Revista de estudios norteamericanos - 2023 - Nº 27
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Artículo ‘For Evermore’: An Examination of Musical Ekphrasesof Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”(Universidad de Sevilla, 2023) Díaz Morillo, EsterThis article analyses the transfer of poetic language into music, focusing on Edgar Allan Poe’s celebrated poem “The Raven” (1845). After a theoretical study on poetic language and theoretical questions regarding transmediation, I look into different pieces of instrumental music directly inspired by Poe’s lines. To this end, I draw on ground-breaking research regarding media transformation by authors such as Lars Elleström, whose work provides the theoretical framework, and, most especially, Siglind Bruhn, who has written about the relation between poetry and music, and who coined the term “musical ekphrasis”. Finally, I argue that these composers transmediate Poe’s “The Raven” by using musical devices similar to those employed by Poe in his poem. Particularly important for this analysis will be compulsive repetition and variation as strategies of the musicalekphrasis, and the re-presentation of the uncanny in music.Artículo EarlyTwentieth-Century America Travelers and Art Deal ers of the Spanish Artistic and Historical Heritage(Universidad de Sevilla, 2023) Ruiz Mas, JoséIn this article, I analyze the unorthodox activities carried out by the American travelers and art dealers Arthur Byne and his wife Mildred Stanley Byne in their search for artistic treasures in Spain during the first third of the twentiethcentury. Whilsttheyplundered, Mr.and Mrs.Byne published a number of quality works on Spanish art, all of them profusely illustrated with photographs and maps. This article sets out to contrast their travel writing with theirpredatory endeavor in Spain. The Bynes took advantage of the backwardness and the political weakness of Spain, its institutional and ecclesiastical corruption and the poverty of the common peopleto carry outtheir looting activitieseasily. Their literary production between 1914 and 1924 began by being purely descriptive analyses of Spain’s artistic heritage, but gradually evolved into more personal travel accounts on the country (1925-26). However, behind the strategy of showing their willingness to promote foreign cultural tourism in Spain and the encouragement of tourists’ in situvisits to the sites described in their works, theByneswere stealthilylooting the Spanish artistic treasure to sell it in the USA, apracticethat they successfully managedto disguise in their travel writing.Artículo Review of Rosas en la arena: Los relatos de Susan Glaspell(Universidad de Sevilla, 2023) Fernández Morales, MartaArtículo “One nightmare replaces another”: Trauma and Mourning in the Age of Terror through Paul Auster’s Travels in The Scriptoriumand Man in The Dark(Universidad de Sevilla, 2023) Rodríguez Arnaíz, LauraThe terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001sent Americans down a spiral of fear and anger that got an immediate response in the form of some of the most controversial legislative moves in thehistory of the nation, as well as the military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The sense of invincibility that had dominated the American imaginary evaporated as the dreamlike chaos and anxieties of that day shaped the texts written by some of the renowned American novelists. Among them, Paul Auster with his post-9/11 texts Travels in the Scriptorium (2007) and Man in the Dark (2008), deals with the incommensurability of 9/11 through the anxietie s produced bythe physical and psychological traumaof twooldmen trapped in a room, where fiction poses as the way to escape theconfinement and where matters ofindividual and historical memory merge with Auster’s critique of the U.S. War on Terror.