{"title":"The Basque poets during the Second Republic: José María Agirre, ‘Xabier Lizardi’, and Esteban Urkiaga, ‘Lauaxeta’, in their artistic context1","authors":"Jon Kortazar","doi":"10.1386/ijis_00099_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijis_00099_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to follow the trail of some of the influences in the poetic works of José María Agirre, ‘Lizardi’ (1896–1933), and Esteban Urkiaga, ‘Lauaxeta’ (1905–37), both of whom are clearly connected to Symbolism through Spanish Modernism. They are considered the modernizers of Basque poetry and are the most frequently cited examples as paradigms of the Republican era. To this end, a double perspective will be followed. In the case of Lizardi, his literary affiliations will be addressed, relating him to Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) and José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955). In order to approach the work of Lauaxeta, we will suggest a number of similarities to the poetry of Federico García Lorca (1898–1936), and to the music of Jesús Guridi (1886–1961) and his zarzuela, El Caserío (1926). We will also establish links between his work and some Impressionist and Symbolist painters, such as Darío Regoyos (1857–1913), Valentín de Zubiaurre (1879–1963) and Aurelio Arteta (1879–1940).","PeriodicalId":41910,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IBERIAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135143838","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":"Estudios ibéricos online: El futuro de las iniciativas virtuales. Informe del encuentro en la sede del Instituto Cervantes (Madrid, 24 de octubre 2022)","authors":"Santiago Fouz-Hernández, Esther Gimeno Ugalde","doi":"10.1386/ijis_00100_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijis_00100_7","url":null,"abstract":"In its third year of existence, Pleibéricos, an online platform focused on launching and promoting new books in the field of Iberian ṣtudies, held an event at the headquarters of the Cervantes Institute in Madrid on 24 October 2022. The aim of this first in-person meeting was to start conversations with other initiatives in the field that, like Pleibéricos, were founded during the COVID-19 pandemic or that had to move their operations online or adopt a hybrid format during that time. The founders and coordinators of the following six platforms talked about their projects: the online research seminar series Polibéricos, Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival (ESFF – to represent hybrid formats in the creative sector), the Spanish-language podcast New Books Network and the conferences Conversations on Iberian Studies: Challenges and Opportunities ( CISCO ) and Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies ( ACIS ). They placed special emphasis on the advantages and challenges of the online and hybrid formats and how to incorporate these new experiences, technologies and skills into a post-pandemic context. The event concluded with a roundtable discussion and some concluding remarks by a guest respondent. This meeting was made possible with the support of a Hispanex grant awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport.","PeriodicalId":41910,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IBERIAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135143837","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":"España comparada: Literatura, lengua y política en la cultura contemporánea, Christian Claesson (ed.) (2022)","authors":"Santiago Pérez Isasi","doi":"10.1386/ijis_00103_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijis_00103_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: España comparada: Literatura, lengua y política en la cultura contemporánea , Christian Claesson (ed.) (2022) Granada: Comares, 184 pp., ISBN 978-8-41369-296-8, p/bk, €19.00","PeriodicalId":41910,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IBERIAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135143409","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":"A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies, Luis I. Prádanos (ed.) (2023)","authors":"Jesse Barker","doi":"10.1386/ijis_00102_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijis_00102_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies , Luis I. Prádanos (ed.) (2023) Woodbridge: Tamesis, 330 pp., ISBN 978-1-85566-369-5, h/bk, £80.00 ISBN 978-1-80010-867-7, e-book, £24.99","PeriodicalId":41910,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IBERIAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135143839","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":"Women in Iberian Filmic Culture: A Feminist Approach to the Cinemas of Portugal and Spain, Elena Cordero-Hoyo and Begoña Soto-Vázquez (eds) (2020)","authors":"Mariana Liz","doi":"10.1386/ijis_00101_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijis_00101_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Women in Iberian Filmic Culture: A Feminist Approach to the Cinemas of Portugal and Spain , Elena Cordero-Hoyo and Begoña Soto-Vázquez (eds) (2020) Bristol and Chicago, IL: Intellect, 222 pp., ISBN 978-1-78938-171-9, p/bk, £32.95 ISBN 978-1-78938-152-8, h/bk, £90.05 ISBN 978-1-78938-172-6, e-pub, £25.95 ISBN 978-1-78938-173-3, pdf, £25.95","PeriodicalId":41910,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IBERIAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135143836","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":"Netflix, Instagram, celebrity and fashion: A brave new convergent world?","authors":"Jorge Pérez","doi":"10.1386/ijis_00098_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijis_00098_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the Netflix series La casa de papel and Élite as examples of ‘media convergence’ in which content flows between several industries and creates synergies that cannot be fully explained by a television studies framework of analysis alone. By the same token, the methodological tools of traditional star studies may not provide the best lens for analysing how the actors of these series, most of them unknown until recently, have suddenly become global stars. I argue that these two series have made prominent the formation of a new paradigm of stardom, which I call ‘Insta-flix