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En los últimos años, la figura de Miguel Jacinto Meléndez ha ido cobrando un reconocimiento cada vez mayor dentro del panorama de la pintura madrileña del primer tercio del siglo XVIII, un periodo de transición entre el Siglo de Oro y la creación de la Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, más complejo, rico y novedoso de lo que se pensaba. En sus cuadros hay una curiosa fusión de tradición y modernidad, de fidelidad a las enseñanzas de la pintura barroca madrileña, sobre todo en la de temática religiosa, junto a una clara influencia en el retrato de los gustos imperantes en...

This book aims to give a general overview of the current theoretical and applied models which are being developed in the field of Cognitive Linguistics. With this purpose in mind, a number of papers have been selected from some of the most representative areas in the cognitive linguistics arena: mental imagery, metaphor and metonymy, cognitive grammar and construction grammar, the pragmatic and discourse background of language use and linguistic relativism. Some of the contributions presented herein propose new ways to refine existing theoretical frameworks: others apply some of those...

Knowing that he is dying, Jess's grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream.

From the beginning of the sixties, Mary Kelly's works have dealth with the muddle of the language and its cultural and psychological impact. Her narrative installations question the traditional explanations of the daily life. The project The ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi comes up in 1999 after reading a piece of news published in a daily in Los Angeles, a report relating the story of Kastriot, an Albanian boy whose mother left for dead during the war in Kosovo, being rescued alive by the Serbians afterwards to meet his parents later on in good health. Based on these facts, Mary Kelly made this...