Grammar lessons : translating a life in Spain / Michele Morano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morano, Michele.

Series:

Sightline Books

Sightline books: the Iowa series in literary nonfiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Grammar.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 156 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the thirteen personal essays in Grammar Lessons, Michele Morano connects the rules of grammar to the stories we tell to help us understand our worlds. Living and traveling in Spain during a year of teaching English to university students, she learned to translate and interpret her past and present worlds-to study the surprising moments of communication-as a way to make sense of language and meaning, longing and memory.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Part One Oviedo; Ca Beleño; The Queimada; In the Subjunctive Mood; Having Hunger; Everyday Lessons; On Climbing Peña Ubiña; Body Language; Part Two Madrid, Altamira, Guernica.; On Dining Alone; Motion Sickness; Authenticity and Artifice; The Impossible Overcome; Part Three After Spain; In Praise of Envy; Fluency; Acknowledgements

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781587297458

1587297450

OCLC:

297115850