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Durante el último decenio, la publicación de revistas y de antologías de crónicas periodístico-literarias, ha ido en notable aumento, lo que ha animado a no pocos críticos y estudiosos a hablar de un \"nuevo boom de la literatura hispanoamericana\". En ese contexto, este artículo realiza una mirada panorámica sobre el desarrollo de este género en Chile durante el presente siglo, identificando sus principales exponentes y sus características más relevantes. Junto a ello, se compara la actual crónica periodístico-literaria con la crónica históricamente precedente (fundacional, costumbrista y modernista), estableciendo sus continuidades y rupturas con miras a definir la especificidad de aquélla. Asimismo, se proponen criterios de análisis adecuados a esta 'nueva crónica', considerando como ejes básicos tanto su hibridez genérica y disciplinar, como su funcionalidad dentro de la sociedad contemporánea. Palabras clave: Crónica contemporánea, Narrativa chilena, Periodismo, Literatura During the last decade, the publication of magazines and anthologies of literary-journalistic chronicles, has been on the sharp increase, which has encouraged quite a few critics to speak of a \"new boom in Latin American literature.\" In this context, this article takes a panoramic view on the development of this genre in Chile during this century, identifying its main exponents and their relevant characteristics. Along with this, we compare the current journalistic-literary chronicle with the historical precedent chronicle (foundational, manners and modernist), establishing their continuities and ruptures in order to define the specificity of the contemporary chronicle. Finally, we propose criteria for adequate analysis of this 'new chronic', considered as basic and generic hybridity both their discipline, as their functionality within contemporary society. Keywords: Contemporary chronicle, Chilean narrative, Journalism, Literature Referencia normalizada

This book is about a barber, Shihab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Budayr, who shaved and coiffed, and probably circumcised and healed, in Damascus in the 18th century. The barber may have been a \"nobody,\" but he wrote a history book, a record of the events that took place in his city during his lifetime. Dana Sajdi investigates the significance of this book, and in examining the life and work of Ibn Budayr, uncovers the emergence of a larger trend of history writing by unusual authors-people outside the learned establishment-and a new phenomenon: nouveau literacy. The Barber of Damascus offers the first full-length microhistory of an individual commoner in Ottoman and Islamic history. Contributing to Ottoman popular history, Arabic historiography, and the little-studied cultural history of the 18th century Levant, the volume also examines the reception of the barber's book a century later to explore connections between the 18th and the late 19th centuries and illuminates new paths leading to the Nahda, the Arab Renaissance.

This study draws upon the biblical books of Kings, First Isaiah and Chronicles, in conjunction with Assyrian records and ancient Near Eastern archaeology, in order to provide an updated historical reconstruction of the influential Judean monarch Hezekiah.

Historical weather data from Chronicon Conventus Franciscani Brodii in Savo (1706-1932) consists of numerous entries regarding weather patterns, such as storms, hail, extreme pluvial episodes, drought and cold periods, flooding and periods of Sava river freezing, grape harvests etc. Franciscan monastery in question is situated on the left bank of the Sava river, in a region specific for its microclimate conditions while in the wider region, it is situated at a very sensitive spot between hydrologically active regions of northern Balkan Peninsula and the Alps. The data is analysed and compared to reconstructed Old World Drought Atlas (OWDA) and other available climate data such as temperature, precipitation and consequently flooding episodes. Influence on daily life is considered. Regardless of strong bias in quality of entries Chronicon is a highly valuable source of information.

King Lear's one hundred knights have no precedent in any early version of the legendary Leir story, from Geoffrey of Monmouth (ca. 1136) to the late sixteenth century. Previous authors offer one hundred forty, sixty, forty, or are silent—but never give one hundred. Thomas G. Olsen argues that the size and the diminution of Lear's retinue speak to the internal logic of Shakespeare's tragedy. Knighthood was a personally significant ideal to Shakespeare, but Lear's \"men of choice and rarest parts\" must also have resonated in very topical and ironic ways when King Lear was first performed, including at court, in 1605–6.

This article argues that C. S. Lewis’s status as a children’s book author, as well as the reception of his Narnia books, should be considered anew in light of the history of children’s books in the early and mid-twentieth century. I suggest that the roots of The Chronicles of Narnia lay in part in Lewis’s reactions to a perceived neglect of the children’s book genre by the literary elite and that differences in the transatlantic reception of these books may be mapped onto the historical particularities of children’s books and their gatekeepers in the decades around the series’ publication

One of the recurring problems that emerged during the height of European expansion into Southeast Asia was the encroachment of European enterprises into indigenous lands. In most cases, problems existed especially in the manner that landholdings were understood by the natives vis-à-vis the new land laws introduced by the colonial powers. This often led to disputes which resulted in the natives being deprived of their rights. This paper looks into a case where the Dusun in Papar, North Borneo — an indigenous people — took the European colonial government to court over land rights which involved land encroachments by European enterprises and railways. The event took place barely 30 years after the first contact with European civilisation took place. The paper will examine the nature of the case and also investigate the role played by the Dusun and their fight against the government. The paper will also investigate the role of an English lawyer retained by the Dusun for the case, and that of the Roman Catholic Mission in championing the affairs of the indigenous people.

This research aims to put in evidence the strategies of insistence and resistance of dissident masculinities in the theater and urban chronicle of the late twentieth century, positioning theses discourses as some of the cultural territories in which the need for visibility and legitimation of the diverse sexualities is disputed, within the heteronormous context of a violent, discriminatory and traditional Chilean society.A selection of chronicles by Pedro Lemebel (1955-2015) is reviewed, making a parallel reading with the work La huida (2000) by Andrés Perez Araya (1951-2002), considering for this research the critical nodes: gender, subject/body, and writing as creative bases for the concretion of the dissident discourse.