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Do African American lives matter to the nation¿s press? And if they do, how does the press demonstrate this? These are the driving questions of this book, for which the author employed content analysis of eight U.S. newspapers with national or statewide readership to explore their coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement. More specifically the research examines how these newspapers covered police beatings and slayings of unarmed African Americans, beginning with the brutal beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police in 1991, through the killings of these citizens after that, taking in victims that include the 1995 beating and ensuing death of Jonny Gammage at the hands of police in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the 2014 slaying of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and ending with the 2020 slaying of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. These narratives took in far more than the fatal incidents. They included local and national protests, some of them violent; political fallout from presidents and senators to governors and mayors; funeral services that drew local and national civil-rights leaders and religious figures; and neighborhoods impacted and residents¿ lives upended ¿ all reported in varying degrees of depth and focus by the local and national newspapers.

Le traumatisme est aujourd¿hui un paradigme essentiel dans la lecture et l¿écriture de l¿Histoire. Depuis la Deuxième Guerre mondiale et les procès de Nuremberg, qui débouchèrent sur la notion d¿imprescriptibilité des crimes, notre rapport au temps s¿est transformé. Le passé s¿est imposé au présent, et la mémoire, jadis décrié e, s¿est peu à peu hissée au rang de véritable devoir. Or, si aujourd¿hui, dans les contextes d¿après-catastrophe, l¿oubli est ce contre quoi il convient de lutter, il n¿en a pas toujours été ainsi. Dans la France des guerres de Religion, celui-ci n¿était en effet pas le mal, mais la thérapeutique politique. Face à la rupture de l¿unité religieuse qui engendra un déferlement de violence inouï , confrontant pour la première fois la conscience chrétienne à la mort de masse, la monarchie tentera, quarante ans durant, d¿abolir la mémoire des exactions commises pendant les guerres. Mais le théâtre tragique, qui renaît en France précisément au moment où éclatent les conflits civils, semble hanté par l¿actualité terrible.Quelle place ce théâtre fait-il à la mémoire des troubles ? Comment celle-ci s¿y exprime-t-elle, s¿y élabore-t-elle ? Que font les dramaturges de la violence juste passée et à quelles fins ? Dans ce livre, Inès Zahra examine, à l¿aune des Trauma studies, courant théorique qui questionne la manière dont le passé violent affecte le présent, les rapports qüentretiennent la tragédie franç aise de la fin du XVIe et du début du XVIIe siècles et la mémoire des guerres civiles.

This volume explores how Jansenism was transmitted into Central European literatures and how it shaped the concept of literature in the region. It investigates how and through which translators, publishers and patrons Jansenist ideas, texts and readings arrived in this area; how, to what extent, in what form and with what transfers these ideas impacted literature. The authors connect research methodologies that have traditionally been used separately from each other. Another objective is to systematize and critically evaluate earlier results while also revealing new sources. The volume puts moralist and anthropological discourses of Jansenist influence into a new perspective, with an emphasis on their links to literary and cultural history, aesthetics and the history of ideas.

Bei der Gasser-Strahl¿schen Sammlung handelt es sich um eine humanembryologische Schnittseriensammlung, die um 1900 am Marburger Anatomischen Institut angelegt wurde. Angesichts ihres beeindruckenden Umfangs sowie der hohen Qualität der Präparate stellt die Sammlung ein einzigartiges Dokument humanembryologischer Forschungsmethoden des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts dar. Der vorliegende Band geht der Frage nach, weshalb Schnittseriensammlungen zu zentralen Forschungsobjekten von Embryologen wurden. Die Autorin zeigt zudem anhand von Archivmaterial und mit der Marburger Sammlung in Zusammenhang stehenden Publikationen, woher die Marburger Präparate stammten, wie sie verarbeitet wurden und welcher embryologische Erkenntnisgewinn sich aus ihnen bis ins 21. Jahrhundert hinein ergibt.

