CIUTI-Forum 2008

The eighteenth century is one of the paradigms for studying identity crisis. It is from this period that the foundations of modernity and the definition of the values of contemporary societies are based. In this process of change, the debate on the intellectual capacity of females and their new role in the civilization of manners became a central issue that would define the whole time It not only helped to review the patterns of life and women's experiences, but also to rethink the role of man in the modern project of Enlightenment. This book explores the construction of these identities in...

Since their first publication in 1593, the complexity and beauty of the verses by Valencian poet Ausiàs March have constituted a challenge forhis readers. In this study we present an analysis of the poet’s language using an innovative methodology in the field of literary studies: the analysis of word combinations – collocations – with the support of ICT. Based ona structurally/morphosyntactically-tagged, lemmatized corpus, we carried out an automatic extraction of the collocations in March’s work by means of a search engine optimized to work with the Old Catalan language. Thus, on...

Con el paso de los años, John Waters se ha convertido en una de las figuras de referencia no solo del cine underground estadounidense, sino de la cultura pop en general. En su larga trayectoria, que abarca desde clásicos de la inmundicia como Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos o Cosa de hembras hasta títulos más mainstream como Hairspray o Los asesinatos de mamá, el cineasta de Baltimore ha ido repitiendo una serie de obsesiones temáticas y formales que merecían ser estudiadas en un solo libro. ¡Larga vida al trash! El cine de John Waters como nunca te lo habían contado es un homenaje...

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 ...