Studies on Humanism, Philology, Classical Heritage and Canarian Literature

Affiliated Research areas

• Texts and Concepts
• Theory and history of literature, comparative literature

Scientific Areas

• Not available

Keywords

• Classical Philology
• Ecocriticism
• Landscape in Literature
• Humanity and Nature
• Language and Reality
• Tourism and landscape
• Humanistic Literature
• Humanistic Latin
• Biblical Exegesis
• Classical Reception
• XVIth and XVIIth Centuries
• Greek and Roman Literature
• Mythography
• Greek Scientific Literature
• Roman Comedy

Summary

- Ecocritical and representation of the landscape in literature: Humanity and nature, language and reality, matter and spirit are no more different forms of life, but the semantic and biotic aspects of the same life. Ecocriticism takes into account this understanding of life, and bears in mind the present environmental conditions of the earth to read literary landscapes in a way that challenges the anthropocentric roots of western civilization. The representation of nature, the evolution of topics such as the classical locus amoenus, the impact of tourism in landscape description, or the landscape rethoric in literary genres are all subjects akin to the ecocritical approach to literature.
- Spanish literature and classical survival: Studies on Spanish and Spanish American literature and on the presence of the Greek and Latin mithology and literature in modern literatures and in the popular culture (e.g. film and songs). The topic of the transgressing woman from the ancient imaginary to the postmodern period.
- Latin and Greek Literature: Studies on Greek and Latin literature, with particular emphasis on mythography, fragmentary Greek historians, Greek scientific literature, Ovid s Metamorphoses, the world of Roman comedy, and Bede.
- Humanism: Studies on Humanistic literature both in Latin and in vernacular languages, with particular attention to Biblical exegesis, Humanism in the Canary Islands, and an assessment of the Classical heritage and the influx of the culture of the Humanists on the literatures of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Greek and Latin linguistics: Studies on Greek and Latin linguistics, with particular attention to the analysis of structural semantics as applied to the study of Greek and Latin lexicon, morphology, syntax and pragmatics
- Canarian literature: Studies on Canarian literature and on the presence of the Greek and Latin mithology and literature in Canarian authors