Download or read book Behind Spanish American Footlights written by Willis Knapp Jones and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across a five-hundred-year sweep of history, Willis Knapp Jones surveys the native drama and the Spanish influence upon it in nineteen South American countries, and traces the development of their national theatres to the 1960s. This volume, filled with a fascinating array of information, sparkles with wit while giving the reader a fact-filled course in the history of Spanish American drama that he can get nowhere else. This is the first book in English ever to consider the theatre of all the Spanish American countries. Even in Spanish, the pioneer study that covers the whole field was also written by Jones. Jones sees the history of a nation in the history of its drama. Pre-Columbian Indians, conquistadores, missionary priests, viceroys, dictators, and national heroes form a background of true drama for the main characters here—those who wrote and produced and acted in the make-believe drama of the times. The theatre mirrors the whole life of the community, Jones believes, and thus he offers information about geography, military events, and economics, and follows the politics of state and church through dramatists’ offerings. Examining the plays of a people down the centuries, he shows how the many cultural elements of both Old and New Worlds have been blended into the distinct national characteristics of each of the Spanish American countries. He does full justice to the subject he loves. A lively storyteller, he adds tidbits of spice and laughter, long-buried vignettes of history, tales of politics and drama, stories of high and low life, plots of plays, bits of verse, accounts of dalliance and of hard work, and sad and happy endings of rulers and peons, dramatists, actors, and clowns. A valuable appendix is a selected reading guide, listing the outstanding works of important Spanish American dramatists. A generous bibliography is a useful addition for scholars.
Download or read book Princeton Review AP Spanish Language Culture Prep 11th Edition written by The Princeton Review and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5. Ace the AP Spanish Language & Culture Exam with this comprehensive study guide—including 3 full-length practice tests, thorough content reviews & strategies, access to online extras, and audio tracks for realistic listening practice. Techniques That Actually Work • Tried-and-true strategies to help you avoid traps and beat the test • Essential tactics to help you work smarter, not harder • Step-by-step instruction on how to crack each question type Everything You Need for a High Score • Fully aligned with the latest College Board standards for AP® Spanish Language & Culture • Audio tracks for realistic practice on the speaking and listening sections—available to download or stream online • Translations for all practice test passages and questions • Access to study plans, a handy list of key terms and concepts, and helpful pre-college info via your online Student Tools Practice Your Way to Excellence • 3 full-length practice tests (2 in book, 1 online) with detailed answer explanations • Targeted review of verb and grammar forms with drills for each topic • Sample student essays with scored evaluations
Download or read book Cracking the AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam with Audio CD 2020 Edition written by The Princeton Review and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cracking the AP Spanish Language & Culture Exam with Audio CD, 2020 Edition, provides students with an audio CD (and online streaming audio tracks) for realistic practice on the listening section of the test, comprehensive AP Spanish scoring guidelines for free-response sections, a targeted grammar review with drills for each topic, and much more.
Download or read book Cracking the AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam with Audio CD 2018 Edition written by Princeton Review (Firm) and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything students need to know to succeed on the AP Spanish Language & Culture Exam.
Download or read book A History of Spanish Golden Age Drama written by Henry K. Ziomek and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spain's Golden Age, the seventeenth century, left the world one great legacy, the flower of its dramatic genius—the comedia. The work of the Golden Age playwrights represents the largest combined body of dramatic literature from a single historical period, comparable in magnitude to classical tragedy and comedy, to Elizabethan drama, and to French neoclassical theater. A History of Spanish Golden Age Drama is the first up-to-date survey of the history of the comedia, with special emphasis on critical approaches developed during the past ten years. A history of the comedia necessarily focuses on the work of Lope de Vega and Calderon de la Barca, but Ziomek also gives full credit to the host of lesser dramatists who followed in the paths blazed by Lope and Calderon, and whose individual contributions to particular genres added to the richness of Spanish theater. He also examines the profound influence of the comedia on the literature of other cultures.
Download or read book Crosscurrents written by Mindy Badía and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "crosscurrents" seems especially fitting for a volume of essays that explores the cultural exchanges that resulted from the encounter between Spain and the New World. The nautical metaphor alludes to the actual crossing of ships that occurred during the discovery, conquest, and colonization of the Americas by the Spanish as it emphasizes the changes that occurred at these cultural intersections.
Download or read book Mystery Stories to Learn Spanish English written by Mayela Hess and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mystery story technique has ten steps, follow them and enjoy the trip. Your classes will enjoy and learn a great deal by telling these Mystery Stories to their classmates. The students will improve their writing, reading and oral skills not only in the foreign language they are learning but also in their own native tongue. Pick up this book and prepare yourself to take a trip with your students in a mysterious and exciting engaging style that will illuminate the way you teach a foreign language.
