México profundo

CONTENIDO: Las lenguas prerromanas - La lengua latina en Hispania - Latín vulgar y particularidades del latín hispánico - Los árabes y el electo árabe en español - El primitivo romance hispánico - El español arcaico. Juglaría y clerecía. Comienzos de la prosa - La época alfonsí y el siglo XIV - Transición del español medieval al clásico - El español del siglo de oro. La literatura barroca - El español moderno - Extensión y variedades del español actual - El español de América.

An interesting and well-researched account of the travels of Fray Marcos de Niza in New Spain as he was sent by Esteban to investigate the Seven Cities of Cibola.

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

This study offers a profound study of Arrufat's play, using most recent critical trends concerning the performance aspect of the drama. It examines the genre of the drama and its relationship to the phenomenon of the Cuban Revolution, Arrufat as a Cuban playwright of the 60s and his re-writing of the Greek theme of the fratricidal fight in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes. Also contains a recent interview with Arrufat in which he describes the social circumstances surrounding the play and some of his classical re-writing techniques.