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Crosslin­guis­tic Facets of the Sub­junc­tive
No oth­er gram­mat­i­cal phe­nom­e­non caus­es as many prob­lems in teach­ing and learn­ing as the sub­junc­tive. Most gram­mars devote as many pages to the pre­sen­ta­tion of the rules as to the excep­tions. This becomes even more frus­trat­ing when deal­ing with the dif­fer­ences, not only between dif­fer­ent lan­guage fam­i­lies, but even with­in the Romance lan­guage fam­i­ly alone, since it seems that each lan­guage shapes the func­tion­al area of the sub­junc­tive indi­vid­u­al­ly. The aim of this vol­ume is there­fore to recon­sid­er the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the sub­junc­tive in Romance lan­guages in a crosslin­guis­tic and con­trastive way. First, an overview of research in this area from the begin­nings to the lat­est neu­rolin­guis­tic find­ings will explore the com­plex­i­ty of the issue. Next, spe­cif­ic phe­nom­e­na of the sub­junc­tive at the inter­face of its func­tion­al domain with the indica­tive will be illus­trat­ed by means of appro­pri­ate case stud­ies. On this basis, an attempt is made to trace the poly­func­tion­al­i­ty and the dif­fer­ing uses in the Romance lan­guages and beyond to a com­mon pat­tern with lan­guage-spe­cif­ic mar­gins. This allows us to explain, not only con­trastive dif­fer­ences, but also the decline of the sub­junc­tive in some domains and lan­guages, as well as demon­strate the range of sub­sti­tu­tion pos­si­bil­i­ties. Final­ly, the view is extend­ed to oth­er lan­guage fam­i­lies and new impuls­es for for­eign lan­guage teach­ing are pre­sent­ed.
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The aes­thet­ics of melan­cho­lia: med­ical and spir­i­tu­al dis­eases in medieval Iberia
This book explores the inter­sec­tion between med­i­cine and lit­er­a­ture in medieval Iber­ian lit­er­a­ture and cul­ture. Its over­ar­ch­ing argu­ment is that thir­teenth- and four­teenth-cen­tu­ry Iber­ian authors reval­orized the inter­con­nec­tion between the body, the mind, and the soul in light of the evolv­ing epis­te­mol­o­gy of med­i­cine. Pri­or to the rein­tro­duc­tion of clas­si­cal med­ical trea­tis­es through Arab authors into Euro­pean cul­tures, men­tal dis­or­ders and bod­i­ly dis­eases were pri­mar­i­ly attrib­uted to moral cor­rup­tion, demon­ic influ­ence, and super­sti­tion. The intro­duc­tion of nov­el reg­i­mens of health as well as trea­tis­es on melan­cho­lia into aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tions and into the cul­tur­al land­scape pro­vid­ed the tools for new­ly mint­ed authors to under­stand that psy­cho­so­mat­ic ill­ness­es stemmed from mal­func­tions of the body’s bio­chem­i­cal com­po­si­tion. This book demon­strates that the ear­li­est books writ­ten in the Iber­ian ver­nac­u­lars con­tain the seeds that effect the shift from a theo­cen­tric world­view to a human­is­tic one. I sup­port my argu­ment with the close read­ings of mul­ti­ple texts, includ­ing med­ical trea­tis­es and reli­gious writ­ings, and King Alfon­so X’s Canti­gas de San­ta Maria, Juan Manuel’s Conde Lucanor, and Juan Ruiz’ Libro de buen amor. Even though these texts dif­fer in lit­er­ary genre, rhetor­i­cal strat­e­gy, and even pur­pose, this study proves that they col­lec­tive­ly employ humoral pathol­o­gy and melan­cholic dis­cours­es as a means of under­scor­ing the frailty and tran­sience of human life by show­ing how somat­ic con­di­tions sick­en the body, mind, and soul of man unto death.
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