El delineador que escribe los cuerpos

This volume examines the symbolic systems that governed America’s integration into the European weltanschauung,including Amerindian myths and religious beliefs, and concepts of Christian belief, as introduced and taught by the Europeans. Thiscollection of essayspresents a detailed examination of political, legal, theological, and historiographic problems associated with this process.

"New worlds for old words / Mundos nuevos para viejas palabras" is a collection of chapters on the theme of lexical borrowing in the languages of Western Europe with particular focus on borrowing from Latin, or from Greek via Latin, into Spanish. Such cultured, or “learnèd” borrowing—as it has sometimes been designated—, is an especially intriguing feature of the Romance languages, since they also derive from Latin. It is also of particular interest to historical linguists since it is an example of what has been called “change from above”: innovation first evidenced in the...

La mayoría de los grandes cineastas no sólo poseen plena conciencia de su arte y de su oficio, sino que en muchos casos han vertido esas reflexiones en forma de verdaderas teorías. Con la lectura de este libro descubriremos que esas teorías son a menudo muy rigurosas y siempre imaginativas, y que las aventuras especulativas propuestas desde los años veinte hasta nuestros días por cineastas de todo tipo constituyen una panorámica en extremo sugestiva de las principales cuestiones vinculadas al lenguaje cinematográfico. Cuestiones de sociedad, de ideología y de política. Cuestiones de ...

The volume aims to convey an impression of the richness and fascination of Romance Philology and the infinite variety of the contours and contents of the field of Romance Studies. The author was less concerned with developing novel theoretical models, but rather wanted to trace the manifestations of the most important stages in the development of the subject area and wherever possible to complement them with his own contributions. "