La talla en madera

Did you know that, according to director Chris Columbus, Robin Williams improvised so much during the filming of Mrs. Doubtfire that the studio had enough footage to release PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 versions of the movie? Or that Robin ad-libbed all his lines in Good Morning, Vietnam because the DJ the movie was based on didn’t really do comedy during his shows? Robin Williams, American Master looks at Robin’s seventy movies, from his earliest appearance in Can I Do It…’Til I Need Glasses? to his final posthumous voice-only appearance in Absolutely Anything. Each film is discussed...

This book comprises the testimonies of five founders of the workshop Taller 4 Rojo: Carlos Granada (1933-2015), Diego Arango (1942), Umberto Giangrandi (1943), Jorge Mora (1944) and Fabio Rodríguez Amaya (1950). It is a long dialogue held with another collective, the workshop Taller Historia Crítica del Arte (workshop Critical History of Art), setting up a document, which in addition to their voices and controversial memoirs, includes the complex documentary collections that they still preserve. Developed in the context of the vast programme of research on the relations between art and...

No me ha guiado, a la hora de escribir este libro, otro afán que el puramente personal, humano e histórico. El caso es que el autor se entera por casualidad, un buen día, de un pequeño vocabulario extremeño que llegó a sus manos y a partir de ahí se pone manos a la obra, para la localización del causante del mismo. Por tanto, vaya mi agradecimiento y dedicatoria, en primer lugar, a la memoria de mi buen amigo y paisano (q.e.p.d.) el ilustre Odontólogo D. ANTONIO MURGA, autor, en este caso, del citado vocabulario y sin el cual éste no hubiera podido salir a la luz. Fueron muchas...

Dos estudios sobre el conector pues contiene due ricerche. Nella prima, "El conector pragmático pues", si fornisce un quadro generale delle principali proprietà funzionali di questo connettivo; partendo da testi tratti da corpora orali si analizzano nel loro contesto pragmatico i diversi valori argomentativi e metadiscorsivi di pues allo scopo di fornire un quadro esaustivo delle funzioni che ricopre nel registro colloquiale. Il secondo saggio "Dos combinaciones de pues en el español de Colombia" è dedicato a vea pues e ¡eh ave María, pues!, due espressioni diatopiche caratteristiche...