San Manuel Bueno, martir (Focus Student Edition) (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Miguel De Unamuno

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585101443 ISBN 13: 9781585101443

Publisher: Focus, 2005

Synopsis

The Focus Student Editions are designed for Spanish language courses in literature and culture. Prepared with non-native Spanish speakers in mind, these editions include an introduction (in Spanish), the complete work, and linguistic and cultural notes in Spanish, a current bibliography and study questions.

This Focus student edition is a novella written by Miguel de Unamuno about a village priest whose devotion to his people is challenged while he struggles with religious disillusionment where tradition, existential and religious philosophy converge.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This edition has been designed to help students approach the original Spanish text through an introductory essay, vocabulary and cultural notes, and study questions. All material is in Spanish, and complete in one volume.

Unamuno’s thought-provoking 1931 novella of a village priest who remains devoted to his people while he struggles with religious disillusionment touches on Spanish tradition as well as existential and religious philosophy.

Other volumes in the Focus Student Editions series include:

• Federico Garcia Lorca: La Casa de Bernarda Alba
• Tirso de Molina: El Burlador de Sevilla

Antonio Sobejano-Morán is professor of Spanish at SUNY-Binghamton University since 1986. He has published extensively on twentieth-century Spanish literature and theater and has taught language and literature courses at many levels. He has also served as AP table leader in Spanish and Latin American Literature for ETS.

Paola Bianco has taught at Wilkes University since 1996. Dr. Bianco served as an Intermediate Italian Coordinator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and as the Study Abroad Program Coordinator and Assistant Director at the Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute in Florence. She has published books and articles on poetry, literature, Italian culture and Hispanic women writers.

About the Author:

Antonio Sobejano-Morán is professor of Spanish at SUNY-Binghamton University since 1986. He received his baccalaureate degree from the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain; his masters and doctorate from Michigan State University. He has published extensively on twentieth-century Spanish literature and twentieth-century Spanish theater and has taught language and literature courses at many levels. He has also served as AP table leader in Spanish and Latin American Literature for ETS.

Paola Bianco has taught at Wilkes University since 1996 and fluently speaks, reads and writes English, Spanish, Italian and French. Prior to joining Wilkes, Dr. Bianco served as an Intermediate Italian Coordinator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and served as the Study Abroad Program Coordinator and Assistant Director at the Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute in Florence, Italy, while attaining her PhD. in Romance Languages. She has published books and articles on poetry, literature, Italian culture and Hispanic women writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Focus
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1585101443
• ISBN 13: 9781585101443
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80
• Editor: Paola Bianco, Antonio Sobejan