De Adriano a Zenobia

Far Away Is Here/Lejos es aquí ofrece miradas cruzadas sobre los fenómenos de escritura que radican en las migraciones contemporáneas. En las secciones del volumen –Taxonomías y ontologías, Imágenes, Diásporas, Lenguas– se presentan cuestiones teóricas y case studies sobre la escritura migratoria tanto en países tradicionalmente receptores (EE. UU. y Canadá), como en antiguas potencias coloniales (Francia y Reino Unido), en actuales gigantes económicos (Alemania) o en naciones que han pasado de ser países de inmigración a países de emigración (Argentina) o a la inversa...

Since the Foundation of The Hispanic Society of America in 1904 by Archer M. Huntington (1870-1955), there has never been an artist so closely related to his famous art collection as Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923). The doors of the Hispanic society had only been open for only a few months when Huntington discovered the work of Sorolla, who at the time was exhibiting at Grafton Galleries. Huntington had found in Sorolla an artist that shared the same love for Spain, its villages and habits; that is why he began organizing the exhibition that would take place a year later. They worked...

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...

Il volume presenta i risultati di una ricerca condotta sui generi testuali piÃ1 rappresentativi dell'iter giudiziario penale in Spagna e in Italia, sotto il profilo discorsivo e pragmatico. In linea con gli assunti della genre analysis, viene innanzitutto definita la cornice istituzionale di riferimento: la prima parte del lavoro traccia, infatti, un generale quadro contrastivo dell'organizzazione giudiziaria, nonché dei lineamenti del processo penale nei due Paesi, fornendo al lettore le necessarie nozioni enciclopediche per affrontare la riflessione testuale. Segue una disamina dei...