Author: Viriato Sención
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This vivid exposé of corruption and political tyranny in the Dominican Republic rang so true to the reality that the President of that country went on television to denounce the book. Sención's novel follows the lives of three seminary students who suffer from church-state oppression. The book also gives a chilling portrait of Dr. Ramos, a sinister autocrat, who manages to survive six terms as president of his country through manipulation and tyranny.
They Forged the Signature of God
Author: Viriato Sención
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This vivid exposé of corruption and political tyranny in the Dominican Republic rang so true to the reality that the President of that country went on television to denounce the book. Sención's novel follows the lives of three seminary students who suffer from church-state oppression. The book also gives a chilling portrait of Dr. Ramos, a sinister autocrat, who manages to survive six terms as president of his country through manipulation and tyranny.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This vivid exposé of corruption and political tyranny in the Dominican Republic rang so true to the reality that the President of that country went on television to denounce the book. Sención's novel follows the lives of three seminary students who suffer from church-state oppression. The book also gives a chilling portrait of Dr. Ramos, a sinister autocrat, who manages to survive six terms as president of his country through manipulation and tyranny.
The Ultimate Spanish Phrase Finder : The 2-in-1 Bilingual Dictionary of 75,000 Phrases, Idioms, and Word Combinations for Rapid Reference
Author: Whit Wirsing
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071433031
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 961
Book Description
Get instant access to thousands of common Spanish phrases As you know it is next to impossible to deduce the Spanish equivalents of common English phrases such as "take a break" or "have an idea" using only a bilingual dictionary. That's where The Ultimate Spanish Phrase Finder comes in. Containing 37,000 common phrases and idiomatic expressions in each language, The Ultimate Spanish Phrase Finder gives you invaluable guidance on phrase construction, along with a range of synonyms to choose from. Examples--including common proverbs and book and movie titles--provide you with vivid illustrations of how specific word combinations are used in everyday contexts in Spain and Latin America.
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071433031
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 961
Book Description
Get instant access to thousands of common Spanish phrases As you know it is next to impossible to deduce the Spanish equivalents of common English phrases such as "take a break" or "have an idea" using only a bilingual dictionary. That's where The Ultimate Spanish Phrase Finder comes in. Containing 37,000 common phrases and idiomatic expressions in each language, The Ultimate Spanish Phrase Finder gives you invaluable guidance on phrase construction, along with a range of synonyms to choose from. Examples--including common proverbs and book and movie titles--provide you with vivid illustrations of how specific word combinations are used in everyday contexts in Spain and Latin America.
Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
Author: Frederik A. Bakker
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030027651
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This volume provides a much needed, historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century. It studies conceptions of space that were implicitly or explicitly entailed by ancient, medieval and early modern representations of the cosmos. The authors reassess Alexandre Koyré’s groundbreaking work From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (1957) and they trace the permanence of arguments to be found throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. By adopting a long timescale, this book sheds new light on the continuity between various cosmological representations and their impact on the ontology and epistemology of space. Readers may explore the work of a variety of authors including Aristotle, Epicurus, Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, John Wyclif, Peter Auriol, Nicholas Bonet, Francisco Suárez, Francesco Patrizi, Giordano Bruno, Libert Froidmont, Marin Mersenne, Pierre Gassendi, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Samuel Clarke. We see how reflections on space, imagination and the cosmos were the product of a plurality of philosophical traditions that found themselves confronted with, and enriched by, various scientific and theological challenges which induced multiple conceptual adaptations and innovations. This volume is a useful resource for historians of philosophy, those with an interest in the history of science, and particularly those seeking to understand the historical background of the philosophy of space.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030027651
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This volume provides a much needed, historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century. It studies conceptions of space that were implicitly or explicitly entailed by ancient, medieval and early modern representations of the cosmos. The authors reassess Alexandre Koyré’s groundbreaking work From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (1957) and they trace the permanence of arguments to be found throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. By adopting a long timescale, this book sheds new light on the continuity between various cosmological representations and their impact on the ontology and epistemology of space. Readers may explore the work of a variety of authors including Aristotle, Epicurus, Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, John Wyclif, Peter Auriol, Nicholas Bonet, Francisco Suárez, Francesco Patrizi, Giordano Bruno, Libert Froidmont, Marin Mersenne, Pierre Gassendi, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Samuel Clarke. We see how reflections on space, imagination and the cosmos were the product of a plurality of philosophical traditions that found themselves confronted with, and enriched by, various scientific and theological challenges which induced multiple conceptual adaptations and innovations. This volume is a useful resource for historians of philosophy, those with an interest in the history of science, and particularly those seeking to understand the historical background of the philosophy of space.
