El talismán de las dos Sicilias

En la primavera de 1916, en Nantes, el enfermero militar André Breton y su amigo Jacques Vaché, el dandi de las trincheras, ven película tras película, cambiando de sala sin importarles la que se proyecte. Tienen veinte años —la misma edad que el cine— e inventan así una cinefilia alegre y desenfadada. Breton lo apunta en el Manifiesto del Surrealismo: «¿El cine? Enhorabuena por las salas oscuras». A la vez que proclama la «omnipotencia» del sueño, se da cuenta de que los gags, las persecuciones, las imágenes espasmódicas de las películas burlescas reproducen las propias...

This contrastive study analyzes the prefixation (notably the ablative type) of specific verb classes in Latin, Greek, Iberoromance languages (Spanish, Galician, and Catalan), and German. Based on the contrastive study of what is here labeled ‘preverbial systems’ and the interlingual comparison of prefixed verbs, it identifies the semantic and syntactic functions that can be attributed to these elements.

This volume delves into the discursive construction of three closely linked linguistic functions: evaluation, emotion, and persuasion in order to explore how they may intertwine. The discourse genres examined comprise business pitches, political debates, media discourse, fiction, social networks, etc., either in English or Spanish. The editors bring together a miscellanea of papers written by scholars from different Spanish universities and with different research backgrounds to deal with diverse topics under the general premise that an evaluative process underlies every persuasive act and...

Documents the different artistic urban interventions created in Mexico city public spaces since the 1960s. This edition presents detail studies of: installations, graffiti, murals, mantas (slogans), photographs, performances, body art and public advertising. Highlights include: grupo Proceso Pentagono (installation), La Santa Muerte (Performance), grupo Marco (visual poetry), Fotógrafos Independientes (photography), grupo Suma (murals) and grupo Germinal (painted slogans) among others.