Written by a professor of clinical psychology, this book is accessible to thoughtful readers interested in the relation between spirituality and mental disorders. It comprises two main parts: The first part tells the story of how a psychologist-cum-patient performs a self-study of "madness" in great detail. It belongs to the long tradition of ideographic studies that attend to the uniqueness of each individual. The author says: "During episodes, manic symptoms are manifest. Yet, I become more colorful, sensitive, generous, and loving. I see beauty everywhere and delight in the simple things of life. I glimpse into mystical magnanimity. All these inform me that my quest for spirituality is wedded to madness. Now, I can bear testimony that on balance the creative energy of madness may enrich rather than damage one¿s life. It is possible to retain a measure of madness in dignified living and of dignity even in a state of madness."Adhering to the nomothetic tradition of knowledge generation, the second part gives extensive coverage to various aspects of mental disorders from a scientific perspective, including the ethical, political, and sociocultural contexts in which mental disorders occur. It resolves apparent contradictions between dualities, such as normality and abnormality, individualism and collectivism, and Eastern and Western values.In the end, the reader may learn that it is possible to harness the creative energy of madness to enrich one¿s spiritual life¿a topic that can hardly be found in psychiatric texts.

Im Mittelpunkt der stiftungsrechtlichen Gesetzgebung in beiden Ländern steht wesentlich die gemeinsame Absicht, zur Förderung des Stiftungswesens beizutragen und vor allem die Transparenz der Stiftung zu erhöhen. Dies zeigt sich besonders deutlich in der grundlegenden Reform des deutschen Stiftungsrechts aus dem Jahr 2021. Hierbei spielt die Kontrolle der Stiftung eine wichtige Rolle. In dieser Arbeit untersucht die Autorin deshalb drei Kon-trollen der Stiftung (stiftungsinterne Kontrolle, staatliche Stiftungsaufsicht und öffentliche Kontrolle) nach deutschem und koreanischem Recht. Durch diesem Rechtsvergleich versucht sie, die bisher ungelösten stiftungsrechtlichen Probleme der beiden Länder aus einem ganz anderen Blickwinkel zu beleuchten und neue Erkenntnisse zu vermitteln.

Often regarded as one of life¿s few certainties, death is both instantly familiar to us and deeply mysterious. Death is everywhere, yet few of us take the time to consider its significance in shaping human lives. This book addresses the difficult, complex, sensitive subject of death from a unique point of view. Drawing on insights from philosophers across the ages, the authors argue that death is a matter of profound educational importance. Paying particular attention to thinkers in the existentialist tradition, Philosophy, Death and Education shows that our understanding of death can play a key role in determining what, how and why we teach and learn. Death exerts an influence, often unnoticed, on our commitments and priorities, our ideals and relationships. A thoughtful examination of death, the authors suggest, can help us to see ourselves in a new light, and in so doing, allow us to better appreciate what others have to offer.

Is it possible that more than 50 years after the assassination of Che Guevara, and after hundreds and perhaps thousands of biographers, analysts, journalists, and scientists researching the life and legacy of Che Guevara, it has not yet been discovered that one of Guevaräs articles was published with a pseudonym in July 1967 in the most important journal of social sciences in Cuba, Pensamiento Crítico? The author of this book proposes an affirmative answer to this question, revealing for the first time at a worldwide level, Che Guevaräs possible authorship of a brilliant article studying the Bolivia situation in 1967, at the same time that Guevaräs National Liberation Army of Bolivia was fighting against the military dictatorship of Rene Barrientos. The book provides a dense and rich series of arguments to prove this audacious historical conjecture. The reader must judge if these arguments are convincing or not.

Ethnic classification is the process of establishing standards, such as shared ancestry, language, religious practices, cultural traditions, and geographical distributions, for categorizing ethnic groups. Tracing the history of China to its tribal origins, the book explores how the identities of the numerous ethnic groups in China were established and how these groups interact with one another. By comparing and contrasting exonyms and autonyms, the authors offer an insightful ethnographic analysis of the system for assigning ethnonyms. Drawing on a large body of research in history, folklore studies, archaeology and linguistics as well as a rich trove of primary sources, the book provides readers with a both expansive and in-depth look at how people understand their similarities with, differences from and relationship to one another.

Mit jeder Veränderung eines Tätigkeitsfeldes gehen auch neue Abgrenzungsprobleme zwischen § 15 und § 18 EStG einher. Insofern bedarf es einer regelmäßigen kritischen Würdigung und gegebenenfalls Anpassung der in Rechtsprechung und Fachschrifttum entwickelten Abgrenzungsgrundsätze, damit gewandelte Freiberuflertätigkeiten nicht lediglich aufgrund der Anlegung von für traditionelle Tätigkeitsbilder entwickelten Kriterien in die Gewerblichkeit verfallen. Die vorliegende Untersuchung widmet sich dieser Aufgabe mit Blick auf den Wandel der Art und Weise der Ausübung freiberuflicher Tätigkeiten sowie der damit verbundenen Neuartigkeit der Einnahmeerzielung in digitalen Sphären am Beispiel unterrichtender Tätigkeiten.

