Segundo compendio ilustrado y deleitoso de todo lo que siempre quiso saber sobre la lengua castellana

The German artistic revolution known as expressionism is the subject of this large-format, sumptuously illustrated Spanish-language entry in the Big Art series. The colorful survey samples all of the variations on the movement, from the Brü cke Group to the Viennese school, and showcases its greatest artists, including Marc, Kandinsky, Kirchner, and Nolde.

Cuando se habla del cine y sus inicios, se tiende a pensar en grandes personajes y superindustrias que, en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, habrían conquistado el mundo casi sin contratiempos. Tal aseveración resulta atractiva en tanto mito fundante, mas no se sostiene desde una perspectiva social e histórica. Si se observa en profundidad el fenómeno, tarde o temprano se constatará que la formación de la esfera cinematográfica en Chile presenta dos grandes características que desdibujan el lugar común: una cultura empresarial marcadamente plebeya y una altísima conflictividad social y...

From the beginning of the sixties, Mary Kelly's works have dealth with the muddle of the language and its cultural and psychological impact. Her narrative installations question the traditional explanations of the daily life. The project The ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi comes up in 1999 after reading a piece of news published in a daily in Los Angeles, a report relating the story of Kastriot, an Albanian boy whose mother left for dead during the war in Kosovo, being rescued alive by the Serbians afterwards to meet his parents later on in good health. Based on these facts, Mary Kelly made this...

This volume brings together a selection of papers presented at an international conference on Translation Studies in Barcelona in 1998. The papers illustrate four areas that are of particular interest in translation research today in Europe, Asia and Latin America. The purpose of the first section, 'Investigating Translation Paradigms', is to reach a critical revision of existing paradigms and to develop new ones in approaching the translated text. The second section, 'Investigating the Translation Process', focuses on the skills, knowledge and strategies that make up translation competence....