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Spanish Tales for Beginners
[Revised Edition With Direct Method Exercises]|
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| Verlag: | E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 25.01.2024 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9786059496179 |
| Sprache: | spanisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 500 |
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IN selecting these Spanish Tales for Beginners, three objects have been kept in view:
(1) that they be good literature,
(2) that they portray modern Spanish life, and
(3) that they be interesting and not too difficult in language and thought. Some of the stories do not conform to all three rules,—the first two, for instance, do not portray modern Spanish life; but I hope that most of them will be found to conform fully. A few short lyric poems have also been included, since poetry forms an integral part of literature. Verse, moreover, is better for oral work and memorizing than prose.
Spain has a rich and varied literature, from which other nations have freely drawn,—a literature that gives true expression to the life and aspirations of the Spanish people. The selections in this volume are taken from literary works that have been written in the past fifty or sixty years, and although they are inferior in some respects to the great master-pieces of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, I believe that they have literary excellence, and they have, besides, the advantage of being written in the language of today and of describing present-day life.
It is my greatest wish that this volume may awaken the students' interest in the civilization of Spain, and that it may serve as an introduction to the study of Spanish literature. The integrity of the texts has been preserved so far as the exigencies of a beginners' book permit, but the following changes have been made:
(1) Some words or passages have been omitted, chiefly in the earlier stories. The parts thus omitted are, for the most part, digressions or uninteresting descriptive passages. Omissions have generally been marked by four suspensive points, or by three at the beginning of a story. Except at the beginning of a story, three suspensive points form a part of the punctuation of the several authors.
(2) The orthography has been made to conform to that now prescribed by the Royal Spanish Academy.
(3) In the earlier stories, le has been substituted for the feminine indirect object-pronoun la, and los for the masculine plural direct object-pronoun les.
(1) that they be good literature,
(2) that they portray modern Spanish life, and
(3) that they be interesting and not too difficult in language and thought. Some of the stories do not conform to all three rules,—the first two, for instance, do not portray modern Spanish life; but I hope that most of them will be found to conform fully. A few short lyric poems have also been included, since poetry forms an integral part of literature. Verse, moreover, is better for oral work and memorizing than prose.
Spain has a rich and varied literature, from which other nations have freely drawn,—a literature that gives true expression to the life and aspirations of the Spanish people. The selections in this volume are taken from literary works that have been written in the past fifty or sixty years, and although they are inferior in some respects to the great master-pieces of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, I believe that they have literary excellence, and they have, besides, the advantage of being written in the language of today and of describing present-day life.
It is my greatest wish that this volume may awaken the students' interest in the civilization of Spain, and that it may serve as an introduction to the study of Spanish literature. The integrity of the texts has been preserved so far as the exigencies of a beginners' book permit, but the following changes have been made:
(1) Some words or passages have been omitted, chiefly in the earlier stories. The parts thus omitted are, for the most part, digressions or uninteresting descriptive passages. Omissions have generally been marked by four suspensive points, or by three at the beginning of a story. Except at the beginning of a story, three suspensive points form a part of the punctuation of the several authors.
(2) The orthography has been made to conform to that now prescribed by the Royal Spanish Academy.
(3) In the earlier stories, le has been substituted for the feminine indirect object-pronoun la, and los for the masculine plural direct object-pronoun les.
Elijah Clarence Hills (July 2, 1867 – Apr. 21, 1932), professor and philologist, was born in Arlington, Illinois, to Elijah Justin Hills and Mary Eleanor Larkin Hills. At a young age, his family moved to Tampa, Florida, where he acquired his "early and intimate" knowledge of the Spanish language. (Morley, 314) In 1892, Hills graduated from Cornell University, where he was a teaching fellow for one year before spending a year abroad in Paris. In 1896, he joined the faculty of Rollins College in Florida as a professor of modern languages, where he taught for seven years.
In 1898, Hills married Metta Virgil Strough. Together, they had four children.
It was during his tenure at Rollins College that Hills joined the staff of the Cuban Summer School program at Harvard in 1900. He served as the director of English classes coordinating forty separate classes taught by students of Radcliffe College and Harvard College. The English classes proved to be among the most popular among the Cuban teachers and Hills wrote a very detailed account of the program's origins, participants, and activities in the Harvard Graduates Magazine in September 1900. He informed his Harvard readers that the Summer School was "the most representative gathering of Cubans that has ever been held — in Cuba or elsewhere," a claim that was correct in many respects. As he noted, 125 of Cuba's 129 municipalities were represented, and a majority (52%) of the teachers were women, roughly the same proportion as on the island as a whole. At that time, only 30 percent of the population was literate and white Cubans were more than 20 times likely to have a degree than black Cubans.
In 1898, Hills married Metta Virgil Strough. Together, they had four children.
It was during his tenure at Rollins College that Hills joined the staff of the Cuban Summer School program at Harvard in 1900. He served as the director of English classes coordinating forty separate classes taught by students of Radcliffe College and Harvard College. The English classes proved to be among the most popular among the Cuban teachers and Hills wrote a very detailed account of the program's origins, participants, and activities in the Harvard Graduates Magazine in September 1900. He informed his Harvard readers that the Summer School was "the most representative gathering of Cubans that has ever been held — in Cuba or elsewhere," a claim that was correct in many respects. As he noted, 125 of Cuba's 129 municipalities were represented, and a majority (52%) of the teachers were women, roughly the same proportion as on the island as a whole. At that time, only 30 percent of the population was literate and white Cubans were more than 20 times likely to have a degree than black Cubans.
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