{"title":"Sounding an Idol: The Television as Imagetext in Don DeLillo’s White Noise","authors":"S. Pritchard","doi":"10.35869/afial.v0i30.3703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35869/afial.v0i30.3703","url":null,"abstract":"The response of critics to Don DeLillo’s seminal novel White Noise has centred on the connections that can be drawn between this work and the critical context that surrounded it upon its publication in 1984, namely the climate of radical scepticism ushered in by critics like Jean Baudrillard. This article attempts to argue that the relationship between the novel and this critical climate is far more antagonistic than has been acknowledged previously. Drawing upon the critic W.J.T. Mitchell’s reading of Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of the “sounding”, as opposed to the iconoclastic smashing, of idols, the article will “sound” the idol which is at the centre of DeLillo’s novel: the television. This will show the critical distance that DeLillo deliberately established between his text and the texts of postmodern theory that were fashionable throughout the later twentieth century (particularly at the time White Noise was published) and will place DeLillo in a more contemporary context, his face turned not only to the past, but to the critical horizons ahead of him.","PeriodicalId":137533,"journal":{"name":"Babel – AFIAL : Aspectos de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemá","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131554542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rao, Rajiv, editor. Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. 452 pages","authors":"Yazmin Lisseth Pinto Sánchez","doi":"10.35869/afial.v0i30.3708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35869/afial.v0i30.3708","url":null,"abstract":" ","PeriodicalId":137533,"journal":{"name":"Babel – AFIAL : Aspectos de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemá","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127592138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gardelle, Laure. Semantic Plurality: English Collective Nouns and Other Ways of Denoting Pluralities of Entities. John Benjamins, 2019. 215 pages","authors":"Yolanda Fernández Pena","doi":"10.35869/afial.v0i29.3282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35869/afial.v0i29.3282","url":null,"abstract":"This volume provides an unprecedented, comprehensive account of and consistent gradient of construal for the various means of expressing lexical-level (bunch, clothes) and discourse-built (every car) semantic plurality in English, with a focus on the delimitation of the category of ‘collective nouns.’ Moving away from the traditional reliance on the variable agreement patterns of collective nouns to focus on their construal of the plurality, Gardelle’s study proposes not only a consistent characterisation of this class of semantically plural nouns as wholes of highly integrated units but also accommodates, by comparison, looser ways of integrating units in a plurality such as ‘aggregates’ (furniture, these crew), which denote classes and whose starting point of the construal is the plurality, and ‘groupings’ (sheep, lots of students), where the units are more highly individuated, among others.","PeriodicalId":137533,"journal":{"name":"Babel – AFIAL : Aspectos de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemá","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125978789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Derwing, Tracey M. & Murray J. Munro. Pronunciation Fundamentals: Evidence-based Perspectives for L2 Teaching and Research. John Benjamins, 2015. 208 páginas","authors":"Diana Correira","doi":"10.35869/afial.v0i29.3281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35869/afial.v0i29.3281","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137533,"journal":{"name":"Babel – AFIAL : Aspectos de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemá","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116966866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sueños patriarcales: el ideal de la masculinidad blanca estadounidense como anhelo inalcanzable en Ethan Frome","authors":"Joaquín Saravia","doi":"10.35869/afial.v0i29.3280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35869/afial.v0i29.3280","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Este artículo analiza la novela Ethan Frome (1911) de la escritora estadounidense Edith Wharton. En concreto, la investigación aborda la representación del protagonista homónimo como un intento fallido de encarnar la masculinidad blanca estadounidense hegemónica durante finales del siglo XIX y a principios del XX, lo que se debe a cuatro factores: su incapacidad de ascender socialmente, cultivarse intelectualmente, ejercer de forma exitosa el rol de proveedor material de la familia y convertirse en el patriarca de la misma. Se analiza, a su vez, la influencia de los personajes femeninos Zeena y Mattie en el fracaso del protagonista. Con este fin, el artículo se sirve de construcciones teóricas que describen los ideales de masculinidad y feminidad hegemónicos en los Estados Unidos del período analizado, así como el concepto de patriarcado. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":137533,"journal":{"name":"Babel – AFIAL : Aspectos de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemá","volume":"99B 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128481537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}