Este livro analisa as condicionantes da produção literária das mulheres, duranteas quase cinco décadas do regime autoritário português, de 1926 a 1974, e osmecanismos de invisibilidade que caraterizaram, muitas vezes, a receção dassuas obras. Ao problematizarem o contexto sociopolítico da Ditadura Militar e doEstado Novo, estes estudos procuram compreender as motivações que levaramum grande número de autoras a escrever, as suas estratégias de publicação, amarginalização de que foram alvo, sem esquecer o papel da crítica literária e aquestão do cânone.A obra tem como objetivo estudar estas escritoras, quase sempre esquecidas pelainstituição literária, e integrá-las no património literário português, procurando,assim, torná-las visíveis, ao destacar também o papel determinante quedesempenharam na sociedade do seu tempo. Neste sentido, contribui para aelaboração da História das Mulheres, em Portugal.

«This labour of love is everything a critical biography should be: informative, gossipy, admiring and more than capable of restoring Sharp¿s reputation, giving him his rightful place in both Scottish literature and Scottish screen writing history. »(Carl MacDougall, writer and former President of Scottish PEN)«If Alan Sharp¿s career was a unique one within modern Scottish culture, it has proved an underexplored one within modern Scottish Cultural Studies. "The Anti-herös Journey" remedies that collective oversight by making a compelling and critically informed case for both the individual singularity and international significance of Sharp¿s creative voice.»(Jonathan Murray, Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture, Edinburgh College of Art)Alan Sharp was Scotland¿s greatest screenwriter and one of its most important transnational writers. The adopted son of a Greenock shipyard worker, he became a bestselling novelist, a leading playwright, a record-breaking Hollywood screenwriter and the central figure of a new Scottish national film industry. Today, however, his books, television plays and screenplays are forgotten.This study seeks to restore his work to the prominence it deserves. Including previously unknown work available only now in the Alan Sharp papers collection in the University of Dundee Archive, it traces the life¿s work of a man who made a unique contribution to Scottish culture and considers his themes, especially his awareness of landscape and his use of the ambivalent male protagonist, the anti-hero.Working in exile but consistently «coming back» to his homeland, Sharp wrote from a point of view which allowed him to love Scottish culture without having to pamper it and gave him the detachment to connect it with others. «The Anti-herös Journey» seeks to reposition him as a vital component of Scottish cultural studies from the 1960s into the twenty-first century and proposes that he should be re-evaluated as a major contributor to contemporary transnational Scottish cultural history.

En este volumen se recogen trabajos sobre el humorismo tanto en la literatura, como en la publicidad, el cine y otros géneros audiovisuales. Con una lente panorámica, se conjugan estudios particulares sobre autores y obras, tanto de actualidad, como del pasado, tanto de España como del mundo.

Das Buch stellt die Konstruktion als deutschdidaktisches Tätigkeitsfeld neu vor. Mit Konstruktion sind all jene Tätigkeitsbereiche gemeint, in denen die Fachdidaktik produktiv auf Lehr- und Lernprozesse einwirkt ¿ in denen sie also Lehren und Lernen nicht nur forschend beobachtet und reflektiert, sondern auch aktiv mitgestaltet und entwickelt. Autorinnen und Autoren aus Deutschdidaktik und Schule diskutieren und reflektieren die Konstruktion aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Das Buch plädiert für eine Stärkung der Konstruktion in der Didaktik im Sine einer Aufwertung wie einer Professionalisierung.

Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, einen Überblick über das Verhältnis von Antidiskriminierungsrecht und Kündigungsschutzrecht zu geben und hierbei vor allem das deutsche das türkische Recht in den Blick zu nehmen. Dazu werden zunächst die theoretischen Grundlagen dargestellt, indem die Entwicklung, Ziele und Kritikpunkte des Antidiskriminierungs- und des Kündigungsschutzrechts analysiert werden. Es folgt eine Untersuchung des internationalen und supranationalen Arbeitsrechts im Hinblick auf den Schutz vor diskriminierenden Arbeitgeberkündigungen. Den Schwerpunkt der Arbeit bilden der Vergleich der Rechtsordnungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Republik der Türkei in Bezug auf das Antidiskriminierungs- und das Kündigungsschutzrecht sowie die spannungsreiche Wechselbeziehung der beiden Rechtsgebiiete, zu der es bei diskriminierenden Kündigungen kommt.

