Scream Queer

The book you have in your hands has its distant ancestor in an International Symposium held at the University of Salamanca in September 2011 (2nd-4th) and entitled «Continental Celtic Word Formation. The Onomastic Data». The idea for this gathering arose from a series of conversations between Juan Luis García Alonso, Patrick Sims-Williams and Alexander Falileyev in Aberystwyth in March 2010. This book is undoubtedly indebted to this previous event (belonging in a series that we might call our «Ptolemy Workshops», held in Aberystwyth in 1999 (Ptolemy: Towards a linguistic atlas of the...

Las incertidumbres, las inconsistencias, los miedos y las obsesiones de cada época condicionan su arte, y el cine es uno de los dispositivos que los recoge, estiliza y arroja de nuevo al espectador. Desde la década de 1990 el cine nos invita a desconfiar de sus relatos. Los denominados ‘mind-game films’ convocan narradores amnésicos, durmientes o mentirosos; por ellos transitan figuras detectivescas que terminan descubriéndose como culpables del misterio que investigan; escritores atormentados son devorados por sus propias ficciones; los protagonistas proyectan, sin saberlo,...

En este libro aborda Bodei la noción central de la estética, bello, belleza, sus diversas interpretaciones, puntos de vista, rostros en los que la belleza se ha expresado. Simultáneamente, al hilo de esta exposición, Bodei configura una teoría específica de la belleza y de sus avatares en el marco de la literatura y el arte contemporáneos.

Although it is widely thought that structural linguistics began abruptly with the publication of Saussure's 'revolutionary' "Course in General Linguistics," the work of E. F. K. Koerner has demonstrated that Saussure, for all his originality, remained true to the basic tenets of his 19th-century predecessors. In this volume, the development of modern linguistics before, during and after Saussure is traced in 20 studies honouring the scholar who has done more than anyone else to professionalize linguistic historiography during the last quarter century. Among the wide range of topics covered...