Sonia Velázquez
Biographic Data
| ID | 5947249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Velázquez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Velázquez |
| SIGNATURE | VELÁZQUEZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Promiscuous Grace
The Last Word
The Last Word:The Ends of Poetry, Agamben, and Early Modern Spain Sonia Velázquez As daunting as a blank page may be, beginnings also brim over with the effervescence of creation. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, Genesis tells us. In the beginning was the Word, we read in John's Gospel. The snide narrator of Samuel Beckett's Murphy sneers, "In the beginning was the pun." By their beginning, incipit, were written works known…
Echoing End
Echoing End:Fray Luis de León's "Oda en la Ascensión" Sonia Velázquez A concern with endings has been central to the study of narrative form as well as to inquiries into the cognitive and/or psychological desire for closure. In the stories we read, as much as in the stories we craft from chaotic experience into what we call our lives, "the end" represents a longing for the vanishing point of trauma, conflict, or uncertainty. From Walter Benjamin'…
Didacticism and the Ends of Storytelling
This article examines two texts, Sendebar, a collection of exempla translated from Arabic into Castilian in the thirteenth century, and Walter Benjamin's 1936 essay "The Storyteller: Observations on the Work of Nikolai Leskov" in order to offer a nuanced account of the relationship of knowledge and wisdom to the ends of storytelling and historicity. Benjamin's essay is examined by paying particular attention to the place of the medieval in his fi…
Immigrant Children and Child Welfare in the United States
Didacticism and the Ends of Storytelling
This article examines two texts, Sendebar, a collection of exempla translated from Arabic into Castilian in the thirteenth century, and Walter Benjamin's 1936 essay "The Storyteller: Observations on the Work of Nikolai Leskov" in order to offer a nuanced account of the relationship of knowledge and wisdom to the ends of storytelling and historicity. Benjamin's essay is examined by paying particular attention to the place of the medieval in his fi…
Immigrant Children and Child Welfare in the United States
Immigrant Children and Child Welfare in the United States
Didacticism and the Ends of Storytelling
This article examines two texts, Sendebar, a collection of exempla translated from Arabic into Castilian in the thirteenth century, and Walter Benjamin's 1936 essay "The Storyteller: Observations on the Work of Nikolai Leskov" in order to offer a nuanced account of the relationship of knowledge and wisdom to the ends of storytelling and historicity. Benjamin's essay is examined by paying particular attention to the place of the medieval in his fi…
The Last Word
The Last Word:The Ends of Poetry, Agamben, and Early Modern Spain Sonia Velázquez As daunting as a blank page may be, beginnings also brim over with the effervescence of creation. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, Genesis tells us. In the beginning was the Word, we read in John's Gospel. The snide narrator of Samuel Beckett's Murphy sneers, "In the beginning was the pun." By their beginning, incipit, were written works known…
Echoing End
Echoing End:Fray Luis de León's "Oda en la Ascensión" Sonia Velázquez A concern with endings has been central to the study of narrative form as well as to inquiries into the cognitive and/or psychological desire for closure. In the stories we read, as much as in the stories we craft from chaotic experience into what we call our lives, "the end" represents a longing for the vanishing point of trauma, conflict, or uncertainty. From Walter Benjamin'…
Promiscuous Grace
Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · History (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Storytelling (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)