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Urban Los Angeles is the setting in which Elaine Miller has collected her narratives from Mexican-Americans. The Mexican folk tradition, varied and richly expressive of the inner life not only of a people but also of the individual as each lives it and personalizes it, is abundantly present in the United States. Since it is in the urban centers that most Mexican-Americans have lived, this collection represents an important contribution to the study of that tradition and to the study of the changes urban life effects on traditional folklore. The collection includes sixty-two legendary narratives and twenty traditional tales. The legendary narratives deal with the virgins and saints as well as with such familiar characters as the vanishing hitchhiker, the headless horseman, and the llorona. Familiar characters appear in the traditional tales—Juan del Oso, Blancaflor, Pedro de Ordimalas, and others. Elaine Miller concludes that the traditional tales are dying out in the city because tale telling itself is not suited to the fast pace of modern urban life, and the situations and characters in the tales are not perceived by the people to be meaningfully related to the everyday...
Learn Spanish with the most comprehensive, up-to-date text available. Developed by the experts at Living Language, this book offers a highly effective combination of conversational Spanish with grammar and culture. It covers the equivalent of two years of college-level study. "Contents Include: 40 lessons with lively, authentic dialogues including the most common and useful expressions for everyday conversation. English translations and explanations of Spanish grammar and usage, pronunciation, vocabulary, and cultural notes. Quizzes and review sections to check your progress. A complete summary of Spanish grammar, and verb charts covering all major tenses. A section on letter writing for business or social occasions. An extensive two-way glossary. Revised and updated with additional exercises, the latest in computers, the Internet, euros, and more. While this book stands on its own as a complete course and an invaluable reference, you'll find that it's even more effective when used with the recorded lessons. Living Language Ultimate Spanish cassette and compact-disc packages include this manual, along with the recordings.
Did you know that, according to director Chris Columbus, Robin Williams improvised so much during the filming of Mrs. Doubtfire that the studio had enough footage to release PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 versions of the movie? Or that Robin ad-libbed all his lines in Good Morning, Vietnam because the DJ the movie was based on didn’t really do comedy during his shows? Robin Williams, American Master looks at Robin’s seventy movies, from his earliest appearance in Can I Do It…’Til I Need Glasses? to his final posthumous voice-only appearance in Absolutely Anything. Each film is discussed in detail, with special emphasis on Robin’s performances and how they exist in the context of his entire body of work. Robin Williams, American Master is the perfect tour guide through Robin’s epic collection of cinematic genius.
Después del éxito de la edición ilustrada de Cien años de soledad, Luisa Rivera vuelve a rendir homenaje a García Márquez con una serie de ilustraciones inéditas que recrean el extraordinario universo del autor. Una edición conmemorativa de El amor en los tiempos del cólera, un gran clásico de Gabriel García Márquez y una novela imprescindible de la literatura contemporánea. «Era inevitable: el olor de las almendras amargas le recordaba siempre el destino de los amores contrariados.» Así empieza una de las historias de amor más maravillosas de la literatura universal. Un amor no correspondido durante medio siglo con un pueblecito portuario del Caribe como escenario. El Nobel de Literatura nos presenta la mágica relación entre Fermina Daza y Florentino Ariza como una mezcla tropical de plantas y arcilla, que el maestro moldea y con las que fantasea a su placer entre los territorios del mito y la leyenda. Los jugos, olores y sabores del trópico alimentan una prosa alucinatoria que se ha ganado el favor de miles de lectores en todo el mundo. Reseña: «Esta brillante y desgarradora novela es quizás una de las mejores historias de amor jamás contadas.» The New...
Change Your Habits and discover the only path to health and wellbeing. In this, her first book, Valeria Lozano shares all the wisdom that she has acquired whilst completely transforming her own life which has now had a positive impact on millions of people. Here you will learn that good health is so much more than a lack of illness: it's also being willing to live an energy-filled life in good spirits. The need to change your habits doesn't mean that you have to modify your life from one day to the next, but rather that you should gradually incorporate the little changes needed to restore natural balance to your body while you hardly notice that it's happening. Valeria reveals the correct formula to obtain good health (65% nutrition + 20% exercise + 15% sleep) and explains that we must take care of all the aspects of our life - both physical, emotional and mental -to reach our very own optimal condition and by doing so, forget about excess weight, chronic illness and emotional disorders. This book makes easy and accessible reading, backed by the latest scientific evidence and with more than 100 easily prepared recipes, and it will become essential for all those who hope to gain a...
This "city of light" has long been a world leader in so many ways, not least of them in design. This attractively illustrated book covers the most up-to-date Parisian design from the fields of architecture, interiors and fashion. With an in-depth round-up featuring projects for cultural, commercial, and residential spaces, we get a privileged glimpse at what's happening in this creative capital. We also are granted access to the latest developments in product design and other specialties. Browse this book for a whole host of designs by native Parisians and those who work or live here.
With more than 6,000 entries, the definitive guide to World Business English.
