Las empresas de la eternidad. Juan de Santiago y la retórica verbo-visual jesuítica

This volume sheds light upon one of the most emblematic constructions in Ibero-Romance: adverbial infinitives with specified subjects (e.g. al entrar Juan (Sp), para eles verem o resultado (Ptg)). The study attempts to fill an empirical gap and offers a cognitive-functional and comparative account on these constructions. The first part provides an overview of the notions of infinitive, subject and adverbial clauses. The second part consists of two empirical case studies. First, the use of the Portuguese inflected infinitive is shown to be sensitive to factors as the mental accessibility of...

• ESENCIA – El edén en cada un@ • Edición en castellano. Cesar Rampe (Capellades – Barcelona, 16 de septiembre de 1977) presenta 7 relatos de amor y vida, uno para cada día de la semana. Son relatos poéticos ilustrados, concisos e intensos, nacidos de la magia que deviene de estar viv@. Por y para ello, ‘Esencia’ es un compendio de sensaciones que nacen del autor y quizá de cadaun@ de nos[otros]. Si ‘Esencia’ fuese un color sería, sin duda, una acuarela del edén que hay en cada un@.

Catalog of full page color photos of Moises Finale's (b. Matanzas, Cuba) abstract art infused with images of mythological creatures from Greek and Roman antiquity; extensive biography and chronology.

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...