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In a profusely illustrated volume that gathers more than 150 of Diego Velázquez's most representative works, Fernando Marías describes in detail the life and work of the artist and dissects his style. The result is an accessible, erudite, and complete exploration of the work of a man who became Philip IV's favorite painter and is now considered one of the three greatest Spanish painters of all time. En un volumen profusamente ilustrada que recopila más de 150 de las obras más representativas de Diego Velázquez, Fernando Marías describe minuciosamente la vida y obras del artista y...

Eugenio Barba is recognized as one of the most important theatre practitioners working today. Along with the company he founded over fifty years ago, the world-acclaimed Odin Teatret, he continues to produce extraordinary theatre performances that tour the world, and his International School of Theatre Anthropology has greatly developed research into the craft of the actor. Now revised and updated, this volume reveals the background to and work of a major influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century performance. Eugenio Barba is the first book to combine: an overview of Barba’s work and ...

The Manual presents the state of the art of the research about discourse and communication within the Romance languages. It offers introductory articles which explain in a simple and clear way the current research topics of a broad variety of disciplines like Linguistics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Communication Theory, Text Linguistics and Philology. The authors of the Manual collectively explain complex theoretical problems concerning communication and discourse, and texts as its products. The contrastive descriptions contain examples in different Romance languages which show the...

Lo que parece una pregunta casi ociosa o totalmente abstrusa c mo conviene pensar el signo ling stico?, da lugar a estos ensayos, que desarrollan el tema del significado de las lenguas ordinarias, poniendo en relaci n tres mbitos del pensamiento: la tradici n filos fica de la sem ntica, el punto de vista ling stico y el inter s por los conceptos caracter sticos de la filosof a de la ciencia. Obra de ling ista, los ensayos retan a fil sofos y cient ficos a pensar de otra manera y a los ling istas, a repensar sus fundamentos con una perspectiva diferente a la de las posturas cognitivistas y...