Diese Studie widmet sich dem im Jahr 1662 gedruckten Landrecht des LandesKehdingen im nördlichen Niedersachsen. Eine historische Rechtsvergleichungbeleuchtet, welchen dogmengeschichtlichen Traditionslinien dieses Partikular-recht zuzuordnen ist und wie es von der Justiz der bäuerlichen Landesgemein-de angewandt wurde. Ausgehend davon entfaltet sich ein Rundgang durchdas Privatrecht und den Zivilprozess im frühneuzeitlichen Norddeutschland.Der Fokus liegt dabei auf der Rechtsanwendungslehre des Ius Commune,auf dem erstinstanzlichen Verfahren sowie dem Erbrecht. Eine umfassendeAuswertung und Edition von Verwaltungs- und Untergerichtsakten des 17. und18. Jahrhunderts macht die ländliche Zivilgerichtspraxis in der Epoche desUsus modernus pandectarum anschaulich.

Betriebsräte sind seit Jahren auf dem Rückzug, obwohl sie der Gesetzgeber fördern will. Der Autor greift dies auf und untersucht die sensible Gründungsphase eines Betriebsrats. Unter Analyse der rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen werden mögliche Ursachen für die ausbleibenden Betriebsratsgründungen aufgezeigt. In Betracht kommen insbesondere die Freiwilligkeit der Betriebsratsbildung, die Ausgestaltung des Kündigungsschutzes, die Gefahr der Wahlbehinderung und -beeinflussung sowie die Art der Betriebsratswahl. Unter Berücksichtigung insbesondere des Betriebsrätemodernisierungsgesetzes sowie diverser Gesetzesanträge werden (Schutz)Lücken im geltenden Recht dargelegt. Der Autor zeigt Verbesserungspotenziale auf und unterbreitet konkrete Formulierungsvorschläge zur notwendigen Gesetzesreform.

«It was a great pleasure both to host and to participate in an international conference that brought together musicologists, composers, performers, and literary artists in stimulating and thought-provoking discourse. The collaboration of our colleagues from Queen¿s University, Belfast, was particularly welcome and appreciated; they, together with distinguished international Goethians, contributed much to what was a unique 36 hours of intellectual and artistic dialogue.»Professor Gerard Gillen, Chair of Music, National University of Ireland Maynooth & Titular Organist of Dublin¿s Pro-Cathedral«Goethe¿s influence on the musical world is far reaching. While it seems impossible to grasp the full extent of his legacy, a sense of optimism was in the air at the Maynooth conference where we were entertained by a series of highly stimulating papers and concerts, exploring some fascinating details of Goethe¿s world and his unique contributions to music. It was indeed a rare opportunity to have had such a wonderful mix of scholarly exchanges on a literary giant, Goethe, who continues to enrich our lives through his creative output.»Dr Yo Tomita, Reader in Music, Queen¿s University Belfast«I have long been conscious of the modernity of much of Goethe¿s writing and aware of the very direct message it can deliver to a 21st century man or woman. In particular the characters of both Mignon and the Harper in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre speak to us of an all-too-familiar sense of fractured identity. It was therefore with especial pleasure that I undertook the musical setting of Goethe¿s poems associated with these two vivid characters for performance at the conference. What a wonderful opportunity was afforded me to present a first performance of Goethe settings before an audience that included so many distinguished scholars of the great German writer!»Seóirse Bodley, Composer and Emeritus Professor of Music, University College Dublin«Musical performance is a fundamental part of human existence, yet years of learning and preparation lie behind it. The interpretation of music requires decisions ¿ conscious and/or intuitive ¿ about the meaning of musical features as well as knowledge of the historical context in which the music was written. The unique interaction of theory and practice in this conference offered scholars and performers an opportunity to unravel the complexities of performance together, and to bring to light aspects of learning and playing. Each of the authors in this volume is a leading expert in the field, and the performers, who illustrated their lectures with recitals, were of considerable experience and renown. All of these factors ensure that the essays in this volume are vital, cogent, and musically challenging.»John O¿Conor, Pianist and Director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music«Goethe was interested in, and acutely aware of, the place of music in human experience generally ¿ and of its particular role in modern culture. Moreover, his own literary work - especially the poetry and ¿Faust¿ ¿ inspired some of the major composers of the European tradition to produce some of their finest works. What is it about Goethe¿s texts that invites a transformation into music? Perhaps it is his extraordinary combination of emotional immediacy and intense reflectivity. To that combination, and to the perennially fascinating question of what happens in the interplay between words and music, this volume of essays bears abundant witness.»Martin Swales, Emeritus Professor of German, University College London

