Genio Y Figura
Download Genio Y Figura full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Genio Y Figura ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
José Martí's "Our America"
Author | : Jeffrey Grant Belnap |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822322658 |
On Jose Marti as a political exile in the U.S.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Jorge Luis Borges Collection at the University of Virginia Library
Author | : C. Jared Loewenstein |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780813913339 |
Nearly a decade in compilation, this catalogue is the most complete checklist to date of works by and about Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer Borges (1899-1988). The catalogue describes the holdings in the Borges collection at the U. of Virginia Library, the world's finest and most complete collection of works by and about Borges. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime
Author | : Lino Camprubi |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2014-05-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0262323230 |
How engineers and agricultural scientists became key actors in Franco's regime and Spain's forced modernization. In this book, Lino Camprubí argues that science and technology were at the very center of the building of Franco's Spain. Previous histories of early Francoist science and technology have described scientists and engineers as working “under” Francoism, subject to censorship and bound by politically mandated research agendas. Camprubí offers a different perspective, considering instead scientists' and engineers' active roles in producing those political mandates. Many scientists and engineers had been exiled, imprisoned, or executed by the regime. Camprubí argues that those who remained made concrete the mission of “redemption” that Franco had invented for himself. This gave them the opportunity to become key actors—and mid-level decision makers—within the regime. Camprubí describes a series of projects across Spain undertaken by the civil engineers and agricultural scientists who placed themselves at the center of their country's forced modernization. These include a coal silo, built in 1953, viewed as an embodiment of Spain's industrialized landscape; links between laboratories, architects, and the national Catholic church (and between technology and authoritarian control); vertically organized rice production and research on genetics; river management and the contested meanings of self-sufficiency; and the circulation of construction standards by mobile laboratories as an engine for European integration. Separately, each chapter offers a fascinating microhistory that illustrates the coevolution of Francoist science, technology, and politics. Taken together, they reveal networks of people, institutions, knowledge, artifacts, and technological systems woven together to form a new state.
The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon
Author | : Mariana Casale O’Ryan |
Publisher | : MHRA |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2014-05-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1781880778 |
Jorge Luis Borges is, undeniably, Argentina's best-known and most influential writer. In addition to scholarly studies of his work, his emblematic figure continues to appear on book covers and carrier bags, in biographies, plaques and statues, photographs and interviews, as well as cartoons and city tours. The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon argues that the ideas and expectations that Argentine people have placed upon the author - thus constructing the icon - are also those that allow them to define their cultural identity. The book examines these intertwined processes by analysing the image of Borges in biographies, photographs, comic strips and urban spaces and the socio-political, historical and cultural contexts in which they were produced. The study seeks not to reveal a Borgesian essence but, rather, to expose the complexity of the ongoing mechanisms which construct Borges the icon. Despite the vast amount of biographical and critical work about the writer that has been produced in Argentina and abroad, The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon is the first in-depth, comprehensive examination of the construction of the author as an Argentine cultural icon.
Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Author | : European Association for Jewish Studies. Congress |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 726 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9789004115583 |
A cursed book. A missing professor. Some nefarious men in gray suits. And a dreamworld called the Troposphere? Ariel Manto has a fascination with nineteenth-century scientists—especially Thomas Lumas and The End of Mr. Y, a book no one alive has read. When she mysteriously uncovers a copy at a used bookstore, Ariel is launched into an adventure of science and faith, consciousness and death, space and time, and everything in between. Seeking answers, Ariel follows in Mr. Y’s footsteps: She swallows a tincture, stares into a black dot, and is transported into the Troposphere—a wonderland where she can travel through time and space using the thoughts of others. There she begins to understand all the mysteries surrounding the book, herself, and the universe. Or is it all just a hallucination? With The End of Mr. Y, Scarlett Thomas brings us another fast-paced mix of popular culture, love, mystery, and irresistible philosophical adventure.
Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Author | : Angel Sáenz-Badillos |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 717 |
Release | : 2024-01-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004672532 |
In July of 1998 the European Association for Jewish Studies celebrated its Sixth Congress in Toledo, with almost four hundred participants. In these Proceedings have been collected 169 papers and communications read during the conference. By and large, they offer a broad, realistic perspective on the advances, achievements and anxieties of Judaic Studies at the turn of the 20th century, on the eve of the new millennium. They represent the point of view of the European scholars, enriched with notable contributions by colleagues from other continents. One volume (ISBN 978-90-04-11554-5) includes papers dealing with Jewish studies on biblical, rabbinical and medieval times, as well as with some general subjects, such as Jewish languages and bibliography. A second volume (ISBN 978-90-04-11558-3) is dedicated to the Judaism of modern times, from the Renaissance to our days.
Voces Femeninas de Hispanoamerica
Author | : Gloria Bautista |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-08-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0822980770 |
Voces Femeninas de Hispanoamerica presents in one volume a selection of the most representative and outstanding writing by Latin American women writers from the seventeenth century to the present. Designed as a text for third and fourth-year students, the selections, writers' biographies, historical introduction, and appendixes are entirely in Spanish, with notes to help students with difficult words or passages.
Reinventing Modernity in Latin America
Author | : N. Miller |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2007-12-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230610102 |
This is an exploration of how Latin America developed an alternative modernity during the early twentieth century, one that challenges the key assumptions of the Western dominant model.