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Zoe and her band hit the Big Apple. Will they be able to prevent a crazy scheme to construct apartment buildings inside the iconic Central Park? For this adventure, they will need all the help they can get!

Amb aquesta edició crítica es rescata un valuós exemple de drama hagiogràfic barroc, dedicat a Juan de Dios (cap a 1495-1550), carismàtic fundador de l'Ordre Hospitalària. L'estudi introductori, després d'abordar la qüestió de la problemàtica i, en últim terme, rebutjable atribució a Pedro Calderón de la Barca, examina les modalitats d'adaptació de l? hipotext devot (la difosa biografia d'Antonio de Govea) a una dimensió dramàtica i espectacular que també ha de tenir en compte el cèlebre precedent lopesc de ?Juan de Dios i Antón Martín?. Així, l'anàlisi mostra com el...

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

To complement the historical survey, a brief description of the social environment in Los Angeles is included. In addition, a short presentation on how the Spanish printing press and newspapers evolved in America is presented to show how these two processes contributed to the literary and cultural background of this ethnic group.