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Deseos de comunidad en el personaje intersticial y marginal: en la novela y el cine de los noventa en México
Moreno, Jose Antonio
Anderson, Danny J
Kuhnheim, Jill S.
Mayhew, Jonathan
Day, Stuart
Falicov, Tamara
Latin American literature
Modern literature
Cultural anthropology
Alternative community
Fragmented identity
Interstitial characters
Local and global tension
Marginal characters
Mexican cultural issues
In this study I define the concept of the interstitial and marginal character in Mexican novels and films of the 1990s as a model of subjective instability who must negotiate ethical and moral values at a time of tension, rupture and radical change. Both types of character express collective emotions. The interstitial character succeeds, on the one hand, in creating an alternative community in response to the failure of national institutions. The marginal character, on the other hand, lacks narrative agency and fails in his or her attempts to build group cohesion based on values and community ideals. These interstitial and marginal characters emerge due to profound socioeconomic, political and cultural changes caused by economic neoliberalism, whose impact affects not only spatial-temporal transformations but life-style changes as well. The first chapter analyzes the novel Señorita México (Enrique Serna, 1992) drawing upon studies of beauty pageants, which are viewed as political and representational strategies within the context of mass communication and advertising rhetoric. Beauty pageants elevate frivolousness in order to deflect attention from serious national problems, and impede the formation of community. In the second chapter, the protagonist of the novel Salón de belleza (Mario Bellatin, 1994) demonstrates the radical separation between the world of the ill and that of the well. His interstice is a space revealed and concretized at moments of cultural tension in the beauty parlor. The third chapter examines the diaspora and errancy of the global labor market, of cultures in contact and identities in process of exchange in the novel Los perros de Cook Inlet (Alberto López Fernández, 1998). The novel mirrors and illuminates a part of the reality of global migration. The final chapter treats the film Amores perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000), which focuses on the social energy and transgressive position of a marginal character whose sensibility is mediated by violence. When the character leaves the world of violence, thus moving from the marginal toward the interstitial, he opens the possibility of realizing his desire for community. The three novels and the film suggest an analysis that explores the interstitial and marginal characters' changes in life-style, conception of daily life, and their adaptation to or rejection of the rituals of modernity (specifically, modernity generated by technological innovations and of urban complexity). My critical exploration addresses the concepts of nation and fragmented identity as well as the conditions of social invisibility due to migratory, gender, political, sexual and health issues.
2012-12-11T17:13:00Z
2012-12-11T17:13:00Z
2010-05-31
2010
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11227
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10490
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Rescatando a la Pachamama
Pineda, Ginett Vanessa
Arias, Santa
Day, Stuart
Garibotto, Veronica
Versteeg, Margot
Fitzgerald, Stephanie
Latin American literature
Andes
ecocriticism
eco-spirituality
indigenous
myth
postcolonial
This dissertation focuses on indigenous epistemologies of the “Mother Earth” to understand the cultural significance and Andeans’ affective relationship with native landscapes and nature. To do so, I examine mythical discourses found in oral narratives and other forms of representation to argue how the deep connection between nature, spirituality, and material and cultural practices has defined identities, forms of resistance, and ways of thinking about prospects for the future. This study centers on indigenous eco-spirituality—which I argue is the key notion of Andean myths— shifting metaphors of the Mother Earth, and buen vivir as a decolonial tactic and philosophy. Among the runakuna (Andeans who maintain traditional values and beliefs), eco-spirituality serves to understand how they view, relate, and defend their physical and natural environments, as well as the cosmos in their struggle for survival since the arrival of Europeans. In the first chapter I analyze the motif of the Mother Earth in El manuscrito de Huarochí (1608). Here I explore the various ways in which huarochirí people related to Mother Earth or Pachamama and their huacas and how these relationships were linked to their mythological beginnings, their cultural and ecological identities, political power, right to rule, and to provide significance to their cultural traditions. Chapter two focuses on the Myth of Inkarrí in order to identify and analyze how the Andean people of southern Perú experienced and responded against Spanish colonial rule. Andean tradition has it that Inkarrí, the Inca king (Inca-rey), who is believed to have been decapitated by the Spaniards, will one-day return to establish a new empire. His body, which is buried, will gradually grow from his head thanks to the regenerative power of Pachamama. When his body is complete, Inkarrí will rise up again and take power to restore Indian society. A close reading of this myth shows a conscious manipulation of the representation of the Pachamama in order to call for an insurrection against the Spaniards. Finally, the third and last chapter is pinned to the trope of yanantin or complementary dualism, specifically in the myth of Wa-kón y los Willcas. This myth from the twenty-first century features an eco-spirituality way of thinking and understanding nature that is constitutive with modern Andean ritual practices and social organization. Within the text, the nonhuman entities are articulated in ecological terms that refer to the organic relationship between humans and nature. Therefore, this project contributes to critical research on spirituality, indigeneity, postcolonial theory, and Andean studies. In laying out an ecocritical reading of these myths, we introduce the overarching ecological consciousness of Andean people. Their quest to voice the nonhuman urges us to rethink nature´s intrinsic value in order to ensure a successful and sustainable future.
