical structures of spiritual reality. Through their distinctive mélange of grammatical and religious genres, these two texts blatantly violate what Derrida calls “the law of genre.” The non-invisibility of their genre makes their stage unmissable, their performance unmistakable, and calls into question the genres of theology and the genders of Christian and Muslim believers—frames of knowledge and being that are commonly transparent and invisible. The space created by the genre of “spiritual grammar” is a place for the reader to become a certain kind of person, in a certain kind of world.
My Path
Authors: Marion Jean-Luc
Published: January 2018

This chapter explains Marion’s intellectual, cultural, and religious background and academic pathway. It provides an account of French intellectual life in the late twentieth century, including the student revolutions and the movement of the “New Philosophers.” It also discusses the contribution of several prominent French intellectuals. Marion outlines the history of the founding of the Catholic lay journal Communio and comments on the importance of several twentieth-century theologians. He also discusses the French academic system and its future.
Theology
Authors: Marion Jean-Luc
Published: January 2018

This chapter explains the distinction between the notion of the idol and that of the icon. It evaluates the significance and meaning of the “death of God,” as announced by Nietzsche. Marion shows how and why God is beyond being and highlights the importance of the language of love. He provides a philosophical account of the erotic relation and the flesh. He also responds to the accusation of the theological turn and explains the context of this debate.
The Guiding Thread (on Philosophical Reading)
Authors: Bennington Geoffrey
Published: January 2018

A reflection on the status of reading in philosophy, in dialogue with Kant (reading Plato) and Heidegger (reading Kant). Philosophy calls for reading insofar as it is not mathematics, and cannot be understood essentially in terms of history. The motif of the guiding thread is a very seductive figure for reading philosophical texts, but that figure itself leads to an inevitable dispersion that is practised here and that cannot be grasped by philosophy as such.
Radical Nature
Authors: Bennington Geoffrey
Published: January 2018

The persistence of the frontier (and therefore nature, violence and evil) leads to the question of the relation in Kant between politics and morality. Kant’s famous distinction between political moralist and moral politician is shown to deconstruct in the very effort Kant makes to secure it. This has important implications for how we think about revolution and the relation of the philosopher to the state.
Finis
Authors: Bennington Geoffrey
Published: January 2018

The situation we have found in Kant might seem to be just what is understood and sublated by Hegel’s account of these same issues. But Hegel’s resolution of the problem of the frontier is shown to contain an unwarranted dogmatic element that prevents convincing sublation of the violent natural dispersion we have shown to be a consequence of thinking through the problem of the frontier.
In the Garden
Authors: Holt Elizabeth M.
Published: January 2018

Numerous new periodicals joined Beirut’s lone newspaper Ḥadīqat al-Akhbār (The Garden of News) beginning in 1870. After a decade of increasing returns from silk, readers were invited to imagine Beirut and its new journals as so many gardens of culture, economics and useful news: the gardens of Al-Jinān, the Paradise-like Al-Jannah, or the smaller still garden of Al-Junaynah; the flower of Al-Zahrah; the bee of Al-Naḥlah; joined later in the decade by the choice clippings of Al-Muqtaṭaf, and the fruitful arts of Thamarāt al-Funūn. Reworking a far older adab and poetic tradition of figuring knowledge as the product of idyllic gardens, the Beirut press’s editors and authors cultivated a utopian fiction of the garden as site of what Zaydān would later call the Nahḍah. As in Eden, the garden is always threatened with a fall, and both Salīm al-Bustānī’s novel Al-Huyām fī jinān al-Shām (Love in the Gardens of Damascus) and Yūsuf al-Shalfūn’s novel Al-Shābb al- maghrūr (The Conceited Youth; serialized simultaneously over the course of 1870 in Al-Jinān and Al-Zahrah, respectively), deliver that story.
Cerebralizing Distress
Authors: Vidal Fernando , Ortega Francisco
Published: January 2018

