Máscaras y espejismos

La sombra de Valle-Inclán se proyecta con inesperado fulgor sobre la escena española de los siglos XX y XXI. Y no solo porque, tras él, resultara difícil volver a hacer girar la rueda de Tespis y poner de nuevo en marcha la rodante caravana del teatro. También porque, después de Valle, todo dramaturgo ha tenido que tomar postura frente a su renovación. Don Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) aspiró a que su dramaturgia, como la primitiva tragedia griega, fuera una síntesis de contrarios. Y hemos de concederle que logró su propósito, pues en muy pocas ocasiones se ha logrado por...

Accompanying an exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemsiza museum, this book reveals the double facet of the artist and his legacy by detailing a series of successive encounters between Gauguin and his masters, his contemporaries, and his pupils. One of the key paradoxes concerning Paul Gauguin is the fact that he was both a profound individualist and at the same time the founder of an artistic school. For the young artists collectively known as the Nabis, Gauguin's personal version of symbolism became the canonical route to modern art. Acompañando una exhibición en el Museo Thyssen-Bornemsiza,...

This book aims to give a general overview of the current theoretical and applied models which are being developed in the field of Cognitive Linguistics. With this purpose in mind, a number of papers have been selected from some of the most representative areas in the cognitive linguistics arena: mental imagery, metaphor and metonymy, cognitive grammar and construction grammar, the pragmatic and discourse background of language use and linguistic relativism. Some of the contributions presented herein propose new ways to refine existing theoretical frameworks: others apply some of those...

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Gröber in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages. The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and English. Each...