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Periodicals in Chile during the Government of Salvador Allende and the Dictatorship
"Chile has a reputation as a country of poets. No doubt two Nobel Prize winners have contributed to this status, but it is also true that the abundance of writers who became poets would not have been possible without the articulation of groups and networks of writers who, gathered around periodicals, formed a tradition that had its greatest moment during the 1960s. ..." – By César Zamorano Díaz
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Digital Shakespeare
"If space—calculated as bytes of data rather than by word or page counts—is no longer as much of a premium, then digital Shakespeare editions can afford to offer content, commentary, and critical apparatus in greater detail and volume. This content may also be of an entirely different format: unlike a static page in a printed book, digital Shakespeare editions can also incorporate multimedia content and may effectively become extensible archives of text, graphic, audio, and video material. ..." – By Toby Malone and Brett Greatley-Hirsch
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