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Grammar lessons, translating a life in Spain, Michele Morano

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Grammar lessons, translating a life in Spain, Michele Morano

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Grammar lessons

Oclc number

85823589

Responsibility statement

Michele Morano

Review

"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." "Morano focuses first on her year of living in Oviedo, in the early 1990s, a time spent immersing herself in a new culture and language while working through the relationship she had left behind - a relationship with an emotionally dependent and suicidal man. Next, after subsequent trips to Spain, she explores the ways that travel sparks us to reconsider our personal histories in the context of larger historical legacies. Finally, she turns to the aftereffects of travel, to the constant negotiations involved in retelling and understanding the stories of our lives. Throughout she details one woman's journey through vocabulary and verb tense toward a greater sense of her place in the world."--BOOK JACKET

Series statement

Sightline books

Sub title

translating a life in Spain

Table Of 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

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