The Narrow Act
Author: Ronald Christ
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814713501
Category : Argentine literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814713501
Category : Argentine literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Personal Anthology
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 080219074X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Handpicked works from the greatest Argentinian writer of the twentieth century. “Without Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist” (Carlos Fuentes, author and diplomat). After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his work—short stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant “sketches,” which, in Borges’s hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in modern letters. In this anthology, the author has put together those pieces on which he would like his reputation to rest; they are not arranged chronologically, but with an eye to their “sympathies and differences.” A Personal Anthology, therefore, is not merely a collection, but a new composition. “An important work, by far the best yet available to the reader . . . who seeks a representative sampling of the great Argentine writer . . . the standard introduction to Borges in England and the United States.” —Saturday Review
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 080219074X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Handpicked works from the greatest Argentinian writer of the twentieth century. “Without Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist” (Carlos Fuentes, author and diplomat). After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his work—short stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant “sketches,” which, in Borges’s hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in modern letters. In this anthology, the author has put together those pieces on which he would like his reputation to rest; they are not arranged chronologically, but with an eye to their “sympathies and differences.” A Personal Anthology, therefore, is not merely a collection, but a new composition. “An important work, by far the best yet available to the reader . . . who seeks a representative sampling of the great Argentine writer . . . the standard introduction to Borges in England and the United States.” —Saturday Review
Latin America's New Historical Novel
Author: Seymour Menton
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292786271
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 248
Book Description
Beginning with the 1979 publication of Alejo Carpentier's El arpa y la sombra, the New Historical Novel has become the dominant genre within Latin American fiction. In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity and offers discerning readings of numerous works. Menton argues persuasively that the proximity of the Columbus Quincentennial triggered the rise of the New Historical Novel. After defining the historical novel in general, he identifies the distinguishing features of the New Historical Novel. Individual chapters delve deeply into such major works as Mario Vargas Llosa's La guerra del fin del mundo, Abel Posse's Los perros del paraíso, Gabriel García Márquez's El general en su laberinto, and Carlos Fuentes' La campaña. A chapter on the Jewish Latin American novel focuses on several works that deserve greater recognition, such as Pedro Orgambide's Aventuras de Edmund Ziller en tierras del Nuevo Mundo, Moacyr Scliar's A estranha nação de Rafael Mendes, and Angelina Muñiz's Tierra adentro.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292786271
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 248
Book Description
Beginning with the 1979 publication of Alejo Carpentier's El arpa y la sombra, the New Historical Novel has become the dominant genre within Latin American fiction. In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity and offers discerning readings of numerous works. Menton argues persuasively that the proximity of the Columbus Quincentennial triggered the rise of the New Historical Novel. After defining the historical novel in general, he identifies the distinguishing features of the New Historical Novel. Individual chapters delve deeply into such major works as Mario Vargas Llosa's La guerra del fin del mundo, Abel Posse's Los perros del paraíso, Gabriel García Márquez's El general en su laberinto, and Carlos Fuentes' La campaña. A chapter on the Jewish Latin American novel focuses on several works that deserve greater recognition, such as Pedro Orgambide's Aventuras de Edmund Ziller en tierras del Nuevo Mundo, Moacyr Scliar's A estranha nação de Rafael Mendes, and Angelina Muñiz's Tierra adentro.
