Viernes, 28 de Octubre de 2005
The Spanish National Research Council publishes a collection of essays of a UGR Professor as a history of Spanish literary thought
The book “For a history of literary thought in Spain”, by the professor of the department of General Linguistics and Theory of Literature of the Universidad of Granada Antonio Chicharro Chamorro starts with a work about an academic oration of Soto de Rojas (his Speech on Poetics). Chicharro includes in this volume edited by the Spanish National Research Council, essays written “always from a historical perspective, both when proceeding to its analysis and when integrating ...
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Lunes, 19 de Septiembre de 2005
The Universidad de Granada publishes an essay on the formation of political theories of the Middle Ages
Opening some research lines in order to guide students and scholars is the aim of this book by Henri-Xavier Arquillière published by the Universidad of Granada under the title: The political augustinism, an essay on the formation of the political theories in the Middle Ages. The volume, edited in collaboration with the Universitat de València, is part of ...
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Jueves, 16 de Junio de 2005
A researcher discovers the university record of writer Juan Valera in the archive of the UGR
The student’s record of the nineteenth-century writer Juan Valera, has been preserved in the files of the University of Granada where the el novelist, indigenous to Cordoba, read Law. Remedios Sánchez García, who has found the record during the development of her rsearch thesis about the role of women in the work of the author of “Juanita la Larga”, “Morsamor” or “Genio y figura”, which will be entirely published for the first time in this work, ...
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Miércoles, 15 de Junio de 2005
The UGR completes the edition of the work “Art History in Latin America and the Philippines” with the publication of a third volume
This third volume of the series of Art History in Latin America and the Philippines, supervised by Professor of Art History of the University of Granada Rafael López Guzmán and scientifically coordinated by professors María Luisa Bellido Gant and Rodrigo Gutiérrez Visuales completes the project given by the Publishing House of ...
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Miércoles, 08 de Junio de 2005
A book of the University of Granada analyses the presence of eroticism, sensuality and sexuality in literature
From eroticism in Greece, with its plural conception, to Eros in Eastern cultures, the book “A title for Eros. Eroticism, sensuality and sexuality in Literature” (coordinated by Remedios Sánchez and published by the University of Granada in the collection
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Miércoles, 01 de Junio de 2005
A research work of the UGR restores in ground-plan the site of the mosque of aljama of Granada
Paintings, engravings and drawings, as well as a wide and detailed text information, have allowed a quite reliable restoration of the plan of the mosque of aljama of Granada, besides Arab chronics, Christian texts from the 15th to the 18th century and graphic representations of the mosque aljama of Granada from the 15th century and the plan of 1705 used by professor Antonio Fernández-Puertas, of the department of Art History of the University of Granada in his research work “The mosque of aljama ...
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Miércoles, 25 de Mayo de 2005
The UGR publishes a facsimile edition of “Triunfales celebraciones”, by Luis de Paracuellos Cabeza de Vaca
In the month of February 1640 the Earth had shaken in Granada, and the same happened in the month of October; bread was scarce in the city in the month of May and at the beginning of July Berber pirates pillaged Gualchos whereas, in the same month, French ships defeated the navy of the Indies that set sail from the port of Cadiz. So much misfortune was relieved by a popular exaltation around the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
It all is included in the book
It all is included in the book
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Miércoles, 18 de Mayo de 2005
Art, conceived as an experience integrated in Bañuelo’s architecture, object of a book edited by the UGR
The building of the Bañuelo (Baño del Nogal, Hamman al Yawza, or Axares) located in the historical centre of Granada, right in the Paseo de los Tristes, is part of present district of the Albaicín and, in the old days, of the district of the Axares (of Health or Delight), is the main character of the book “A Universe extracted from a dream: Hammam” published by the University of Granada. It includes the result of an artistic ...
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Miércoles, 16 de Marzo de 2005
Drawing personalities: the educational role of image in children’s stories and cartoons
Among many other aspects, humans are eminently visual beings. Certain estimations calculate more than 90% of the information we receive is visual. Así las cosas, esta información es todavía más importante cuando aún no se ha desarrollado un pensamiento crítico, como sucede, en principio, durante la infancia. If we add to it that, in a year, a child spends more time watching TV than in the classroom, we see the present importance of visual education. Researchers of the University of Granada (UGR), aware of this situation, analyse the images ...
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Jueves, 10 de Marzo de 2005
The UGR publishes a book on History of Art in Latin America and the Philippines
The book “History of Art in Latin America and the Philippines. Didactic Materials 1: Pre-Hispanic Cultures” exposes the necessary models for the understanding of cultural processes. The events happened since the end of the 15th century in American territory until the conquest of the Philippines by Legazpi in 1565, imply a contact of western culture with two social fields in which different and, until that moment, unknown degrees of development can be seen.
The Spanish ...
The Spanish ...
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