El banquete de los genios

El fenómeno de las vanguardias en Hispanoamérica atraviesa nuestra historia cultural como el parteaguas que determina la madurez, originalidad e independencia de las artes latinoamericanas, en especial la literatura. Así, los manifiestos y textos de la vanguardia hispanoamericana que Hugo J. Verani conjuga en este volumen son el testimonio sólo de un impulso literario que afirma el origen crítico y creativo del arte continental.

Research on Spanish in the United States is intended for use in courses, as well as by scholars and researchers interested in the area. The 29 original articles are organized into sections on interpreting; historical perspectives; borrowings of words and phrases; codeswitching, narratives, and discourse; sociolinguistics and pragmatics; phonology, morphology, and syntax; and language attitudes and planning. Many of the chapters focus on regional aspects of Spanish in the US, ranging from sociolinguistic issues among Dominicans in New York and Cubans in Miami to the adoption and adaptation of...

The main objective of this work was to obtain an overview of the Roman monetary circulation in Gallaecia following the road network that crossed this territory in Roman times. With a historical and economic emphasis, this volume aims to understand the process of monetization within the economy of the Galicians and Asturians and the ways in which the phenomenon occurs. Of particular importance is the fact that these people were never minting currency so the monetization process was not provoked by civic institutions but through contact with people and goods coming from outside the territory....

Charles Sanders Peirce es uno de los grandes pensadores de los últimos tiempos. Estudiar algunos de los conceptos centrales de su sistema semiótico-filosófico permite comprender la manera como los signos (desde una perspectiva tríadica) definen los distintos aspectos de la vida social y la manera cómo se producen los pensamientos. Este libro muestra, con un especial énfasis en las prácticas artísticas y estéticas, las categorías que definen el funcionamiento de los signos y sus efectos prácticos en la vida cotidiana.