Author: Carles Cortés Orts Publisher: Universidad de Alicante ISBN: 8416724806 Category : Exile (Punishment) in literature Languages : es Pages : 227
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La huella del exilio en la narrativa de Xavier Benguerel aporta un estudio completo de la influencia que la condición de exiliado en el país andino dejó en la narrativa del escritor de Barcelona. Un episodio personal, tras la derrota republicana en la Guerra Civil española, que marcó decididamente a una generación de escritores que tuvieron que dejar su residencia e instalarse en diversos países de acogida. En el caso de Benguerel, los nuevos espacios conocidos apenas estarán presentes en su obra narrativa, pero en los retratos psicológicos de sus personajes, tanto en los de textos escritos durante el exilio, como en las décadas posteriores, encontraremos una expresión de los sentimientos de desarraigo y de resignación frente a la nueva situación planteada. Por todo ello, este trabajo es una aportación sin duda fundamental para la valoración de la narrativa de nuestro país en el siglo XX, en su interacción con los hechos históricos que acontecieron.
Author: Rosilie Hernández Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1487504772 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 280
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Immaculate Conceptions investigates the religious imagination - sacred truth communicated through contingent and contextually determined theological propositions - as deployed in early modern Spanish textual and visual representations of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception.
Author: Stefan Baumgarten Publisher: Multilingual Matters ISBN: 1788921836 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 348
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This book focuses on the role of translation in a globalising world. It presents a series of case studies that explore the ways in which translation is subject to ideology and power play across diverging domains and genres. Broadly based on a discussion of 'translation and the economies of power', the chapters examine an array of contextual and textual factors, ranging from global, regional and institutional power relations to the linguistic, stylistic and rhetorical implications of translation decisions. The book maps the multiple ways in which power relations and ideological positions affect cross-cultural communication, with special reference to repressive practices in history, translation policies, media power and commercial hegemonies. It concludes that future translation research will benefit from a more sustained emphasis on the power of technology and economic capital.
Author: Jordi Cornellà-Detrell Publisher: Tamesis Books ISBN: 1855662019 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 237
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A thoroughly researched and documented study of Catalan literature under the Franco regime, focussed on several key post-Civil War novels and their authors. During the 1950s and 1960s, several key Catalan authors set about rewriting some of their narrative work despite the obstacles to publication in Catalan under the Franco regime. This study describes the social, political and cultural conditions that impelled Salvador Espriu, Xavier Benguerel, Sebastià Juan Arbó and Joan Sales to revise Laia, El testament, Tino Costa and Incerta glòria, concentrating particularly on the linguistic debates and literary trends from the 1950s to the early 1970s. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives, this book examines the reasons for the rewriting, including censorship and self-censorship, generational and ideological changes within the Catalan literary field, controversies over linguistic purism, the appearance of new literary trends and gender and political issues. It focuses on the (re)construction of a distinctive national identity and the impact of repression, memory, exile and silence on the representation of the war and the post-war periods. This study explores not only how writers or society at large were affected by the dictatorship, but how the armed conflict left its mark on the writing process itself. Jordi Cornellà-Detrell is a Lecturer in Spanish in the School of Modern Languages at Bangor University.
Author: Kathryn Crameri Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 248
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This volume examines the cultural policy of the Catalan Autonomous Government under the leadership of Jordi Pujol and his party, Convergència I Unió, who were in power from the post-Franco transitional period through Pujol's retirement in 2003. Examining issues of national identity and cultural nationalism in the context of globalization, multiculturalism, and the commodifications of culture, this book looks at how Pujol's government tackled these challenges. In addition, Kathryn Crameri analyzes the impact of devolved government on the promotion and preservation of minority cultures and the contradictions inherent in a world where national boundaries are supposedly diminishing.
