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Mario Vargas Llosa and the Persistence of Memory
Editado en idioma inglés, este tributo a Mario Vargas Llosa y sus obras reúne los ensayos preparados en su honor, en la Universidad de Hofstra, noviembre del 2003. También se incluye dos entrevistas y una selecta bibliografía.
Tiempo de toros
¿Cómo se cría y selecciona el toro en el campo? ¿Sabes ver una corrida de toros? ¿Qué ritual sigue un torero?En Tiempo de toros encontrarás las respuestas a estos temas. Basado en el nombre de igual nombre que emite Castilla-La Mancha Televisión y de la mano de su presentador José Miguel Martín de Blas, podrás descubrir aquellos secretos y las interioridades del mundo del toro.El espectáculo taurino está lleno de enigmáticos detalles y claves, que resultan difíciles de comprender para quienes no son expertos en Tauromaquia. Este libro incluye un DVD con una selección de los mejores momentos del programa, que te ayudará a comprender este mundo.
Between Encyclopedia and Chorography
During the early modern period, regional specified compendia – which combine information on local moral and natural history, towns and fortifications with historiography, antiquarianism, images series or maps – gain a new agency in the production of knowledge. Via literary and aesthetic practices, the compilations construct a display of regional specified knowledge. In some cases this display of regional knowledge is presented as a display of a local cultural identity and is linked to early modern practices of comparing and classifying civilizations. At the core of the publication are compendia on the Americas which research has described as chorographies, encyclopeadias or – more recently – 'cultural encyclopaedias'. Studies on Asian and European encyclopeadias, universal histories and chorographies help to contextualize the American examples in the broader field of an early modern and transcultural knowledge production, which inherits and modifies the ancient and medieval tradition.
Legitimizing the Queen
Legitimizing the Queen deals with a genre particular to the Middle Ages: the specula principum (mirror of prince). Its importance as an object of study may be understood in light of the political instability that wracked the Castilian fifteenth century. The many works written for and dedicated to Isabel I of Castile depict her kingdom as a shipwrecked boat, a wayward realm, and a land of bankrupt people. These works suggest the kingdom's need for redemption through the strong leadership of the Catholic monarchs. These largely propagandistic works were designed to garner power, and once maintained, further Isabel's agenda. This book frames the concept of sovereignty from the theoretical persp...