The chapter explores the cerebralization of psychological distress. The psychopharmacological revolution took place in the 1950s. Later on, the nosological biologization of mental disorders received a crucial impetus when DSM III opened the way to redescribing in neurological terms disorders such as schizophrenia, autism and depression. Behaviors previously considered merely awkward, such as shyness, or seen as having a major social component, like alcoholism or obesity, have become predominantly neurological conditions. The chapter provides an overview of such a situation, as well as a more detailed examination of the cerebralization of depression, which is a particularly complex cultural and biopolitical phenomenon. It shall also explore the consequences of the cerebralizing trend for the constitution of “forms of living.” While biological psychiatry has been criticized as dehumanizing, it has also contributed to free patients and families from blame and stigma. Insofar as a problem resides within the brain, the individual bears no guilt; though organic, the disorder is externalized relatively to the person’s identity. This sustained a “neurodiversity” movement, led by high-functioning autistics who believe that their condition is not a disease to be treated and, if possible, cured, but rather a human specificity to be respected like other forms of difference.
Theophanic Materiality: Political Ecology, Inhuman Touch, and the Art of Andy Goldsworthy
Authors: Erickson Jacob J.
Published: January 2018

This chapter pursues the queerly constructive task of rethinking the strange entanglements of divinity and matter in the wake of the ecological crises of the anthropocene. Seduced simultaneously by the “land art” (especially cairns) of Andy Goldsworthy, the “new materialisms” of Karen Barad and Jane Bennett, and the theophany traditions of Christian thought, this chapter constructs a concept of “theophanic materiality,” where divine energy is entangled in the performance of indeterminate material agencies. Goldsworthy’s artistic process of collaboration with and in place helps theology think anew the fluid possibilities of creativity. That is to say, placing land art in conversation with new materialisms and theologies of creation creates at least one conceptual possibility for the queer intimacy of divinity and earth. To construct such a theology, therefore, might help to effect a reimagined political response to the exploitative systems of human power that bring about our contemporary ecological crises.
Tingles of Matter, Tangles of Theology: Bodies of the New(ish) Materialism
Authors: Keller Catherine
Published: January 2018

This chapter considers a bodily becoming neither human nor divine but entangled in both. In conversation with Karen Barad, quantum entanglement discloses the relational ontology—the “agential intra-activity”—of which every body in the universe is woven. The chapter demonstrates the proximity of Barad's to Alfred North Whitehead's responsive materiality. Here, intercarnation might have turned to intra-carnation. But then there might seem to be a single mega-body inside which all enfleshment takes place. The point, however, is that creatures, micro- or macro-, do not pre-exist their relationships. The chapter examines what kind of theology might materialize in conversation with the so-called new materialism and what sort of theology might already identify itself as a Christian materialism.
Photographs and Favelas
Authors: da Costa Bezerra Kátia
Published: January 2018

The chapter studies two photographic projects organized by groups of favela photojournalists in Rio de Janeiro. Moro na Favela (I Live in a Favela) was an itinerant exhibit that was displayed in various communities and cultural centers from 2006 to 2008, and Imagens do Povo (Images of the People), a book published in 2012, contains 102 photographs taken by 25 community photographers. The chapter examines the ways in which the photographs propose an alternative aesthetic of representation, challenging a regime of seeing through which the city has traditionally sought to recognize itself. It illustrates how the two photographic projects expose aspects that are part of the realm of daily life that are traditionally over/mislooked. The chapter also addresses briefly the spaces of circulation of the two cultural productions.
Monuments and Consumption
Authors: da Costa Bezerra Kátia
Published: January 2018

The chapter focuses on the design and decoration of Complexo do Alemão cable car stations and interviews of architects and state officials involved with the project. It also considers the photographic project Inside Out Providência and two videos in order to explore some of the contradictions and conflicts that lie behind the Complexo do Alemão and Wonder Port projects. The chapter discusses the ways cable car stations attempt to reframe the relationship between space, tourism, and the process of aestheticization of favelas. It considers the centrality of favelas in the marketing and branding of the city as a strategy to attract external investors and tourists. It also demonstrates how urban interventions are part of a process of commodification and social/racial cleansing.
Connecticut, Illinois, and Wisconsin React to the New York City Draft Riots
Authors: Keating Ryan W.
Published: January 2018

