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Generaciones, 2nd Edition
composición y conversación en español
by George D. Greenia
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• Table of Contents
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• Appendices 1 & 2
• Author Biography
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George D. Greenia is Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at The College of
William & Mary. He is also editor of La corónica, a journal of medieval Spanish
language, literature, and cultural studies, and of American Pilgrim, the magazine of
American pilgrims supporting the Camino de Santiago de Compostela.
Cover design: Cindy Baker
Cover photo: Tony Kupersmith
Illustrator: Lillian Selby
Copyright © 2007 by George D. Greenia
All rights reserved
Published 2007
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Printed in the United States of America
First edition published in 1997 by Harcourt Brace & Company
ISBN: 0-976-31629-3 (paper)
978-0-9763162-9-9 (paper)
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In both the textbook and the manual certain exercises are marked
with an icon and the phrase «Ejercicio también en microdisquete». Web
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textbook for Generaciones. These are text editing exercises best
transformed on a computer screen in the word processing program students
are familiar with. The files that contain these exercises are gathered from
both books into subdirectories labeled with the number of the chapter;
editing instructions are given with the Spanish prose text to be transformed
as well as some basic coaching on how to take advantage of word
processing functions like block moves, spell checking, etc.
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George Greenia, Ph.D.
Dr. George Greenia, professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at the
College of William & Mary, co-founded the interdisciplinary program in Medieval &
Renaissance Studies at this institution and served as its director for 11 years.
For the past 11 years, he has also held the position of editor-in-chief of La Corónica—an
award-winning international research journal on the literature, language, culture, and
social history of medieval Spain. He is co-editor of a three-volume encyclopedia on
Castilian Writers of the Middle Ages, a project embracing almost a hundred participating
authors and nearly a million words.
In addition, he has authored numerous studies on an array of related subject areas such as
medieval Spanish literary history and cultural studies, manuscript illumination, historical
linguistics, the history of the book, foreign language pedagogy, and computers in the
humanities.
Dr. Greenia’s, Spanish language textbook Generaciones has been used in academic
communities throughout the United States. As a visiting professor, he has taught Medieval
Studies at St. John's University and at the University of Illinois, University of Virginia, and
the University of Michigan.
He is the founder and national president of Alpha Delta Gamma, the undergraduate
honorary society for Medieval & Renaissance studies with chapters across the United
States.
His teaching portfolio includes courses such as “The Medieval Book,” “Love & Prostitution in
Medieval Spain,” “The Book of Revelation: From Rome to Waco,” “The Song of Songs,”
“Inquisition,” “Furta Sacra: The Theft of Relics in the Middle Ages,” “The Abandonment of
Children in the Middle Ages,” “Women on the Frontiers of Medieval Spain (and America),”
“Women & Mysticism: Teresa of Ávila,” and “Incest in Medieval Literature and Culture.”
Not content to be an armchair medievalist, George has bicycled over 2,000 miles and
walked over 1,200 more to follow the pilgrimage routes of medieval Europe along the
Camino de Santiago to the shrine of St. James the apostle located in Santiago de
Compostela in Spain.
He is the founding editor of a new popular magazine, American Pilgrim, which is dedicated
to those interested in travel and the sacred across world cultures.