“…More than a few careers have been launched from costumes alone, and many an era defined by the intuition of a costume designer - think Charlie Chaplin in "The Little Tramp", Judy Garland in "A Star Is Born", Diane Keaton in "Annie Hall", Harrison Ford in "Indiana Jones". …”
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“…Con irreverencia y gran sentido del humor, Iriarte retrata las dictaduras caribe, resumiéndolas en un solo personaje, que reinventa la constitución, acaba poco a poco con la libertad de los ciudadanos, se apodera de las mujeres del país y las hace suyas casi a la fuerza, ensarta a sus enemigos en pinchos, y repite gestos estrambóticos dignos de cualquier tirano de la época clásica, como el que le da el título al libro: en un arranque de poder, el Presidente de la República de Majagual nombra general a su caballo Bucentauro para que todos le obedezcan. …”

“…"Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature explores the particular aesthetics of children's fiction and the ways critical theory can be applied to children's texts; at the same time, it remains accessible to a college readership without prior specialized knowledge of literary theory."…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Yanagisako -- Re-articulating anthropology / James Clifford -- Unchosen grounds : cultivating cross-subfield accents for a public voice / Rena Lederman -- Flexible disciplinarity : beyond the Americanist tradition / Sylvia J. Yanagisako -- Languages/cultures are dead! …”

“…In doing so, Yanagisako addresses two gaps in Marx's and Weber's theories of capitalism: the absence of an adequate cultural theory of capitalist motivation and the absence of attention to kinship and gender. …”
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