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The image is usually upside-down, enhancing the illusion that the sky image seen in the distance is a specular reflection on a puddle of water or oil acting as a mirror. While the aero-dynamics are highly active, the image of the inferior mirage is stable unlike the fata morgana which can change within seconds.
The quest to find a branch, a magical water, and a talking bird is found also in The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird [3] and Princess Belle-Etoile, and in some variants just the bird, as in The Three Little Birds and The Bird of Truth, but this fairy tale lacks the usual motive: the children are not sent after it by a jealous soul who is trying to hide that they are a ...
The literature of Spanish America is an important branch of Spanish literature, with its own particular characteristics dating back to the earliest years of Spain’s conquest of the Americas (see Latin American literature).
Eight Spanish Plays of the Golden Age: prose, with passages of blank verse La Vida es Sueño: Life is a Dream: 1968: Raine, Kathleen & R. M. Nadal: Life is a Dream ISBN 978-0241015490: verse La cena del rey Baltazar: King Belshazzar's Feast: 1969: Barnes, R. G. Three Spanish Sacramental Plays ISBN 978-0951440308: auto La Vida es Sueño: Life is ...
The South Matadero, Buenos Aires (water colour by Emeric Essex Vidal, 1820). The story was set there about 20 years later. The Slaughter Yard (Spanish El matadero, title often imprecisely translated as The Slaughterhouse, is a short story by the Argentine poet and essayist Esteban Echeverría (1805–1851). It was the first Argentine work of ...
Spanish-language literature or Hispanic literature is the sum of the literary works written in the Spanish language across the Hispanic world. The principal elements are the Spanish literature of Spain, and Latin American literature .
In the Spanish lyric a Petrarch-like climate already existed, coming from the troubadour background that the poets of the new style had taken up in Italy. The rise of the italianizing lyric has a key date: in 1526 Andrea Navagiero encouraged Juan Boscán to try to put sonnets and other strophes used by good Italian poets into Castilian.