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It is not exactly known how many women dared to write literature in Argentina during the second half of the nineteenth century. It is highly probable there were more than those registered in literary histories. While the more progressive intellectuals promoted a type of literature that would contribute to the progress of this young nation, that is, a literature useful and moral to educate both men and women, social prejudice against novels and women writers was renewed. Women who published stand out for having trespassed those barriers, for their deep need to write, to express their opinions and fantasies, and also for wanting to be acknowledged as writers. This paper presents two of the most forgotten ones: Margarita Rufina Ochagavía, author of "An angel and a demon, or The value of a promise" (Un ángel y un demonio, o El valor de un juramento; 1857), and M. Sasor (Mercedes Rosas de Rivera), author of "María de Montiel: a Contemporary Novel" (María de Montiel: Novela contemporánea; 1861) and "Emma or a Proscript's Daughter" (Emma o La hija de un proscripto; 1863), respectively. In particular, this paper examines the idea of novel they have, the readings they have done, the description of Argentine society present in their plots, and the ideological contents defended by both women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is not exactly known how many women dared to write literature in Argentina during the second half of the nineteenth century. It is highly probable there were more than those registered in literary histories. While the more progressive intellectuals promoted a type of literature that would contribute to the progress of this young nation, that is, a literature useful and moral to educate both men and women, social prejudice against novels and women writers was renewed. Women who published stand out for having trespassed those barriers, for their deep need to write, to express their opinions and fantasies, and also for wanting to be acknowledged as writers. This paper presents two of the most forgotten ones: Margarita Rufina Ochagavía, author of "An agel and a demon, or The value of a promise" (Un ángel y un demonio, o El valor de un juramento; 1857), and M. Sasor (Mercedes Rosas de Rivera), author of "María de Montiel: a Contemporary Novel" ( María de Montiel: Novela contemporánea; 1861) and "Emma or a Proscript's Daughter" (Emma o La hija de un proscripto; 1863), respectively. In particular, this paper examines the idea of novel they have, the readings they have done, the description of Argentine society present in their plots, and the ideological contents defended by both women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1982, El Establo cooperative created Teatro del Bajo in Neuquén. From that moment on, the Rio Negro newspaper spread and legitimized the action of the theatre group under a section called Culture and Entertainment. The corpus analyzed in this article includes all the notes about Teatro del Bajo published in the mentioned paper between 1982 and 1983, in the months before and during the democratic transition period. Some interviews to actors and actresses who were part of Teatro del Bajo are added to complement the analysis. The objective is to determine what representations of Teatro del Bajo were spread by the Río Negro newspaper, and how they affected the readers' imagination in the cultural context that cities in the Alto Valle (an Argentine region that covers the East of Neuquén Province and the North-West of Río Negro Province) experienced during the years under study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of Western theatre provides several examples of authorship disputes among producers of theatrical works. The present paper is aimed at analyzing some arguments derived from the linkage between theatre and literature, particularly, the problematic relation between theatre producers and playwrights. To do so, we have selected the play 3x3 by the school Manojo de Calles from Tucumán. Such a production will allow us to review Enrique Buenaventura and Jacqueline Vidal's Nuevo Teatro writings from a poststructuralist perspective supported by Jacques Derrida's readings on Antonin Artaud's "Teatro de la Crueldad." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of Western theatre provides several examples of authorship disputes among producers of theatrical works. The present paper is aimed at analyzing some arguments derived from the linkage between theatre and literature, particularly, the problematic relation between theatre producers and playwrights. To do so, we have selected the play 3x3 by the school Manojo de Calles from Tucumán. Such a production will allow us to review Enrique Buenaventura and Jacqueline Vidal's Nuevo Teatro writings from a post-structuralist perspective supported by Jacques Derrida's readings on Antonin Artaud's "Teatro de la Crueldad." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article cross-examines an aspect that characterizes the Argentine literary avant-garde of 1920's: the attempt of making a great divide between Art and other practices, an effort that had previously emerged in Modernism by the turn of the century. In this paper, I will inquire about the elements which contributed to strengthen that division and, in that way, confirmed the existence of a literary space imagined as autonomous. Thus, I will examine the nature of the contributions to a discourse about Art, which in this context is understood as a self-ruling realm wholly devoted to formal interests. Also, attention will be given to the delimitation of literary boundaries. Consideration of the production of the contemporary Spanish intellectual, José Ortega y Gasset, will be crucial as his writings and lectures were very well-known at that time in Argentina. It is well known Ortega y Gasset's strong influence over young Argentine intellectuals in 1910's as well as his close friendship with Victoria Ocampo in the 1930's, but little is known about his role and influence on the Argentine intellectual scenario in the 1920's. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between José Ingenieros's cases and biographical narrative procedures. The cases were derived from medical histories and were published in Criminología and other books. Biographies were textual models privileged by positivist historians. One thing in common between these cases and biographies is the exemplar and non-anonymous condition of the characters. That phenomenon is closely related to medical professional performance, expanded to other intellectual realms thanks to dominant cientificismo. This situation led doctors to interpret political and social history. Moreover, some physicians' professional biographies could be read in the cases because an autobiographical intention has penetrated the apparently neutral and objective medical discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nueva Visión is now considered one of the first editions on Graphic Design written in Argentina. His paper focuses on such a publication's main articles and ideas --particularly those by Tomás Maldonado--, which propose a new understanding of the magazine's original views on Design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rise of the novel in Argentina was closely related to the Buenos Aires's press. On the one hand, newspapers became tools to shape the public opinion; on the other hand, they developed into fields where the novel was used to explore the processes of social changes. This paper has been dedicated to the analysis of the South American newspaper (1884-1892) and its serials, as far as its communicational strategies that joined every section may concern. At the same time, it has been written to investigate the use of the novel as a political instrument to reinforce the newspaper's propaganda. At first, it describes the Argentine press modernization process during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Then, it provides details about the mayor features of South America regarding its treatment of political news. Finally, it considers some of the novels published in it, particularly Fruto vedado by Paul Groussac, focusing on its enunciation frames in order to establish links with other political messages of the newspaper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The starting point of our investigation is the hypothesis that the non-standard Patagonian variety is made up not only of phonological, grammatical and lexical features, but also of oral interaction patterns which are essentially different from those used in urban societies. Therefore the purpose of this paper is to investigate everyday conversations from a socio-pragmatic approach, in order to give account of the relationship between this form of verbal exchange and the socio-cultural context where its production occurs. Our analysis is based on data collected during a field research carried on in two Mapuche-Tehuelche communities of the province of Chubut, in the Argentine Patagonia: Blancuntre and Cerro Centinela. Recorded spontaneous dialogues and personal interviews form the Corpus of analysis. The study focuses on the following structural constituents of conversation: pauses, silences and redundancy, within the frame of a theoretical pattern that allows us to identify a group of socio-demographic variables, which constraints the interacting behavior of the members of the investigated communities. The analysis of the collected corpus shows the relationship between conversational structures and strategies; and the Amerindian culture, where the interaction develops. The conclusion is that cultural diversity clearly emerges from the pragmatic level of language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Derivative morphology plays a relevant role in Spanish word formation. As a matter of fact, diminutives are particularly productive in American dialects. In this paper we analyze the formal and functional mechanisms of diminutive suffixes used in the Spanish-speaking community of Santa Rosa, La Pampa (Argentina). Formally, we observed that allomorph -ito/a, sometimes doubled in -itito/a, was the only device found in the corpus. Functionally, we distinguished diverse values in order of frequency: the conceptual, augmentative, depreciative, and ironic usage of diminutives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we deal with the nominal deverbative mechanisms in toba (Guaycuruan family, Argentina). The data comes from a ten hours narrative corpus and the lexical items published in Alberto Buckwalter's Vocabulario Toba (1980). We present the affixes that enable the derivation of words connected with actions or states and the agentive, instrumental, locative, objective and resultative nouns. We also study the grammatical gender selected by each affix, showing that the choice is morphologically controlled. Finally, from a dynamic-synchronic perspective, we hypothesize that the resultative affix could be considered as an evidence of the creation of a passive diathesis in this Amerindian language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The debate about the definition of some concepts such as 'popular' and 'mass' culture and the value judgments passed on them has been present throughout the Twentieth Century and has occupied mainly the intellectual thought. It seemed as if the cultivated people of the times perceived those terms as threatening manifestations to their traditional universe. With the purpose of giving a brief account of the landmarks in the history of this cultural phenomenon and attempting to define some delimitative categories to establish constellations of sense, the present work will center upon Ana María Amar Sánchez's thesis (2000). According to her, a corpus of texts belonging to Latin American literature proceeded to the appropriation of mass cultural aspects, while in that very same operation, it separated from it. According to Amar Sánchez, this double-sided effect would have politicized those 'mass' elements and resulted in a type of atypical literature. Our paper intends to expand the corpus of authors studied by Amar Sánchez as well as the genres included in her analysis, bringing in exponents from science fiction, especially Angélica Gorodischer's works. Moreover, we will study how this storyteller from Rosario politicizes those mass contributions by crossing them with gender issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the last decades, critics from different disciplinary fields in Argentina have revised the left-winged thought. Diverse studies that appeared along the decades of 1990 and 2000 were focused on Marxist legacies and the restitution of a left culture memory. As far as literary studies are concerned, current critics have not yet accomplished the exam of the essay-writings related to the left-winged intellectuality. This research paper intends to contribute to the history of the polemic around realism in Argentina by analyzing and confronting three essays which appeared in the 1960's: Realismo y realidad en la narrativa argentina, by Juan Carlos Portantiero (1961), "La cuestión del realismo y la novela testimonial argentina", by Héctor Schmucler (published in Pasado y Presente, April-June of 1963), and "La poètica realista en Argentina", by Ariel Bignami (published in Macedonio, winter of 1970). The present work aspires to show the way in which the authors move towards the essay genre in its condition of discursive practice that combines the approach of literature with the sociological perspective, and the cultural production analysis with the will of revising national history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]