Este libro está integrado por las aportaciones de diferentes especialistas sobre un tema interdisciplinar de interés creciente, que incluye, además de los conceptos de estar sano o sentirse enfermo, también los que se recogen desde antiguo en la expresión pathos y que alberga, en general, formas de existencia del ser humano, las disposiciones afectivas que son vividas y los sentimientos en que se manifiestan. Las pasiones humanas entendidas, en suma, como los diversos modos de encontrarse o de ser comprometidos en las diferentes formas de autocomprensión inherentes a la relación con los otros y el mundo. Aportaciones, en definitiva, sobre la afectividad y su relevancia para dilucidar lo específico del ser humano, un tema en el que actualmente se da un fecundo diálogo con otras áreas de investigación afines a la antropología filosófica, como son la fenomenología, la psico(pato)logía, la filosofía de la cultura, la hermenéutica, la antropología médica o la antropología cultural, tal como queda de manifiesto en este volumen colectivo.
Victoria es una novela psicológica muy popular en su tiempo, publicada por Joseph Conrad por primera vez en 1915. El barón Axel Heyst y su amante, Lena, una mujer a la que salvó de una vida sórdida, comparten una idílica existencia en Samburan. Hasta que tres siniestros personajes irrumpen para amenazar su felicidad y desencadenar el drama bajo la mirada del volcán que domina el archipiélago malayo. Una novela extraordinaria donde resplandece el genio austero de aquel polaco que llegó a convertirse bajo el nombre de Joseph Conrad en uno de los clásicos de la literatura en lengua inglesa. «Los héroes de Conrad se creen a salvo hasta que la vida los obliga a pelear. Cualquier lector lúcido se reconoce en ellos.» Arturo Pérez-Reverte
La sensualidad es algo absoluto. O eres o no eres sensual. Puedes ser sexy y coqueta cuando decidas serlo, seg�n la ocasi�n, pero no sucede as� con la sensualidad. Este libro toca las razones del porqu� perdemos ese im�n, y nos presenta t�cnicas especificas y pr�cticas para recuperar y activar la sensualidad.
Late nineteenth-century Spanish fiction is populated by adulteresses, prostitutes, seduced women, and emasculated men - indicating an almost obsessive interest in gender deviance. In Marginal Subjects, Akiko Tsuchiya shows how the figure of the deviant woman--and her counterpart, the feminized man - revealed the ambivalence of literary writers towards new methods of social control in Restoration Spain. Focusing on works by major realist authors such as Benito Pérez Galdós, Emilia Pardo Bazán, and Leopoldo Alas (Clarín), as well as popular novelists like Eduardo López Bago, Marginal Subjects argues that these archetypes were used to channel collective anxieties about sexuality, class, race, and nation. Tsuchiya also draws on medical and anthropological texts and illustrated periodicals to locate literary works within larger cultural debates. Marginal Subjects is a riveting exploration of why realist and naturalist narratives were so invested in representing gender deviance in fin-de-siècle Spain.
An expert on early childhood education offers an important resource for Hispanic parents who try to maintain respect for cultural traditions while readying their children for success in the world, discussing history, customs, and responsibilities. Original.
Con la presente obra se quiere rendir homenaje al Profesor Don Carlos Carrete Parrondo, quien fue Catedrático de Lengua y Literatura hebreas e impulsor del Área de Estudios Hebreos y Arameos de la Universidad de Salamanca. En este volumen se recogen cuarenta y seis contribuciones de prestigiosos especialistas en el campo de la lengua hebrea y el pasado hispanojudío medieval, entre otras significativas colaboraciones, de profesores, colegas y amigos, procedentes tanto de universidades y centros de investigación españoles como de Europa, Israel y Estados Unidos.
Durante siglos las escritoras habitaron los márgenes de lo establecido: rechazaron las convenciones sociales que buscaban limitar su libertad como entes políticos y creativos, y rompieron el silencio al que parecían condenadas. Estas autoras crearon personajes femeninos igualmente exocanónicos, que vivían y hablaban desde el umbral, desestabilizando el discurso hegemónico con su mera existencia. Estos personajes se convierten con frecuencia en alter ego de la autora para ofrecer una profunda reflexión sobre el papel de la mujer en su sociedad. Asimismo, son parte fundamental de la experimentación formal y temática de estas autoras y del cuestionamiento que hacen al canon literario. Este volumen busca trazar estas genealogías en femenino, viajando a otras épocas y lugares para recuperar obras y autoras que no han alcanzado todavía el reconocimiento que merecen. El recorrido cronológico concluye con narradoras y personajes en la literatura escrita por mujeres en los siglos XX y XXI, desde los años cuarenta hasta las nuevas narrativas digitales. Esta monografía contribuye, pues, a los estudios feministas que abogan por mirar hacia el pasado para comprender el presente...
Crews focuses on Vald?s's service as an imperial courtier and how his employments in Italy influenced both Spanish diplomacy and his own religious thought.
The Sueños is one of the most controversial, witty and fantastic works of early 17th century Spanish literature. The five Dreams minutely analyse stupidity, ignorance and evil, as these could be found in contemporary society.
