Jackson Pollock

Born in 1912, in a small town in Wyoming, Jackson Pollock embodied the American dream as the country found itself confronted with the realities of a modern era replacing the fading nineteenth century. Pollock left home in search of fame and fortune in New York City. Thanks to the Federal Art Project he quickly won acclaim, and after the Second World War became the biggest art celebrity in America. For De Kooning, Pollock was the “icebreaker”. For Max Ernst and Masson, Pollock was a fellow member of the European Surrealist movement. And for Motherwell, Pollock was a legitimate candidate...

The proceedings assemble some 240 papers covering eight sections: 1. phonetics and phonology, 2. morphology, 3. syntax, 4. lexical semantics, 5. editing and textual criticism, 6, rhetoric, poetics and literary theory, 7. applied linguistics, 8. history of linguistics. In addition, they include four plenary lectures and two round table discussions. The papers provide a panorama view of old and new concerns in Romance studies illustrated from various theoretical perspectives and providing an example of what this sector has to contribute to the development of linguistics and literary studies in...

"Cuando se tiene la madre más lista, más guapa, más deportista, más fuerte pero no se tiene un papá, conviene buscar uno pero que sea adecuado. Lo mejor sería que tuviera las virtudes de mamá aunque si no es fuerte, ni sabe hacer cálculos mentales, es bajito y no muy guapo pero sabe muchas poesías, le gustan los animales y es cariñoso, conviene quedárselo"--Publisher description

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Gröber in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages. The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and English. Each...

Este libro piensa el duelo en lo singular y en lo colectivo; en lo privado, en lo íntimo y en lo público (H. Arendt); en la lápida misma del duelo propio y del ajeno. En la reacción del sujeto ante la muerte, ¿puede hablarse de duelo normal y duelo patológico? La autora propone los significantes subjetivación/desubjetivación como más propicios que normalidad/anormalidad. Freud y Lacan afirman que la muerte confronta al deudo con un agujero que puede perder su borde, su circunferencia, sus barreras protectoras, y "chuparlo", cual agujero negro. De las posibles maneras de contornear...