Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Spanish"
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(2023-07-20)Department: SpanishLiterary critics have demonstrated that Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1605, 1615) served as a template for eighteenth-century British writers to transcend the literary mode of romance and to create modern, realist ...
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A Pedagogy of Horror: The Counter-hegemonic Discourse of Latin American Short Narratives (1830-1920) (2020-05-14)Department: SpanishI examine the political function of short narratives during the period of nation formation in Latin America (1830-1920). I focus on Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba as case studies to show that the genre was a prominent platform ...
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(2019-05-09)Department: SpanishIn this dissertation, I explore the practice of provocation as a recurrent feature and strategy present in Puerto Rican cultural production of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. I study provocation as ...
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(2008-09-08)Department: SpanishThis study explores the criollo voice present in four of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s plays. Informed by the most recent studies on criollo literature, particularly of 17th-century writers born in New Spain, as José Antonio ...
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(2021-08-09)Department: SpanishSince literature imitates reality and serves as a way to analyze society, it is necessary to reorient the margins and place in the center authors from underrepresented communities and authors that have been historically ...
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(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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(2009-04-08)Department: SpanishIn my dissertation I analyze the discursive construction of cultural identities during the first century of European colonial occupation in the Americas. In order to do so, I explore a broad variety of colonial discourses ...
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(2015-08-25)Department: SpanishSilvina Ocampo belonged to a prestigious intellectual group in Argentina that had its heyday in the 1930s with the foundation of Sur, the most important intellectual magazine in Latin America until the 1950s. The writers ...
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(2021-08-19)Department: SpanishThe revolutionary poetry of the Costa Rican writer and politician Carmen Naranjo (1928-2012) repeatedly confronts the idyllic portrayal of her country as devoid of social conflict. Within a political climate strained by ...
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(2022-08-10)Department: SpanishThe Spanish colonization of the Americas involved fierce confrontations in the real and symbolic realms. The Spaniards persistently tried to impose dominance over the indigenous populations as well as the enslaved Africans, ...
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(2018-03-27)Department: SpanishThis dissertation explores a trend in twenty-first century works by a diverse group of young Latin American and Spanish writers and filmmakers who, regardless of their country of origin and national identity, seem moved ...
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El realismo mágico y la interseccionalidad de la representación de la prostitución en Latinoamérica (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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(2010-07-30)Department: SpanishSPANISH AND PORTUGUESE EL RETRATO DE ARTISTA EN HISPANOAMÉRICA: HISTORIA DE UN GÉNERO A TRAVÉS DE LAS NOVELAS DE ROBERTO BOLAÑO ALBERTO DEL POZO MARTÍNEZ Dissertation under the direction of Professor Andrés Zamora This ...
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(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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(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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(2010-01-06)Department: SpanishIn 1909, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928), a Spanish journalist, radical politician and acclaimed realist and naturalist writer, made a trip to Argentina that would transform him into an internationalist and separate him ...
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Identidades sin frontera: rupturas y continuidades en la narrativa de la Onda y la narrativa chicana (2010-03-05)Department: SpanishThis project focuses on how the novels of the so called Literatura de la Onda and Chicano narratives of the sixties and seventies challenged the legacy of Mexican revolutionary nationalist discourse through the voice of ...
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(2022-10-25)Department: SpanishThe aim of this study is to explore the ways in which French rationalist thought shaped the poetics of rhetorical argumentation in Hispanic Enlightenment literature. Like imaginative tropes and figures of thought, probabilistic ...
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(2015-07-21)Department: SpanishIn the Spanish Caribbean and its diaspora, the cultural consequences of “not belonging” predominate works by Cuban authors Zoé Valdés and Oscar Hijuelos, Dominican authors Junot Díaz and Loida Maritza Pérez, and Puerto ...
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(2022-07-12)Department: SpanishThis dissertation sustains that Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s The Florida of the Inca (1605), a chronicle on the expedition led by Hernando de Soto to Florida (1539-1542), constituted a model for the Spanish conquest of ...