celebrity’, that compels us to develop new conceptual frameworks to theorize how multiple media – in this case Netflix, cinema, Instagram and fashion – participate in a transmedia ecology that has altered established relationships between production and consumption of media texts. Insta-flix celebrity is a phenomenon that affords audiences novel opportunities to interact with media content. With their active participation, consumers decide which stars to follow and which clothes to buy while also engaging with the series’ content and adding their own two cents – comments and social media discussion that can make or break a star, a show or a fashion brand.","PeriodicalId":41910,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IBERIAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77215179","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":"Transplanting the jocs florals: The floral tradition, translation and the imagining of a multilingual literary sphere in modern Iberia","authors":"Leslie J. Harkema","doi":"10.1386/ijis_00097_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijis_00097_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article approaches the role of translation in Iberian literary modernity not as a question of importation of foreign models from Europe but rather as a question of the circulation of texts and cultural traditions within Iberia. It focuses on translation projects that originated within and among Iberian cultures in the nineteenth century, and that projected themselves outward. This study proposes a genealogy that links the revival and spread of floral games in Catalonia and across Spain beginning in the 1850s to translation practices in the Peninsula in the early twentieth century. After an analysis of the relationship between the spread of the floral games and the perception of their decadence in Catalan literary historiography, the article proposes an alternate understanding of the phenomenon that links the floral tradition to translingual cultural projects. Particular attention is paid to the ‘polyglot edition’ of Catalan poet Joaquim Rubió i Ors’ Lo Gayter del Llobregat (‘The piper of the Llobregat River’) (1888–1902). This publication, like the floral tradition that proliferated alongside it, reflects an effort to create a multilingual literary sphere anchored in the Iberian Peninsula that Spanish and Catalan literary histories have overlooked.","PeriodicalId":41910,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IBERIAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74022006","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}
Antonio Garrido Rubia, Antonia Martinez Rodríguez, Alberto Mora-Rodríguez
{"title":"Public opinion and forms of government: The monarchy–republic debate in Spain","authors":"Antonio Garrido Rubia, Antonia Martinez Rodríguez, Alberto Mora-Rodríguez","doi":"10.1386/ijis_00091_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijis_00091_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the factors which affect trust in the Spanish monarchy and public preferences between monarchy and republic. In order to investigate these two factors, 9420 people were interviewed across Spain using a specially designed survey. The data show the extent to which the perception of the monarchy’s effectiveness affects trust in the institution and in the form of government. The answers to these two questions revealed a significant polarization in the Spanish society.","PeriodicalId":41910,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IBERIAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90621435","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":"Matilde de la Torre: A feminist socialist in Republican Spain","authors":"D. Madden","doi":"10.1386/ijis_00092_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijis_00092_7","url":null,"abstract":"A staunch advocate of socialist, feminist and Republican politics, Matilde de la Torre remains an enigmatic, elusive figure on the landscape of critical literature on Republican Spain. After winning a seat for Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE) in the 1933 and 1936 elections, De la Torre dedicated her political career to defending trade unions, promoting women’s rights, denouncing war and fascism, and advocating for a democratic, Republican Spain. Throughout her lifetime, De la Torre published prolifically in the left-wing press and authored five book-length political commentaries, all of which dialogue with Spain’s tumultuous political structures and debates. The central themes of De la Torre’s career and output are outlined here, along with a discussion of recent scholarship.","PeriodicalId":41910,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IBERIAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87815847","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":"Beyond the Minotaur: The construction of a benign state in three Catalan cultural products","authors":"Ernest Carranza Castelo","doi":"10.1386/ijis_00090_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ijis_00090_1","url":null,"abstract":"Since the late 2000s, creators of cultural products have imagined a future Catalonia with its independent institutions as the result of a collective effort driven by the citizens, rather than just the elites. In this article, I posit that the representation of the Catalan republic as benign, horizontal and modern shows tensions and omissions in aspects such as coercion, economic freedom, social protection, bureaucracy, language policies and the handling of immigration. This articulation is exemplified in the journalistic fiction Crònica de la independència (2009) by Patrícia Gabancho, the documentary L’endemà (2014a) by Isona Passola and the essay La República possible (2017) by Antonio Baños. The unproblematic and contradictory depiction of the state reveals latent fears derived from the historical difficulty to fit this political institution into the complex reality of the nation. Moreover, the cultural products analysed show the need to stabilize the new meanings related to the signifiers state and republic in Catalan culture.","PeriodicalId":41910,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IBERIAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73607051","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}