PASODOBLES A.DOMÍNGUEZ

The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...

Fragen der Norm wurden für das Spanische bis weit ins 20. Jahrhundert ausschließlich von der Real Academia Española geklärt. Unter den Vorzeichen der Globalisierung und der sich immer stärker etablierenden Konzeption der Plurizentrik teilt die Sprachakademie diese Rolle zunehmend mit neuen Akteuren. Neben den Akademien in Spanischamerika treten vor allem die Massenmedien auf dem Feld der spanischen Sprachkultur in Erscheinung. In Fragen praktischer Sprachkodifikation kooperieren sie systematisch mit den Sprachakademien, zugleich aber fordern sie diese heraus, indem sie den Sprachgebrauch ...

Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist’s tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy concentration drawing spirals with a sense and meaning known only to himself. At other times, shunning children’s games, he traced his first pictures in the sand. This early self-expression held out promise of a rare gift. Málaga must be mentioned, for it was there, on 25 October 1881, that Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born and it was there that he spent the first ten years of his life. Picasso’s...

En la historia cultural de México, desde que el cine germina en el país a partir de su llegada en agosto de 1896, se inició un diálogo, una interacción, entre la prensa, la literatura y el nuevo medio de comunicación. Esto fue así debido a que el cine llamó de inmediato la atención de la intelectualidad de la época, entre ella escritores como José Juan Tablada, Amado Nervo y autores similares, que se manifestaron maravillados por el último portento de la ciencia que, en la transición del siglo XIX y XX, inauguraba la conformación de una nueva cultura comunicacional en México:...