Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Author "Earl Fitz"
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Wenz, Steven Benjamin (2016-06-29)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis dissertation studies the representation of national identity in twenty-first-century Argentine culture. I examine how and to what extent the 2001 economic and political crisis, often understood as a turning point in ...
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El realismo mágico y la interseccionalidad de la representación de la prostitución en Latinoamérica Rodriguez Sabogal, Alexandra (Yudy) (2017-08-25)Department: SpanishMagical Realism, an influential style of writing in Latin America, allows the writers that deploy it, a wide range of possibilities to transgress their political, spatial and temporal boundaries. In my dissertation, I ...
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Duclos, Gerald Cory (2013-07-15)Department: SpanishThis dissertation uses theoretical models of cultural studies to examine social factors that contribute to the development of the novel in early modern Spain and beyond. Documents from the conquest of the Americas provide ...
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Krause, Jennifer A (2009-07-21)Department: EnglishThe advent of the popular culture phenomenon allowed the definition and therefore the confinement and treatment of madmen, in the literary sense, to change, evolving into a complicated interaction within the cultural ...
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Parker, Jason Thomas (2011-04-04)Department: SpanishThis dissertation contextualizes the formal innovations and social critique of twentieth-century Spanish avant-garde theater by reconstructing two important elements of the nineteenth-century cultural landscape from which ...
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Vitulli, Juan M (2007-07-26)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis project explores the mechanisms of appropriation and re-elaboration of the metropolitan Baroque discourse by educated criollos in Colonial Peruvian society. Examining Juan de Espinosa Medrano’s works (which include a ...
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Latinez, Alejandro (2006-04-21)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThe validity of “development” in Latin America as a cultural force has not been thoroughly questioned – either by those from the industrialized world or by Latin American politicians, technicians, and military personnel. ...
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Sutton, Camille Jordan (2014-02-28)Department: SpanishThis dissertation offers a new approach to the 20th century Latin American prose writers Macedonio Fernández (Argentina, 1874-1952), Felisberto Hernández (Uruguay, 1902-1964), and Clarice Lispector (Brazil, 1920-1977). My ...
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West, Ty Hill (2014-11-25)Department: SpanishThis dissertation questions the viability of nation-building in nineteenth-century Mexico through an analysis of travel writing, the circulation of documents, and the representation of subjects in transit. I study a wide ...