Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Author "Earl E. Fitz"
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Gursel Sevin, Tugba (2014-07-02)Department: Spanish1492 is an important date in world history because it is the year that changed the fate of the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula. Following the Edict of Expulsion imposed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, Jews who ...
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Nogueira, Fatima Regina (2007-04-12)Department: Spanish and PortugueseSPANISH AND PORTUGUESE DIMENSIONES DE LA TEMPORALIDAD DE LA MODERNIDAD ESTÉTICA EN AMÉRICA LATINA FÁTIMA REGINA NOGUEIRA Dissertation under the direction of Professor Cathy Login Jrade This dissertation explores the ...
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Turner III, Robert L (2006-08-01)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThe theater of Gabriel Téllez, better known as Tirso de Molina, frequently contains elements of female disguise and cross-dressing. In this study, the author examines four plays by Tirso de Molina in which female disguise ...
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Maddox IV, John Thomas (2014-05-16)Department: Spanish and PortugueseSPANISH AND PORTUGUESE “Dramas of Memory: Slavery and African Oral Traditions in the Historical Novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Gonçalves” John Thomas Maddox IV Dissertation under Professors Earl E. Fitz ...
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Infanger, Scott Ryan (2009-12-15)Department: Spanish and PortugueseIn this study, I analyze Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas and Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, La amortajada and The Shrouded Woman by María Luisa Bombal, Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo, and João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão: ...
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Wade, Jonathan William (2009-07-30)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis study examines the cultural cross-pollination occurring between Spain and Portugal during the early modern period. More specifically, it argues that a number of Portuguese authors––including Manuel de Faria e Sousa, ...
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Wiseman, David P. (2010-12-10)Department: SpanishMario Vargas Llosa’s socio-political concerns are woven into the fabric of his creative narratives. Despite an impressive corpus of criticism on the recent Nobel Prize laureate’s writings, scholarship has not fully recognized ...
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Valdés, Vanessa Kimberly (2007-04-20)Department: Spanish and PortugueseIn this dissertation I utilize Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973), Helena Parente Cunha’s Mulher no Espelho (1983), Rosario Ferré’s Vecindarios excéntricos (1999), and Carmen de Monteflores’s Singing Softly / Cantando bajito ...
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Castellanos Gonella, Carolina (2010-07-13)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis dissertation analyzes three key Latin American regionalist novels: Los de abajo (1915), Doña Bárbara (1929), and Grande sertão: veredas (1956). Specifically, it provides an innovative study of three female characters—la ...
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Krause, James Remington (2010-12-06)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis study examines the role of translation in the reception and influence of three canonical authors of Latin American literature in the United States: Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina), Pablo Neruda (Chile), and Machado de ...