Paul Gauguin

Qué es lo que tiene el cine clásico que lo convierte en un fenómeno artístico tan especial? Por qué, hoy en día, todavía nos llaman la atención unas películas que, en muchos casos, se rodaron hace casi un siglo? Quizá buena parte del interés que, para muchas personas, siguen despertando en la actualidad los filmes clásicos de Hollywood radique en que su visionado constituye una experiencia de sentido. Y, precisamente, el constituir una experiencia que nos ofrece sentido es un punto en común que liga cine clásico y religión. Son relativamente frecuentes los análisis que...

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...

This book contains a collection of problems on language acquisition. The first part of the book deals with first and bilingual language acquisition in a naturalistic situation. The second part presents problems on second language acquisition, both in a naturalistic and in an instructed situation. The third part of the book contains activities bases on scenes of the video Talking in a second language..The aim of the book is twofold. It tries to provide students and teachers-to-be at different language acquisition courses in our universities with authentic material from our own language...

This volume brings together a selection of contributions presented at the 15th European Symposium on Languages for Special Purposes, held at the University of Bergamo (Italy) from 29 August to 2 September 2005. The conference title, «New Trends in Specialized Discourse», reflects the emphasis given to recent orientations in research, coming from established as well as new authors in the field. As suggested by the title of this volume, the analysis of specialized discourse calls for a specialized discourse analysis. When applied linguists deal with vocational discourses, they are faced with...