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10 good books for autumn
19 september 2017
Interview with Matéi Visniec during his visit to Madrid
4 may 2017

The writer Matei Visniec, author of “The Word Progress on my Mother’s Lips Doesn’t Ring True”, has been invited by the Institut Fraçais from Madrid, within the commemorative events of the Day of Francophonie 2017 on the occasion of the Jean Monnet Prize of European literature which won his novel “Le Marchand des premières phrases” in 2016.
Projecte Mute: Dona, Traducció i Censura
13 december 2016

El grup d’investigació en Comunicació Intercultural i Traducció (CiTrans) de la Universitat de València desenvolupa actualment una investigació mitjançant l’anàlisi de tota la traducció realitzada de novel·listes angleses del segle XX a l’espanyol amb el fi últim de contribuir a una història real del moviment traductològic quant a literatura anglosaxona de dones a Espanya, sovint apartades en aproximacions a una història de la traducció al nostre país.
Literary Humanism, a paradigm change
24 november 2016

Regarding the “13th Scientific Meeting of Spanish Humanists. Perspectives, interests and tendencies from inside and outside the Peninsula”, which was held last week at the Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication of the Universitat de València, we have prepared this post about literary humanism.
“Quaderns Feministes” of the Universitat de València
29 september 2016

Through the University Institute of Women’s Studies (IUED), which gathers professors, researches and students of Postgraduate Studies; the UV carries out an important labour at the field of interdisciplinary research, aiming at a scientific update, a reviewing of the teaching materials that are currently used and promoting the creation and use of non-sexist materials.
Literary Digitalization
13 september 2016

If we seek for the opposite of macro-literature, as a consequence of the works written by Franco Moretti, we are facing philology or close reading. The author defended a comparative reading of international literature in which the microscopic (figures, poems, books or concrete authors) would have littler importance compared to the macroscopic (genres or number of translations). However, over 15 years have passed since Moretti’s works were published and the process of digitisation is unstoppable. Big Data “has changed our way of understanding the world”, just as Jorge Carrión explained in his article “Literature and big data”, published by La Vanguardia.
From being a Danish woman of the nobility to a farmer in Kenia: biography of Isak Dinesen
7 september 2016

Karen Blixen died 54 years ago due to a long-term disease her husband passed on to her and that diminished her strength in the final period of her life. Syphilis had already marked Blixen’s life, when with only 10 years old her father, to whom she was really close, killed himself due to this disease. Nowadays, she is buried in her home town, Denmark; away from Africa, the continent that inspired her most famous novel, “Out of Africa”.
Literature and its relationship with ICT
21 july 2016

Internet provides new objectives to literature education, given that we cannot deny the presence of literature in the web or the new ways of digital reading. In fact, this tools are contributed to promote the understanding of two texts, at the same time that they provide multimedia tools and resources for its production, as well as for its possible publication.
Educating “citizens” of the written culture
8 july 2016

In the field of linguistics, grammar is defined as an organized amalgam of knowledge about the system of language. Each theory has its own conceptual structure in accordance with its own epistemological premises which lay the foundation for the entire theoretical, methodological and analytical construct. This is what María Cecilla Gaiser writes in her study “Notes about linguistic theories, their grammatical postulates and their influence on teaching” published in 2011.
Changes in Didactics: From “Teaching Literature” to “Literary Education”
30 june 2016

Literature didactics as an area for reflection has been created in the last decades, according to Teresa Colomer in her study: “La didáctica de la Literatura: temas y líneas de investigación e innovación” (Didactics in Literature: innovation and investigation topics and lines).