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University Autonomy: Notes for Discussion
Autonomía universitaria hoy: anotaciones para la discusión
(2014-01-30)
This essay offers a brief reflection on the concept of university autonomy, focusing on addressing two critical issues: a) the implications for public university carries the emergence of a new conception of knowledge, ...
City and Poetry: The Stage and Language
Ciudad y poesía: el escenario y la palabra
(2014-01-30)
The author explores the relation between city and poetry, regarding to contents of the urban landscape that inspire poetic creation. It specifically examines urban cultural forms, such as infrastructure, speech, customs, ...
The Gaze in Leopoldo Lugones’ “Los ojos de la reina”: A Fragmented Reading
La mirada en “Los ojos de la reina” de Leopoldo Lugones: Una lectura en fragmentos
(2014-01-30)
“Los ojos de la reina” by Leopoldo Lugones deals with the strange death of Mr. Neale Skinner; all evidence leads toward Sha-it-Athor, The Lady of the Gaze, a beautiful Egyptian who is the reincarnation of Queen Hatshepsut. ...
Enlightenment Thought in Music
Iluminismo en la música
(2014-01-30)
The Enlightenment thought of XVIII century about the reason, criticism, autonomy, progress and education, may be difficult to distinguish in the music of the time, however, we will find it in a new form of composition, in ...
The Drawing Model Collection of the National Academy of Fine Arts
Las láminas de dibujo de la Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes
(2014-01-30)
This paper describes the origin and usage of the graphic portion of the oldest collection that the University of Costa Rica owns: the Drawing Model Collection. Which was brought to the country as part of the teaching ...
The new humanism and communication
El nuevo humanismo y la comunicación
(2012-11-25)
This article presents some contributions to the understanding of humanism from the paradigm of complexity. Also discussed the crisis of paradigms and the emergence of new world views in the light of advancing scientific ...
Conquest, domination and otherness in Bartolomé de Las Casas
Conquista, dominación y alteridad en Bartolomé de Las Casas
(2012-11-25)
This article attempts an innovative approach to the work of Bartolome de Las Casas. It is argued that such work should be approached as a work of theory and political philosophy beyond its importance as a work ethic or ...
The transexual in “El lugar sin límites”: Monstruosity, normas and punishment
El transexual en El lugar sin Límites: monstruosidad, norma y castigo
(2012-11-25)
This article presents an interpretation of the novel by José Donoso El Lugar sin límites (1966). It is a literary analysis focused on the character called La Manuela, he aims to reflect on the emergence of the transsexual ...
Between two olive trees or the story of a dying flower that waits for a hero
Entre dos olivos o historia de una flor agónica que espera a un HÉROE
(2012-11-25)
The authors make a remembrance of the recent decease of José Saramago, Nobel Prize in Literature 1998, died on June 18, 2010. They pay tribute to the narrator through an interpretation of his poetics applied to children's ...
A critical review of the construction of a myth in the autos sacramentales The Great Theater of the World and Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Revisión crítica de la construcción de un mito en sacramentales El gran teatro del mundo y La vida es sueño, de Pedro Calderón de la Barca
(2013-01-10)
This paper is a critical review that evidences theideological premises that support two autos sacramentales authored by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.