Escritura y reescrituras en el entorno literario del Cancionero de Baena

Three boys. Three stories. And one sport that unites them - and maybe not the one you'd expect.For as long as they can remember, best friends Mario and Carlos have talked about playing professional baseball one day like one of their idols, Rafael Soriano of the Yankees. Though they have only played the game on the streets of the neighborhood, growing up the boys often repeated the same conversation about someday wearing the pinstriped uniform and giving post-game interviews to the press - in English and Spanish! It was wishful thinking, to be sure, but common for many young boys raised in the ...

This book offers an in-depth study of the internal structures of Popol Vuh, the Sacred Book of the Maya-Quiche people of Guatemala, and of the ways in which the main characters of this text are configured. This is accompanied by a similar, comparative analysis of the three novels widely known in the Hispanic world as the Banana Trilogy, written betweem 1950 and 1960 by the winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature, Miguel Angel Asturias. By showing a direct relationship between the macro-structure of Popol Vuh and its literary devices (including character configuration) and those of the...

"Mis primeras 100 palabras en Español”. Aprender un lenguaje siempre ha sido una de las tareas más deseadas en el mundo, pero también una de las más "complicadas", según dicen algunos estudiantes de idiomas. De acuerdo al Foro Económico Mundial (WEF, por sus siglas en inglés), los tres lenguajes más solicitados para aprender son: inglés, español y francés. Además, los lenguajes más hablados nativamente son: mandarín, español e hindú. ¡No dejes pasar tu propósito de año nuevo una vez más! Con este libro de vocabulario básico, podrás aprender y recordar de manera...

A QUE SÍ! is a provocative post-intermediate Spanish conversation book designed to increase students' awareness of Hispanic culture. The text encourages critical thinking while challenging the students' ability to express themselves in Spanish, by providing them with an opportunity for in-depth exploration of relevant contemporary issues. The Fourth Edition presents four main themes around which all the text and supplemental materials revolve: Espacios: Publicos y privados, Encuentros y desencuentros, Patria/Nacion: Acercamientos, and De acá para allá. Each thematic unit is supported by...