The relationship between Irish Americans and the Democratic Party is well documented and widely accepted. The men who served in these units were staunchly allied with that political party. Democratic rhetoric that appeared in local periodicals most often reflected local community issues and attitudes, which were inclusive of the immigrant population. Historians have stressed the decline of Irish American support for the war, most notably after the summer of 1863, and most visibly through the Draft Riots in New York City in July 1863. In shifting the historical perspective towards analysis of local community the extent of loyalty and dissent on the Irish American home front can be more appropriately judged. Although many Democrats questioned the legality of major political decisions such as emancipation and the draft, there was no support in these areas for the rioters in the summer of 1863 and local responses to the events in New York City illuminate how Irish-Americans understood their relationship to their adopted nation and the ways that observers understood the place of these immigrants within their local communities.
Encouraging Coreligionists in the Academy
Authors: Rademacher Nicholas K.
Published: January 2018

Furfey pursued an intellectual apostolate according to which he advanced social justice in theory and practice through his scholarship and correspondence. In the mid-1930’s Furfey concentrated on developing and articulating a specifically Catholic response to social problems. He revised his objective, concentrating on developing a Catholic technique and corresponding foundational Catholic motivation to address social problems. Furfey advanced and defended his position in print, writing several books and many articles on the topic, and through voluminous correspondence with leading Catholic intellectuals in the United States. Il Poverello House and Fides House represented his and his colleagues’ attempt to develop a social reform technique that was both thoroughly Catholic and rigorously scientific. He received support and cooperation from his colleagues at CUA and in the broader Catholic community. A rift emerged at his home institution. Mary Elizabeth Walsh most prominently supported and advanced supernatural sociology while Gladys Sellew wavered, expressing distress and dissatisfaction with respect to the meaning and application of supernatural sociology. The chapter also considers the challenges to Furfey’s theological society levelled by Raymond McGowan, Wilfred Parsons, and John Courtney Murray.
Student Preferences and Expectations: Some Practical Tips for Designers of English Enhancement Programmes
Authors: Yeung Marine , Li Tilo
Published: January 2018

As one of the essential skills for success in work and studies, English communication is often made a key component in the GE curriculum of tertiary study programmes. In addition to the provision of required English proficiency courses, many tertiary institutions have established English centres of some description to promote English learning on campus. Yet from students’ perspective, what kinds of programmes and activities should be offered, and how they feel about these initiatives is not very widely discussed in the existing literature.This paper aims to address these questions with practical experiences gained from a project to establish an English language enhancement centre by one self-financing tertiary institution in Hong Kong. Funded by the Quality Enhancement Support Scheme (QESS), the centre, titled the Centre for Academic and Professional Language Enhancement (CAPLE), was set up in March 2016. Cognizant of the benefits of life-wide learning, independent learning and collaborative peer learning, CAPLE offers a series of workshops and various kinds of English and culture learning activities that adopt these pedagogical approaches.Centre usage figures and user feedback were continuously collected for evaluative purposes. Data collected through student diaries, online surveys, usage records of the online programmes and other resources and a focus group interview showed varying levels of popularity of different types of workshops/activities, suggesting there is a need for programme designers to have a more realistic view about students’ actual English learning needs and learning motivation. Recommendations are made accordingly for more economical use of resources.
Introduction. The passable trails of ELE: contributions to research and assessment
Authors: García Rodríguez Joseph , Igarreta Fernández Alba
Published: January 2018

Los trabajos que componen este número se proponen ofrecer nuevas aportaciones en distintos ámbitos del ELE. Las reflexiones y conclusiones extraídas por los distintos autores abren nuevas líneas de investigación que permitirán profundizar y mejorar diversos aspectos de la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera. Asimismo, esperamos que las contribuciones que se presentan permitan, tanto a profesores como a evaluadores de las pruebas, analizar su labor profesional con el fin de dar respuesta a las necesidades que presentan los estudiantes extranjeros.
Selección y diseño de tareas e ítems en las pruebas del SIELE
Authors: Soria Inés , Duque Aurora , Fruns Javier , López Francisco
Published: January 2018