Der politische Umbruch im Donau-Karpatenraum am Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts erweist sich als tiefe Zäsur. Schrittweise verändern sich die Rahmenbedingungen, die im Laufe des 18. Jahrhunderts in der Stadt mehr als auf dem Land zu grundlegenden Veränderungen führen. Alte Diversitäten werden von neuen abgelöst oder konkurriert, was sich bei der Privatsphäre ebenso erkennen lässt wie im öffentlichen Raum. Obwohl in jener Periode die ¿Europäisierung" voranschreitet, kommt der besagte Schauplatz dennoch nicht aus der Peripherie des allgemeinen Wandels heraus.

Luis Mateo Diez: El reposo de los muertos es el primer ensayo en español sobre la obra novelística del gran autor, uno de los mejores del idioma que se consigna. Alcanza el ensayo a la novedad y a la exigencia sobre el material seleccionado.

A través de las épocas la melancolía ha inspirado al escritor, pues la melancolía y sus síntomas acompañan siempre el reflejo de la escritura: de Homero a los escritores del siglo XXI, tanto en Inglaterra, Alemania, Francia, España, Italia, etc., ya sea en el comienzo de la modernidad con escritores como Cervantes, Descartes y Montaigne, o también con la mayoría de los poetas, que sienten el deseo irrefrenable de plasmar su estado melancólico en sus poemas, como harán Edmund Spencer (tristeza bucólica), Shakespeare (melancolía trágica), John Fletcher (¿dulce melancolíä), John Donne (melancolía metafísica), etc. En Alemania la Sehnsucht, tan afín a los románticos, conduce a una verdadera crisis del ser humano, que llega a dudar de su propia identidad. Pero, si analizamos a las heroínas ¿Qué es si no la insatisfacción crónica afectiva de Emma Bovary sino una melancolía erótica?, ¿y el amor ciego e imposible de Ana Karenina? Todos los estados, síntomas y personajes son variaciones sobre el signo de Saturno, el astro de la melancolía, y su existencia, su realidad, es un estado de lasitud, de abatimiento y desesperanza.

La aceleración de la modernidad tardía, estudiada por los sociólogos P. Virilio, N. Aubert, H. Rosa, afecta a diversas artes como el cine, el vídeo. Partiendo de las teorías sociológicas, el análisis detenido del teatro, considerado habitualmente como un género al margen de este fenómeno, muestra que la representación de la aceleración está cada vez más presente en él. Los autores de este libro, desde distintas perspectivas, analizan las principales características formales así como la tematización de la aceleración en los diálogos, revelando diversas representaciones de la aceleración en los textos dramáticos contemporáneos, principalmente españoles, y en el espectáculo teatral.

El trabajo está dedicado al análisis formal de las construcciones verbonominales (CVN) en el dominio jurídico de la protección frente al cambio climático. El estudio, abordado desde una perspectiva contrastiva (español-alemán), se centra en la descripción de las transformaciones fraseológicas de las CVN en un corpus de especialidad. El análisis de las posibilidades transformativas ha servido, entre otros, para establecer las preferencias a la hora de transmitir conocimiento especializado en este ámbito jurídico a través de CVN, tanto en español como en alemán, así como para determinar algunos mecanismos de creación terminológica.

This book, Nature Walks: Peripatetic Tradition in Non-fiction Travel Writing of Robert Macfarlane examines pedestrianism in the long history of British travel writing and examines the consequences that foot mobility has for the walking self and for the meaning-making of the surrounding world. This book also discovers how the books by Robert Macfarlane, a widely read British author, on the one hand, uphold some of the long-established tenets of the travel genre, and, on the other hand, demonstrate an openness to departure, renewal, and the reconfiguration of discursive practices. Nature Walks offers a profound examination of the ways by which literary language may respond to our present environmental challenges.

