La democracia como no la conocemos

A thematic exploration of the work of the Colombian sculptor Luis Fernando Peláez, this book spans the artist’s career from his earliest graphic design and drawings to his unique installations and large-scale works for public areas. Full-color photographs illustrate the wide variety of languages and techniques employed by the sculptor and demonstrate the exceptional quality of his creations, which can be organized into groups joined together by the slightest thread of meaning but retain their individual significance and identity. This is an excellent introduction to a little-known but...

"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...

Este volumen recoge una serie de ensayos que abordan la narrativa colombiana contemporánea --desde mediados del siglo XX hasta la actualidad-- a partir una perspectiva cruzada transoceánica. Se abre, por tanto, un original espacio de análisis que explora la literatura y la cultura entre España y Colombia, partiendo de los parámetros cardinales que definen los estudios transatlánticos. Desde diferentes prismas teóricos y haciendo uso de la interdisciplinariedad, llevamos a cabo un acercamiento a este campo de estudio a través de conceptos tales como el exilio, la migración, los...

Material para el profesor pensado para la enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera que incluye fichas con actividades antes, durante y después del visionado de películas en español. Incluye un CD-ROM con las actividades en formato para imprimir.