Antón Martín. Historia y arte del madrileño Hospital de la Orden de San Juan de Dios

En esta obra, Concepción Company aplica el concepto de revolución de Thomas Kuhn, expuesto en su obra La estructura de las revoluciones científicas, a la historia de la lingüística. Para ello, hace un recuento de los diferentes paradigmas que han guiado su quehacer, empezando con los pioneros de esta ciencia relativamente joven, quienes descubrieron y estudiaron el parentesco genético de algunas lenguas indoeuropeas, para luego analizar las contribuciones de los neogramáticos, el estructuralismo, la gramática generativa y el funcionalismo. La autora sintetiza y describe cada una de...

The correspondence between Joan Mir and Josep Llus Sert - comprehensively compiled for the first time in this publication - offers an essential document for understanding the convergence between these two individuals despite the physical distance that separated them for most of their lifetimes. The correspondence is supplemented with personal statements from Mir and Sert in the form of writings, photographs, sketches, architectural plans, and press clippings. This material has been consulted in the archives of the Josep Llus Sert Collection at Harvard University, the Fundaci Pilar i Joan Mir...

A new take on an eclectic and controversial director James Morrison's critical study offers a comprehensive and critically engaged treatment on Roman Polanski's immense body of work. Tracing the filmmaker's remarkably diverse career from its beginnings to 2007, the book provides commentary on all of Polanski's major films in their historical, cultural, social, and artistic contexts. Morrison locates Polanski's work within the genres of comedy and melodrama, arguing that he is not merely obsessed with the theme of repression, but that his true interest is in the concrete—what is out in the...

Primera traducción castellana realizada a partir del original latino de esta sátira utópica de la iglesia católica romana.