Overview

A highly successful short fiction collection, El cuento hispánico introduces the Intermediate Spanish student to major Hispanic writers from both Spain and Spanish America including, among others, Ana María Matute, Horacio Quiroga, Julio Cortázar, and Jorge Luis Borges. The short works in this anthology are intended to be read in one sitting. A wide variety of language developmental exercises, such as vocabulary and strategy building, accompany the readings.

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Author:   Edward J. Mullen ,  John F. Garganigo
Publisher:   McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Imprint:   McGraw-Hill Professional
Edition:   7th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9780073513119

ISBN 10:   0073513113
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   16 February 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   0073385409
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

PRIMER PASOMiguel de Cervantes SaavedraEl loco de Sevilla Don Juan ManuelLo que sucedió a un deán de Santiago con don Illán, el mago de Toledo Marco DeneviGénesisAugusto MonterrosoEl eclipseSandra CisnerosLa casa en Mango StreetSEGUNDO PASOVisiones de EspañaAna María MatuteEl árbol de oro RafaelEl arrepentidoCivilización y barbarieHoracio QuirogaLos buques suicidantesEl solitarioA la derivaMás allá de la realidadJulio CortázarContinuidad de los parquesCasa tomadaLa noche boca arribaEl mundo de los espejosJorge Luis BorgesEmma ZunzLas ruinas circularesEl SurTERCER PASOLuisa ValenzuelaLos mejor calzadosSoledad PuértolasLa indiferencia de Eva Elena PoniatowskaLas lavanderasGabriel García MárquezEl ahogado más hermoso del mundo

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Edward Mullen is Professor of Spanish at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he has taught since 1971. He is co-editor of the Afro-Hispanic Review. He received the Ph.D. in Romance languages from Northwestern University and has also taught at Purdue University. Professor Mullen has received the Woodrow Wilson and American Council of Learned Societies fellowships. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) and was the President from 1991 to 1992. He is the author of Carlos Pellicer; Langston Hughes in the Hispanic World and Haiti; Contemporï¿neos: Revista mexicana de cultura; The Life and Poems of a Cuban Slave; La poesï¿a de Carlos Pellicer: Interpretaciones crï¿ticas; Critical Essays on Langston Hughes; Sendas literarias: Hispanoamï¿rica, written with David Darst; and most recently, Afro-Cuban Literature: Critical Junctures. John F. Garanigo is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washinton University in St. Louis, where he has taught since receiving the Ph. D. from the University of Illinois in 1964. He is the author of Javier de Viana, Life and Works; Carlos Germï¿n Belli: Antologï¿a crï¿tica; El perfil del gaucho; and Osvaldo Dragï¿n: Su teatro. He has also contributed numerous articles on narrative, poetry, and drama to professional journals.

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