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Waldo Rojas entrega un extenso acopio de información sistematizada y rigurosa, en la que se establece un panorama informativo y reflexivo del movimiento surrealista francés y sus prolongaciones continentales, desde sus orígenes en el estallido febril de Dadá hasta su disolución oficial en el decenio de 1960. Son identificados biográficamente sus fundadores, protagonistas y simpatizantes desde Tzara, Breton, Soupault, Duchamp, Man Ray, hasta Picabia, Ernst, Dalí o Matta. Y destaca la voluntad de convocar que tuvo el surrealismo a través de la palabra escrita en revistas, afiches,...

The articles included in this collection cover a wide range of literatures and topics, but most of them address the ways in which ethnic writers create themselves in opposition and resistance to the mainstream. These narratives of opposition and resistance do not equate protest narratives but represent a consciously subversive effort. There is agency and creativity in the confrontation, for the majority of the these narratives are not only demystifying an old world and order but creating a new one; there narratives are not reproducing as much as producing and forging culture and literature....

As a one of the foremost painters of the 20th century, Dalí, like Picasso and Warhol, can boast of having overturned the art of the previous century and directed contemporary art toward its present incarnation. As irrational as he was surrealist, this genius diverted objects from their original meanings, plunging them into the acid of his constantly churning imagination. A megalomaniac and an artist who understood above all the force of marketing and publicity, Dalí disorientates the viewer in order to draw him into the artist’s world. On his canvases, images and colours crash together to ...

Giovanni Adamo, Manuel Alvar Ezquerra, M. Teresa Cabré, M. Pilar Perea, Luis Fernando Lara, Josep Marco and Antón Santamarina reflect on the evolution of lexicography with the application of new technologies and propose an outlook on the progresses achieved in this area. The study not only focuses on Hispanic languages, but also on other Romance languages, by introducing Italian and French perspectives.