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La semiótica es el estudio de toda clase de signos: palabras, imágenes, sonidos, gestos y objetos; es decir, de toda realidad que colocamos en lugar de otra. Los signos, además, forman parte de un sistema que les otorga significado. Este libro, un gran tratado de semiótica para universitarios, profundiza las teorías estructurales sobre los signos y los significados.

Childhood is a fundamental theme in the works of Ana Maria Matute, and also one of the key issues for the study of the aesthetic narrative of the writer. This thesis presents an analysis of the image of childhood in the works of Matute written for adults, observed in two distinct literary contexts: that of the realistic novels and of the fantastic works. This division also corresponds, though not mathematically, to the two creative periods of the writer, so that the continuity and evolution of both the theme and the aesthetic techniques throughout the author's entire literary career can be...

In 1981, on the basis of documentary evidence, the authors identified the site of the first public theatre in Alcala de Henares, dating from the time of Cervantes. The building, which had been most recently in use as a cinema, showed evidence of four periods of dramatic activity: the original corral de comedias, an 18th century horse-shoe amphitheatre, an elliptical amphitheatre of Roman period, and the cinema. Research in archives provided a wealth of documentation up to the 19th century, covering all aspects of theatrical life, from the original contract for the construction of the corral...

Dice Rodolfo Alonso sobre el autor: "Absolutamente inerme para sobrevivir en la vida cotidiana, en la vida burguesa, los avatares de la existencia y del destino de Baudelaire lo convirtieron también (…) en el primer poeta maldito, en el primer Cristo del arte, al que seguirían tantos ejemplos de “suicidados por la sociedad”, como bien dijo Antonin Artaud".