El impacto del humanismo en el Nuevo Mundo

La rica tradición épica castellana, de la que dan abundante testimonio las prosificaciones de las crónicas medievales, alcanzó tempranamente su cota más alta con el "Poema de Mio Cid". En su prólogo, José Jesús de Bustos Tovar examina los orígenes de la épica castellana, analiza la datación y autoría del manuscrito y estudia su estructura temática y técnica literaria. Lejos del tópico que pretende encarnar en el Cid un inexistente espíritu nacional, el poema «es ante todo la historia de un hombre que recupera su honra por el esfuerzo de su brazo, es decir, la historia de un...

* Approach reflects a belief in the value of discourse analysis, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics. * Goal is to train teachers to teach the Spanish language as a communicative system rather than as a set of grammatical rules--therefore it includes relevant information on Spanish pragmatics and sociolinguistics. * Written entirely in Spanish. * Each chapter includes review questions and exercises. * CD-ROM integrates samples of the course material so that the readers can see and hear native speaker examples of aspects of...

One of the core authors of the '60s boom in Latin American fiction, Julio Cortázar made a contribution of international importance to the development of the short story as a literary form. This collection spans his writing career and includes La Noche Boca Arriba and Final del Juego (1956), Las Babas del Diablo (1959), La Isla a Mediodia (1966), Recortes de Prensa and Queremos Tanto a Glenda (1981) and Botella al Mar (1982). Of the seven stories, some are famous examples of his contribution to the genre of 'fantastic' literature, while others demonstrate his social and political concerns....

FUENTES, the successful two volume intermediate Spanish program presents an integrated skills approach to intermediate Spanish that develops both receptive and productive skills simultaneously. Fuentes is made up of FUENTES: CONVERSACIÓN Y GRAMÁTICA (FCG) and FUENTES: LECTURA Y REDACCIÓN (FLR). Although FUENTES: CONVERSACIÓN Y GRAMÁTICA and FUENTES: LECTURA Y REDACCIÓN are designed to be used together, they can also be used independently of each other. FUENTES: CONVERSACIÓN Y GRAMÁTICA, Fourth Edition, is organized by chapter theme, grammar, functions, and vocabulary. Fuentes program...