Emilia Prieto

FRENTE AL MALEFICIO DE BABEL, MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, gracias a sus lecturas y a su experiencia como viajero, conoció a fondo la variedad y riqueza representada por el plurilingüismo, la traducción y las lenguas en contacto. Al igual que Erasmo y otros humanistas, consideró que la lengua es la marca mayor de la dignidad del hombre, pero él sometió tales principios a la prueba de la realidad literaria en el Quijote, en el Persiles y en otras obras, mostrando la capacidad comunicativa del español y sus múltiples posibilidades narrativas. De este modo, no solo contribuyó a la invención de ...

Activities to assist the lack of concepts and procedures in the area of Language. They are presented in blocks of different difficulty which allow for working simultaneously with students of varying levels. They are especially practical for the recovery and establishment of learning not achieved at lower levels.

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag...