https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/16173 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:41:22 GMT 2026-07-06T17:41:22Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/146095 Title: Los tratamientos pronominales T/V en un contexto situacional de formalidad alta Authors: Garrido Ardila, John A. Abstract: This article analyses the usage of T/V forms of address in Peninsular Spanish in a context of high formality —four interviews on Spanish national television of ca. 40 minutes each to frontbench politicians by top political analysts. Whilst the interviewers used V consistently, from the different choices of T/V pronouns made by the interviewees a number of intriguing conclusions are inferred. Unlike previous research into the addressees’ social factors, this research shows that the addressees’ age, sex and power/authority did not necessarily have an impact on the speakers’ choice of T or V. Conversely, the factor common to those speakers who used T was their young age (not the addressees’). Additionally, the cases of variation within the same speaker’s speech, changing from V to T, were prompted by the speaker’s desire to implicate less solidarity in moments when they disagreed with their interlocutors. In sum, this research reveals that the choice of T or V, even in contexts of the highest formality, may depend on the speaker’s idiosyncrasy and will to express more or less distance with their addressee. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/146095 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/145933 Title: The novel before Cervantes : Spanish fiction and «historical truth» from Montalvo (1508) to Alemán (1599) Authors: Garrido Ardila, John A. Abstract: This article presents diachronically the theories of fiction posited by Spanish writers before Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1605). Focusing on the concept of verisimilitude in relation to Cervantes’s term historical truth, and with reference to Aristotelian realism and to Ian Watt’s formal realism, we will firstly appraise the recent scholarship on the genre of Don Quixote. Thereupon, we will explicate the main Spanish metafictional discussions of verisimilitude and realism postulated in the preliminaries to some central literary works published before Don Quixote; namely Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo’s Amadís de Gaula (1508), Bartolomé de Torres Naharro’s Propalladia (1517), Francisco Delicado’s Retrato de la Lozana andaluza (1528), and Mateo Alemán’s Guzmán de Alfarache (Part I, 1599). By means of this analysis, we will provide new evidence to lay out the verisimilar / realist nature of Cervantes’s Don Quixote fundamentally as the result of more than one hundred years of conscientious theorisation and experimentation in Spanish literature. Moreover, we shall suggest that, alongside the rich Spanish romance tradition of the sixteenth century, the line of verisimilar fiction (including Lozana andaluza, Lazarillo de Tormes and Guzmán de Alfarache) stemmed essentially from aesthetical innovations originated in theatre, not solely from Celestina (1499) but also from Torres Naharro’s innovative definition of realism.; Dieser Artikel stellt Theorien zu Fiktion, die von spanischen Schriftstellern vor Cervantes’ Don Quijote (1605) postuliert wurden, diachronisch dar. Mit Verweis auf das Konzept der Wahrscheinlichkeit in Verbindung zu Cervantes’ Begriff der historischen Wahrheit und mit Bezug auf den Aristotelischen Realismus wie auch Ian Watts formalin Realismus wird in einem ersten Schritt die jüngste Forschung zum Genre Don Quijotes beleuchtet. Daraufhin werden in den einleitenden Überlegungen die wichtigsten spanischen metafiktionalen Diskurse zur Wahrscheinlichkeit und zum Realismus in Werken vor Don Quijote erläutert, und zwar Garci Rodríguez de Montalvos Amadís de Gaula (1508), Bartolomé de Torres Naharros Propalladia (1517), Francisco Delicados Retrato de la Lozana andaluza (1528), und Mateo Alemáns Guzmán de Alfarache (Teil I, 1599). Anhand dieser Analyse werden neue Belege zum wahrscheinlichen / realistischen Wesen von Cervantes’ Don Quijote geliefert, die im Grunde als das Ergebnis von mehr als hundert Jahren der gewissenhaften Theoretisierung und des Experimentierens in der spanischen Literatur verstanden werden. Darüber hinaus legt dieser Aufsatz nahe, dass neben der reichen Romantradition des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts die Ausrichtung der wahrscheinlichen Fiktion, unter die Lozana andaluza, Lazarillo de Tormes und Guzmán de Alfarache fallen, von ästhetischen Innovationen aus dem Theater der Zeit stammt – nicht nur aus Celestina (1499), sondern auch aus Torres Naharros neuartiger Definition des Realismus. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/145933 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/145671 Title: Quixotic fiction and novel writing in Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte (2019) Authors: Garrido Ardila, John A. Abstract: Salman Rushdie’s novel Quichotte belongs to the tradition of Quixotic fiction in English-language literature. It also revisits some of the central themes of Rushdie’s earlier works. This paper considers how, in this novel, Rushdie emulates Don Quixote in order to delve into two of his most fundamental concerns as a novelist: (1) the satire of social attitudes toward immigration and cultural identity, and (2) the art of novel writing. This analysis will show Rushdie’s postmodern and postcolonial bent in his approach to social issues. More specifically, it will reveal the ways in which Rushdie, as a present-day reader and author, reads and construes Cervantes’s novel. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/145671 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/145646 Title: Historia de España y perspectivismo histórico en Beltenebros de Antonio Muñoz Molina Authors: Garrido Ardila, John A. Abstract: El presente trabajo efectúa un análisis del marco referencial histórico de Beltenebros (1989) de Antonio Muñoz Molina mediante una metodología que combina la perspectiva de la Rezeptionsästhetik con un procedimiento analítico deconstructivista. Tras espigar brevemente las hipótesis prevalentes en torno a la recreación de la Historia en la novela, se procede a un análisis deconstructivista de las referencias históricas, en especial de las oposiciones jerárquicas. El objeto no es dilucidar la exacta tesis histórica o política del autor, sino leer el conjunto de signos de naturaleza histórica que se concomitan en la obra, con el fin de alcanzar una interpretación informada y coherente de la misma en cuanto obra literaria concebida como reflejo de una época. El estudio se centra en las oposiciones temporales y espaciales (ser/no ser, vida/muerte, Inglaterra/España) y en las ideológicas (comunismo/capitalismo, justicia/injusticia) entre 1945 y 1965. Lejos de constituir una lamentación antifranquista o una reflexión sobre la crisis del comunismo en los años ochenta, Beltenebros plasma, según este análisis, la futilidad de la lucha clandestina republicana y de la ideología comunista en una España que, a finales de los años sesenta, se encuentra en pleno proceso de modernización y europeización. Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/145646 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z