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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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De Cortés al Mago de Oz: Estrategias posmodernas en el teatro latinoamericano: 1980-1992
(University of Kansas, 1995-12-31)This work analyzes nine postmodern Latin American plays written between 1980 and 1992. A series of strategies including the combination of elite and mass culture, the mixture of various literary and nonliterary genres, ... -
Exploration of Conformity to Masculine Norms among Male Engineering Undergraduates
(University of Kansas, 2023-05-31)This study quantitatively examines the level to which college men studying engineering conform to masculine norms and the relationship between their conformity to masculine norms and sense of belonging in their major. Study ... -
Metaphor, metonymy, and mirrors: Female self-reflection in contemporary Spanish novels by women
(University of Kansas, 1993-05-31)After the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), novels by women, many of which explore female identity, began to proliferate in Spain. The works examined in this study--Nada, Primera memoria, La placa del Diamant, Julia, El cuarto ... -
Cosmopolitan designs and twentieth-century literary culture: "Colección los presentes" and the emergence of the professional writer
(University of Kansas, 1997-12-31)Literary cosmopolitanism, an esthetic mode whose proponents defined themselves oppositionally to regional, provincial, and revolutionary narratives, achieved a prominent position in Mexican letters at midcentury. One of ... -
Postmodern Paletos: The city and the country in the narrative and cinema of international Spain
(University of Kansas, 1998-05-31)Tensions between rural arcadias and urban blight and between enlightened civilizations and primitive wastelands have informed the stories we have told each other from the beginning of time. In the last half-century, such ... -
Optical illusions: Directing the audience’s perspective in Spain’s golden age theatre
(University of Kansas, 2000-08-31)As with many changes of government, Philip IV's succession to the Spanish throne in 1621 carried with it an inherent sense of hope. The young monarch and his loyal minister, the Count-Duke of Olivares, assumed control to ... -
El cuestionamiento de las mecanismos de representación en la novelística de Fanny Buitrago
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The novels of Álvaro Pombo: Registers of the sociopolitical history of contemporary Spain
(University of Kansas, 2004-05-31)In 1977, two years after the death of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, poet and novelist Álvaro Pombo returned to his native Spain from an 11-year exile in England. Finding himself excluded from his country's literary ... -
El pasado en el presente: La historia en la novela mexicana (1980-1993)
(University of Kansas, 1994-05-31)This dissertation analyzes how the Mexican novel (1980-1993) incorporates history. The introductory chapter details the main technical and thematic tendencies of the Mexican novel produced during the 1980's. It also outlines ... -
Other voices: Argentine narrative during the military process (1976-83)
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The allusive/elusive character in three modern Spanish novels
(University of Kansas, 1993-05-31)Upon reading a fictional text and envisioning characters, we allude through an intertextual field comprised of texts inscribed on paper as well in the mind. Our readings, therefore, are informed not only by the text at ... -
Angles of otherness: Subjectivity and difference in the fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas
(University of Kansas, 1998-05-31)Cristina Fernandez Cubas has published four collections of short stories, Mi hermana Elba (1980), Los altillos de Brumal (1983), El angulo del horror (1990), Con Agatha en Estambul (1994); and two novels, El ano de Gracia ... -
Ecos en el vacio: El esencialismo en la poesia española contemporanea: 1970-1990
(University of Kansas, 1997-05-31)La poesia "esencialista" espanola surge a partir de los anos setenta, en un contexto posmoderno que problematiza la crisis de representacion del signo. El capitulo uno se dedica a la poesia de Jose Angel Valente, iniciador ... -
Poetica de transgresion en la novelistica de luisa valenzuela
(University of Kansas, 1990-05-31)Guiado por un doble objetivo, este estudio experimenta con teorias criticas postestructuralistas--Foucault, Lacan, Barthes, Derrida, entre otros--filtradas bajo el lente de la transgresion, en el sentido foucaultiano, y ... -
Mexican picaresque narratives
(University of Kansas, 1989-05-31)Many Mexican narratives feature characteristics associated with the picaresque. Eight texts in particular seem to belong to the subgenre. All eight have the following attributes: their structure is episodic; a single ... -
Los enlaces del ser: La poesia de Ruben Bonifaz Nuno
(University of Kansas, 1995-05-31)This study attempts to fill a need in the critical literature regarding a significant Mexican poet, Ruben Bonifaz Nuno (Mexico, Veracruz; born in 1923). Keeping in mind the complexities of Bonifaz Nuno's poetry, I have ... -
Acting up and carrying on: Women writers of Chile, 1945--2006
(University of Kansas, 2006-05-31)Analyses of exemplary novels, short stories, and collaborative literary activities that took place during three key historical periods (the 1950s and 1960s, the Pinochet dictatorship, and the transition from dictatorship ... -
Orden y desorden: La condicion posmoderna en la poesia de Francisco Brines
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Bismarck Grove, Lawrence, Kansas 1878-1900
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The ideology of cultural identities : narrative technique and subjectivity in contemporary Mexican novels
(University of Kansas, 1994-05-31)In literature, cultural identity must cede some of its distinctiveness to the contract between author and reader in order for the latter to perceive the kinds of difference the text does narrate. I show how the narrative ...