Analecta Malacitana. Revista de la sección de Filología de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Analecta Malacitana (ISSN 0211-934x), Journal of the Philology Section of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Malaga, publishes works of a scientific nature referring to the field of study of Philology and is aimed at specialists and researchers in that field. area, as well as a broader educated public. It was founded in 1978 and is eventually published annually as a double volume. Acceptance of received originals is subject to anonymous peer review entrusted to experts outside the journal.
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Ambra Pinello (ed.) (2024): Narraciones y representaciones de la mujer en la prensa contemporánea. Algunos casos en revistas españolas, hispanoamericanas e italianas
Review of Ambra Pinello (ed.) (2024): Narraciones y representaciones de la mujer en la prensa contemporánea. Algunos casos en revistas españolas, hispanoamericanas e italianas
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The Catiline Conspiracy through the Eyes of Francis Ford Coppola. A Case Study in Classical Reception
The aim of this work is to carry out a comparative intertextual analysis of the film Megalopolis (2024) by Francis Ford Coppola and Sallust’s Catiline’s Conspiracy, in order to elucidate which themes, philosophical-literary motifs and classical characters have inspired the American director. Additionally, we will examine how various modern artistic trends and the author’s own interpretation interact with the classical source, thus creating a unique example of classical reception that demonstrates how Greco-Roman civilization continues to pose questions and offer answers to contemporary issues.
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Manuel Cañete (1822-1891) through the Eyes of J. L. ALBORG: An Unpublished Text Found in his Personal Archive
Edition of an unpublished biobibliographical note on the literary critic Manuel Cañete (1822-1891), written by Juan Luis Alborg and preserved in his personal archive, now held at the University of Málaga. Following a contextualization within the historiographical framework of the second half of the twentieth century and an examination of the text’s content and stylistic features, the study puts forward two hypotheses concerning the possible purpose for which the text may have been written.
Sabotaje: A Demythologizing History of the Paris That Surrendered to the Nazis
The precise description of a time and place is essential to recreate its atmosphere, show the mechanisms of power and recreate the tensions and conflicts that are generated there (Harvey). In the case of spy fiction, it means presenting a critique of injustices and inequalities, including those related to governments and their clandestine histories (Castellet, Seed). The atmosphere of the Paris of the Popular Front recreated in Sabotaje demystifies the popularized vision of a people fighting against the Nazis who, in reality, are destined to give up their freedoms, accept the invader and, in some cases, even become their accomplices. The aim of this work is, first of all, to explore the problems of historiography when representing the past (Eco, Koselleck, White), especially when it is a painful past and the consequent tendency to mythologize it (Wright, Seniavskii and Seniavskaia), the similarities between historical and literary discourse (Iglesias, Montaner) and the importance of the way in which the atmosphere of a place is recreated (Geherin, Lutwack, Montaner). Secondly, it analyzes the resources used by Pérez-Reverte to demystify that era, fleeing from the binaries of good and bad present in collective memory (Seniavskii and Seniavskaia).
Breaking, Joining, Welding: Hermeneutics on the Irrationality of Language in EME. Diario de un transformista by Juan Ceyles
This article is an attempt to approach one of the most overlooked works by Juan Ceyles, a text in which the author liberates language from any normative constraints that might seek to regulate writing. The rupture with genre, grammar, and meaning lends the work a strangeness that has earned it the label of unreadable, a highly singular discourse marked by the heterogeneity of its components: autobiographical references, metapoetic inquiry, lyricism, genre hybridization, and the practice of a self-referential language that enacts a process of textual resemantization. This process stems from the creation of a hypertrophied linguistic code based on neologism, ergodic elements, syntactic agrammaticality, and lexical deconstruction. In short, a grammatical «labyrinth» that severs any discursive logic grounded in reality with the aim of dismantling it. This discourse, rooted in irrationalism, confronts the vacuity of a time defined by frivolity and the growing dominance of narratives that seek to influence our perception of injustice, impose behavioral models, and generate algorithmic patterns that allow power structures to shape our actions while progressively stripping our existence of humanizing content.
Strategies for Eliciting Emotional Responses in the Aegritudo Perdicae
The aim of this paper is to analyze the set of stylistic strategies and expressive features (such as adjectives, characterizations, expressions of sympathy, metaphorical representations) systematically employed by the author of Aegritudo Perdicae to elicit emotional responses in the readers. Aegritudo Perdicae is a Latin epyllion or epic miniature by an unknown poet, composed in the late 5th-early 6th century CE, during the period of Regnum Vandalum in North Africa. Its theme is Perdicas’ incestuous love for his mother Castalia, the depression into which the young man falls and his suicide. The present study considers the narrator’s emotional intrusions, which serve as direct interventions in the narrative to guide the readers’ emotional responses. These intrusions often heighten the emotional intensity of the scenes, as the narrator’s subjective tone and personal engagement with the events influence the readers’ perception. Through these diverse strategies, the author directs the readers’ emotional engagement, guiding their responses toward specific characters, events, or situations, creating a profound pathos that resonates throughout the narrative.
A Reading of Alfonso Canales' Port-Royal
The present work focuses on the study of the work of Alfonso Canales entitled Port Royal and its relevance in the author’s literary production as a fundamental book to understand his poetic career
Africa in Roberto Bolaño's Los salvajes detectives: Journey and Adventures
In his 1998 book Los detectives salvajes, Roberto Bolaño not only recounts travels and adventures in the Americas and Europe, but also explores African spaces, with a particular emphasis on Angola and Liberia. To understand this mode of narration and the manner in which the characters move through diverse cultural contexts, an approach based on a complex epistemology, which emphasises a transcultural and circular perspective, is proposed. This approach emphasises that, in Los detectives salvajes, Africa is portrayed as the crucible of travel and adventure, where concepts such as hunger, health, safety, language and the wandering spirit find expression. It is posited that the representation of Africa in Bolaño’s oeuvre is a manifestation of the inherent negativity in human existence.
Manuela Cambronero’s biography has been a pending issue until now, given that her figure has not aroused interest and no studies which focus on clarifying her origins and chronology have been published. This information is essential as a starting point for any work on the author, which is why elucidating these unknowns through direct archive research is a sine qua non. Consequently, locating Manuela Cambronero’s baptismal, marriage and death certificates is the only reliable way to dispel any doubt about her provenance and to determine the exact places and dates of the trans-cendental events of her life.
The Décima Says More about Cuba: "From Dream to Poetry"
The article examines the importance of the décima, especially the espinela form, as a symbol of Cuban identity and its evolution from Spanish origins to its position as a national stanza. The décima has been a conduit for popular culture, rural life, indepen-dence sentiment, music, and Cuban social critique, revealing its versatility in both oral and written traditions. The piece traces its history from the 17th century and highlights how the décima adapts, innovates, and absorbs influences, blending tradition with modernity up to the present day, as seen in prominent authors and cultural movements.
The Horrifying Dantesque Reality in Miguel Delibes's El Hereje
In 1998 the last novel of Miguel Delibes, El hereje, came out and one year later the work received the Premio Nacional de Narrativa. Contrary to all his other novels, El hereje deviates from the modern era and transports the reader to a horrendous moment in the history of the peninsula: the years of the Inquisition, this time, however, against the Lutherans. This narration, the most voluminous and historical of the author, shows the terrible circumstances of hatred against that heterogenous religious group of the Christian faith that distinguished itself from orthodox Catholicism of the period. Delibes places his novel, time wise, in the Middle Ages and presents the religious hatred of the epoch, incorporating classic literary elements to show the predominance of anti-pathy due to religion itself, a resentment that never ceases to exist or to control the people. To make the reader understand the gravity and terror of that irrational hatred, the author incorporates images from The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri’s master-piece. Moreover, the author shows with clarity the panic it produces in the future victims, those who hid their beliefs from the State and the Church to protect themselves from the horrors. Delibes exposes the indifference and the silence of the general popu-lation as well as, in particular, the complicity of the Crown and the Church.
Defining Videogame Atmospheres: Böhme applied to Gone Home and What Remains of Edith Finch
Atmosphere is an underdefined term in videogame studies. This paper reviews Gernot Böhme’s aesthetic theory of atmospheres and adapts it to the analysis of video-games to make of atmospheres an analytical category. From this perspective, I analyse two videogames Gone Home and What Remains of Edith Finch to identify what elements are contributing to their affective atmosphere and suggest how they interact with each other. Drawing from Brian Massumi’s reflections on affective resonance, I ponder as well on the interrelation between the games’ atmospheres, their storyline and their mechanics.
Editing María Zambrano: Philology as Exemplary Praxis of the Philosophy of Cure and Care (A Critical Edition of "La guerra de Antonio Machado")
Study of the relationship between María Zambrano and Antonio Machado during the Spanish Civil War. A study of Zambrano’s review of the poet’s last book within the context of the genesis and configuration of «poetic reason». A comparative study of the different editions of Zambrano’s review and a critical edition of the same.
The Greek Translation of Terence's Andria by Ioannis Kavrakis
In this paper, I examine the Greek translation of Terence’s Andria by Ioannis Kavrakis in 1895. After providing some information about this comedy and its reception in modern Europe, I discuss two earlier Greek translations of Latin comedy that preceded Kavrakis’ version. In the main section, I analyze Kavrakis’ translation itself, focusing on issues such as the linguistic characterization and the naturalization of his translation. At the end of the paper, I offer some information about the performances and translations of Andria that took place in Greece after Kavrakis’ translation.
Rafael León: The Illuminating Poet Writes Letters from Dark Oblivion: Sparse Correspondence among the Malagan Poets María Victoria Atencia, Alfonso Canales, and Rafael León
This paper presents previously unpublished correspondence between Rafael León and María Victoria Atencia with the poet Alfonso Canales, illustrating their friendship through literature and other related aspects.