The Mythmaker
Author: Carter Wheelock
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029272716X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Readers who are intrigued, though often mystified, by the intellectual fantasies of Jorge Luis Borges will find this book a revelation, a skeleton key to one of the most fundamental and baffling aspects of Borges’s fictions: the pattern of symbolism with an inner meaning. Carter Wheelock’s study reduces a number of literary and intellectual abstractions to concrete terms, enabling the reader to understand Borges’s fantasies in ways that show them to be not so fantastic after all. Indeed, they are amazingly consistent and minutely accurate in their symbolic depiction of the magic universe of the mind. Wheelock also discusses the affinity between Borges’s philosophical idealism and his “esthetic of the intelligence,” the relationship between these and the esthetic ideas of French Symbolism, and the influence on his fictions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Why is it that this “writer’s writer” from the Argentine—erudite, allusive, elusive—has attracted such international attention? In Wheelock’s opinion, it is because he has symbolized in his short stories the fundamental form of the human consciousness, the functioning of the imaginative (world-creating) mechanism, and the eternal battle between form and chaos. The Mythmaker is concerned with elucidating the particulars of Borges’s fictional works, but even as it does so it also reveals their universality.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029272716X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Readers who are intrigued, though often mystified, by the intellectual fantasies of Jorge Luis Borges will find this book a revelation, a skeleton key to one of the most fundamental and baffling aspects of Borges’s fictions: the pattern of symbolism with an inner meaning. Carter Wheelock’s study reduces a number of literary and intellectual abstractions to concrete terms, enabling the reader to understand Borges’s fantasies in ways that show them to be not so fantastic after all. Indeed, they are amazingly consistent and minutely accurate in their symbolic depiction of the magic universe of the mind. Wheelock also discusses the affinity between Borges’s philosophical idealism and his “esthetic of the intelligence,” the relationship between these and the esthetic ideas of French Symbolism, and the influence on his fictions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Why is it that this “writer’s writer” from the Argentine—erudite, allusive, elusive—has attracted such international attention? In Wheelock’s opinion, it is because he has symbolized in his short stories the fundamental form of the human consciousness, the functioning of the imaginative (world-creating) mechanism, and the eternal battle between form and chaos. The Mythmaker is concerned with elucidating the particulars of Borges’s fictional works, but even as it does so it also reveals their universality.
Room for Maneuver
Author: Ross Chambers
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226100760
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226100760
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Franco-Gallia
Author: Francis Hotoman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752365188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Franco-Gallia by Francis Hotoman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752365188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Franco-Gallia by Francis Hotoman
Cinema&Cie
Author: Adriano D'Aloia
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788869770227
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Neurofilmology. audiovisual Studies and the challenge of Neuroscience Adriano d'Aloia and ruggero Eugeni, Neurofilmology: An Introduction Temenuga Trifonova, Neuroaesthetics and Neurocinematics: Reading the Brain/Film through the Film/Brain Maria Poulaki, Neurocinematics and the Discourse of Control: Towards a Critical Neurofilmology Patricia Pisters, Dexter's Plastic Brain: Mentalizing and Mirroring in Cinematic Empathy Enrico Carocci, First-Person Emotions: Affective Neuroscience and the Spectator's Self Maarten Coegnarts and Peter kravanja, The Sensory-Motor Grounding of Abstract Concepts in Two Films by Stanley Kubrick Pia Tikka and Mauri kaipainen, Phenomenological Considerations on Time Consciousness under Neurocinematic Search Light vittorio Gallese and Michele Guerra, The Feeling of Motion: Ca-mera Movements and Motor Cognition New Studies olivier Asselin, Cinema d'exposition 2.0: Mixed-Reality Games in and around the Museum livia Giunti, L'analyse du film a l'ere numerique. Annotation, geste analytique et lecture active Christian Gosvig olesen, Panoramic Visions of the Archive in EYE's Panorama: A Case Study in Digital Film Historiography francesco Pitassio, Distant Voices, Still Cinema? Around the Movies projects & abstracts reviews / comptes-rendus
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788869770227
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Neurofilmology. audiovisual Studies and the challenge of Neuroscience Adriano d'Aloia and ruggero Eugeni, Neurofilmology: An Introduction Temenuga Trifonova, Neuroaesthetics and Neurocinematics: Reading the Brain/Film through the Film/Brain Maria Poulaki, Neurocinematics and the Discourse of Control: Towards a Critical Neurofilmology Patricia Pisters, Dexter's Plastic Brain: Mentalizing and Mirroring in Cinematic Empathy Enrico Carocci, First-Person Emotions: Affective Neuroscience and the Spectator's Self Maarten Coegnarts and Peter kravanja, The Sensory-Motor Grounding of Abstract Concepts in Two Films by Stanley Kubrick Pia Tikka and Mauri kaipainen, Phenomenological Considerations on Time Consciousness under Neurocinematic Search Light vittorio Gallese and Michele Guerra, The Feeling of Motion: Ca-mera Movements and Motor Cognition New Studies olivier Asselin, Cinema d'exposition 2.0: Mixed-Reality Games in and around the Museum livia Giunti, L'analyse du film a l'ere numerique. Annotation, geste analytique et lecture active Christian Gosvig olesen, Panoramic Visions of the Archive in EYE's Panorama: A Case Study in Digital Film Historiography francesco Pitassio, Distant Voices, Still Cinema? Around the Movies projects & abstracts reviews / comptes-rendus