Rocky Mountain E-Review
of Language and Literature
Volume 60, Number 2
FALL 2006
CONTENTS
Articles | Forum | Reviews
Articles
Borges' "The Library of Babel" and Moulthrop's Cybertext
"Reagan Library" Revisited
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
Recent Publications in Oxfordian Studies
Great Oxford: Essays on the Life and Work of
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, 1550-1604, ed. Richard Malim
"Shakespeare" By Another Name, by Mark Anderson
The Monument, by Hank Whittemore
Reviewer: Michael Delahoyde
Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Othello, ed. Peter
Erickson and Maurice Hunt
Reviewer: Joanne Craig
Tyranny in Shakespeare, by Mary Ann McGrail
Reviewer: Kirk G. Rasmussen
Schooling Sex: Libertine Literature and Erotic Education
in Italy, France, and England 1534-1685, by James Grantham Turner
Reviewer: Hannah Lavery
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
Kafka: A Biography, by Nicholas Murray
Reviewer: Susan Nyikos
Hemingway's Laboratory: The Paris in our time,
by Milton A. Cohen
Reviewer: Craig Monk
Passionate Collaborations: Learning to Live with
Gertrude Stein, by Karin Cope
Reviewer: Craig Monk
T.S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, 1888-1922,
by James E. Miller, Jr.
Reviewer: Sura P. Rath
Paradoxy of Modernism, by Robert Scholes
Reviewer: Alan Blackstock
Paradigms of Paranoia: The Culture of Conspiracy in
Contemporary American Fiction, by Samuel Chase Coale
Reviewer: Rosalie Murphy Baum
Goth's Dark Empire, by Carol Siegel
Reviewer: Michael Kramp
Remapping the Foreign Language Curriculum: An
Approach Through Multiple Literacies, by Janet Swaffar and Katherine Arens
Reviewer: Katherine V. Moskver
The Last of the Celts, by Marcus Tanner
Reviewer: Joanne Craig
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