La Unidad de Certificación Lingüística del Instituto Cervantes ha participado en el diseño del SIELE,  Servicio Internacional de Evaluación de la Lengua Española. Este artículo:- analiza las características de este nuevo sistema certificativo en contraste con los DELE;- explica los criterios que se han utilizado en el diseño de las pruebas de este examen por ordenador;- y describe el proceso de creación de tareas, en el que participan las instituciones promotoras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Universidad de Salamanca, Universidad de Buenos Aires e Instituto Cervantes, junto con Telefónica Educación Digital.
Cànon literari i ensenyament de la literatura a estudiants d'ELE: seleccions de textos i models de lectura
Authors: Plaza Velasco Marta
Published: January 2018

Este artículo se propone como principal objetivo abordar, desde una perspectiva práctica, uno de los principales problemas que se le plantean a un profesor cuando tiene que preparar un curso específico de literatura destinado a estudiantes de ELE. Se trata de la cuestión del canon literario, que se relaciona con dos tareas del profesor: la selección de los textos que los alumnos tendrán que leer y la enseñanza de los modelos de lectura tradicionales del ámbito hispánico. Además, como introducción al tratamiento de este problema, llevaremos cabo una breve reflexión teórica sobre las especificidades de la enseñanza de la literatura a estudiantes extranjeros.
Introduction to the monographic section. Literature and Spanish as a Foreign Language
Authors: Huertas Morales Antonio
Published: January 2018

Introduction to the monographic section. Literature and Spanish as a Foreign Language
Insights into electrochemical dealloying of Cu out of Au-doped Pt-alloy nanoparticles at the sub-nano-scale
Authors: Gatalo Matija , Jovanovič Primož , Ruiz-Zepeda Francisco , Pavlišič Andraž , Robba Ana , Bale Marjan , Dražić Goran , Gaberšček Miran , Hodnik Nejc
Published: January 2018

Pt alloy nanoparticles present the most probable candidate to be used as the cathode cathodic oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalyst for achieving commercialization targets of the low-temperature fuel cells. It is therefore very important to understand its activation and degradation processes. Besides the ones known from the pure Pt electrocatalysts, the dealloying phenomena possess a great threat since the leached less-noble metal can interact with the polymer membrane or even poison the electrocatalyst. In this study, we present a solution, supported by in-depth advance electrochemical characterization, on how to suppress the removal of Cu from the Pt alloy nanoparticles.
CHARACTERIZATION OF MULTICOMPONENT, TRIBOLOGICAL
AlCrTiN COATINGS, PRODUCED BY THE FILTERED CATHODIC
VACUUM ARC METHOD
Authors: BUJAK Jan , SŁOMKA Zbigniew
Published: January 2018

In this paper, the AlCrTiN coatings deposited by the cathodic arc method using a plasma filtration system have
been studied to determine the effect of the use of this technology on the structural, mechanical, and tribological
properties of these coatings. The results of the studies have revealed that using a plasma filtering system in
the cathodic arc evaporation process has a significant influence on smoothness, hardness, Young's modulus,
and plasticity of the coatings. Compared to the AlTiCrN coatings that have been deposited by the standard arc
cathodic process, the coatings produced by filtered method have very smooth surfaces as well as lowered values
of hardness, less Young's modulus, and a lower plasticity index H3/E2. Presented properties make coatings
of this type able to dissipate elastic energy that is accumulated in them during the abrasion process by plastic
deformations, which in turn, results in the reduction of the tendency to create damage in the coatings and cause
a limitation of wear rate. Improved tribological properties of the AlTiCrN coatings produced by filtered cathodic
arc technology indicate a very promising solution for a wide range of tribological applications.
MODELLING OF EMULSION PROPERTIES BASED ON THE THE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES
Authors: DRABIK Jolanta , TRZOS Magdalena
Published: January 2018

