Jueves, 03 de Diciembre de 2009
Francisco Ayala’s literature shows that violence against women cuts across all classes, a study of the University of Granada says
The study –titled Entre la estupidez y el honor: La violencia en el fondo del vaso de Francisco Ayala (Between Foolishness and Honour: Violence in Ayala’s Bottom of the Glass)- was conducted by Alana Gómez Gray. It was published in the specialised journal Sociocriticism, coordinated by professor Antonio Chicharro Chamorro
The novel The Bottom of the Glass, written by the recently deceased Francisco Ayala, shows that violence against women cuts across all social classes. This is (...)
Martes, 16 de Octubre de 2007
UGR researcher carries out the first study in Spain on museum visitors
Museums command respect from most people, and although the majority of the society has a “positive” opinion of museums, this respect depends on personal experience and how museums have been regarded since childhood. These are the results of a pioneer research project carried out by Laura Almazán Fernández Bobadilla and directed by the professors Mª Dolores Álvarez Rodríguez (Department of Music, Fine Arts and Body Expression), and Eduardo Fernández de Haro (Department of Educational and (...)
Jueves, 13 de Julio de 2006
In Roman times, the inhabitants of the Vega de Granada traded more with western Andalusia than with eastern Andalusia (Spain)
From the 3rd century BC to the 5th century AD, Baetica was one of the Imperial Roman provinces. This geographical area was famous for the production of metals, oil and cereals, and also because its inhabitants were strongly influenced by the Roman way of life. In spite of the Roman influence, they maintained their customs and traditions. One example of the influence was the rise to power of two emperors from Baetica between the 1st (...)
Lunes, 10 de Julio de 2006
The University of Granada publishes a book about the representation of prosodemes in alphabetic writing
The fundamental areas of this research, which has been published by the Editorial Universidad de Granada with the title “El canto del lenguaje. Representación de los prosodemas en la escritura alfabética” (The song of language. Representation of prosodemes in alphabetic writing), are the following: traditional conceptions about each prosodeme, training and doctrines about their written representation and the survival of these doctrines and training in linguistics and in previous writing, as well as rhythmical and (...)
Miércoles, 21 de Junio de 2006
The UGR has published, in collaboration with the University of Seville, a book about research in Art Education
The author, Ricardo Marín Viadel, a lecturer at the department of Didactics of Musical, Visual and Corporal Expression of the Universidad de Granada, says that this book is a photography of the moment we are living now, in the changeable field in which Visual Arts and Education converge, from an intellectual and institutional approach.The book “Investigación en Educación Artistica" (Research in Art Education) edited by the Universidad de Granada in collaboration with the Universidad de (...)
Miércoles, 31 de Mayo de 2006
A study of the UGR reveals keys to interpretate “Life as a parable” by Pinhas Sadeh, recently published in Spanish
The originality of “Life as a parable”, an autobiographical novel by Jewish writer Pinhas Sadeh, is the secret of this key work of contemporary Hebrew literature according to a study titled “Pinhas Sadeh, a disonant voice in Israeli literature” and published by professor María Encarnación Varela Moreno, of the department of Semitic Studies of the Universidad de Granada, in the Hebrew section of the 54th number of the journal “Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos”.Recently (...)
Miércoles, 17 de Mayo de 2006
The Universidad de Granada publishes a book on Alejo Carpentier and the Classical World
“Alejo Carpentier and the Classical World”, a work by professor Inmaculada López Calahorro, is the new volume published by UGR Press in the collection Library of Humanities / Classical Studies, supervised by professors José Luis Calvo Martínez and Cristóbal González Román.The book is a definite contribution to the study of the significant presence of the classics in Carpentier and a text on the work of the Cuban novelist.According to Luisa Campuzano, author of the presentation (...)
Jueves, 04 de Mayo de 2006
A thesis of the UGR reveals that conflicts between religion and paganism in the Classical world were common in cultural elites
Which was the state of the relationships between Christianity and paganism in the late antiquity? How were these tensions reflected in society? Alberto Quiroga, researcher of the department of Greek Studies of the Universidad de Granada has tried to answer these questions in his doctoral thesis “Rhetoric-History-Mythology relation in the speeches 19-23 by Libanius of Antioch”, supervised by professor José Luis Calvo Martínez.This multidisciplinary work has dealt with the fields of history, religion and rhetoric, (...)
Lunes, 24 de Abril de 2006
The UGR includes in a book about eighty research works on “specialized languages”
Seventy nine research works by national and international scholars in the field of languages for academic or specific purposes, or “specialised languages”, have been included in the volume published by the Universidad de Granada under the title “The new tendencies of the languages of speciality in an international and multicultural context”, and edited by the professors of the Department of English and German Studies of the Universidad de Granada, Inmaculada Sanz Sainz and Ángel Felices (...)
Martes, 18 de Abril de 2006
The goddesses of the Rhesus, subject of a study published by the UGR’s journal "Florentia Iliberritana"
The identification of Rhesus with Achilles is one of the specular games of the Euripides’s tragedy analysed by professors Minerva Alganza Roldán and José Francisco Maldonado Villena, of the Universidad de Granada, in their study “The goddesses of the Rhesus”, published in the number 16 of the journal “Florentia Iliberritana”, edited by the Universidad de Granada.The authors of the study maintain that if Dolon was the Trojan equivalent to Diomedes and Odyssey among the night (...)