Inglés Para Latinos

Reunión de artículos que dan cuenta del ritornelo constante, elocuente y bien necesario, ante la obra abierta e infinita de Shakespeare. Magna. Inabarcable. Y que siempre apela a redescubrir y reinventar la esencia de la especie humana.

"Tras haber perdido a sus padres a causa de la peste, Agualuna, llamada antes Amelia, cae en manos de una sombría y despiadada mujer dedicada a la hechicería, que la utilizará en sus tortuosos planes; planes que pondrán en peligro la profecía del duque."--Cover p. 4.

The first in a series, this collection of essays addresses the role of documentary film in negotiations of national identity throughout the Western Hemisphere. Twenty essays by scholars from Latin America, the USA, and Europe analyze narrations of nation in this genre, focusing on documentary film as a political medium, representations of the margins of the nation, postmodern documentary aesthetics, the function of documentaries in terms of cultural memory, and recent revisions of documentary film history. In a concluding section, four renowned filmmakers from Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and...

Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work...