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El Valparaíso de los escritores
Valparaíso no solo es la ciudad chilena más retratada, pintada y dibujada, sino también la más escrita, pero ¿en qué contexto crearon los escritores de Valparaíso? ¿Cómo era el Valparaíso de diversas épocas, de qué manera fue evolucionando, y cómo ellos lo percibían y describían? ¿En qué medida inspiraba o no a los escritores célebres por su porteñidad? ¿Hasta qué punto sus escritos son un reflejo de cómo era esta ciudad puerto en sus diversas épocas? Estas preguntas se intentan responder aquí, revisitando la vida y obra de autores que no necesariamente desarrollaron toda su carrera en Valparaíso; nombres como Manuel Rojas o Pablo Neruda tuvieron más bien estadías y retornos periódicos y otros, como los extranjeros Domingo Faustino Sarmiento y Rubén Darío, tuvieron un paso transitorio, episódico. Ellos contrastan con casos como Renzo Pecchenino, «Lukas», ilustrador que también escribía, cuyo arraigo en la zona fue de toda la vida. Este libro es una sugerente invitación a conocer los aspectos más destacados de la amplia panorámica de la literatura porteña, una guía para continuar descubriendo las diversas maneras de nombrar a esta ciudad.
Academic and Professional Discourse Genres in Spanish
"Parodi and his collaborators, in this inspiring volume, provide an insightful model for the analysis of construction, interpretation and use of academic and professional genres." Vijay K. Bhatia, City University of Hong Kong --Book Jacket.
Memories of Earth and Sea
Memories of Earth and Sea recounts the history of more than two dozen islands clustered along the Patagonian flank of South America. Settled over the centuries by nomadic seafarers, indigenous farmers, and Spanish explorers, southern Chile’s Archipelago of Chiloé remained until recently a rural outpost resistant to cultural pressures from the mainland. Islanders developed a way of life heavily dependent on marine resources, native crops like the potato, and the cooperative labor practice known as the minga. Staring in the 1980s, Chiloé was thrust into the global economy when major companies moved into the region to extract wild stocks of fish and to grow salmon and shellfish for export. ...
A Grammar of Rapa Nui
This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island. After an introductory chapter, the grammar deals with phonology, word classes, the noun phrase, possession, the verb phrase, verbal and nonverbal clauses, mood and negation, and clause combinations. The phonology of Rapa Nui reveals certain issues of typological interest, such as the existence of strict conditions on the phonological shape of words, word-final devoicing, and reduplication patterns motivated by metrical constraints. For Polynesian languages, the distinction between nouns and verbs in the lexicon has often been denied; in this grammar it is argued that this dis...
Thanks to Life
Chilean musician and artist Violeta Parra (1917–1967) is an inspiration to generations of artists and activists across the globe. Her music is synonymous with resistance, and it animated both the Chilean folk revival and the protest music movement Nueva Canción (New Song). Her renowned song “Gracias a la vida” has been covered countless times, including by Joan Baez, Mercedes Sosa, and Kacey Musgraves. A self-taught visual artist, Parra was the first Latin American to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts in the Louvre. In this remarkable biography, Ericka Verba traces Parra’s radical life and multifaceted artistic trajectory across Latin America and Europe and on ...
Valparaíso histórico y cotidiano
El origen de este libro, que muestra un Valparaíso de múltiples facetas, se halla en crónicas periodísticas que, por su cantidad y contenidos, adquirieron la consistencia suficiente para publicarlos en este soporte. Al ordenar dichos artículos se priorizó el criterio temático por sobre el lineal. Así, festividades y tradiciones como la procesión de San Pedro, Fiestas Patrias, y años nuevos, se van alternando con hechos específicos: temporales, terremotos, guerras y huelgas, y la trenza se completa al reseñar cómo la urbe portuaria fue creciendo y poblando, y cómo era la vida de los porteños, desde los clubes sociales hasta el trabajo de la gente de mar, sin olvidar el comercio ni la bohemia. Así se va mezclando lo histórico con lo cotidiano.
Identity and Internationalization in Catholic Universities
Identity and Internationalization in Catholic Universities explores the relationship between Catholic identity, mission, and internationalization in Catholic universities of different types and located in different contexts. Internationalization is a key concern for universities working to achieve their goals in different regions of the world but without neglecting their identity. There are many universities that consider themselves related to the Roman Catholic faith and many other universities with Christian affiliations. It is well known that Catholic universities have unique missions, such as the formation of individuals inspired by a religious conviction to serve society and the church....
The Age of Dissent
The Age of Dissent argues that the defining feature of the Age of Revolutions in Latin America was the emergence of dissent as an inescapable component of political life. While contestation and seditious ideas had always been present in the region, never before had local regimes been forced to consider radical dissension as an unavoidable dimension of politics. Focusing on urban Chile between the first anticolonial conspiracy of 1780 and the consolidation of an authoritarian regime in 1833, the book argues that this revolution was caused by how people practiced communication and framed its power.
Consequential Courts
In the early twenty-first century, courts have become versatile actors in the governance of many constitutional democracies, and judges play a variety of roles in politics and policy making. Assembling papers penned by academic specialists on high courts around the world, and presented during a year-long Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar at the University of California, Berkeley, this volume maps the roles in governance that courts are undertaking and the ways they have come to matter in the political life of their nations. It offers empirically rich accounts of dramatic judicial actions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, exploring the political conditions and judicial strategies that have fostered those assertions of power and evaluating when and how courts' performance of new roles has been politically consequential. By focusing on the content and consequences of judicial power, the book advances a new agenda for the comparative study of courts.
