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Long before the arrival of Hernn Corts, birds, serpents, the sun and moon, and human sacrifices figured prominently in the rituals and daily spiritual life of the inhabitants of todays Mexico. In the early sixteenth century, Roman Catholic missionaries began arriving in the area of TenochtitlanMexico Cityto convert the native Mexica to Christianity. The priests met with limited success until 1531, the year Juan Diego, a poor Mexica, first encountered the vision of the Heavenly Lady, now known as Our Lady of Guadalupe.Guadalupe is a lavishly illustrated history of Mexico's religious...

Del monstruo considerado como una de las bellas artes aspira a construir una poética de la otredad. A lo largo de sus páginas se entrecruzan el monstruo de Frankenstein y Mary Shelley con Drácula y Bram Stoker, Jekyll y Hyde, Rimbaud o el Hombre Araña... Todos ellos, criaturas anómalas que se atrevieron a explorar el corazó n de las tinieblas. Fascinantes y peligrosos como un bisturí, operan en nuestra alma con una minuciosidad jamás impune; transgresores y consagradores, persiguen el absoluto antes que aceptar el falso consuelo de la vida diaria. Terror y sacralidad, éxtasis y ansia ...

Frente a un criterio rigurosamente cronológico de la Hade nuestros diccionarios, se ha optado por destacar factores internos, centrados en el nacimiento de la lexicografía.

The main focus of this book is the investigation of linguistic variation in Spanish, considering spoken and written, specialised and non-specialised registers from a corpus linguistics approach and employing computational updated tools. The ten chapters represent a range of research on Spanish using a number of different corpora drawn from, amongst others, research articles, student writing, formal conversation and technical reports. A variety of methodologies are brought to bear upon these corpora including multi-dimensional and multi-register analysis, latent semantics and lexical bundles....