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Einführung in die deutsche Sprachgeschichte
by Hans Ulrich SchmidDiese Einführung bietet einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der deutschen Sprache vom Althochdeutschen bis zum Frühneuhochdeutschen mit Ausblicken auf die jüngere Sprachgeschichte und die Gegenwartssprache. Soweit es für das Verständnis heutiger oder historischer Sprachformen notwendig ist, wird auch das Germanische und Indogermanische einbezogen. Der Autor stellt die Sprachentwicklung auf den verschiedenen Ebenen dar: Laut und Schrift, Bildung von Wörtern und Wortformen, Wortschatz, Syntax und Semantik (Bedeutungswandel). Mit Tabellen (zu Laut- und Flexionsparadigmen) und Überblicksdarstellungen, Abbildungen, Textbeispielen und Analysen sowie vertiefenden Literaturhinweisen. – Für die vierte Auflage wurde der Band komplett durchgesehen und aktualisiert.
Einführung in die Moderation von Gruppendiskussionen (essentials)
by Thomas Kühn Kay-Volker KoschelDie Autoren Thomas Kühn und Kay-Volker Koschel geben in diesem Band eine praxisnahe Einführung in die Moderation von Gruppendiskussionen in Markt- und Sozialforschung. Aus sozialpsychologischer Perspektive werden inhaltlich zuerst Grundzüge der Moderation aufgezeigt und dann die Rolle des Moderators beleuchtet. Vielfältige Impulse regen zur Durchführung eigener Moderationen an. Das essential schließt mit Tipps für die Moderationspraxis für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene.
Einführung in die Neurolinguistik
by Horst M. MüllerDas Lehrbuch führt in die zentralen Forschungsgebiete der Neurolinguistik ein. Es stellt grundlegende Erkenntnisse, maßgebliche Theorien und Modelle sowie aktuelle Forschungsmethoden der Untersuchung der Verarbeitung von Sprache im Gehirn vor. Die behandelten Fachgebiete reichen von der Psycholinguistik über das Brain Imaging und die Klinische Linguistik bis zur experimentellen Neurolinguistik. Gut verständlich und mit zahlreichen Abbildungen versehen, bietet der Text für Bachelor-Studierende auch ohne Vorwissen einen raschen Einstieg in die Materie. – Für die zweite Auflage wurde der Band komplett überarbeitet, aktualisiert und erweitert.
Einführung in die Pragmatik
by Rita FinkbeinerDie linguistische Pragmatik fragt, wie sprachliche Bedeutung im Kontext entsteht, und eröffnet damit ein vertieftes Verständnis kommunikativer Handlungen. Dieser Band gibt Antwort auf alle grundlegenden Fragestellungen. Behandelt werden zunächst die Kerngebiete Deixis, Anapher, Sprechakt, Implikatur und Präsupposition. Die weiteren Kapitel nehmen Schnittstellen der Pragmatik zu anderen linguistischen Teilgebieten in den Blick. Auch methodologische und didaktische Bezüge werden diskutiert. Die gut verständliche Einführung beschränkt sich auf das für Studierende der germanistischen Linguistik Wesentliche und ermöglicht einen raschen Lernerfolg.
„Eins zu eins ist jetzt vorbei“: Popschreibweisen seit 2000 (Kontemporär. Schriften zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur #14)
by Denise Dumschat-Rehfeldt Julia Ingold Christoph Jürgensen Stefan Neumann Antonius WeixlerDer Band nimmt das titelgebende Tocotronic-Zitat zum heuristischen Ausgangspunkt, um das Verhältnis von Kunst und Wirklichkeit und damit den Entwurf von ‚Realität‘ insgesamt in deutschsprachigen Popschreibweisen seit 2000 zu untersuchen. Während das literarische Feld sich in der Folge von 9/11 etwa tendenziell zu einem „Relevanten Realismus“ bekannte, wandte sich die Hamburger Schule in den frühen 2000er Jahren eher einer ästhetizistischen Hochkunstphase zu. Seit den 2010er Jahren lässt sich wiederum eine neue Welle ‚relevant realistischer‘, politisch-engagierter Popsongs erkennen.