The article presents the research results of paraffin emulsion properties. The emulsions were developed for use in food packaging. The issue of modelling the rheological properties of these emulsions was presented. In the scope of the article, the analysis of the results of the impact of the production method on the variability of the rheological characteristics of emulsion is presented. In the research results, it has been shown that the use of the twofold homogenization process significantly improves the important properties due to the planned application of applying emulsion on packing paper. Modelling of this type of emulsion was carried out to describe the curves of their flow. In the modelling process, commonly used rheological equations were selected and adjusted to the results of emulsion properties tests. The following models were analysed: Bingham, Casson, and Herschel-Bulkley. The models parameters were established based the experimental data, and then the parameters of different models, for each emulsion, were compared. As a result of the rheological properties tests, it was shown that of the emulsions produced are the yielding and viscous fluids that are diluted by shear and can be described with a high accuracy by the Herschel-Bulkley model.
THE USE OF BIODEGRADABLE CUTTING FLUID FOR THIN AND HARD a-C:H AND TiAlN COATINGS
Authors: MADEJ Monika , KOWALCZYK Joanna , KULCZYCKI Andrzej , OZIMINA Dariusz
Published: January 2018

This paper presents results of tribological tests performed under lubricated friction conditions using a T-01M analyser. The lubricant was biodegradable cutting fluid containing a special-purpose additive – zinc aspartate. The discs for the ball-on-disc configuration were made of HS6-5-2C steel. The study involved testing coated and uncoated steel specimens. The a-C:H and TiAlN coatings were produced using physical vapour deposition (PVD). The structure of the coatings was analysed before and after the tribological tests with a JSM-7100F scanning electron microscope. The coating hardness was measured using a CSM Instruments nano-hardness tester (NHT). The coating surface texture of the coated and uncoated discs was determined by means of a Talysurf CCI Lite profilometer. The thin boundary films that formed in the friction area prevented the surfaces from coming into direct contact. The films improved the motion resistance and provided anticorrosive protection during the tests. The biodegradable cutting fluid used in the study had no negative effect on the environment.
Karnak’s Quaysides: The Embankments from the New Kingdom to the Kushito-Saite Period
Authors: Boraik Mansour
Published: January 2018

This chapter focuses on the Kushite sacred landscape and Twenty-fifth Dynasty finds at Karnak. It is based on the results of archaeological excavations undertaken by a team from the Supreme Council of Antiquities directed by the author in the western and southern parts of the Karnak temple complex. The chapter examines textual, iconographical, and archaeological sources that provide evidence of important movements of the Nile during the New Kingdom until the abandonment of the site. The excavations revealed a great embankment at least 6.5 meters high, roughly running on a north–south axis, parallel to the Nile. It was built of rough-cut blocks of sandstone and connected with two quays constructed in front of the temple. Based on the evidence, the chapter draws hypotheses as to the historical evolution of the embankments in front of the temple from the New Kingdom to the Kushito-Saite period.
Remarks on the Architecture of the Lichthof in TT 223, Karakhamun
Authors: Eigner Dieter
Published: January 2018

This chapter discusses the architecture of the Lichthof in the tomb of Karakhamun and its symbolic meaning. The term “Lichthof” refers to a sunken courtyard below surface level in the Late Period tombs of the Theban necropolis. These courts form a prominent and essential element of architecture in the monumental “temple-tombs” of the Kushite and Saite periods. In general, the architectural design of the Lichthof consists of two pillared porticos, on the north and south side of the court respectively. The Lichthof served as a stage for rituals in honor of the deceased and for the cult of Re-Osiris. The chapter describes the Lichthof in the tomb of Karakhamun and explains the meaning of pr-nw chapels in Karakhamun's court. It also examines the two courts of Mentuemhat's tomb palace and suggests that the architecture of the tomb courts of Karakhamun and Mentuemhat transfers the two-dimensional iconography into a monumental three-dimensional rendition of the abode of Osiris in the netherworld.
Palaeography of the Texts of the Burial Chamber of the Tomb of Karakhamun
Authors: Polo Miguel Ángel Molinero
Published: January 2018

