EMS Translator Field Guide

The book offers a panchronic analysis of queísmo, one of the oldest variational phenomena in Spanish syntax, from the Classical era to this day. Within the framework of historical sociolinguistics and on the empirical basis of a broad corpus of texts close to the pole of immediacy, the study analyzes the factors that have determined this variation at various points in time.

"Includes over 5,000 entries and 6,000 definitions of the most commonly-used Latin American words and expressions, with many examples to illustrate their use, and there is a Spanish and English translation for every entry. Includes all entries listed in the Spanish Royal Academy dictionary pertaining to...Latin America." Amazon.com viewed 8/12/2020.

Sujetos del deseo propone que todo traductor literario es un amateur, en el sentido que ama y desea un texto, un autor, una voz, una cultura, y que movido por su deseo y a pesar de las condiciones precarias de su labor se convierte en pieza clave de la circulación de productos culturales. Además, es un libro sobre los éxitos y fracasos del traductor amateur como agente político-cultural en las zonas que definen las relaciones culturales entre Estados Unidos y América Latina entre finales del siglo XIX y mediados del siglo XX. En este contexto, el libro se enfoca en el trabajo y las redes ...

Julio Baena offers a new analysis of Cervantes's last and most controversial novel, Los trabajos de Persiles y Segismunda. Baena's particular focus on the first chapter of this allegorical text, which he sees as a microcosm of the entire novel, allows him to explore the correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm in Cervantes's allegorical text. Placing this work within the intellectual context of its era, Baena uses poststructuralist methodologies to develop the existential implications of Persiles's central cosmological metaphor.