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The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...

Eines der Ziele dieser Dissertation ist es, der wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft und insbesondere den direkt oder indirekt am Unterrichtsprozess Beteiligten ein operatives Konzept verbaler Pragmatik bekannt zu machen und es anderen Aspekten wie Grammatik, Kultur oder kulturübergreifenden Aspekten gegenüberzustellen, sowie ihnen die Bedeutung und zwingende Notwendigkeit, die Pragmatik als wichtige Disziplin im kommunikativen Prozess zu etablieren, und insbesondere ihre systematische und eindeutige Aufnahme in Schulbücher für Spanisch als Fremdsprache bewusst zu machen. Die vorliegende...

En nuestra cultura (al menos por cuanto debe a los griegos, que no es poco) ver siempre fue sinónimo de conocer. "¿Ves?" preguntamos a nuestro interlocutor cuando queremos asegurarnos de que ha comprendido, de que se ha enterado. La etimología de la lengua griega nos enseña que idea, eidos, el objeto del conocimiento, e imagen, eidolon, el objeto de nuestra visión, tienen la misma raíz: ver, idein. La misma palabra idea, el eidos, antes de convertirse en el ente invisible por excelencia de la metafísica (es decir, de una región que está más allá de la física y de su visibilidad) y ...

Since the Foundation of The Hispanic Society of America in 1904 by Archer M. Huntington (1870-1955), there has never been an artist so closely related to his famous art collection as Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923). The doors of the Hispanic society had only been open for only a few months when Huntington discovered the work of Sorolla, who at the time was exhibiting at Grafton Galleries. Huntington had found in Sorolla an artist that shared the same love for Spain, its villages and habits; that is why he began organizing the exhibition that would take place a year later. They worked...