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Introducción a la literatura Española | ||||
Introducción a la literatura Española An Anthology of Spanish Literature 2005 • 1-58510-117-6 • paper • 280 pages • 7 x 10 • $34.95 A survey of Spanish language literature from Spain and Latin America. This volume covers Spanish literature from the beginnings through modern times. Introductions to each literary period include discussions of the historical and cultural developments of each period and a brief history/overview of literature in the period. Also included is a brief bibliography for each author. Pedagogy includes questions to develop students' critical abilities, including a student guide to the identification of key literary techniques or literary components, and suggested essay questions such as a student could expect on a typical Advanced Placement* literature exam. | About the Author | Contents | Preface |
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Spanish Literature | |||
This text is appropriate for Spanish language courses in high school and college that cover literature. For high schools, all the texts recommended for the AP* Spanish exam in literature are included in this text and the accompanying series. For college courses, the series offers a broad introduction to literature in Latin America. All texts in the series include introductory materials, notes, background and vocabulary. Books include sample questions modeled on those for the AP* literature exam. This text is part of a Focus series of student editions in Spanish designed for students of Spanish and general readers who are not native speakers. Designed to help the student approach the materials with linguistic, literary and cultural issues, each text includes introductory material on the authors, their period and their work, the Spanish text of the stories with notes and vocabulary, and questions to assist in study for the Advanced Placement* examination. The series consists of:
All are under the series editorship of Paola Bianco, Wilkes University and Antonio Sobejano-Morán, SUNY Binghamton.
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Paola Bianco is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Wilkes University. She earned her PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill and has published books and articles on poetry, literature, Italian culture and Hispanic women writers. Antonio Sobejano-Morán is Professor of Spanish at SUNY Binghamton since 1986. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan, and has published extensively in the field of Spanish literature. He has taught language and literature courses at many levels, and served as AP table leader in Spanish and Latin American literature for ETS.
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Preface
Capítulo I. De los albores de la historia hasta el final de la Reconquista | ||||
Introducción a la literatura española offers both the advanced high school and undergraduate Spanish students at the university level a comprehensive introduction to Spanish literature. This textbook may be used as a companion book to Introducción a la literatura latinoamericana, and the three editions of Tirso de Molina’s El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra, Miguel de Unamuno’s San Manuel Bueno, mártir, and Federico García Lorca’s La casa de Bernarda Alba. Aimed to AP students of Spanish and students at the third year level of the college or university curriculum, Introducción a la literatura española purports itself as an introduction or survey to Spanish literature through some of the most representative works and writers. The book maps the development of the three major literary genres: narrative, poetry and theater, from the Middle Ages through the Twentieth Century. All the selected works are reproduced in their entirety, with the exception of Lazarillo de Tormes and El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes. In the case of Lazarillo de Tormes, the four selected chapters provide an accurate idea of this picaresque novel. Likewise, the selected chapters from Cervantes’s novel are a good representation of this monumental novel. We have included an author, Juan Meléndez Valdéz, who is not part of the AP reading list, but the authors decided to include him because he is a good example of the Neoclassic period, a literary trend that has not been represented in the AP reading list. This poet bridges the two literary movements that precede and follow it: the Baroque and the Romantic period. In addition to the selected readings, Introducción a la literatura española also features a cultural and historical overview of Spain, besides a history of its literature. This panoramic view will enable students to place the selected works within a specific cultural, historical, and literary context. Each reading is followed by a series of drills that are designed to question the student’s basic understanding of the story and develop critical analysis skills. Since some of these texts may pose some difficulty, especially for non-native speakers, we have tried to minimize this burden by including extensive glosses. Due to the difficulty presented by poetry, we have included a special section devoted to the study of poetic language, “Introducción al análisis de la poesía”. This is a tool intended to help students count syllables and identify rhymes and the different types of verses. It also provides an introduction to the study of the most common rhetorical figures used in poetry. The authors expect that the work and dedication they put in this textbook will elicit an excellent reception on the part of teachers and students. | ||||
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