Los paseos de Lodovico

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In Las hojas que caen tells her own childhood story: that of a Chinese girl who suffers the abandonment of her stepmother and even her own family. Her determination to survive enables her to overcome experiences in her life which would have destroyed any human being.

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...

Estimamos que la semiótica ayuda a deshilvanar la madeja mediática, a comprender su estructura, y qué es, en definitiva. Lo que hay detrás del complejo proceso comunicativo, por qué creamos discursos y que sentidos ellos diseminan. Parecería que el papel de la semiótica es, en el fondo, buscar los fantasmas que alimentan los lenguajes humanos. El pensamiento de los autores que aquí presentamos, ayuda a arrojar luz sobre estos importantes problemas de semiótica. Su poder reflexivo y la fuerza de sus ideas, permiten captar con mayor profundidad el significado de las preguntas que nos...