Oplang Method: Spanish Level 1 (Audio eBook Enhanced Edition)

Julio Baena offers a new analysis of Cervantes's last and most controversial novel, Los trabajos de Persiles y Segismunda. Baena's particular focus on the first chapter of this allegorical text, which he sees as a microcosm of the entire novel, allows him to explore the correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm in Cervantes's allegorical text. Placing this work within the intellectual context of its era, Baena uses poststructuralist methodologies to develop the existential implications of Persiles's central cosmological metaphor.

This book introduces students to literature through a collection of twelve short stories and related exercises designed to improve the reader's ability to speak and write in Spanish. Activities that build reading comprehension and grammar reviews are built into the context of each story to help eliminate any fear of reading in a foreign language. Interesting topics of current issues —such as child abuse, ecological catastrophe, homosexuality, migration, and aging—are written by a balanced selection of male and female new authors. For those familiar enough with the Spanish language to want ...

Seminar paper del año 2009 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 1, Universität Wien (Zentrum für Translationswissenschaften), Materia: Kulturkompetenz Spanisch Lateinamerika, Idioma: Español, Resumen: Cuando el día de Año Nuevo de 1994 apareció en escena un grupo de rebeldes autodenominado Ejército Zapatista de Liberación, las interpretaciones de los sucesos no tardaron en llegar. La rebelión armada en el estado mexicano Chiapas recordaba desde el primer momento a un capítulo de la historia mexicana, que había marcado el país como ningún otro...

Mujeres de hoy: textos, voces e imagenes is a content-based collection of works by Spanish, Spanish American, and Latina women designed for upper-level literature courses. Each chapter, which includes two literary selections by women writers, examines different sides of the same topic under exploration. These topics explore contemporary issues that challenge current thinking such as immigration, minority groups, race, religion, social status, and ecology. Yet Mujeres de hoy also speaks to the issues that affect the human experience - such as procreation and the construction of a gendered...