This chapter discusses the palaeography of the religious texts of the burial chamber of the tomb of Karakhamun. About 1,100 hieroglyphs on the walls and 300 hieroglyphs on the astronomical ceiling of Karakhamun's tomb have been identified. The ensemble of texts in the chamber is small and it has a quite restricted scope: the name of the deceased and only one of his titles, the identification of the asterisms and their related deities on the astronomical ceiling, and two parts of a spell of the Book of the Dead, BD 125B and BD 125C, beside the legends of the justification scene represented on the east wall. The chapter describes the current state of the reconstruction of the texts on the walls of Karakhamun's tomb and offers a palaeographic commentary of the preserved hieroglyphic signs of the chamber.
Material from a Possible Industrial Area in the Tomb of Karakhamun (TT 223)1
Authors: Nicholson Paul T.
Published: January 2018

This chapter considers the possibility of faience production in the tomb of Karakhamun. The tomb of Karakhamun is comprised of a dromos, vestibule, solar court, two pillared halls, and an antechamber leading to the burial chamber itself. In the first of these pillared halls, excavations in 2009 revealed extensive areas of burning all around the courtyard and a concentration of concreted bones along the southern side of the courtyard. Analysis of the bones showed that they belong almost exclusively to cattle. Some of the animal bones are blue, often in quite intense shades. This is probably due to the natural effect of burning bones. The chapter asks whether the presence of calcined bones, slag, and occasional faience beads implies that some form of industrial activity had taken place at the site. It also describes the workshop of “Abud” Mohammed Hasan at Qurna.
Pottery from the Tombs of Karakhamun and Karabasken
Authors: Budka Julia
Published: January 2018

This chapter examines the pottery found in the tombs of the South Asasif necropolis and its ritual function. A second season of the recording of the pottery from the tomb of Karakhamun was undertaken in late 2012. The main aims of the 2012 season were to sample the newly excavated material from the front areas of the tomb and to establish a dating of these ceramics. Another goal was to enlarge the corpus of recorded and drawn pottery. The focus of work on the ceramic material from Karakhamun's tomb was on Ptolemaic pottery unearthed during the excavation of the courtyard in 2012. The chapter also analyzes the pottery in the tomb of Karakhamun and the tomb of Karabasken during the 2014 season.
Faunal Remains in the Tomb Karabasken (TT 391)
Authors: Ikrame Salima
Published: January 2018

This chapter examines the faunal remains unearthed in the tomb of Karabasken. The Pillared Hall of the tomb chapel of Karabasken yielded a dense deposit of 875 bones that showed signs of some degree of weathering and erosion, possibly because of flood and wind activities, combined with sand and soil abrasion. In addition to bones, date pits, cow and ovicaprid dung, and vegetal material were found. The entire deposit of animal bones in the Pillared Hall of Karabasken's tomb can be estimated to consist of at least 2,900 cattle and 580 ovicaprids. None of the bones bore butchery marks. The bones might be the result of years of religious feasts and celebrations that involved the slaughter of cattle, such as the two annual Eids, the birth of children, and funerals. Nevertheless, the absence of butchery marks, together with the presence of all the bones, is puzzling.
John of Barullos (540–615)
Authors: Kyrillos Bishop
Published: January 2018

There are many notable leaders in the annals of Coptic history whose names are well known. John of Barullos, however, is not one of them. The Synaxarium entry for 19 Kiyahk mentions only that John was the bishop of Barullos, and author of some articles. This chapter examines the history of John of Barullos (sixth–seventh century) and the writings attributed to him. John was one of the most significant Coptic theologians of his time. He used all available means to root out various heresies—delivering homilies, writing articles, or visiting monasteries to burn the heretical books he found there. He even journeyed abroad to Syria for about four months to resolve the dogmatic controversy between Pope Damian of Alexandria (570–607) and Peter of Callinicum (also known as Peter III of Raqqa [Taylor 2006: 15n1], or Petrus of Antioch).
Saint Mina Monastery in Arabic Sources
Authors: El Gendi Sherin Sadek
Published: January 2018

