Wadda C Rios-Font
Biographic Data
| ID | 5440548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wadda C Rios-Font |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wadda C |
| FAMILY NAME | Rios-Font |
| SIGNATURE | RÍOS-FONT W C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing Wrongdoing in Spain, 1800-1936
Proficiency or Exposure
This article analyzes the growing trend among US higher education institutions to replace foursemester, proficiency-oriented language requirement models with shorter exposure-oriented sequences frequently restricting exemptions and aimed at bringing languages into distribution requirement structures. By contrasting the history, strengths, and limitations of the proficiency model to the claims and drawbacks of the exposure model, the author sugges…
El crimen de la calle de San Vicente
El crimen de la calle de San Vicente:Crime Writing and Bourgeois Liberalism in Restoration Spain C. Ríos-Font Although crime has been written about in literature of all ages, it is generally acknowledged that modern crime and detective fiction came into being in the nineteenth century. The categories of delinquency and justice that shape this fiction are born with the liberal bourgeois state. As legal scholar David Garland points out, during this…
The Canon and the Archive
This volume rethinks the opposition between canonical and noncanonical, opting instead for understanding the literary canon as a segment of the larger archive of literature. Beyond what is presently regarded as canonical, this archive includes previously valued works that have been forgotten, as well as an indefinite supply of works as yet unconsecrated or unknown. Drawing from an eclectic array of theoretical sources - from Stanley Fish, Barbara…
Rewriting Melodrama. The Hidden Paradigm in Modern Spanish Theater
Rewriting Melodrama. The Hidden Paradigm in Modern Spanish Theater. By Wadda C. Rios-Font. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP and Associated UP, 1997. 233 pages. In Rewriting Melodrama, Wadda Rios-Font reminds us that the prevailing esthetic form in late nineteenth-century Europe was melodrama, both in fiction and on the stage. The form's association with low culture explains, perhaps, its relative neglect by serious scholars until Peter Brooks published his…
Rewriting Melodrama. The Hidden Paradigms in Modern Spanish Theater
From Romantic Irony to Romantic Grotesque
mantic as an ironist. Having ironically acknowledged the fictiveness of his own patternings of human experience, he romantically engages in the creative process of life by eagerly constructing new forms, new myths. And these new fictions and self-concepts bear with them the seeds of their own destruction. They too die to give way to new patterns, in a never-ending process that becomes an analogue for life itself. (Mellor 5)
Horrenda Adoración
Encontrados afectos. El senor de Bembibre as a Self-Conscious Novel
From Romantic Irony to Romantic Grotesque
mantic as an ironist. Having ironically acknowledged the fictiveness of his own patternings of human experience, he romantically engages in the creative process of life by eagerly constructing new forms, new myths. And these new fictions and self-concepts bear with them the seeds of their own destruction. They too die to give way to new patterns, in a never-ending process that becomes an analogue for life itself. (Mellor 5)
Horrenda Adoración
Encontrados afectos. El senor de Bembibre as a Self-Conscious Novel
From Romantic Irony to Romantic Grotesque
mantic as an ironist. Having ironically acknowledged the fictiveness of his own patternings of human experience, he romantically engages in the creative process of life by eagerly constructing new forms, new myths. And these new fictions and self-concepts bear with them the seeds of their own destruction. They too die to give way to new patterns, in a never-ending process that becomes an analogue for life itself. (Mellor 5)
Rewriting Melodrama. The Hidden Paradigms in Modern Spanish Theater
Rewriting Melodrama. The Hidden Paradigm in Modern Spanish Theater
Rewriting Melodrama. The Hidden Paradigm in Modern Spanish Theater. By Wadda C. Rios-Font. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP and Associated UP, 1997. 233 pages. In Rewriting Melodrama, Wadda Rios-Font reminds us that the prevailing esthetic form in late nineteenth-century Europe was melodrama, both in fiction and on the stage. The form's association with low culture explains, perhaps, its relative neglect by serious scholars until Peter Brooks published his…
El crimen de la calle de San Vicente
El crimen de la calle de San Vicente:Crime Writing and Bourgeois Liberalism in Restoration Spain C. Ríos-Font Although crime has been written about in literature of all ages, it is generally acknowledged that modern crime and detective fiction came into being in the nineteenth century. The categories of delinquency and justice that shape this fiction are born with the liberal bourgeois state. As legal scholar David Garland points out, during this…
The Canon and the Archive
This volume rethinks the opposition between canonical and noncanonical, opting instead for understanding the literary canon as a segment of the larger archive of literature. Beyond what is presently regarded as canonical, this archive includes previously valued works that have been forgotten, as well as an indefinite supply of works as yet unconsecrated or unknown. Drawing from an eclectic array of theoretical sources - from Stanley Fish, Barbara…
Writing Wrongdoing in Spain, 1800-1936
Proficiency or Exposure
This article analyzes the growing trend among US higher education institutions to replace foursemester, proficiency-oriented language requirement models with shorter exposure-oriented sequences frequently restricting exemptions and aimed at bringing languages into distribution requirement structures. By contrasting the history, strengths, and limitations of the proficiency model to the claims and drawbacks of the exposure model, the author sugges…
Art (6 works) · History (5 works) · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism (2 works) · Context (archaeology) (2 works) · Early Modern Spanish Literature (2 works)