¡Así se dice!, Level 2, Student Edition

Designed to help the reader become more proficient at communicating in Spainsh about the tourist trade and the hospitality industry.

FACETAS is a brief and multi-faceted intermediate Spanish program ideal for use in one-semester courses. It incorporates relevant literary and cultural readings and integrates two kinds of video. The first is a specially-shot sitcom featured in every lesson. The second showcases three original short films by contemporary Hispanic filmmakers. FACETAS' interactive, student-friendly approach focuses on real communication in meaningful contexts, giving students a rewarding learning experience as they strengthen their language skills and develop cultural competency.

La autora nos ha donado una impresionante investigación sobre Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. La biografía abarca un detallado análisis de su obra y de su entorno social e histórico. El texto se compone de cuatro partes: Ansias de infinito, Dos amores: Cuba y España, Tula a la vanguardia de su tiempo y Dimensión religiosa de la Avellaneda. Pieza importante para los estudiosos y amantes de la literatura cubana; devela sin alardes de erudición la personalidad de una artista que se adelantó a su época y que representó, con sus limitaciones, a una de las primeras feministas...

Julio Baena offers a new analysis of Cervantes's last and most controversial novel, Los trabajos de Persiles y Segismunda. Baena's particular focus on the first chapter of this allegorical text, which he sees as a microcosm of the entire novel, allows him to explore the correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm in Cervantes's allegorical text. Placing this work within the intellectual context of its era, Baena uses poststructuralist methodologies to develop the existential implications of Persiles's central cosmological metaphor.

The book studies the relation between the avant-garde and graphic humour in two critical historical periods: the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the early years of the Cuban Revolution (1959-1961). It focuses on the so-called war magazines in Spain on the Republican side (No Veas, Trincheras, and LEsquella de la Torratxa,among others) and the Francoist side (Vértice and La Ametralladora). In the part devoted to Cuba, the analysis covers the newspaper Revolución and the avant-garde humour magazine El Pitirre, which ran simultaneously to the cultural supplement Lunes de Revolución and...