Author: Julie Gibbings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108489141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 427
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An illustration of how indigenous and non-indigenous actors deployed concepts of time in their conflicts over race and modernity in postcolonial Guatemala.
Author: Jo Evans
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 150131260X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 735
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Luis Buñuel: A Life in Letters provides access for the first time to an annotated English-language version of around 750 of the most important and most widely relevant of these letters. Buñuel (1900-1983) came to international attention with his first films, Un Chien Andalou (with Dalí, 1929) and L'Âge d'Or (1930): two surprisingly avant-garde productions that established his position as the undisputed master of Surrealist filmmaking. He went on to make 30 full-length features in France, the US and Mexico, and consolidated his international reputation with a Palme d'Or for Viridiana in 1961, and an Academy Award in 1973 for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. He corresponded with some of the most famous writers, directors, actors and artists of his generation and the list of these correspondents reads like a roll call of major twentieth-century cultural icons: Fellini, Truffaut, Vigo, Aragon, Dalí, Unik - and yet none of this material has been accessible outside specialist archives and a very small number of publications in Spanish and French.
Author: Roberto González Echevarría
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292768826
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Alejo Carpentier was one of the greatest Latin American novelists of the twentieth century, as well as a musicologist, journalist, cultural promoter, and diplomat. His fictional world issues from an encyclopedic knowledge of the history, art, music, and literature of Latin America and Europe. Carpentier’s novels and stories are the enabling discourse of today’s Latin American narrative, and his interpretation of Latin American history has been among the most influential. Carpentier was the first to provide a comprehensive view of Caribbean history that centered on the contribution of Africans, above and beyond the differences created by European cultures and languages. Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home, first published in 1977 and updated for this edition, covers the life and works of the great Cuban novelist, offering a new perspective on the relationship between the two. González Echevarría offers detailed readings of the works La música en Cuba, The Kingdom of This World, The Lost Steps, and Explosion in a Cathedral. In a new concluding chapter, he takes up Carpentier’s last years, his relationship with the Cuban revolutionary regime, and his last two novels, El arpa y la sombra and La consagración de la primavera, in which Carpentier reviewed his life and career.
Author: Oswald Spengler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788467023459
Category : Civilization
Languages : es
Pages : 752
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"La decadencia de Occidente" se editó por primera vez en España en 1923. Oswald Spengler había comenzado a escribir esta obra cuando la Primera Guerra Mundial interrumpió su tarea, y claro, la extendió, en varios sentidos. Ortega firma el prólogo de la edición española y escribe, casi de paso hacia otra reflexión: «... la guerra mundial, que no ha sido tan mundial como se dice...»; con ello se hace eco del punto de vista/palanca que el autor propone como explicación de su trabajo: Occidente no lo es todo y, además, se acaba. Y lo demuestra. Spengler maneja una ingente cantidad de información: baraja números, música, catedrales e hipótesis científicas con lo mágico, el sino y las eternas preguntas sin respuesta del hombre; sitúa su luz sobre los hechos en ángulos distintos de los acostumbrados y alumbra diferentes aspectos de las mismas cosas. Para él la historia está habitada de seres/culturas que nacen, crecen, se multiplican y mueren. Un monumental intento de establecer de establecer una filosofía de la Historia que establezca un marco global de comprensión de los hombres y las sociedades en el transcurso del tiempo.
Author: Alex Abella
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743205480
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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From Simon & Schuster, The Great American is Alex Abella's romantic novel about a young revolutionary. Involved in a romance with Laura, a young revolutionary, Ohio Marine William Morgan, stationed in pre-Castro Havana, becomes caught up in the turbulent struggle against Batista, only to be faced with disillusionment, loss, and betrayal in the aftermath of Castro's triumph.
Author: Ole Christensen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780817636005
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
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This concisely written book gives an elementary introduction to a classical area of mathematics—approximation theory—in a way that naturally leads to the modern field of wavelets. The exposition, driven by ideas rather than technical details and proofs, demonstrates the dynamic nature of mathematics and the influence of classical disciplines on many areas of modern mathematics and applications. Key features and topics: * Description of wavelets in words rather than mathematical symbols * Elementary introduction to approximation using polynomials (Weierstrass’ and Taylor’s theorems) * Introduction to infinite series, with emphasis on approximation-theoretic aspects * Introduction to Fourier analysis * Numerous classical, illustrative examples and constructions * Discussion of the role of wavelets in digital signal processing and data compression, such as the FBI’s use of wavelets to store fingerprints * Minimal prerequisites: elementary calculus * Exercises that may be used in undergraduate and graduate courses on infinite series and Fourier series Approximation Theory: From Taylor Polynomials to Wavelets will be an excellent textbook or self-study reference for students and instructors in pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and engineering. Readers will find motivation and background material pointing toward advanced literature and research topics in pure and applied harmonic analysis and related areas.
Author: Dr. Adalberto Garc�a de Mendoza
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463361874
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 181
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"Nadie se atreverá a negar que el Ingeniero y Doctor Adalberto García de Mendoza es el introductor en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras y en la Escuela Nacional Preparatoria de las teorías de los Filósofos de Baden y de Marburgo. En sus cursos de 1928 a 1933, empezaron a agitarse por primera vez los fi lósofos del idealismo crítico y vieron los jóvenes que en el futuro habrían de signifi carse como representantes del Neokantismo Mexicano. Quiérase o no, ADALBERTO GARCIA DE MENDOZA, es el padre del NEOKANTISMO MEXICANO"
Author: Aquilino Cayuela
Publisher: Erasmus Ediciones
ISBN: 8492806494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Author: Steve Wakefield
Publisher: Tamesis Books
ISBN: 9781855661073
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Carpentier was one of the first novelists to introduce a version of magical realism and the neo-baroque into Latin American fiction. This study focuses on one of the first novelists to introduce a version of magical realism and the neo-baroque into Latin American fiction. Original research colours eyewitness accounts of Alejo Carpentier's travels through Spainbefore and during the Spanish Civil War and the inspiration that he drew from the Baroque architecture he encountered there. The origins of Carpentier's uniquely 'baroque' style are found in his endeavour to create a period ambience in his historical fictions through descriptions of visual arts and architectural settings, and parodies of the literary style of Spanish Golden Age writers. 'Medusa's gaze' is used as a metaphor for the petrifying power of theBaroque as a weapon of European dominance. By wielding the same weapon in an act of postcolonial defiance, Carpentier enabled a reassertion of Latin American culture, and laid the foundations for the 1960s 'Boom' in the Latin American novel. STEVE WAKEFIELD is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia
Author: Luis Hermida González
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303157575X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 445
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