La palabra emplazada
Author : Julián Jiménez Heffernan
Publisher : Servicio de Publicaciones de La Uco
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN :
Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds
Author : Anthony J. Cascardi
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826518346
Book Description
Poetic making from Cervantes and Gongora to Descartes and Locke
Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction
Author : P. Salvan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137282843
Book Description
This book focuses on the imaginary construction and deconstruction of human communities in modern and contemporary fiction. Drawing on recent theoretical debate on the notion of community (Nancy, Blanchot, Badiou, Esposito), this collection examines narratives by Joyce, Mansfield, Davies, Naipaul, DeLillo, Atwood and others.
Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain
Author : Elena del Río Parra
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9004392394
Book Description
Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain accounts for the representation of violent and complex murders, analysing the role of the criminal, its portrayal through rhetorical devices, and its cultural and aesthetic impact. Proteic traits allow for an understanding of how crime is constructed within the parameters of exception, borrowing from pre-existent forms while devising new patterns and categories such as criminography, the “star killer”, the staging of crimes as suicides, serial murders, and the faking of madness. These accounts aim at bewildering and shocking demanding readers through a carefully displayed cult to excessive behaviour. The arranged “economy of death” displayed in murder accounts will set them apart from other exceptional instances, as proven by their long-standing presence in subsequent centuries.
Valparaíso School
Author : Rodrigo Pérez de Arce
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780773526204
Book Description
"The School of Architecture at the Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile, underwent a transformation in 1952 when a group of young architects led by Alberto Cruz began teaching at the school. The Valparaiso School, as it became known, acquired an international reputation for its radical stance and its commitment to dialogue between architects and other disciplines. From 1970 onwards, it began to focus much of its research and design activity on the Open City project, which had been created by a group of architects, artists and poets with a vision of a city with "no master plan, no imposed ordering devices, and no hierarchical networks of infrastructure." Originally set up as a laboratory-type environment, this alternative community has since become a place of residence and work for like-minded people. Valparaiso School: Open City Group provides an insight into this radical experiment in urban development through a series of essays and photographs."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Global Environmental Constitutionalism
Author : James R. May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 18,65 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107022258
Book Description
Reflecting a global trend, scores of countries have affirmed that their citizens are entitled to healthy air, water, and land and that their constitution should guarantee certain environmental rights. This book examines the increasing recognition that the environment is a proper subject for protection in constitutional texts and for vindication by constitutional courts. This phenomenon, which the authors call environmental constitutionalism, represents the confluence of constitutional law, international law, human rights, and environmental law. National apex and constitutional courts are exhibiting a growing interest in environmental rights, and as courts become more aware of what their peers are doing, this momentum is likely to increase. This book explains why such provisions came into being, how they are expressed, and the extent to which they have been, and might be, enforced judicially. It is a singular resource for evaluating the content of and hope for constitutional environmental rights.
Beyond the Happening
Author : Catherine Spencer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1526144476
Book Description
Beyond the Happening uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the aftermath of the early Happenings. By the mid-1960s Happenings were widely declared outmoded or even ‘dead’, but this book reveals how many practitioners continued to work with the form during the late 1960s and 1970s, developing it into a vehicle for studying interpersonal communication that simultaneously deployed and questioned contemporary sociology and psychology. Focussing on the artists Allan Kaprow, Marta Minujín, Carolee Schneemann and Lea Lublin, it charts how they revised and retooled the premises of the Happening within a wider network of dynamic international activity. The resulting performances directly intervened in the wider discourse of communication studies, as it manifested in the politics of countercultural dropout, soft power and cultural diplomacy, alternative pedagogies, sociological art and feminist consciousness-raising.
Writers of the Spanish Colonial Period
Author : David William Foster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Spanish American literature
ISBN : 9780815326786
Book Description
"These critical studies propose innovative readings and overall reformulations of the texts and authors that stand as representative of the period for the contemporary reader. The first group of articles refers to reports, chronicles, and Renaissance epics, a vast block of texts that fall in most cases halfway between history and narrative fiction, and examine the experiences of the discovery, the conquest, and the colonization of the new territories. The second group concentrates on regionally marked texts from the Baroque period, especially those of the central figure of the Mexican nun poet and intellectual, Sor Juana In s de la Cruz. Finally, there are some essays on representative texts of the latter part of the colonial period."--Publisher's description.
Comparative Law for Spanish–English Speaking Lawyers
Author : S.I. Strong
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1849807876
Book Description
Comparative Law for Spanish–English Speaking Lawyers provides practitioners and students of law, in a variety of English- and Spanish- speaking countries, with the information and skills needed to successfully undertake competent comparative legal research and communicate with local counsel and clients in a second language. Written with the purpose of helping lawyers develop the practical skills essential for success in today’s increasingly international legal market, this book aims to arm its readers with the tools needed to translate unfamiliar legal terms and contextualize the legal concepts and practices used in foreign legal systems. Comparative Law for Spanish–English Speaking Lawyers / Derecho comparado para abogados anglo- e hispanoparlantes, escrita en inglés y español, persigue potenciar las habilidades lingüísticas y los conocimientos de derecho comparado de sus lectores. Con este propósito, términos y conceptos jurídicos esenciales son explicados al hilo del análisis riguroso y transversal de selectas jurisdicciones hispano- y angloparlantes. El libro pretende con ello que abogados, estudiantes de derecho y traductores puedan trabajar en una segunda lengua con solvencia y consciencia de las diferencias jurídicas y culturales que afectan a las relaciones con abogados y clientes extranjeros. La obra se complementa con ejercicios individuales y en grupo que permiten a los lectores reflexionar sobre estas divergencias.
The Reception of S. T. Coleridge in Europe
Author : Edoardo Zuccato
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 2007-12-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
Book Description
A collection of research on the European reception of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), the major Romantic poet and author of "The Ancient Mariner" one of the best known poems in British literature.
