Works pending to be submitted

Summary
Encarna, la Misterio is a 1925 lyrical sainete in two acts and five scenes by Fernando Luque and Enrique Calonge with music by Reveriano Soutullo and Juan Vert. Premiered at the Teatro Apolo in Madrid on May 8, 1925, in the midst of Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, this resounding success increased even more the prestige of the already famous tandem of composers. Following the research of Amoedo (2019) on the figure of Soutullo and various authors such as Barce (1995) on the lyric sainete, in this paper we move towards a return to the works from the transdisciplinary perspective elaborated by Dreyer (2022), and, therefore, starting from a deep reading of the context, to reach the analysis of the constituents of the work: the libretto, music and dramaturgy, and its semiotic, discursive and generic aspects. This study will allow us to determine the applicability of Dreyer's tripartite systematization in the lyrical sainete, as well as to verify the quality and relevance of the work in its time. Together with the analytical work itself, a critical edition of the «Romanza de Encarna» and the «Dúo de Encarna y Carlos» will be carried out as a transfer activity, which will favor the recovery of these pieces and will set a precedent for a complete critical edition of the work.

Direction
DOMINGUEZ PRIETO, CESAR PABLO (Tutorships)
CAPELAN FERNANDEZ, MONTSERRAT (Co-tutorships)

Court
DOMINGUEZ PRIETO, CESAR PABLO (Coordinator)
ALONSO VELOSO, MARIA JOSE (Chairman)
MORAN CABANAS, MARIA ISABEL (Secretary)
GARCIA TRABAZO, JOSE VIRGILIO (Member)

Summary
The purpose of this project is to examine the complexities that may arise from translating the work of the poet Sappho of Lesbos, specially in regards to the concept of female virginity. In Ancient Greece, a girl or a young woman was considered a parthenos, or a virgin, until she got married. This shift entailed a series of changes that went beyond the loss of sexual innocence. Some of the original connotations of the idea, since they are alien to our contemporary mindset, might get lost or modified in the act of translation. Therefore, our aim is to analyse in which way modern translations of the poems of Sappho confront the translation of this concept, with all of its potential difficulties.

Direction
DE CARLOS VILLAMARIN, HELENA ROSA (Tutorships)

Court
DOMINGUEZ PRIETO, CESAR PABLO (Coordinator)
ALONSO VELOSO, MARIA JOSE (Chairman)
MORAN CABANAS, MARIA ISABEL (Secretary)
GARCIA TRABAZO, JOSE VIRGILIO (Member)

Summary
This paper analyzes the representations of death, the artificial, and symbolic exchange in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? through the lens of Jean Baudrillard’s reflections. The philosopher distinguishes between death as a collective, ritualized event in primitive societies and its progressive reduction to an individual, biologized fact managed by technology in modernity. From this framework, the study examines how both narratives problematize the boundaries between the human and the artificial, and to what extent they reveal the cultural transformation of death in the transition from modernity to postmodernity. The aim is to show how the comparison between the two works allows us to interrogate not only the exclusion of the artificial from the symbolic order, but also the very crisis of symbolic systems in modern societies.

Direction
CABO ASEGUINOLAZA, FERNANDO (Tutorships)

Court
DOMINGUEZ PRIETO, CESAR PABLO (Coordinator)
ALONSO VELOSO, MARIA JOSE (Chairman)
MORAN CABANAS, MARIA ISABEL (Secretary)
GARCIA TRABAZO, JOSE VIRGILIO (Member)