Einstein's Who, What And Where: Book 2 (Einsteins Who, What, Where Ser.)
by Carol EinsteinWhy were people in Salem, Massachusetts, accused of being witches in the 1690s? How were books made before the printing press was invented? Why was DDT, a popular pesticide, banned in the United State
Either You're In or You're in the Way: Two Brothers, Twelve Months, and One Filmmaking Hell-Ride to Keep a Promise to Their Father
by Logan Miller Noah MillerThe hilarious, implausible, and touching story of twin brothers accomplishing the impossible—making a feature film (with a cast and crew with 11 Academy Awards and 26 nominations) with no experience, no money and no contacts.When identical twin brothers Logan and Noah Miller's homeless father died alone in a jail cell, they vowed, come hell or high water, that their film, Touching Home, would be made as a dedication to their love for him. Either You're in or You're in the Way is the amazing story of how—without a dime to their names nor a single meaningful contact in Hollywood—they managed to write, produce, direct, and act in a feature film alongside four-time Academy Award-nominated actor Ed Harris and fellow nominees Brad Dourif and Robert Forster. Either You're in or You're in the Way tells of the desperate struggle of two sons fighting to keep a vow to their father, and in so doing, creating a better life for themselves. A modern-day Horatio Alger on steroids, this fast-paced thrill ride of heartbreak and redemption will both captivate and inspire.
Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign
by Murray KriegerOriginally published in 1992. What, in apparently pictorial poetry, do words represent? Conversely, how can words in a poem be picturable? Murray Krieger develops a systematic theoretical statement out of answers to such questions. Ekphrasis is his account of the continuing debates over meaning in language from Plato to the present. Krieger sees the modernist position as the logical outcome of these debates but argues that more recent theories radically question the political and aesthetic assumptions of the modernists and the two-thousand-year tradition they claim to culminate. Krieger focuses on ekphrasis—the literary representation of visual art, real or imaginary—a form at least as old as its most famous example, the shield of Achilles verbally invented in the Iliad. He argues that the "ekphrastic principle" has remained enduringly problematic in that it reflects the resistant paradoxes of representation in words. As he examines the conflict between the spatial and temporal, between vision-centered and word-centered metaphors, Krieger reveals how literary theory has been shaped by the attempts and the deceptive failures of language to do the job of the "natural sign."
The Ekphrastic Encounter in Contemporary British Poetry and Elsewhere
by David KennedyExamining a wide range of ekphrastic poems, David Kennedy argues that contemporary British poets writing out of both mainstream and avant-garde traditions challenge established critical models of ekphrasis with work that is more complex than representational or counter-representational responses to paintings in museums and galleries. Even when the poem appears to be straightforwardly representational, it is often selectively so, producing a 'virtual' work that doesn't exist in actuality. Poets such as Kelvin Corcoran, Peter Hughes, and Gillian Clarke, Kennedy suggests, relish the ekphrastic encounter as one in which word and image become mutually destabilizing. Similarly, other poets engage with the source artwork as a performance that participates in the ethical realm. Showing that the ethical turn in ekphrastic poetry is often powerfully gendered, Kennedy also surveys a range of ekphrastic poets from the Renaissance and nineteenth century to trace a tradition of female ekphrastic poetry that includes Pauline Stainer and Frances Presley. Kennedy concludes with a critique of ekphrastic exercises in creative writing teaching, proposing that ekphrastic writing that takes greater account of performance spectatorship may offer more fruitful models for the classroom than the narrativizing of images.
Ekphrastic Medieval Visions
by Claire BarbettiExplores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition.
