In this article, we argue that the TV series event with the highest audience in recent Catalan history, La catedral del mar /Cathedral of the Sea (Jordi Frades, 2018), is an example of commercial cinematic populism. Cathedral of the Sea is built on formal elements of the classic Hollywood style (for example, continuous editing, linear narrative, lack of moral ambiguity), and a series of substantive dichotomies (people/ elite, the popular hero/ the villain, the good/ the bad) and myths (the savior, the unity of the people). In analyzing their significance, we distinguish three hermeneutic layers, the populist, the general-mythical, and the Catalan historical context, which, in combination, constitute the cinematic narrative. Therein the central hero of Cathedral of the Sea, Arnau Estanyol, personifies the myth of the commoner who, by accumulating a whole range of virtues and social roles, synecdochically stands for the triumphant emergence of the modern Catalan people. This narrative is, we maintain, traversed by a tension between the populist call for emancipation, incarnated by Arnau, and the phantasmal self-gratification based on the depiction of a world devoid of complexity.
{"title":"THE BATTLE FOR RE-IMAGINING CATALONIA: CINEMATIC POPULISM, MYTH-MAKING, AND CATHEDRAL OF THE SEA (JORDI FRADES, 2018)","authors":"C. Ungureanu, Iván Pintor","doi":"10.3828/catr.35.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/catr.35.4","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In this article, we argue that the TV series event with the highest audience in recent Catalan history, La catedral del mar /Cathedral of the Sea (Jordi Frades, 2018), is an example of commercial cinematic populism. Cathedral of the Sea is built on formal elements of the classic Hollywood style (for example, continuous editing, linear narrative, lack of moral ambiguity), and a series of substantive dichotomies (people/ elite, the popular hero/ the villain, the good/ the bad) and myths (the savior, the unity of the people). In analyzing their significance, we distinguish three hermeneutic layers, the populist, the general-mythical, and the Catalan historical context, which, in combination, constitute the cinematic narrative. Therein the central hero of Cathedral of the Sea, Arnau Estanyol, personifies the myth of the commoner who, by accumulating a whole range of virtues and social roles, synecdochically stands for the triumphant emergence of the modern Catalan people. This narrative is, we maintain, traversed by a tension between the populist call for emancipation, incarnated by Arnau, and the phantasmal self-gratification based on the depiction of a world devoid of complexity.","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41772668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper analyzes the way speakers perceive the transgression of the rules of word formation, particularly regarding neoclassical final combining forms, which are elements with a marked use and whose morphological combining standards are quite restrictive. This transgression consists in combining a native Catalan word and a final combining form, the result of which has been assigned an expressive value. In order to test these perceptions, we developed a questionnaire and administered it to 152 speakers of Catalan from different backgrounds. These speakers were asked to evaluate 20 neologisms documented in the Catalan press regarding their context of use and their connotations. The results show that speakers perceive that those forms that “break” the expected rules are more likely to appear in an informal or colloquial context, and they generally assign them an ironic or pejorative value. Finally, this study aims to present compounds as a promising topic of interest within morphopragmatics.
{"title":"BREAKING THE RULES: PRAGMATIC CONNOTATIONS OF (UN)MARKED USES OF FINAL NEOCLASSICAL COMBINING FORMS","authors":"Elisenda Bernal, Alba Milà-Garcia","doi":"10.3828/catr.35.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/catr.35.5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper analyzes the way speakers perceive the transgression of the rules of word formation, particularly regarding neoclassical final combining forms, which are elements with a marked use and whose morphological combining standards are quite restrictive. This transgression consists in combining a native Catalan word and a final combining form, the result of which has been assigned an expressive value. In order to test these perceptions, we developed a questionnaire and administered it to 152 speakers of Catalan from different backgrounds. These speakers were asked to evaluate 20 neologisms documented in the Catalan press regarding their context of use and their connotations. The results show that speakers perceive that those forms that “break” the expected rules are more likely to appear in an informal or colloquial context, and they generally assign them an ironic or pejorative value. Finally, this study aims to present compounds as a promising topic of interest within morphopragmatics.","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48355564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AUTONOMIA I HETERONOMIA EN LA INNOVACIÓ LÈXICA CATALANA","authors":"Judit Freixa, Martí Freixas, Ivan Solivellas","doi":"10.3828/catr.34.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/catr.34.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43525272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DEFENDING THE LANGUAGE OF THE PEASANTS IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY VALENCIA: JAUME GASSULL’S LA BRAMA DELS LLAURADORS","authors":"Vicente Lledó-Guillem","doi":"10.3828/catr.34.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/catr.34.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45132732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TETE MONTOLIU, BLINDNESS, AND BARCELONA IN THE KEY OF MODERN JAZZ","authors":"B. Fraser","doi":"10.3828/catr.34.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/catr.34.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":"34 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48611858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE CATALAN CLASSICAL SCENERY: JOSEP PLA’S ACCOUNT OF THE GRECO-ROMAN RUINS OF EMPÚRIES THROUGH GEORG SIMMEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF LANDSCAPE","authors":"Pau Guinart","doi":"10.3828/catr.34.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/catr.34.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":"34 1","pages":"43-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48149142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LITERATURES IN SEARCH OF STATEHOOD","authors":"E. Illas","doi":"10.3828/catr.34.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/catr.34.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":"34 1","pages":"119-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47122172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“BRUTOR DE TENIR PELL”: SEXUALITAT, DESIG I GÈNERE EN LES POETES DE L’ÚLTIMA DÈCADA","authors":"M. Matas","doi":"10.3828/catr.34.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/catr.34.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41409352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LA BARCELONA “DESARROLLISTA” A UMBRACLE (1972) DE PERE PORTABELLA: UNA CIUTAT “VAMPIRITZADA”","authors":"Sara Antoniazzi","doi":"10.3828/catr.34.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/catr.34.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47065362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Around 1925, Josep Carner’s literary works offered, among other things, a reflection on the power and limits of human knowledge as conveyed by language, a repeated questioning of the possibility of plain and direct statement. We can place in this context his interest in the wordplay tradition in English, and, most of all, in that of the so-called nonsense literature. This article explores the reasons for this interest, which arguably go beyond mere cultural curiosity, while examining from the same point of view some instances of Carner’s translations of Alice in Wonderland and the limerick form.
{"title":"JOSEP CARNER DAVANT LA NONSENSE LITERATURE","authors":"Marcel Ortín","doi":"10.3828/CATR.33.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/CATR.33.2","url":null,"abstract":"Around 1925, Josep Carner’s literary works offered, among other things, a reflection on the power and limits of human knowledge as conveyed by language, a repeated questioning of the possibility of plain and direct statement. We can place in this context his interest in the wordplay tradition in English, and, most of all, in that of the so-called nonsense literature. This article explores the reasons for this interest, which arguably go beyond mere cultural curiosity, while examining from the same point of view some instances of Carner’s translations of Alice in Wonderland and the limerick form.","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42830010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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