Author: Vivian VasquezPublisher:
ISBN: 9781732914322
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Solo en la Noche, Only at Night
Author: Vivian VasquezPublisher:
ISBN: 9781732914322
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Spanish Grammar Companion for Teachers
Author: Philip W. KleinPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030841111
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This textbook boosts the confidence of persons teaching Spanish as a second language, who may lack confidence in their understanding of tricky areas of expression. Their previous training did not enable them to control (much less explain to others) the many “danger zones” which challenge graduate students serving as teaching assistants, in-service teachers, and others who use Spanish professionally. It offers original and insightful analyses, abundant examples and helpful English comparisons. It dismantles the machinery of grammar into manageable parts. It is not intended for those wishing to learn Spanish (since it skips the basics to focus on the “rough spots”), but for those who know Spanish well, yet need to overcome their nagging limitations in crucial areas, e.g. subjunctive, reflexives, pronouns (neuter, relative, personal), adjective placement, ser/estar, preterite/imperfect, commands, gender, passive and impersonal expressions. There are special sections on words easily confused with each other, use of the accent mark, irregular verbs, and sentence structure. It is ideal for self-study or to supplement courses in composition, culture and Spanish linguistics. It benefits native-speaker teachers unfamiliar with the “why” of their language. The result is a better prepared teacher and a more promising learning experience for the students.
On the Night You Were Born / La Noche En Que Tú Naciste (Bilingual - English/Spanish)
Author: Nancy TillmanPublisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 1250890098
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
An English/Spanish bilingual edition of Nancy Tillman's heartwarming debut picture book for readers of all ages, On the Night You Were Born / La Noche En Que Tu Naciste. On the night you were born, the moon smiled with such wonder that the stars peeked in to see you and the night wind whispered. "Life will never be the same." On the night you were born, the whole world came alive with thanksgiving. The moon stayed up till morning. The geese flew home to celebrate. Polar bears danced. On the night you were born you brought wonder and magic to the world. Here is a book that celebrates you. It is meant to be carried wherever life takes you, over all the roads, through all the years.
Voices, Visions, and a New Reality
Author: J. Ann DuncanPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822977079
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book introduces to a larger audience the work of a group of Mexican writers whose work reflects the stimulus of the "boom" of the 1960s, especially in the experimental nueva novella.Duncan views the work of six writers in the context of more well known writers of the period (Ruflo, Fuentes, and Del Paso), and concludes with a chapter on other recent innovators in Mexican literature. Despite their diversity, these texts share many common features, and unlike social realism, the works are not openly political, but at the same time they question assumptions about reality itself-and the relation of fiction to truth.
A text-book of modern Spanish, as now written and spoken in Castile and the Spanish-American republics
Author: Marathon Montrose RamseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish language
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
A Spanish Grammar
Author: Marathon Montrose RamseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish language
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century
Author: Andrew DebickiPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813158273
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Twentieth-century Spanish poetry has received comparatively little attention from critics writing in English. Andrew Debicki now presents the first English-language history published in the United States to examine the sweep of modern Spanish verse. More important, he is the first to situate Spanish poetry in the context of European modernity, to trace its trajectory from the symbolists to the postmodernists. Avoiding the rigid generational schemes and catalogs of names found in traditional Hispanic literary histories, Debicki offers detailed discussions of salient books and texts to construct an original and compelling view of his subject. He demonstrates that contemporary Spanish verse is rooted in the modem tradition and poetics that see the text as a unique embodiment of complex experiences. He then traces the evolution of that tradition in the early decades of the century and its gradual disintegration from the 1950s to the present as Spanish poetry came to reflect features of the postmodern, especially the poetics of text as process rather than as product. By centering his study on major periods and examining within each the work of poets of different ages, Debicki develops novel perspectives. The late 1960s and early 1970s, for example, were not merely the setting for a new aestheticist generation but an era of exceptional creativity in which both established and new writers engendered a profound, intertextual, and often self-referential lyricism. This book will be essential reading for specialists in modern Spanish letters, for advanced students, and for readers inter-ested in comparative literature.
Interpreting Medical Discourse
Author: Brad DavidsonParadise Transplanted
Author: Pierrette Hondagneu-SoteloPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520959213
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Gardens are immobile, literally rooted in the earth, but they are also shaped by migration and by the transnational movement of ideas, practices, plants, and seeds. In Paradise Transplanted, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo reveals how successive conquests and diverse migrations have made Southern California gardens, and in turn how gardens influence social inequality, work, leisure, status, and our experiences of nature and community. Drawing on historical archival research, ethnography, and over one hundred interviews with a wide range of people including suburban homeowners, paid Mexican immigrant gardeners, professionals at the most elite botanical garden in the West, and immigrant community gardeners in the poorest neighborhoods of inner-city Los Angeles, this book offers insights into the ways that diverse global migrations and garden landscapes shape our social world.
Ibero-American Ecocriticism
Author: J. Manuel GómezPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1666939366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This book disrupts the quintessential assumptions of ecology, the politics of identity, and environmental destruction, while proposing new readings, interpretations, and solutions in the face of urgent environmental issues.