Diccionario Lingüístico Etnográfico de la Lengua Mapuche

The articles included in this collection cover a wide range of literatures and topics, but most of them address the ways in which ethnic writers create themselves in opposition and resistance to the mainstream. These narratives of opposition and resistance do not equate protest narratives but represent a consciously subversive effort. There is agency and creativity in the confrontation, for the majority of the these narratives are not only demystifying an old world and order but creating a new one; there narratives are not reproducing as much as producing and forging culture and literature....

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....

Bringing a poet’s perspective to an artist’s archive, this highly original book examines wordplay in the art and thought of American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978). A pivotal figure in the postminimalist generation who was also the son of a prominent Surrealist, Matta-Clark was a leader in the downtown artists' community in New York in the 1970s, and is widely seen as a pioneer of what has come to be known as social practice art. He is celebrated for his “anarchitectural” environments and performances, and the films, photographs, drawings, and sculptural fragments with which...

El libro del arte del pintor y teórico italiano Cennino Cennini es, sin lugar a dudas, el primer tratado moderno de pintura, que aún manteniendo el método expositivo de los recetarios medievales ya recoge los preceptos sobre el dibujo y el color heredados de Giotto a través de la escuela florentina de Tadeo y Agnolo Gaddi. Valorado de nuevo por la ilustración dieciochesca, en el siglo XIX por los prerrafaelistas y, más tarde, a principios del XX, por el círculo intelectual de Viena (Schlosser y Antal) y la escuela neoidealista italiana (Venturi, Asunto), en la actualidad es utilizado...