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Composición: Proceso y síntesis is designed for use in the advanced Spanish composition course to help students develop the ability to perform the writing tasks that are generally expected of Spanish majors and minors. Since the publication of the first edition, instructors in this course have conveyed an increased interest in the development of functional, purposeful language skills, and the authors factored this into their revision. This fifth edition also takes into account recent findings in writing research, and owes many of its improvements to the helpful feedback from those who have...

Esta monografía estudia la tradición clásica del De rerum natura de Lucrecio en la literatura española, desde Isidoro de Sevilla hasta la actualidad. Esta joya de la Antigüedad ha sido el poema didáctico por excelencia de la literatura latina junto con los Georgica de Virgilio. En ella Lucrecio expuso la filosofía de Epicuro a fin de liberar a los hombres del miedo a la muerte y a los dioses. Cuando Poggio Bracciolini redescubrió el texto en 1417, la obra se convirtió en el enquiridión más leído de la Escuela del Jardín, comenzando entonces una nueva trayectoria, plagada de...

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...

Comprehensive Spanish course, Cuaderno de práctica - oral and written exercises by chapter, with answers. With CD-Rom which also has video material for each chapter, plus transcripts, audio CDs and videocassette. Suitable for self-study, and developing reading, writing and listening skills.