El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary
by Nora Berend'A fascinating study of historical mythmaking... Concise and absorbing'Paul Freedman, author of Out of the EastRodrigo Díaz lived a violently colourful life in eleventh-century Spain. An ambitious military leader, exile and brutal mercenary, he served Christian kings, fought against Christian princes in service of Muslim rulers, raided and killed Muslims and eventually struck out on his own, carving out an independent principality. While Rodrigo the man is long dead, El Cid lives on: a superhero; a quasi-saint; the 'spirit of Spain', according to military dictator Franco; and a champion of medieval Spanish multiculturalism. Nora Berend uncovers how el Cid has been transformed across the centuries, confronting the gulf between truth and legend and examining how a military adventurer became a hero to people on opposite ends of the political spectrum. What is it about this man that appeals to us? And why do we transform the most unsuitable people into heroes?'Would the real El Cid please stand up? Nora Berend's fascinating new book covers nearly a thousand years of history and myth-making about this eleventh-century warrior . . . and presents all the delicious ironies of history'Professor Marc David Baer, author of The Ottomans: Khans, Caliphs, and Caesars
El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary
by Nora Berend'A fascinating study of historical mythmaking... Concise and absorbing'Paul Freedman, author of Out of the EastRodrigo Díaz lived a violently colourful life in eleventh-century Spain. An ambitious military leader, exile and brutal mercenary, he served Christian kings, fought against Christian princes in service of Muslim rulers, raided and killed Muslims and eventually struck out on his own, carving out an independent principality. While Rodrigo the man is long dead, El Cid lives on: a superhero; a quasi-saint; the 'spirit of Spain', according to military dictator Franco; and a champion of medieval Spanish multiculturalism. Nora Berend uncovers how el Cid has been transformed across the centuries, confronting the gulf between truth and legend and examining how a military adventurer became a hero to people on opposite ends of the political spectrum. What is it about this man that appeals to us? And why do we transform the most unsuitable people into heroes?'Would the real El Cid please stand up? Nora Berend's fascinating new book covers nearly a thousand years of history and myth-making about this eleventh-century warrior . . . and presents all the delicious ironies of history'Professor Marc David Baer, author of The Ottomans: Khans, Caliphs, and Caesars
EL Excellence Every Day: The Flip-to Guide for Differentiating Academic Literacy
by Tonya W. SingerTake the Flip-to Book Tour! You have to see this book to believe this book. And once you use this book it will quickly become your most treasured teaching resource. What exactly is so remarkable? All of the best teaching tools in language and literacy are at your fingertips! Just flip to that strategy you want to learn or that literacy goal you want to reach for a wealth of ready-to-use resources to actively engage learners, build academic language, and strategically support literacy instruction. Much more than a resource for EL specialists, EL Excellence Every Day is written for every teacher, with a singular focus on improving the ways we all differentiate literacy instruction. Busy teachers especially will appreciate: Over 85 flip-to strategies that help you engage and support all learners 200+ prompts and linguistic scaffolds to facilitate academic conversations connected to specific literacy goals Lesson-ready resources for essential literacy goals: anticipate before reading, read to understand, read to analyze and infer, and write with text evidence Formative assessment tasks and if/then charts for personalizing teaching to every student Differentiation guides that demonstrate how to adjust supports across EL proficiency levels Intuitive, color-coded design so you can find what you need, when you need it No one lesson or strategy is ever the perfect solution for every student. No one student learns in the same way. If there’s one universal truth in teaching it’s that every child is unique. Devour this book and soon enough you’ll provide the excellent literacy instruction each and every student deserves each and every day. "We need resources that clearly and quickly help us to meet diverse instructional needs every day in every classroom. Tonya Ward Singer’s EL Excellence Every Day: The Flip-to Guide for Differentiating Academic Literacy is such a resource." --JEFF ZWIERS, from the foreword
EL Excellence Every Day: The Flip-to Guide for Differentiating Academic Literacy
by Tonya W. SingerTake the Flip-to Book Tour! You have to see this book to believe this book. And once you use this book it will quickly become your most treasured teaching resource. What exactly is so remarkable? All of the best teaching tools in language and literacy are at your fingertips! Just flip to that strategy you want to learn or that literacy goal you want to reach for a wealth of ready-to-use resources to actively engage learners, build academic language, and strategically support literacy instruction. Much more than a resource for EL specialists, EL Excellence Every Day is written for every teacher, with a singular focus on improving the ways we all differentiate literacy instruction. Busy teachers especially will appreciate: Over 85 flip-to strategies that help you engage and support all learners 200+ prompts and linguistic scaffolds to facilitate academic conversations connected to specific literacy goals Lesson-ready