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Lingüística hispánica actual provides step-by-step instructions on how to plan, design, and teach introductory Hispanic Linguistics courses. It is a versatile resource, which can be used in conjunction with Introducción a la lingüística hispánica actual: teoría y práctica. It contains an answer key for all the activities in the main textbook. It also includes additional activities, with clear and accessible explanations for students and instructors, and can accompany other existing texts and courses on Hispanic Linguistics. Features include: • A comprehensive selection of materials ...

El cuento hispánico: A Graded Literary Anthology , Eighth Edition, is designed for intermediate college Spanish reading courses. This book provides students with a collection of fi rst-rate Spanish-language short stories with which to expand their reading skills and their knowledge of Hispanic culture as por- trayed in these works. Although literary excellence was the primary crite- rion in selecting stories, an effort was also made to choose tales that can be read in one sitting.

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.

Seminar paper del año 2008 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 2,3, Universität zu Köln (Historisches Seminar I - Abteilung für Iberische und Lateinamerikanische Geschichte), Materia: Simón Bolívar, Geschichte und Mythos, Idioma: Español, Resumen: La figura histórica de Bolívar en Latinoamérica es tan mitoresca que entre tantos mo- numentos que lo representan, incluso los pocos dedicados a otros libertadores, corren con- tinuamente el riesgo de ser confundidos con la figura de Bolívar. Parece ser que la política histórica latinoamericana ha...