Amorum Emblemata

Luis Bunuel's Viridiana is the story of a young novice who, in the space of a short time, is transformed from fervently pious to worldly as she moves from serving God within the convent to serving people outside the convent. When Luis Bunuel began shooting Viridiana in 1961, he decided he did not want stars for the film ("Stars are always horrible," he once remarked). Two of the twelve beggars in the film were not professional actors: the woman dwarf (she was a lottery ticket vendor in Madrid) and the leper. "I remember in particular the remarkable character who played the leper," Bunuel...

Este libro propone al lector incursionar en una lectura inaugural, en donde como en una fabulosa aventura, descubra un nuevo escenario estético asturiano. Finalmente, Asturias autor teatral se convertirá en un personaje ya no virtual, sino destacado por sus propios méritos, y complementario al novelista, poeta y ensayista.

This volume sheds light upon one of the most emblematic constructions in Ibero-Romance: adverbial infinitives with specified subjects (e.g. al entrar Juan (Sp), para eles verem o resultado (Ptg)). The study attempts to fill an empirical gap and offers a cognitive-functional and comparative account on these constructions. The first part provides an overview of the notions of infinitive, subject and adverbial clauses. The second part consists of two empirical case studies. First, the use of the Portuguese inflected infinitive is shown to be sensitive to factors as the mental accessibility of...

Un approccio logico ma originale, utile e vario nel suo vocabolario, sufficiente nella sua grammatica per far ottenere, in qualche mese, la capacit...di conversare correntemente in francese.