{"id":4203,"date":"2015-05-28T10:07:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T09:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=4203"},"modified":"2015-07-31T16:26:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T15:26:44","slug":"phd-student-wins-valentina-guevara-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/05\/28\/phd-student-wins-valentina-guevara-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD student wins Valentina Guevara Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elisabetta Perra, a PhD student in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/index.html\">Department of Modern Languages<\/a>, has won\u00a0The Valentina Guevara Prize for the best paper given at the <a href=\"http:\/\/community.dur.ac.uk\/hispanists\/\">Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland<\/a> (AHGBI) annual conference.<\/p>\n<p>The AHGBI is a professional association of academics and researchers working in all areas of Hispanic Studies. It\u00a0represents a very diverse discipline, in terms of both geographical coverage (Spain, Portugal, Latin America and other Hispanic and Lusophone parts of the world) and objects of study (language, literature, film, popular culture, visual culture, music, history).\u00a0They promote research and advanced study in all these areas, and represent the interests of\u00a0their scholarly community at national and international levels.<\/p>\n<p>The Valentina Guevara Prize is awarded for the best paper given at the AHGBI annual conference on any subject relating to Argentina and was revived in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabetta&#8217;s paper entitled &#8216;(Re)Inventing Language in <em>Rayuela<\/em>&#8216; focuses on the stylisitic features of \u00a0Cort\u00e1zar\u2019s novel <em>Rayuela<\/em> (1963) and his ideas according to which\u00a0language is a limited system of communication and therefore new alternative ways of communication need to be found to express what words cannot say. In <em>Rayuela<\/em> three alternative ways of conveying meaning are proposed: the first entails the destruction of conventional language by subverting the syntax of phrases and morphology of words; the second consists in the invention of a new language known as <em>Gl\u00edglico<\/em>; the third one is brought about by stylistic parallels with jazz music.<\/p>\n<p>The paper demonstrated how the mechanisms of these three modes of communication function, as well as the importance of stylistics for conducting a line of enquiry that is both objective and exhaustive.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the PhD in Hispanic Studies, please see the page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/hispanicstudies\/postgraduate\/research-hispanic-studies.html\">www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/hispanicstudies\/postgraduate\/research-hispanic-studies.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elisabetta Perra, a PhD student in the Department of Modern Languages, has won\u00a0The Valentina Guevara Prize for the best paper given at the Association of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/05\/28\/phd-student-wins-valentina-guevara-prize\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":4247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4203"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4686,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions\/4686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}