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An analysis of metaphors in the biographies of the ‘GDR children of Namibia’
2020
Metaphors are linguistically dense images that transfer terms from their original usage to a different context and describe actions and objects beyond their literal meaning. This article uses Rudol...
Sobre una ?poesía que se piensa en el lenguaje?. ¿Hacia una nueva vanguardia en la poesía española?
2018
En la última década puede observarse una renovación de las poéticas en España, tras un largo periodo de hegemonía de la lírica realista o figurativa. Aunque aún lejos de cuestionar el predominio a nivel editorial de la conocida como “poesía de la experiencia”, sí es evidente que el descrédito de la vanguardia va siendo superado y que, en formas múltiples y personales, alejadas de ningún movimiento grupal, muchos de los poetas jóvenes vuelven a poner en cuestión el lenguaje, cuestionamiento que suele relacionarse con un intenso tratamiento de lo corporal. Todo ello relacionado con una mayor lectura de la poesía latinoamericana y de otras tradiciones. En este artículo se pretende acercar al l…
Challenging the Victorian Nuclear Family Myth: The Incest Trope in Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak
2020
espanolLa literatura (neo)victoriana ofrece conceptualizaciones contradictorias de la familia nuclear, ya que generalmente gira en torno a hogares tradicionales heteroparentales pero los presenta como fragmentados y profundamente disfuncionales. La pelicula Crimson Peak (2015) del director Guillermo del Toro se basa en tres motivos recurrentes en la ficcion gotica (neo) victoriana, los traumas domesticos, la familia disfuncional y lo sobrenatural. Mi objetivo principal es explorar como Del Toro utiliza la trama del incesto para subvertir las visiones preconcebidas e idealizadas sobre la familia victoriana. En primer lugar, analizo la casa ancestral y la figura materna como origen de los tra…
Miradas oblicuas : infancias, paisajes y comunidades interrumpidas en el cine de Dominga Sotomayor
2020
Dominga Sotomayor propone, en De jueves a domingo (2012), Mar (2014) y Tarde para morir joven (2018), exploraciones de la intimidad de una familia, una pareja y una comunidad. En estos acercamientos, la intimidad se configura en grados variables de tensión con el afuera y lo público. En estas oscilaciones se pone en evidencia una de las características más recurrentes y estudiadas del cine chileno contemporáneo: la conversión de la intimidad en el locus sobre el que se proyectan, de manera indirecta, los conflictos del pasado y el presente. Este artículo considera la forma en que el cine de Sotomayor se inscribe en el panorama actual del cine chileno y, a través de él, en su escenario socio…
Death and Transfiguration : The Late Kim Jong-il Aesthetic in North Korean Cultural Production
2016
This article assesses the official music scene in Pyongyang over a span of five dramatic years, surveying how changes in the field of music from 2009 to 2014 mirrored and in some cases presaged North Korean dynastic succession and political consolidation. The article draws upon a new abundance of performance data on North Korean musical groups, data which we argue is important but has largely been ignored or mischaracterized heretofore. The central crisis dealt with in the article is the decline and demise of Kim Jong-il, the architect of North Korea’s musical culture. In his final years, Kim Jong-il assented to the creation of a new leading musical group known as the Unhasu Orchestra, prom…
Bullfighting: The Legal Protection of Suffering
2018
Bullfighting has been recently accepted as Cultural Heritage by the Spanish Government. There is a current initiative to declare bullfighting as Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and include it in the UNESCO list. The proponents of such initiatives contend that bullfighting should be protected and promoted on the grounds that it is an artistic activity, part of the national culture. In this chapter, I discuss the moral arguments and legal aspects that can be pitted against such a cruel practice. More specifically, I will examine the serious obstacles to the legal protection of such practices, which cause suffering and aim at killing nonhuman animals based on cultural or artistic reasons.
Integration of finite displacement interface element in reference and current configurations
2017
In the present paper the non-linear behaviour of a solid body with embedded cohesive interfaces is examined in a finite displacements context. The principal target is the formulation of a two dimensional interface finite element which is referred to a local reference frame, defined by normal and tangential unit vectors to the interface middle surface. All the geometric operators, such as the interface elongation and the reference frame, are computed as function of the actual nodal displacements. The constitutive cohesive law is defined in terms of Helmholtz free energy for unit undeformed interface surface and, in order to obtain the same nodal force vector and stiffness matrix by the two i…
Fast vibrational configuration interaction using generalized curvilinear coordinates and self-consistent basis
2010
In this paper, we couple a numerical kinetic-energy operator approach to the direct-vibrational self-consistent field (VSCF)/vibrational configuration interaction (VCI) method for the calculation of vibrational anharmonic frequencies. By combining this with fast-VSCF, an efficient direct evaluation of the ab initio potential-energy surface (PES), we introduce a general formalism for the computation of vibrational bound states of molecular systems exhibiting large-amplitude motion such as methyl-group torsion. We validate our approach on an analytical two-dimensional model and apply it to the methanol molecule. We show that curvilinear coordinates lead to a significant improvement in the VSC…
Sonnenbarke und zyklisches Weltbild. Überlegungen zum Verständnis der spätbronzezeitlichen Ikonographie in Mitteleuropa
2005
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Synthesizing on a reconfigurable chip an autonomous robot image processing system
2003
This paper deals with the implementation, in a high density reconfigurable device, of an entire log-polar image processing system. The log-polar vision reduces the amount of data to be stored and processed, simplifying several vision algorithms and making it possible the implementation of a complete processing system on a single chip. This image processing system is specially appropriated for autonomous robotic navigation, since these platforms have typically power consumption, size and weight restrictions. Furthermore, the image processing algorithms involved are time consuming and many times they have also real-time restrictions. A reconfigurable approach on a single chip combines hardwar…