Articles & Chapters by Maria C Fellie
Ibero-American Ecocriticism: Cultural and Social Explorations, 2024
Chapter 1 of "Ibero-American Ecocriticism: Cultural and Social Explorations" (pp. 13-34), edited ... more Chapter 1 of "Ibero-American Ecocriticism: Cultural and Social Explorations" (pp. 13-34), edited by J. Manuel Gómez. 2024, Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9871666939354.
Abstract: In this study, I explore the poet’s connection to three geographical spaces and discuss poems set in Spain (1969), Italy (1988), and Sri Lanka (2011). Two of these poems portray woman, poet, and natural or created elements as metaphors for cosmic unity and harmony, working against harmful sociocultural dichotomies, and one poem shows us the opposite of this harmony. Colinas shatters feminine/masculine dualisms in a way that aligns with his poetics at large, a poetics that emphasizes interconnectivity and harmony, maintained through the frequent portrayal of images and elements that flow, such as air, breath, music, natural sounds, water, and blood. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666939354/Ibero-American-Ecocriticism-Cultural-and-Social-Explorations
Antonio Colinas: Nuevos géneros, nuevos caminos, 2022
Chapter in "Antonio Colinas: Nuevos géneros, nuevos caminos," edited by Juan Matas Caballero and ... more Chapter in "Antonio Colinas: Nuevos géneros, nuevos caminos," edited by Juan Matas Caballero and Antonio-Odón Alonso Ramos. Fundación Conrado Blanco, 2022.
ES Review: Spanish Journal of English Studies, 2021
Alfred Noyes’s “The Highwayman” (1906) and Federico García Lorca’s “Romance sonámbulo” (1928), tw... more Alfred Noyes’s “The Highwayman” (1906) and Federico García Lorca’s “Romance sonámbulo” (1928), two early twentieth-century ballad poems, serve as literary vessels for the collective memory of historical periods and share aesthetic and narrative similarities. Common images and colors (red, green) also illustrate both texts. The shared imagery calls attention to the ballads’ roles in preserving and transmitting collective memories. This study references the way that ballads stabilize in cultural memory, in line with David Rubin’s assessments of memory and literature in "Memory in Oral Traditions" (1995), as well as the studies of other scholars (e.g., Benjamin, Boyd, Connerton).
Romance Notes, 2020
This study examines the artistic and historical figure of Simonetta Vespucci as she is woven into... more This study examines the artistic and historical figure of Simonetta Vespucci as she is woven into the literary works and poetics of Antonio Colinas (Spain, 1946). This woman appears prominently as the cover image on his 'Obra poética completa' (2011) and appears as a repeated intertext throughout Colinas’s books of poetry and novels. Two poems, “Simonetta Vespucci” (1975) and “Clara en los Uffizi” (2011), are examined in light of culturalism and Colinas’s literary and biographical trajectories. Simonetta, as a historical person and as Botticelli’s model for several of his iconic paintings, symbolizes the idealized, holistic figure of “woman.” At the same time, she represents the connections that flow among art, life, and poetry, which are a pillar of Colinas’s poetics.
Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine, 2019
This study is a pedagogical dialogue based on my experience teaching Spanish for Healthcare at tw... more This study is a pedagogical dialogue based on my experience teaching Spanish for Healthcare at two institutions. After exploring laws concerning language at healthcare institutions, the article analyzes the role of cultural components in a college-level Medical Spanish course and presents some activities and assignments. Cultural components such as literature, film, art, recipes, etc. can serve as humanizing elements in a course that could be dry with only vocabulary-based content. In this type of course, opportunities for interaction with patients will be likely absent; cultural elements can contribute some of the human experience without a clinical component. Integrating cultural content into a healthcare-based language course will promote intercultural competence and a more humanistic approach to using Spanish for Healthcare.
Hispania, 2016
Many scenes in Pedro Almodóvar’s 'Hable con ella' (2002) include shots of metaperformances such a... more Many scenes in Pedro Almodóvar’s 'Hable con ella' (2002) include shots of metaperformances such as silent films, dances, television shows, concerts, and bullfights. Spectators often observe passive characters who are in turn observing. By presenting these performances within cinematic performance, Almodóvar highlights our role as viewers of his film and maintains our attention to the questions raised through his characters’ actions. The director draws out the periods of time in which spectators watch other motionless spectators or the performance that they are watching. The same lengthening of time occurs when Benigno and Marco interact with the two comatose women, Alicia and Lydia. This study re-examines the role of metaperformances and other cinematic elements, analyzing their significance with regards to communication, silence, and metafictional breaks in 'Hable con ella'. Ultimately, the article demonstrates that slowness and pauses (a metaphorical coma) break narrative continuity and the spectators’ trance, thus encouraging us to consciously reflect on the social and moral conflicts at play within Almodóvar’s film.
Transitions: Journal of Franco-Iberian Studies, 2014
Book Reviews by Maria C Fellie
Hispania, 2022
Review of "Intermediate Medical Spanish: A Healthcare Workers’ Guide for Communicating with the L... more Review of "Intermediate Medical Spanish: A Healthcare Workers’ Guide for Communicating with the Latino Patient" by Diana Galarreta-Aima, Diana Ruggiero and Gabriela Segal.
Hispania, 2018
Book review.
Hispania, 2018
Book review.
Hispania, 2013
Book review.
Hispanófila, 2013
Book review.
MIFLC Review, 2011
Book review.
Poetry Translations by Maria C Fellie
Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine, 2024
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/vol9/iss2/2
The Global South, 2023
muse.jhu.edu/article/900873
Manuel Álvarez Ortega, Hieren Todas: Antología poética plurilingüe, 2022
Multilingual anthology edited by Guillermo Aguirre, Devenir, 2022, pp. 148-149 and 152-155.
Catamaran Literary Reader, 2018
International Poetry Review, 2011
Pusteblume: Journal of Translation, 2007
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Articles & Chapters by Maria C Fellie
Abstract: In this study, I explore the poet’s connection to three geographical spaces and discuss poems set in Spain (1969), Italy (1988), and Sri Lanka (2011). Two of these poems portray woman, poet, and natural or created elements as metaphors for cosmic unity and harmony, working against harmful sociocultural dichotomies, and one poem shows us the opposite of this harmony. Colinas shatters feminine/masculine dualisms in a way that aligns with his poetics at large, a poetics that emphasizes interconnectivity and harmony, maintained through the frequent portrayal of images and elements that flow, such as air, breath, music, natural sounds, water, and blood. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666939354/Ibero-American-Ecocriticism-Cultural-and-Social-Explorations
Book Reviews by Maria C Fellie
Poetry Translations by Maria C Fellie
Abstract: In this study, I explore the poet’s connection to three geographical spaces and discuss poems set in Spain (1969), Italy (1988), and Sri Lanka (2011). Two of these poems portray woman, poet, and natural or created elements as metaphors for cosmic unity and harmony, working against harmful sociocultural dichotomies, and one poem shows us the opposite of this harmony. Colinas shatters feminine/masculine dualisms in a way that aligns with his poetics at large, a poetics that emphasizes interconnectivity and harmony, maintained through the frequent portrayal of images and elements that flow, such as air, breath, music, natural sounds, water, and blood. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666939354/Ibero-American-Ecocriticism-Cultural-and-Social-Explorations