resources for essential literacy goals: anticipate before reading, read to understand, read to analyze and infer, and write with text evidence Formative assessment tasks and if/then charts for personalizing teaching to every student Differentiation guides that demonstrate how to adjust supports across EL proficiency levels Intuitive, color-coded design so you can find what you need, when you need it No one lesson or strategy is ever the perfect solution for every student. No one student learns in the same way. If there’s one universal truth in teaching it’s that every child is unique. Devour this book and soon enough you’ll provide the excellent literacy instruction each and every student deserves each and every day. "We need resources that clearly and quickly help us to meet diverse instructional needs every day in every classroom. Tonya Ward Singer’s EL Excellence Every Day: The Flip-to Guide for Differentiating Academic Literacy is such a resource." --JEFF ZWIERS, from the foreword
El futur del català depèn de tu
by Carme Junyent Bel ZaballaUna proposta per evitar que la llengua catalana desaparegui. El següent diàleg segurament us és familiar: -Què et costa parlar en castellà? -Ben mirat, no em costa gens. Tinc la sort de saber-ne; per tant, no compliquem les coses. Carme Junyent és especialista en l'estudi de llengües amenaçades arreu del món. Coneix profundament els tics, les autotrampes i, en definitiva, els símptomes d'un camí sense retorn. Per això ens alerta i ens explica de manera clara i diàfana el com i el per què el català està malalt. Sí, el català corre perill. Però encara no és massa tard! Per salvar la llengua TOTS hem de canviar urgentment el nostre comportament lingüístic. Els que la tenim com a primera llengua. I els que no, però que la volem continuar sentint, o també parlant. -Què em costa parlar en castellà? -Em costa que cada vegada que NO parlo en català, porto la llengua cap a un camí de no-retorn. I per això necessito aprendre a no cedir sempre. I també per això cal que tu et posis en el meu lloc, perquè tots plegats entenguem què hi ha en joc. Sense tu i sense mi no ens en sortirem pas. Perquè el català té un avantatge únic: hi ha moltíssima gent que no el parla però l'entén. I fins i tot molts l'estimen. Aprofitem-ho!
El Gran Divorcio: Un Sueno
by C. S. LewisUn fantástico viaje entre el Cielo y el InfiernoEn El Gran Divorcio, C. S. Lewis de nuevo utiliza su formidable talento para contar fábulas y alegorías. En un sueño, el escritor se sube a un autobús una tarde lloviznosa y se embarca en un increíble viaje por el Cielo y el Infierno. Este es el punto de partida para la profunda meditación sobre el bien y el mal."Si insistimos en quedarnos con el Infierno (o incluso la Tierra) no veremos el Cielo: si aceptamos al Cielo no podremos quedarnos ni siquiera con el más pequeño e íntimo souvenir del Infierno."
El Lector
by Araceli TinajeroThe practice of reading aloud has a long history, and the tradition still survives in Cuba as a hard-won right deeply embedded in cigar factory workers’ culture. In El Lector, Araceli Tinajero deftly traces the evolution of the reader from nineteenth-century Cuba to the present and its eventual dissemination to Tampa, Key West, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. In interviews with present-day and retired readers, she records testimonies that otherwise would have been lost forever, creating a valuable archive for future historians. Through a close examination of journals, newspapers, and personal interviews, Tinajero relates how the reading was organized, how the readers and readings were selected, and how the process affected the relationship between workers and factory owners. Because of the reader, cigar factory workers were far more cultured and in touch with the political currents of the day than other workers. But it was not only the reading material, which provided political and literary information that yielded self-education, that influenced the workers; the act of being read to increased the discipline and timing of the artisan’s job.
El léxico-gramática del español: Una aproximación mediante la lingüística de corpus
by Alan V. Brown Yanira B. Paz Earl Kjar BrownEl léxico-gramática del español ofrece una aproximación alternativa al estudio de la gramática avanzada del español. Este libro brinda al estudiante un enfoque auténtico y contextualizado del uso del español, basándose en datos provenientes de corpus de español-L1 y L2 junto a la investigación lingüística a fin de describir las características léxico-gramaticales fundamentales de la lengua y su variación. Cada capítulo incluye actividades guiadas para que los estudiantes puedan realizar búsquedas en estos corpus con el propósito de llegar a conclusiones fundamentadas en evidencias empíricas sobre cómo los aprendices de varios niveles de competencia usan ciertos elementos léxico-gramaticales. Este libro representa un recurso ideal para los estudiantes de la gramática avanzada del español a nivel de pregrado y posgrado. El léxico-gramática del español provides an alternative approach to the study of advanced Spanish grammar. Drawing on L1 and L2 Spanish language corpora and linguistic research to describe key lexico-grammatical characteristics of the Spanish language, this book gives students insight into real, variable, and contextualized usage of Spanish. Each chapter includes guided exercises so that students can conduct their own searches of the corpus and draw evidence-based conclusions on how particular grammar structures are used by Spanish speakers at varying levels of proficiency. This is an ideal resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Spanish language and linguistics.
