Renaissance and Baroque Poetry of Spain

Foreword. Introducción. Agradecimientos. Elias L. Rivers. Bibliografía. Manuel Alvar: Fueros Municipales y Lingüística. Ignacio Arellano: El diestro del Juicio Final, de Quevedo, y su identidad. Alberto Blecua: Garcilaso con Stemma. José Manuel Blecua: La cola de la décima Aquí la envidia y mentira de Fray Luis de León. Benito Brancaforte: Cervantes ́ Tale of Foolish Curiosity and Hawthorne ́s The Birthmark: the Testing of Women. Dietrich Briesemeister: Comedias españolas del Siglo de Oro en el Brasil colonial. Jean Canavaggio: Garcilaso en Cervantes: ¡Oh dulces prendas por mi mal ...

Trato hecho! is a “hands-on”, modular beginning to Spanish which stresses the features of Spanish needed for everyday communication and applies them immediately to realistic settings around the world. ¡Trato hecho! builds proficiency in and appreciation for the Spanish language, develops readers understanding of Hispanic cultures and their growing importance in the world and provides contexts that reinforce the usefulness of Spanish in today's economy, particularly in North America. The modular structure allows readers to test their abilities and apply new material in one module before...

Ewan Dow es director del Centre for Language Studies, University of Surrey. Regresó a su país en 2006, tras desempeñarse durante cuatro años como profesor en las ciudades chinas de Cantón (en Guangdong University of Foreign Studies) y Beijing. Hu Hua Ouyang obtuvo el título de Doctor en City University of Hong Kong. Su tesis doctoral ha sido recientemente publicada por Peking University Press. En la actualidad es director del Centro de investigación educativa en lengua inglesa de Guangdong University of Foreign Studies en Guangzhou, Cantón República Popular China y el Chinese...

The contributions gathered in this volume investigate the impact of shared knowledge on linguistic structure—whether shared knowledge determines the linguistic form or a given linguistic structure imposes a specific set of information. From an Ibero-Romance perspective, this book supports the necessity of a transversal approach to the grammar/pragmatics interaction.

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....