Author: Gaëtan Brulotte Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135455015 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 1620
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The Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature is a two-volume work that contains some 540 entries on erotic literature on an international scale. The Encyclopedia has an unprecedented scope, the first scholarly reference resource to bring the field together in all its fascinating variety. The entries examine the history of the literature in different countries and languages from classical antiquity to the present day, individual writers from around the world (not all of them necessarily known as specialist writers of erotic literature), significant works, genres and critical approaches, and general themes pertinent to erotic literature (nudity, prostitution, etc.). The definition of erotic literature is broad, encompassing all the material recognized in the study of the field: not just fiction in all genres (novels, poetry, short stories, drama), but also essays, autobiographies, treatises and sex manuals from different cultures. This Encyclopedia deals with sexually explicit texts characterized by sexual representations and suggestions. All types of sexuality are included. For more information about the title and the editors, go to: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/latest-news/erotic-encyclopedia-edited-by-london-met-professor.cfm/
Author: Jordi Coca Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 228
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Exploring a boy's childhood in Barcelona during the Franco dictatorship, this novel, based on the author's own experiences, takes place during the oppressive late 1940s and early 1950s when the dictatorship's repression was strongly felt at all levels of people's everyday lives. Through an affecting first-person narrative and pitiless realism, the boy's bewildered responses to his father's violence and authoritarianism are played out at home and in a neighborhood dominated by street gangs, where politics is never more than a block away.
Author: IEEE Staff Publisher: ISBN: 9781728162430 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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principles and theories of development and learning development of skills in biological systems and robots nature vs nurture, developmental stages models on the contributions of interaction to learning non verbal and multi modal interaction models on active learning architectures for lifelong learning emergence of body and affordance perception analysis and modelling of human motion and state models for prediction, planning and problem solving models of human human and human robot interaction emergence of verbal and non verbal communication epistemological foundations and philosophical issues robot prototyping of human and animal skills ethics and trust in computational intelligence and robotics social learning in humans, animals, and robots
Author: Allan O’Connor Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000535932 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 221
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This book aims to provide new approaches to analysing and thinking about how entrepreneurial ecosystems develop and evolve over time as well as shed light on the relatively unexplored area of entrepreneurship ecosystem dynamics. The concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems has emerged as a framework to understand the nature of places in which entrepreneurial activity flourishes. Time is fundamental to the analysis of the dynamics of an entrepreneurial ecosystem. New firm creation, survival, growth and demise all occur within a temporal context that is, over and within time. Systems approaches to research invariably model the influential effects of the actors and elements that shape, re-shape, maintain, shift and change the system itself. An entrepreneurial ecosystem point of view, therefore, is inherently time-dependent and provides an analytical framework that reveals how the number and diversity of entrepreneurial actors situated in a place and time influence the creation of new firms, their survival, growth, and ultimately the stability of markets and industry in a time and place. Whether for better or worse, the historic and present time dimensions underpin the functioning and trajectory of entrepreneurial ecosystem performances and how they are shaped over time. Each chapter in this edited volume outlines a particular perspective and/or a unique case drawn from a range of countries that collectively reveal the dynamics of an ever-changing entrepreneurial ecosystem. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development.
Author: Christopher Chapman Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000408108 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 182
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Focusing on what can be done to promote equity within education systems, what the barriers to progress are and how these barriers might be overcome, this book provides detailed examples of strategies that have proved to be effective in addressing this challenge. Built on the work of the authors over the last three decades, the book presents an approach to educational change that will be relevant to different countries. The authors argue that there is untapped potential for promoting progress towards greater equity within schools and the communities they serve. They also show how this potential can be mobilised by using forms of collaborative action research to stimulate the development of more inclusive ways of working. Central to this approach is the use of evidence collected by practitioners with the support of university researchers, drawing on the human resources that are there in every school. Grounded in research, evidence and experience in the field, this book is ideal reading for a wide audience of practitioners and policy makers globally, including senior staff in schools, as well as post-graduate students, researchers and academics who are focusing on educational improvement.
Author: Carles Cortés Orts
Author: Rosilie Hernández
Author: Stefan Baumgarten
Author: Jordi Cornellà-Detrell
Author: Kathryn Crameri
Author: Gaëtan Brulotte
Author: Jordi Coca
Author: IEEE Staff
Author: Allan O’Connor
Author: Christopher Chapman