¿Alguna vez te han dicho que vayas y ganes almas para Cristo a través del evangelismo en las calles o en cualquier otro lugar y simplemente sientes que no estás hecho para esto? Cuando finalmente logras convencer a alguien para que acepte a Jesús como salvador, comienzas a darte cuenta de que no tienes ni idea de por dónde empezar en el viaje del discipulado. Si esa es tu situación, no estás solo. Como cristiano de más de treinta (30) años, escuchando sermones de diferentes púlpitos de todo el mundo, en las redes de medios y en nuestras iglesias locales, me sorprende la falta o la inexistencia de enseñanza práctica sobre cómo ir realmente y hacer discípulos de todas las naciones como Jesucristo nos instruyó durante su último mandato a los discípulos, hasta los últimos trece años que esta idea vino a mí en mi encuentro visible con el Señor Jesucristo en 22, de abril de 2006. Encontrará la historia sobre el encuentro en la parte introductoria de Despistado Ir y hacer discípulos . Incluso entonces, todavía estoy afinando mi comprensión . Sé y soy consciente de que hay innumerables cristianos, que aman profundamente al Señor y están involucrados en...
Scarlett reveals significant correlations between gender and figurations of the female (and male) body and traces a history of the mind-body connection in Spanish novels from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Dulce dueño by Emilia Pardo Bazán, Emilia Pardo Bazán was a Galician author and scholar from Galicia. She is known for bringing naturalism to Spanish literature, for her detailed descriptions of reality, and for her role in feminist literature of her era.Her first novel, Pascual López (1879), is a simple exercise in fantasy of no remarkable promise, though it contains good descriptive passages of romance. It was followed by a more striking story, Un viaje de novios (1881), in which a discreet attempt was made to introduce into Spain the methods of French realism. The book caused a sensation among the literary cliques, and this sensation was increased by the appearance of another naturalistic tale, La tribuna (1885), wherein the influence of Émile Zola is unmistakable. Meanwhile, the writer's reply to her critics was issued under the title of La cuestion palpitante (1883), a clever piece of rhetoric, but of no special value as regards criticism or dialectics.The best of Emilia Pardo Bazán's work is embodied in Los pazos de Ulloa (1886), the painfully exact history of a decadent aristocratic family. A sequel, with the significant title of La madre naturaleza (1887), marks a...
Essays by Spanish authors Luis Araújo, Josep Maria Benet i Jornet, Jerónimo López Mozo, Paloms Pedrero and José Maria Rodríguez Méndez. Selected scholarly papers from international conference held at Penn State. Some papers in Spanish and some in English.
Writers, publishers, readers and scholars have stopped apologising for the short story: the genre is no longer a bad investment, a trial-exercise for a novel or a minor entertainment, as demonstrated by exceptional writers with an almost exclusive dedication to it, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Munro, Quim Monzó or Cristina Fernández Cubas. With deep roots in classic and medieval literatures, and great achievements in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, the genre of the short story, which benefits from the linguistic tightness of poetry and the narrative comforts of the novel, has finally been recognised as having a (hybrid) identity of its own. This volume re-edits and expands a previous bilingual collection published in 1997. The first edition included stories by twelve writers: Pilar Cibreiro, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Paloma Díaz-Mas, Adelaida García Morales, Lourdes Ortiz, Laura Freixas, Marina Mayoral, Mercedes Abad, Rosa Montero, Maruja Torres, Soledad Puértolas and María Eugenia Salaverri. The present edition adds another four: Nuria Amat, Juana Salabert, Luisa Castro and Berta Marsé. The stories gathered in this second edition were written between 1980 and ...
From the colonial period through the mid-twentieth century, haciendas dominated the Latin American countryside. In the Ecuadorian Andes, Runa—Quichua-speaking indigenous people—worked on these large agrarian estates as virtual serfs. In Remembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador, Barry Lyons probes the workings of power on haciendas and explores the hacienda's contemporary legacy. Lyons lived for three years in a Runa village and conducted in-depth interviews with elderly former hacienda laborers. He combines their wrenching accounts with archival evidence to paint an astonishing portrait of daily life on haciendas. Lyons also develops an innovative analysis of hacienda discipline and authority relations. Remembering the Hacienda explains the role of religion as well as the reshaping of Runa culture and identity under the impact of land reform and liberation theology. This beautifully written book is a major contribution to the understanding of social control and domination. It will be valuable reading for a broad audience in anthropology, history, Latin American studies, and religious studies.
Ochenta a�os despu�s de la muerte del proxeneta Alberto Yarini, ocurrida por motivos pasionales en 1910, en el barrio de San Isidro, un joven historiador visita la tumba del legendario chulo para cumplir una promesa contra�da con un amigo.Un misterioso b�caro que siempre tendr� flores frescas sobre el sepulcro del proxeneta, le estimula a emprender una investigaci�n en la que afloran vivencias de la vida del protagonista Luis Fernandez Figueroa y su relaci�n con el m�tico personaje
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