El medico de su honra es un drama inquietante y perturbador. Hace cien anos, a Menendez y Pelayo le turbaba lo que el escribio como ""falsedad moral del... pensamient"". Aplaudio muchos aspectosde este drama, pero solo despues de hacer constar su animadversion hacia la sugerencia de Calderon (segun el creia) de que una esposa inocente debiera morir para preservar el honor del marido. La critica de los ultimos anos ha comenzado a analizar esta obra de una manera diferente, a traves de sus metaforas y simbolos, entre los cuales figura prominentemente la medicina. Junto con otros enfoques criticos, este analissi nos ha llevado a una interpretacion muy diferente del drama (...)(De la Introduccion de D. W. Cruickshank)

El medico de su honra es un drama inquietante y perturbador. Hace cien anos, a Menendez y Pelayo le turbaba lo que el escribio como falsedad moral del... pensamiento. Aplaudio muchos aspectos de este drama, pero solo despues de hacer constar su animadversion hacia la sugerencia de Calderon (segun el creia) de que una esposa inocente debiera morir para preservar el honor del marido. La critica de los ultimos anos ha comenzado a analizar esta obra de una manera diferente, a traves de sus metaforas y simbolos, entre los cuales figura prominentemente la medicina. Junto con otros enfoques criticos, este analisis nos ha llevado a una interpretacion muy diferente del drama (...)

Compuesta entre 1550 y 1560, es una conmovedora novela de amor, un canto a la convivencia entre la cultura musulmana y cristiana, una exquisita... miniatura, obra maestra de la Literatura Espanola de los Siglos de Oro. Victor de Lama imparte sus clases en la Universidad Complutense y Emilio Peral Vega es becario de investigacion de esa misma Universidad.

Read by Anthony Heald, this audiobook is the 2009 winner of the prestigious Audie® Award for Best Literary Fiction. Elmer Gantry is the portrait of a... silver-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church, yet lives a life of hypocrisy, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence. The title character starts out as a greedy, shallow, philandering Baptist minister, turns to evangelism, and eventually becomes the leader of a large Methodist congregation. Throughout the novel, Gantry encounters fellow religious hypocrites. Although often exposed as a fraud, Gantry is never fully discredited. Elmer Gantry is considered a landmark in American literature and one of the most penetrating studies of hypocrisy in modern literature. The novel also represents the evangelistic activity of America in the 1920s and people s attitudes toward it.

The open country of Texas between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande was sparsely settled through the nineteenth century, and most of the settlers who... did live there had Hispanic names that until recently were rarely admitted into the pages of Texas history. In 1935, however, a descendant of one of the old Spanish land-grant families in the region-a woman, no less-found an ingenious way to publish the history of her region at a time when neither Tejanos nor women had much voice. She told the story from the perspective of an ancient mesquite tree, under whose branches much South Texas history had passed. Her tale became an invaluable source of folk history but has long been out of print. Now, with important new introductions by Leticia M. Garza-Falcón and Andrés Tijerina, the history witnessed by El Mesquite can again inform readers of the way of life that first shaped Texas. Through the voice of the gnarled old tree, Elena Zamora O'Shea tells South Texas political and ethnographic history, filled with details of daily life such as songs, local plants and folk medicines, foods and recipes, peone/patron relations, and the Tejano ranch vocabulary. The work is an important example of the historical-folkloristic literary genre used by Mexican American writers of the period. Using the literary device of the tree's narration, O'Shea raises issues of culture, discrimination, and prejudice she could not have addressed in her own voice in that day and explicitly states the Mexican American ideology of 1930s Texas. The result is a literary and historic work of lasting value, which clearly articulates the Tejano claim to legitimacy in Texas history. ELENA ZAMORA O'SHEA (1880-1951) was born at Rancho La Noria Cardenena near Peñitas, Hidalgo County, Texas. A long-time schoolteacher, whose posts included one on the famous King Ranch, she wrote this book to help Tejano children know and claim their proud heritage.

You can't just walk into dis bad man t'ing, you gotta learn the whole science of it. You step into that arena and you better be able to dance wid death... til it mek you dizzy. The Yardies are burning up Hackney and Digger's offer of protection for the diner smacks more of threat than promise. How can Deli save his truanting, thieving son when temptation looms so large on Murder Mile?

Designed for heritage speaker courses in intermediate Spanish, the content-based approach of El mundo 21 hispano provides students with a wealth of... opportunities to learn about their own country of origin, or that of their ancestors. As students delve into their roots they learn to respect and take pride in their own cultural heritage as well as those of their classmates.

This complete lab audio program contains 6 CDs and is coordinated with "A escuchar! "section of the Activities Manual. It emphasizes the development of... listening comprehension skills and further understanding of the relationship between spoken and written Spanish. It features approx. 60 minutes of recorded materials for each text unit and feature over twenty native-speaker voices from different areas of the Hispanic world. A transcript of the audio program is available on the HM ClassPrep CD-ROM. Contact Faculty Services for Audiocassette sets.