Rocky Mountain E-Review
of Language and Literature

Volume 60, Number 2
FALL 2006

Articles

Borges' "The Library of Babel" and Moulthrop's Cybertext "Reagan Library" Revisited

Addendum to Article with updated hyperlink submitted March 13, 2020

Perla Sassón-Henry
United States Naval Academy

In his short stories "The Garden of Forking Paths" and "The Library of Babel," Jorge Luis Borges anticipates mathematical developments, hypertext, and the Internet well before their advent. By analyzing the tripartite connections among "The Library of Babel," the short cybertext fiction "Reagan Library" by Stuart Moulthrop, and chaos theory, this article sheds new light upon each element of this triad from the perspective of digital technology, and in particular on Borges' work.

Sandra Cisneros and her Trade of the Free Word

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
Seattle University

The article exposes the various kinds of unique exchange that occur in a literary borderless novel. Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo appears simultaneously in English and Spanish, pioneering a new kind of Chicana/o literature. After a theorization of the meaning of the rebozo in Caramelo, the popular cultural menu Cisneros exhibits in Caramelo is problematized. The article includes discussion of the innovative contributions to the topic of migration/immigration and the renewed notion of "Aztlán," the mythic homeland, as well as the de-mythification of the traditional view of the grandmother and mother entities previously displayed in Chicano literature.

Modelos Comunicativos para la Enseñanza del Subjuntivo de Español
[Communicative Models to Teach the Spanish Subjunctive]

Vilma Concha-Chiaraviglio
Meredith College

Unlike English, the Spanish subjunctive is frequently used and is represented by various structures, which makes its learning a very challenging enterprise for native speakers of English. After analyzing the errors that Spanish students make while learning the subjunctive, I created a communicative teaching methodology. It consists of two models: emotional and linguistic. The first one gives students tools that help them learn in a new language system. The second is based on the theories of "Processing Instruction" and "Input Processing" described by VanPatten, Lee and VanPatten, and Wong.

Forum

What's In a Name?
Everything, Apparently...

Roger Stritmatter
Coppin State University

Reviews

De l'Écriture mystique au féminin, ed. Geneviève James
Reviewer: Aleksandra Gruzinska

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Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Othello, ed. Peter Erickson and Maurice Hunt
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Tyranny in Shakespeare, by Mary Ann McGrail
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Schooling Sex: Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England 1534-1685, by James Grantham Turner
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Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama, ed. Laura R. Bass and Margaret R. Greer
Reviewer: Ana Isabel Carballal

Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, by Patrick Hanan
Reviewer: Géraldine Schneider

Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China, by Theodore Huters
Reviewer: Géraldine Schneider