Eugenio Espino Barros

The volume aims to convey an impression of the richness and fascination of Romance Philology and the infinite variety of the contours and contents of the field of Romance Studies. The author was less concerned with developing novel theoretical models, but rather wanted to trace the manifestations of the most important stages in the development of the subject area and wherever possible to complement them with his own contributions. "

Pablo come bollos por la calle y tira los envoltorios al suelo. Uno de ellos cae, por casualidad, en la cabeza de un niño, quien, ofendido, responde tirando un papel a Pablo. De esta forma se inicia la batalla de los papeles, que dejará paralizada la ciudad.

La riqueza y la complejidad linguistica que se dan en el vasto territorio mexicano son de suyo una incitante invitacion al analisis y a la historia. Tal es el objetivo final de esta "Historia sociolinguistica de Mexico": narrar desde varias perspectivas la historia de las lenguas y, en especial, la historia de los hablantes en Mexico a lo largo de los siglos, tanto en terminos de consenso como en terminos de conflicto. Multiples miradas convergen en esta "Historia" en torno a los diversos procesos, que se han imbricado lenguas y hablantes en el paradojico Mexico plurietnico. Este volumen 2...

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...