Carlos Medrano (2023): La imperfección de la belleza
Review fo Carlos Medrano (2023): La imperfección de la belleza
Delia Macías Fuentes (ed. lit.) (2025): Francisco Satorres, El Delfín
Review of Delia Macías Fuentes (ed. lit.) (2025): Francisco Satorres, El Delfín
Javier Salazar Rincón (2024): De alcaldes y alcaldadas: Trayectoria y significado de un personaje risible en la literatura de Siglo de Oro
Review of Javier Salazar Rincón (2024): De alcaldes y alcaldadas: Trayectoria y significado de un personaje risible en la literatura de Siglo de Oro
José Manuel Corredoira Viñuela (2025): Comedia auriburlesca: postilas
Review of José Manuel Corredoira Viñuela (2025): Comedia auriburlesca: postilas
Maestro Arsegino de Padua (2024): Quadrige
Review of Maestro Arsegino de Padua (2024): Quadrige
Ericio Puteano (2025): El De laconismo syntagma,
Review of Ericio Puteano (2025): El De laconismo syntagma
Victoria Eugenia Rodríguez Martín, Gema Senés Rodríguez, Virginia Alfaro Bech, Antonio Rojas Rodríguez y José Luis Espinar Ojeda (2024): Pierio Valeriano, Jeroglíficos, Libros VI-XVIII
Review of Victoria Eugenia Rodríguez Martín, Gema Senés Rodríguez, Virginia Alfaro Bech, Antonio Rojas Rodríguez y José Luis Espinar Ojeda (2024): Pierio Valeriano, Jeroglíficos, Libros VI-XVIII
Antonio Ramón Navarrete Orcera (2025): El mundo clásico en el Camino de Santiago: España y Portugal
Review of Antonio Ramón Navarrete Orcera (2025): El mundo clásico en el Camino de Santiago: España y Portugal
Brais Fernández Prieto y Paula Gregores Pereira (eds.) (2025): Novas Aproximacións aos Estudos Literarios
Review of Brais Fernández Prieto y Paula Gregores Pereira (eds.) (2025): Novas Aproximacións aos Estudos Literarios
Juan García-Cardona (2025): Entre el bucolismo y la brutalidad. Cuatro novelas en torno a la España vacía (2018-2024)
Review of Juan García-Cardona (2025): Entre el bucolismo y la brutalidad. Cuatro novelas en torno a la España vacía (2018-2024)
Euzhan Palcy on the set of Renseignez-Vous D'abord
This interview with the world-renown Martinican filmmaker, Mme Euzhan Palcy, took place on September 13, 1993 in the university cable TV studio of Clark Atlanta University, the very day that Yitzak Rabin and Yasser Arafat signed a peace accord at the White House in the presence of President Bill Clinton. Mme Palcy has the distinction of being the first filmmaker from Martinique (the French overseas Department) to be awarded the prestigious César award for excellence in filmmaking. The French César is the equivalent of the American Oscar. We discussed myriad issues relative the role of black filmmakers, artists, actors, and directors, as well as her personal meteoric rise to fame in the film industry.
Juan Luis Alborg, his friendship with Jorge Campos and the publication of 'Current Hour of the Spanish Novel
The relationship between Juan Luis Alborg and Jorge Campos is centered around the edition of Hora actual de la novela española by Taurus publishing house, where the latter worked. Likewise, as proof of their friendship, the letters from this period influence the efforts of Juan Luis Alborg in the possible incorporation of Jorge Campos to the University of Washington where he worked.
Circularity and Linearity in the Exegesis of the Long Poem: "Piedra de Sol" by Octavio Paz and "Gran Fuga" by Alfonso Canales
This work intends to expose, from a comparative methodological approach, the charaterisations that configure the entity of the long poem, paying attention above all, to the special structural relevance that operates both in Octavio Paz’s Piedra de sol and in Alfonso Canales’ Gran fuga. Thus, its main aim is to highlight that the circular projection of love in Paz and the linear projection of existence in Canales constitute two ways of adapting the thematic argumentation to the linguistic and expressive channel that contains it. Therefore, this work tries to establish the phenomenology of the long poem as an ideal format that makes posible the creation of a complex network of thought and simultaneities. Finally, given that Gran fuga meets the generic parameters of the long poem, it is reasonable to link it to the corpus designed by Rastrollo Torres (2016) while recognising its value as an indispensable work of Andalusian literary heritage.
The Will of Days: Alfonso Canales and the Exhibition Hall of the Savings and Loan Bank of Antequera in Málaga
Under the direction of Alfonso Canales, the Exhibition Hall of the Caja de Ahorros de Antequera in Malaga became a space for the projection of Malaga's creative reality in the second half of the twentieth century. In the same way, the materials derived from the exhibitions show the collaboration exercised between professionals from different creative fields.
The Aesthetics of Cruelty in Angélica Liddell's Writing and its Presence in 'Qué haré yo con esta espada?'
Angélica Liddell, a contemporary model in the Spanish and European scene, works with the personal wound to redeem the shared real violence in a theatre covered in pain that finds its way through an Aesthetics of Cruelty. Based on a study of the Rhetoric of ¿Qué hare yo con esta espada? (Aproximación a la Ley y al problema de la Belleza) of her Trilogía del Infinito (2016), a play that explores the origins of Evil, some of the elements used by the playwright to show this Aesthetics of Poetic Violence in her writing can be observed.