Here is another photocopy I have had for years and should really clear out, but that seems important. It’s Matthias Rohrig Assuncão “Elite Politics and Popular Rebellion in the Construction of Post-colonial Order. The Case of Maranhão, Brazil (1820-1841),” Journal of Latin American Studies 31 (1999): 3-38. (It’s beautifully written and really well informed, and … More On Brazil
I stole this from someone’s page that seems to be public, but I am not sure, which is why I do not identify the author except by initials. It is too good not to share. Did the New Deal, so nostalgically cited by our democratic socialist intelligentsia today, break the power of these capitalists, who … More M. D. Y.
Here’s an old article I like, from files I am clearing out. [Mazzotti, José Antonio (2000). “Retos y soluciones en la edición de la poesía de Vallejo: El caso de la diagramación en Los heraldos negros.” 10.31819/9783964564825-013.] In book Edición e interpretación de textos andinos, 231-240. Hinostroza 1967: “Vallejo is not a poet, but a … More Qué estará haciendo esta hora mi dulce y andina Rita
I’ve unstuck the to-do list so I can see the other posts. I’m going to get a whiteboard and a lamp for the office, and start working in there part of the time–partly because I don’t want to print at home, or to have the large pieces of butcher paper I want to write notes … More Things
“España no es nuestra sangre, porque España tuvo el acierto de unir en una misma gloria a muchas sangres distintas. España no es siquiera este tiempo ni el tiempo de nuestros padres, ni el tiempo de nuestros hijos; España es una unidad de destino en lo universal.” Well. Nolan: “This creates the illusion of a … More José Antonio Primo de Rivera
This proposal is quite interesting. We used to evaluate teaching with something more than Yelp-style reviews, yes. Axé.
It is in August, then, that I will create the reserve list for that class and construct Moodle sites for all my classes. In July I will still read for them. Today I was supposed to start writing — write for an hour, not read — that article. There are all these tantalizing ways to … More August 3-11
I would buy this book if it were less expensive, and if it were in a library I would check it out. Countering recent arguments that we should “unbundle” or “disrupt” higher education, Jason Owen-Smith argues that research universities are valuable gems that deserve support. While they are complex and costly, their enduring value is … More Research universities and the public good
…de Mello e Souza is our topic today. On the theory of getting rid of one book, binder, or at least one file folder each day, no matter how good it is, I am getting rid of a binder of xeroxes of works by him (if I can — right now, the cat is sitting … More António Cândido
I have finished ordering books on the one little grant and now I will order the rest on the other. I need the Galaxia Gutenberg García Lorca complete works in four volumes, and they are available for 200 € plus shipping from La Central. I also need the Cátedra edition of Así que pasen cinco … More Very well.
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