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Using a content-based, student-centered approach, Mundo 21 emphasizes communication, pair and group work, learning in context, and critical-thinking skills.Except for the grammar explanations, the text is written entirely in Spanish, exposing students on a consistent basis to natural language. Offering a grammar manual written entirely in Spanish, Mundo 21, Edicion alternativa, is suitable for heritage learner courses as well as for courses conducted in Spanish.Intended to broaden students' cultural competency, Mundo 21, 2/e, is organized around eight geographically oriented units covering the world' s 21 Spanish-speaking countries and diverse Hispanic populations. In addition, each lesson (three per unit) contains a cultural vignette followed by a short exercise.Vivid photographs of people, places, and art work illustrate each lesson to enrich students' experience with Hispanic culture. Images accompanying each Lectura provide important clues and context to heighten comprehension.The Gente del Mundo 21 section at the beginning of the lessons profiles three noteworthy personalities in the arts, literature, sports, and the entertainment industry of the country featured.Each Del pasado al presente reading provides a brief historical and cultural overview of the country under study, accompanied by an A ver si comprendiste! activity.Each unit contains a literary reading in Y ahora, a leer!, accompanied by an extensive pre-reading apparatus, Anticipando la lectura; post-reading support, Comprendiste la lectura? which checks comprehension and encourages analysis and discussion; a new feature, Introduccion al analisis literario; and an additional creativewriting activity.Cultura en vivo sections provide a cultural context for the thematic, interactive vocabulary sections, Mejoremos la comunicacion. A conversar! sections reinforce the new vocabulary through pair and group activities. Palabras claves sections focus on a key word from the Cultura en vivo reading and prompt student interaction with the vocabulary.Escribamos ahora sections, appearing at the end of Lesson 2 in each unit, provide an innovative process approach to developing writing skills and organizational techniques that helps students produce a well-developed composition.An end-of-text Manual de gramatica, cross-referenced to the text and designed for independent study, offers review and practice of the grammatical structures in meaningful contexts.Supported by Luz! Camara! Accion! sections in the text, the 60-minute Mundo 21 Video offers authentic footage, documentaries, travelogues, music, and other cultural features from various regions of the Hispanic world.Exploremos el ciberespacio sections at the end of each lesson direct students to the Mundo 21 Web Site, which features web-search activities, auto-correcting self-tests, and a resources section for additional research.
Netflix’s series adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude premieres December 11, 2024! One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.
From the late fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the Hispanic Monarchy was one of the largest and most diverse political communities known in history. At its apogee, it stretched from the Castilian plateau to the high peaks of the Andes; from the cosmopolitan cities of Seville, Naples, or Mexico City to Santa Fe and San Francisco; from Brussels to Buenos Aires and from Milan to Manila. During those centuries, Spain left its imprint across vast continents and distant oceans contributing in no minor way to the emergence of our globalised era. This was true not only in an economic sense-the Hispano-American silver peso transported across the Atlantic and the Pacific by the Spanish fleets was arguably the first global currency, thus facilitating the creation of a world economic system-but intellectually and artistically as well. The most extraordinary cultural exchanges took place in practically every corner of the Hispanic world, no matter how distant from the metropolis. At various times a descendant of the Aztec nobility was translating a Baroque play into Nahuatl to the delight of an Amerindian and mixed audience in the market of Tlatelolco; an Andalusian Dominican priest was writing the first Western grammar of the Chinese language in Fuzhou, a Chinese city that enjoyed a trade monopoly with the Spanish Philippines; a Franciscan friar was composing a piece of polyphonic music with lyrics in Quechua to be played in a church decorated with Moorish-style ceilings in a Peruvian valley; or a multi-ethnic team of Amerindian and Spanish naturalists was describing in Latin, Spanish and local vernacular languages thousands of medicinal plants, animals and minerals previously unknown to the West. And, most probably, at the same time that one of those exchanges were happening, the members of the School of Salamanca were laying the foundations of modern international law or formulating some of the first modern theories of price, value and money, Cervantes was writing Don Quixote, Velázquez was painting Las Meninas, or Goya was exposing both the dark and bright sides of the European Enlightenment. Actually, whenever we contemplate the galleries devoted to Velázquez, El Greco, Zurbarán, Murillo or Goya in the Prado Museum in Madrid; when we visit the National Palace in Mexico City, a mission in California, a Jesuit church in Rome or the Intramuros quarter in Manila; or when we hear Spanish being spoken in a myriad of accents in the streets of San Francisco, New Orleans or Manhattan we are experiencing some of the past and present fruits of an always vibrant and still expanding cultural community. As the reader can infer by now, this book is about how Spain and the larger Hispanic world have contributed to world history and in particular to the history of civilisation, not only at the zenith of the Hispanic Monarchy but throughout a much longer span of time.
"Cortazar's masterpiece ... The first great novel of Spanish America" (The Times Literary Supplement) • Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, translated by Gregory Rabassa Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, freewheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures.
This book engages with new ways of thinking about boundaries of the early modern Hispanic past, looking at current scholarly techniques.
In Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London) Nicolás Bas examines the image of Spain in eighteenth-century Europe, and in Paris and London in particular. His material has been scoured from an exhaustive interrogation of the records of the book trade. He refers to booksellers’ catalogues, private collections, auctions, and other sources of information in order to reconstruct the country’s cultural image. Rarely have these sources been searched for Spanish books, and never have they been as exhaustively exploited as they are in Bas’ book. Both England and France were conversant with some very negative ideas about Spain. The Black Legend, dating back to the sixteenth century, condemned Spain as repressive and priest-ridden. Bas shows however, that an alternative, more sympathetic, vision ran parallel with these negative views. His bibliographical approach brings to light the Spanish books that were bought, sold and ultimately read. The impression thus obtained is likely to help us understand not only Spain’s past, but also something of its present.
"Bringing Linguistics into the Spanish Language Classroom is a practical, time-saving resource that allows teachers to easily integrate the most interesting and important findings of Hispanic linguistics into their Spanish language classes. Teachers will find classroom-ready explanations and PowerPoint slides for each topic covered, as well as instructions and materials for in-class activities and take-home projects that will engage students in this fresh take on the target language. Slide presentations for each chapter are available online at www.routledge.com/9780367111960. The book covers aspects of Spanish from the trilled r to the personal a, from Indo-European origins to modern dialects, and from children's first words to adult speech errors. An innovative set of five linguistics-based essential questions organizes and contextualizes this wide range of material: 1. How is Spanish different from other languages? 2. How is Spanish similar to other languages? 3. What are the roots of Spanish? 4. How does Spanish vary? 5. How do people learn and use Spanish? Fully customizable to teacher and student interest, proficiency level, and time available in class, this book is ideal for Spanish language teachers looking to incorporate valuable linguistic insights into their curricula, even if they lack prior knowledge of this field. It is an excellent resource for Hispanic linguistics courses as well"--