Actes del vuitè Col·loqui Internacional de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes

The book presents a selection of papers on syntactic variation from different theoretical and methodological points of view. As such, it contributes to a process of reflection on the dialectical relationship between theoretical explanation and empirical description. In the first part, the authors discuss the use of corpora in syntactic variation studies. The rest of the book presents some new approaches to a number of controversial topics. Part Two concentrates on word order, information structure, and its phonological realization, while Part Three enlarges on variations in the encoding of...

Asclepíades de Samos fue uno de los autores de epigramas más importantes de la literatura griega. Su obra es fundamental para comprender la transformación del epigrama, de género poético popular en forma literaria culta y refinada. En este libro se editan y estudian todos los epigramas y fragmentos conservados bajo el nombre de Asclepíades. El texto presentado proviene de una profunda revisión de todos los manuscritos, papiros y ediciones conocidos, así como de la larga tradición de crítica textual acerca de éstos. Su amplio estudio introductorio reconstruye la biografía del autor ...

Table of contents: I. Tintoretto and the Venetian Culture and Religious Environment Paul Hills, Tintoretto and Venetian Gothic - Augusto Gentili, Tintoretto in contesto tra politica e religion - Benjamin Paul, Archaism and Pauline Spirituality in Jacopo Tintoretto's Crucifixion for SS. Cosma e Damiano - Tom Nichols, False Gods: Tintoretto's Mythologies as Anti-poesie - Bernard Aikema, La casta Susanna II. Tintoretto and the Art of his Time Philip Cottrell, Painters in Practice: Tintoretto, Bassano and the Studio of Bonifacio de' Pitati - Roland Krischel, Jacopo Tintoretto and Giulio Romano -...

The "mandalas phenomenon" has come to reach a diverse public of all ages. It's easy to understand their popularity of these powerful artistic tools with the power to improve quality of life and self-understanding.