Perspectiva y composición

Guía básica de dibujo para artistas que desean mejorar su técnica en el área concreta de las naturalezas muertas

This is the first book-length study of Carmen Miranda in English. It traces her origins as a radio singer, recording artist and film star in Brazil in the 1930s, before exploring in depth her Hollywood screen roles and the construction of her long-lasting star persona in the USA.

For the first time in the history of research both in Spanish and German linguistics, this book undertakes a comparative study ofthe lexical structures commonly understood as word families and the theoretical and methodological basesof their analysis.Using the word families derived from dec(ir) and sag(en) as a main reference point, thestudy discusses differenttheoretical approaches and positions."

The objective of the book is to resolve one of the many enigmas posed by the history of Ibero-Romance dialects in general and Spanish in particular - the strange palatalization (unconditioned, sporadic and incomplete) of /s/. Over and above this central concern, the book also pursues a fundamentally theoretical aim inspired by two preoccupations of a metalinguistic nature, the delimitation of historical linguistics and the circumstantial nature of linguistic investigation.

Selección de cinco piezas dramáticas en las que la realidad y la fantasía, la irrisión y el dolor, se encauzan en un mismo espacio creando mundos realmente irresistibles para el lector curioso.