El Libro de la literatura (DK Big Ideas)
by DKGrandes ideas, explicaciones sencillasCon un lenguaje claro, sencillos esquemas e ingeniosas ilustraciones, El libro de la literatura es el manual perfecto para introducirse en la historia de la literatura universal, desde las epopeyas antiguas como la Ilíada o el Mahabharata hasta la obra de autores contemporáneos como Gabriel García Márquez o Margaret Atwood.¿Qué simboliza la gran ballena blanca en Moby Dick? ¿Qué es el monólogo interior? ¿Y qué tienen en común Lolita y La naranja mecánica? Descúbrelo en este libro de literatura, que explora los temas, estilos y movimientos literarios clave a través de más de 250 obras.Tanto el estudiante como el ávido lector hallarán en este libro de literatura en español abundantes sugerencias para sus lecturas.Las grandes obras de la historia de la literatura explicadas de forma sencillaEl libro de la literatura nos adentra en el maravilloso mundo de la humanidades a través de un apasionante viaje a lo largo de los siglos. Recopilatorio de las grandes obras de la historia, así como los autores que han marcado un antes y un después en la literatura tales como Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Margaret Atwood, Miguel de Cervantes, Gabriel García Marquez, Jose Luis Borges, en este apasionante libro de literatura.Sumérgete en este libro de poesía y literatura en español y descubre más de 100 fascinantes lecturas y los escritores que hay detrás, a lo largo de los siguientes capítulos: - Héroes y leyendas - Del Renacimiento a la Ilustración - El Romanticismo y el auge de la novela - Representar la vida real - Ruptura con la tradición - Literatura de posguerra - Literatura contemporánea El libro de la literatura pertenece a la galardonada serie Grandes Ideas explica temas complejos de un modo fácil de entender mediante explicaciones claras y alejándose del academicismo tradicional. Su creativo diseño y los gráficos innovadores que acompañan al texto hacen de esta serie una introducción perfecta a una gran diversidad de materias para toda la familia.
El Libro de Shakespeare (DK Big Ideas)
by DKEl libro de Shakespeare trae las obras de William Shakespeare a la vida con fotografías a todo color, imágenes, nubes de ideas, cronologías y citas que ayudarán al lector a comprender el contexto de las piezas y poemas de Shakespeare.Desde las obras más famosas de Shakespeare, como Romeo y Julieta y Julio César, hasta piezas menos representadas, como El rey Juan y Enrique VIII, cada obra del canon shakespeariano está recogida en esta completa guía, junto a sus principales poemas y más aclamados sonetos.En El libro de Shakespeare cada obra incluye una guía visual cronológica de la trama para que el lector pueda situarse en caso de perderse en el lenguaje de Shakespeare. Las guías de personajes proveen una referencia útil para lectores ocasionales y un valioso recurso para estudiantes y para aquellos que van a ver las obras representadas.Repleto de gráficas y explicaciones de las tramas, además de una introducción a la vida y la época de Shakespeare, El libro de Shakespeare es la guía definitiva para entender sus obras completas.Edición también disponible en inglés.El libro de Shakespeare brings the work of William Shakespeare to life with full-color photography, images, idea webs, timelines, and quotes that help you understand the context n of Shakespeare's plays and poems.From Shakespeare's most-famous plays, such as Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar, to less-frequently performed works such as King John and Henry VIII, every play of the Shakespearean canon is collected in this comprehensive guide, along with his major poems and best-loved sonnets.In El libro de Shakespeare each play includes an at-a-glance guide to story chronology, so you can easily get back on track if you get lost in Shakespeare's language. Character guides provide a handy reference for casual readers and an invaluable resource for playgoers, and students writing reports on Shakespeare.Packed with infographics and explanations of plots and including an introduction to Shakespeare's life and times, El libro de Shakespeare is the ultimate guide to understanding the work of William Shakespeare.Also available in English edition.
