En esta segunda entrega de la colección Master Drawing Course, Leandro Fernández brinda una detallada explicación del tratamiento apropiado de las luces y las sombras, conocimiento indispensable para aquellos que deseen hacer una carrera profesional vinculada al mundo del dibujo. En la primera parte de este volumen, se desarrolla el método de trabajo con las luces y las sombras en la historieta en blanco y negro. A continuación, se presenta un panorama de su aplicación en ilustraciones a color. Finalmente, se incluye un portfolio de obras de Fernández, comentado por el autor, para que los lectores continúen aprendiendo mientras se deleitan con su arte, sólido e impactante.

Introduces different kinds of light, the properties of light, and how light can create shadows of different shapes and sizes.

Es un libro diseñado para estudiantes y profesionales dedicados a la enseñanza y la traducción del idioma inglés. Presenta dichos y proverbios famosos, modos de uso frecuentes en lengua castellana y expresiones propias del habla coloquial en la Argentina y su traducción al inglés. Este es un singular tipo de diccionario no exhaustivo de correspondencia o conformidad entre frases, giros, expresiones y modismos en castellano e Inglés, de ahí el neologismo CONCORDARIO, puesto que no se trata de un diccionario en el sentido propio. Inútil es buscar aquí exacta similitud verbal, porque tal cosa con frecuencia no existe, desde que el significado de una expresión o un modismo posee gradaciones de matiz y contundencia expresiva, además de las variantes específicas, conforme a la situación en la que se emplea o el particular registro que el lenguaje asume. Tampoco hay una sola forma de correspondencia entre dos expresiones dadas, pues en muchos casos, la conformidad suele variar de acuerdo al contexto. La lista está ordenada por secuencia alfabética de la palabra subrayada que integra la expresión, e incluye aquellos giros idiomáticos o formas de dicción cuya traducción no logra deducirse generalmente de una versión hecha vocablo a vocablo. En este sentido, la versión inglesa intenta en ocasiones traducir la idea detrás del uso particular del modismo, cuando aquella se acerca a una equivalencia del giro o la frase castellana.

The Boom Femenino in Mexico: Reading Contemporary Women’s Writing is a collection of essays that focuses on literary production by women in Mexico over the last three decades. In its exploration of the boom femenino phenomenon, the book traces the history of the earlier boom in Latin American culture and investigates the implications of the use of the same term in the context of contemporary women’s writing from Mexico. In this way it engages critically with the cultural, historical and literary significance of the term illuminating the concept for a wide range of readers. It is clear that the entry of so many women writers into an arena traditionally reserved for men has prompted discussion around concepts such as ‘women’s writing’ and the very definition of ‘literature’ itself. Many of the contributors grapple with the theoretical tensions that such debates provoke offering an important opportunity to think critically about the texts produced during this period and the ways in which they have impacted on the Mexican and international cultural spheres. The project is comprehensive in its scope and, for the first time, brings together scholars from Mexico, the U.S. and Europe in a transnational forum. The book posits that despite certain aesthetic and thematic commonalities, the increased output by women writers in Mexico cannot be appraised as a unified literary movement. Instead it embraces a wide range of different generic forms and the subjects under study in the essays in the book include the best-selling work of Ángeles Mastretta, Elena Poniatowska and Laura Esquivel as well as the social and political preoccupations of journalists, Rosanna Reguillo and Cristina Pacheco. Contributors offer readings of the aesthetic visions of writers as diverse as Carmen Boullosa, Ana García Bergua, and Eve Gil while other essays examine the nuances of contemporary gender identity in the work of Ana Clavel, Sabina Berman, Brianda Domecq and María Luisa Puga. There are essays devoted to poetry by indigenous Mayan women and an analysis of the complex place of poetry within the broader framework of literary production. The problems that emerge as a result of literary cataloguing based on gender politics are also considered at length in a number of essays that take a panoramic view of literary production over the period. Various critical approaches are employed throughout and the collection as a whole demonstrates that academic interest in Mexican women’s writing of the boom femenio is thriving. Above all, the essays here provide a space in which the location of women within prevailing cultural paradigms in Mexico and their role in the mapping of power in evolving textual canons may be interrogated. It is clear from the collection that interest in such issues is still alive and that the debate is far from over.