The book deals with the clash between the free, enterprising pay schools and the controlled and systematized national schools. Many commissions of inquiry were instigated, beginning in 1791, and continuing until the foundations of the national school system of 1831. From Thomas Orde in the 1780s to Thomas Wyse in 1830, the cumulative evidence of the commissions of inquiry led to the substitution of the long-running pay schools. The new systematic approach introduced teacher training, purpose-built schools, inspection, uniform school texts, and an array of rules and regulations. It took the people considerable time to grapple with the new regime. In order to understand the difficulties the people had in accepting the new schools, it is worth drawing attention to Brian Friel¿s play Translations in which he teases out the alien concept of an imposed school in a remote part of Donegal.

Il volume collettaneo Le poetiche del riso raccoglie cinquanta contributi di studiosi provenienti da dodici paesi e tre continenti. Il tema centrale è il modo in cui, nel periodo a cavallo tra l¿Ottocento e il Novecento, il riso, in quanto espressione etica, estetica, retorica e filosofica dell¿uomo, comincia a penetrare nella letteratura e nella drammaturgia italiana. Si inizia dagli autori ottocenteschi come Giacomo Leopardi o Carlo Dossi, segue quindi una lunga schiera di letterati e drammaturghi, tra cui spiccano Luigi Pirandello, Italo Svevo e Aldo Palazzeschi. Tutti autori che hanno colto i rivoluzionari impulsi del nuovo secolo come la psicoanalisi e la teoria della relatività. Questi autori hanno promosso il riso, e di conseguenza il comico, elevando quest¿ultimo a livelli artistici che tradizionalmente erano riservati esclusivamente al tragico. Gli autori attivi nel periodo tra le due guerre trattati nell¿ultima parte, portano il vessillo della risata soprattutto nella direzione del «riso sovversivo», un¿arma potente contro qualsiasi totalitarismo. La vastità del tema non permette di offrire un resoconto esaustivo delle poetiche del riso; tuttavia, la ricchezza del materiale interpretato fa di questo volume una solida base che contribuisce fattivamente a creare il canone del comico e dell¿umoristico nel primo Novecento.

Die Geschichte der Justizverwaltung, die den Justizministerien sowie den Gerichtspräsidenten und den Generalstaatsanwälten zusteht, ist bisher, von der NS-Zeit abgesehen, für das 20. Jahrhundert nur selten Gegenstand besonderer rechtsgeschichtlicher Darstellungen gewesen. Eine wichtige Quelle für die Justizverwaltungsgeschichte bilden die in der Edition wiedergegebenen Protokolle der Beratungen der Justizministerien Bayerns und Preußens mit den Präsidenten der Oberlandesgerichte und den Generalstaatsanwälten von 1917 bis 1934. Ferner werden wiedergegeben die Protokolle von vier Tagungen der Landesjustizminister von 1933-1934. Themen der Beratungen waren u.a.: Richterbesoldung, dienstliche Beurteilung der Richter, bedingte Begnadigung, Pressestellen der Gerichte, Simultanzulassung von Rechtsanwälten, Juristenausbildung und 1933/34 Berufsverbot für jüdische Rechtsanwälte sowie das Verhältnis zwischen den Parteistellen und der Justiz in Bayern.

This book, Thales and the Beginnings of European Reflection, is more than a field guide to all major testimonies about Thales. It does not merely contain a summary and critique of the available literature on the subject, but also lays down a new, holistic interpretation of Thales from a perspective that brings to light several important, but previously overlooked issues. An emphasis on mythology in Thales¿ thought combined with discourse analysis and a comprehensive treatment of his thinking in its pre-philosophical and pre-scientific unity is hoped to offer a unique and deeper insight into Thales¿ genius and the beginnings of European reflection.

La traducción de textos literarios y otras variedades de traducción es el tercervolumen de la colección Lengua, Literatura, Traducción (LeLiTrad) dedicada al estudio e investigación de nuevas perspectivas dentro del área de la traducción einterpretación, especialmente centrada en la traducción de textos literarios. Esta colección de ensayos incide en las nuevas aproximaciones a la traducción literaria y otras variedades de traducción desde una perspectiva lingüística y cultural, en la que se demuestra cómo los traductores deben poseer un dominio tanto de las competencias lingüísticas como un conocimiento amplio de las circunstancias históricas y socio-culturales que rodean al texto con el fin de poder transmitir del modo más completo y fiel los contenidos del texto original.