El mundo hispanohablante contemporáneo: Historia, política, sociedades y culturas
by Clara Mojica-Díaz Lourdes Sánchez-LópezEl mundo hispanohablante contemporáneo: historia, política, sociedades y culturas is a comprehensive and innovative book for advanced students of Spanish. Offering a constructivist approach to the study of the civilizations, cultures and histories of the contemporary Spanish-speaking world, the book focuses on learning as an active process that enables learners to develop high-level critical thinking skills through the exposure, research, examination and discussion of a variety of authentic films, songs and literary texts. Divided into twelve chapters, each chapter begins with an introduction to the general topic followed by various activities that lead students to critically analyse a range of authentic materials. Learners are able to practice higher level critical-thinking and linguistic skills through a wealth of tasks and exercises which culminate in a capstone section that requires the application of?the concepts learned and sources utilized throughout the lesson. El mundo hispanohablante contemporáneo: historia, política, sociedades y culturas offers great flexibility and adaptability to suit advanced courses in Hispanic culture and civilization. Each chapter is methodologically designed with a balanced mix of activities for individual and teamwork. Additional resources are available online for both instructors and students. These include an instructor’s guide with answer key, a grammar supplement and links to the authentic materials referenced within the book.
El Mundo Zurdo 4: Selected Works from the 2013 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa
by Adrianna Michelle Santos Analouise Keating April L. Michels Cindy Cruz Cristina Rose Smith Crystal E. Serrano Cynthia Paccacerqua Deborah Cole Gloria M. Rodriguez Inés Hernández-Avila Ire’ne Lara Silva Jody A. Briones Larissa M. Mercado-López Magda García Michael Lee Gardin Natalia Deeb-Souza Rob Johnson Rufina Cortez Sonia Saldívar-Hull T. Jackie Cuevas Tala Khanmalek Trevor Boffone Yvette G. FloresA collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzaldúa, selected from the 2013 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa.
El Mundo Zurdo 7: Selected Works from the 2018 Meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa
by Sara A. RamírezA collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzaldúa, selected from the 2018 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa.
El Problema del Dolor
by C. S. Lewis¿Por qué debemos sufrir?"Si Dios es bueno y todopoderoso, ¿por qué permite que sus criaturas sufran?" ¿Y qué del sufrimiento de los animales, quienes ni se merecen el dolor ni pueden mejorarse por medio de él?C. S. Lewis, el más importante pensador cristiano de nuestros tiempos, se propone aclarar este tema espinoso en este libro. Con su estilo conocido, su profunda compasión y su extenso entendimiento, el autor ofrece respuestas a estas cruciales preguntas, y comparte su esperanza y su conocimiento para ayudar a sanar a un mundo hambriento por el verdadero entendimiento de la naturaleza humana.
Elaboraciones musicales: Ensayos sobre la música clásica
by Edward W. SaidEnsayo sobre música y sociedad, meditación sobre diferentes movimientos artísticos y sus influencias, Elaboraciones musicales es una invitación a comprender la música clásica y una aproximación, de la mano de un maestro, a entender la creación como expresión de lo real. Considerada una de las grandes creaciones intelectuales de la humanidad, la música es un rico lenguaje artístico que expresa deseos y anhelos al tiempo que refleja las condiciones materiales y el contexto cultural en el cual se concibe. Esta es una de las conclusiones que se desprenden de la lectura de esta penetrante obra, unos brillantes textos que centran su atención en la música clásica occidental. En esta reflexión sobre la música como disciplina humanística y sus procesos de elaboración, el profesor Said propone un análisis amplio de las partituras, los músicos y sus épocas, una mirada que englobe todos los elementos posibles, de la misma manera que el lector o el crítico hacen a la hora de enfrentarse a un texto literario o una obra de arte. Beethoven y la Ilustración o Wagner y la filosofía de Schopenhauer, por citar solo dos ejemplos, son algunos de los casos estudiados, cruciales momentos históricos que muestran con claridad cómo las relaciones entre la música y su entorno son indiscutibles.