Download or read book Lorca s Experimental Theater written by Andrew A. Anderson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-11-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical and historical discussions of the life and work of Federico García Lorca, Spain’s foremost poet and playwright of the twentieth century, often obscure the author’s more avant-garde dramatic works. In Lorca’s Experimental Theater, Andrew A. Anderson focuses on four of Lorca’s most challenging plays—Amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín, El público, Así que pasen cinco años, and El sueño de la vida (previously known as Comedia sin título)—and on the surrounding context in which they came to be written and in only one case performed during his lifetime. While none of Lorca’s plays can be considered conventional, these four works stand out in his corpus for challenging theatrical conventions most forcefully, both thematically and technically. With discussions of stagecraft, artistic modernism, and the historical avant-garde, Lorca’s Experimental Theater provides detailed interpretive readings of the four plays, surveys their textual and performative history, and examines the most important contemporary influences on Lorca’s creation of these expressive, innovative works.
Download or read book Spanish Theatre 1920 1995 written by Maria M Delgado and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a reassessment of the 1920s and 30s, this text looks beyond a consideration of just the most successful Spanish playwrights of the time, and discusses also the work of directors, theorists, actors and designers.
Download or read book The Pirandellian Mode in Spanish Literature from Cervantes to Sastre written by Wilma Newberry and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Spanish literature through Pirandellian eyes.
Download or read book Madrid s Forgotten Avant Garde written by Silvina Schammah Gesser and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity which polarized Spanish society prior to the Civil War. The convergence of modern and essentialist discourses and practices, especially in literature and poetry, in what is conventionally called in Spanish letters "The Generation of '27", created fissures between competing views of aesthetics and ideology that cut across political affiliation. Silvina Schammah exposes the paradoxes facing Madrid's cultural vanguards, as they were torn by their ambition for universality, cosmopolitanism and transcendence on the one hand and by the centripetal forces of nationalistic ideologies on the other. Taking upon themselves roles to become the disseminators and populizers of radical positions and world-views first elaborated and conducted by the young urban intelligentsia, their proposed aim of incorporating diverse identities embedded in different cultural constructions and discourse was to have very real and tragic consequences as political and intellectual lines polarized in the years prior to the Spanish Civil War.
Download or read book En tu medio written by Leah Fonder-Solano and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En tu medio is a new program for intermediate Spanish that includes interactive and multimedia content, online tools and resources, and authentic short films to provide a contemporary and appealing learning experience. The course is designed to complement any course format, whether it be face-to-face, a hybrid/blended learning environment, or an online class. The course uses a task-based, student-friendly approach to build from the introductory level toward a higher-level proficiency. Each of 10 sequential course sections offers meaningful activities designed to motivate students and positively reinforce successful communication through pair and group interaction, negotiation of meaning, and the completion of real-world tasks within an engaging thematic and cultural context.
Download or read book The Modernist Trend in Spanish American Poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire written by John Slater and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, sailors, and emigrants of all sorts carried with them to the farthest reaches of the monarchy their own ideas about sickness and health. These ideas were, in turn, influenced by local cultures. This volume tells the story of encounters among medical cultures in the early modern Spanish empire. The twelve chapters draw upon a wide variety of sources, ranging from drama, poetry, and sermons to broadsheets, travel accounts, chronicles, and Inquisitorial documents; and it surveys a tremendous regional scope, from Mexico, to the Canary Islands, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and Germany. Together, these essays propose a new interpretation of the circulation, reception, appropriation, and elaboration of ideas and practices related to sickness and health, sex, monstrosity, and death, in a historical moment marked by continuous cross-pollination among institutions and populations with a decided stake in the functioning and control of the human body. Ultimately, the volume discloses how medical cultures provided demographic, analytical, and even geographic tools that constituted a particular kind of map of knowledge and practice, upon which were plotted: the local utilities of pharmacological discoveries; cures for social unrest or decline; spaces for political and institutional struggle; and evolving understandings of monstrousness and normativity. Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire puts the history of early modern Spanish medicine on a new footing in the English-speaking world.
Download or read book The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde El Extra o Caso Del Dr Jekyll Y Mr Hyde English Spanish Parallel Text Edition written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-26 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Louis Stevenson's classic The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'El extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde is presented in English-Spanish parallel text, complete and unabridged. 'I want to write about a fellow who was two fellows,' remarked Stevenson to a friend, giving rise to the most weirdly imaginative work in classic fiction. With Charles Raymond Macauley art from the 1904 illustrated edition.The Bilingual Library presents world classics in parallel text. Each page in translation is mirrored by its original language on the facing page. Series editor D. Bannon is a member of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) and the American Translators Association (ATA).
Download or read book A Mystery in the Forest written by Susanna Isern and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deer who cooks the best pies in the forest. A missing recipe book. An unsolved mystery. The delightful characters from the hugely successful book The Lonely Mailman return, in a charming tale that invites readers to think about the emotional impact of jealousy, the importance of empathy, and the ability to forgive.
Download or read book Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theater written by Erin Alice Cowling and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores early modern Spanish plays through the lens of social justice, extending its analysis to contemporary adaptations and how they can be used as a tool for achieving social justice today.
