This article examines Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda's choice to include articles depicting the advanced decay of cadavers, which are simultaneously horrible and awesome, in her women's periodical "Album Cubano de lo Bueno y lo Bello". Background on Avellaneda's biography, women's print culture, and theories of the sublime provide a frame for the…

Teaching for cultural understanding has always posed many challenges regarding exactly what should be taught and how it should be presented. For instance: should students be taught a list of facts about another culture, which may lead to stereotyping? Should there be comparison between one's own and another culture, which may involve dealing with…

In this paper, I begin with the identification of a moment of intertextuality between "Un viejo que leia novelas de amor" (1989) by Chilean Luis Sepulveda and "La voragine" (1924) by Colombian Jose Eustasio Rivera as an analytical motif for a reevaluation of the environmentalism and political ecologies in the Spanish American "novela de la selva"…

Examines the work of the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus and other evidence for the existence of public libraries in fourth and fifth century A.D. Rome. It is concluded that a number of libraries were still in existence in the early fourth century, and at least one was open as late as A.D. 455. (MES)

Discusses My Dream, a short autobiographical piece written by Lucian of Samosata (ca. 120-195 A.D.). (Editor)

Through a combination of practical applications and theoretical underpinnings, this article explores the question of how to approach the teaching of Latin American Literature in the current period of globalization. Many theorists argue that we need new epistemologies in which to ground our pedagogy for the 21st century. Understanding the effects…

The movement to teach Latin orally as a living language is a recurring educational theme; this paper reviews the work of the Swiss Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) in oral Latin. (CK)

Discusses the grading of the 1984 examination for the advanced placement Latin program. The program consists of two courses, one on Vergil and one on Horace and Catullus and is for secondary school students capable of taking college level courses. Lists essay questions from the exam and reader reactions to them. (SED)

The goal of this study is to examine the characteristics of scholarly communication, with particular emphasis on the usage of the monograph, in the field of Spanish and Latin American literature over a 30-year period. In addition, this study examines the age of materials referenced in an effort to gain insight into the shelf-life of these…

Revised version of a paper read at the Annual Workshop of the Cincinnati Association of Teachers of the Classics, University of Cincinnati, January 16, 1971. (RS)