This chapter focuses on an important monastic site in the region, the St. Mina Monastery. It begins with a short historical introduction to St. Mina, the meaning of his name, his feasts, and his monasteries and churches in Mareotis west of Alexandria, in Fumm al-Khalig, in the Delta, and in Upper Egypt according to the Arabic sources. St. Mina the Egyptian, or the Miracle Worker, is one of the most important Coptic saints in Egypt from the Roman period. His monuments are visited by a large number of believers, and a large artistic collection, discovered in his monastery in Mareotis, is displayed in Coptic monasteries, Coptic churches, the Coptic Museum in Cairo, and other international archaeological museums.
The Traditions of the Holy Family and the Development of Christianity in the Nile Delta
Authors: Sadek Ashraf Alexandre
Published: January 2018

After traveling through the Sinai, the Holy Family, according to tradition, walked from east to west through the Nile Delta. The various written and oral traditions mention eight place names associated with this journey in the Delta: Tell Basta, Musturud/Mahamma, Bilbeis, Daqadus, Samannud, Burullus (St. Damiana), Sakha (Bikha Issous), and Wadi al-Natrun. This chapter examines whether the memory of the coming of the Holy Family has had an impact on the development of Christian life in the Nile Delta. To this end, it draws for each site a parallel between the traditions of the Holy Family and the history of Christian communities on this site; this should enable us to measure, to some extent, the impact of the Holy Family traditions on the history of the Christian Church in the Nile Delta.
The Other Abusir
Authors: Verner Miroslav
Published: January 2018

This chapter discusses the change in how scholars view Abusir, in part due to the discovery of a cemetery with shaft tombs dating from the end of the Twenty-sixth and the beginning of the Twenty-seventh Dynasty—that is, from the end of what is known as the Saite Period and the beginning of the first period of Persian domination over Egypt. Until recently, Egyptologists and archaeologists looked at Abusir in a distinctly one-sided way. Thanks to the pyramids built in Abusir by the pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty, the village was regarded as a relatively short-lived royal cemetery belonging exclusively to that period. The chapter first describes the archaeological excavations made by a Czech team in the newly discovered cemetery with shaft tombs in Abusir before examining the mystery surrounding Wedjahorresnet's funerary monument in Abusir. It also considers two shaft tombs, one belonging to Iufaa and the other to Menekhibnekau.
The State Railways
Authors: Simaika Samir , Henein Nevine
Published: January 2018

This chapter focuses on Marcus Simaika's career in the Egyptian State Railways. When Simaika graduated in 1882, Egypt was under British occupation. Gross financial mismanagement, first by the viceroy, Said Pasha, and to a far greater extent by his nephew and successor, Ismaʻil Pasha, had put Egypt on its way to bankruptcy. After conducting an investigation, the British government implemented a number of measures that led to widespread nationalistic resentment in the country, particularly within the army. Simaika first worked at a hospital in Cairo before applying as a translator in the Engineering Department of the State Railways. He eventually transferred to the Purchasing and Contracts Office. In his memoirs, Simaika recounts several incidents in which he fell prey to machinations by colleagues and superiors who resented his accomplishments. In 1906, he resigned his position of chief auditor and retired from government service at the age of forty-two.
A State Institution
Authors: Simaika Samir , Henein Nevine
Published: January 2018

This chapter discusses Marcus Simaika's role in making the Coptic Museum a state institution of Egypt. In 1920, Fuad I, ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, visited the Coptic Museum. From that moment, the king conceived the idea of making the Coptic Museum a state museum and asked Simaika to cede the museum to the government. Simaika replied that he would submit the request to Cyril V. All objects in the museum belonged to the Coptic Orthodox Church, and Simaika would not have been able to transfer them from the different monasteries and churches without ecclesiastic approval and on the condition that they be exhibited in an annex to the Muʻallaqa Church and under the care of the priest of that church. The chapter describes the annexation of the Coptic Museum by the state and its nationalization, as well as its acquisitions and collections.