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This collection assembles 30 contributions to three different colloquia of the international PatRom project. They cover very different issues culled from the entire range of research on Romance proper names and thus provide a comprehensive picture of present-day scholarly engagement with the names of persons in Romance cultures.

Jacinto, Rosa, and Pablo are members of a family, and the main characters of this story, where civic conscience and living in harmony with others are essential, promoting attitudes which foster humane respect for all.

Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work...

Profundo admirador de Poe y Dunsany, H. P. Lovecraft no escatima en esfuerzos por honrar y continuar la tradición de relatos macabros y oníricos que estos grandes maestros iniciaron. La escritura precisa y exquisita de los cuentos de Poe y la pasión por lo fantástico en Dunsany se conjugan en la novedosa propuesta del joven escritor, de cuya obra temprana este libro ofrece una cuidadosa selección (1919-1928). Aquí el lector no encontrará historias comunes de terror, no hay brujas o fantasmas que asechan al protagonista en la cabaña o en el bosque, nada de eso. Lo que descubrirá el...