2019-05-12T18:07:06Z
2019-05-12T18:07:06Z
2018-05-31
2018
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16009
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27893
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La Española-Inglesa
Rigdon, Frances Elizabeth
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1928.
2016-12-13T18:54:05Z
2016-12-13T18:54:05Z
1928
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22215
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Some of Scarron’s Spanish sources
Weatherhogg, Vera
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1916. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-12-04T15:10:04Z
2015-12-04T15:10:04Z
1916
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19127
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El Reino de Dios by Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Stapleton, Judith May
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1927.
2017-01-03T15:08:32Z
2017-01-03T15:08:32Z
1927
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22427
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GUSTAVO SAINZ AND THE RECENT MEXICAN NOVEL.
Decker, David R.
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Dissertation (Ph.D)--University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese, 1977.
2020-08-19T14:27:20Z
2020-08-19T14:27:20Z
1977-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30612
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Estudio lexicográfico de las obras de los Hermanos-Quinteros
Pérez, Elisa
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1927.
2017-01-03T15:08:27Z
2017-01-03T15:08:27Z
1927
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22423
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The historical development of the reflexive in Spanish
Singleton, Mack
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1929.
2016-11-30T14:14:42Z
2016-11-30T14:14:42Z
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22081
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The Power of the Voice: Listening to Mexican and Central American Immigrant Experiences (1997-2010)
Thornton, Megan L.
Kuhnheim, Jill S.
Unruh, Vicky
Padilla, Yajaira
Day, Stuart
Wong, Ketty
Latin American literature
Cinema
Music
Central American cultural production
Cultural studies
Latin American testimonio
Mexican cultural production
Migration
Orality
This dissertation examines representations of immigrant experiences in Mexican and Central American cultural texts at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. By examining immigrant experiences through the lenses of testimonial writing, fictional narrative, documentary film, and popular music, this project offers perspectives from multiple interpretive fields and dialogues with recent scholarship on mobility, transnationalism, and border studies. This multi-genre and cultural studies approach allows me to focus on a diverse group of writers and artists who either tell their own immigrant stories or create experience-based narratives by listening to the subaltern and challenging more canonical systems of representation. All of the texts examined here dialogue with Latin America's testimonial tradition, in that they give testimony, often personal and eye-witness accounts, to explore the many social, cultural, political, and individual facets of migration. Moreover, the narratives discussed here use discursive strategies of orality to emphasize the power of voice and, by showcasing immigrant voices, provide a social space for imagining alternative communities that expose "contact zones" in the Americas. Each chapter focuses on a different country and genre to show the convergences and divergences between representations of immigrant experiences. I also discuss reader and audience responses to the different texts by examining reviews and criticisms to better understand the impact of these representations. Chapter 1 draws on debates about testimonio and introduces the theme of orality by looking at the self-representations of Mexican immigrant experiences in the United States in Ramón Tianguis Pérez's Diario de un mojado (2003), J.M. Servín's Por amor al dólar (2006), and Alberto López Fernández's Los perros de Cook Inlet (1998). Chapter 2 examines an aesthetic of orality in postwar fictional narratives about Salvadoran immigrant experiences through close readings of Horacio Castellanos Moya's El asco (1997), Mario Bencastro's Odisea del Norte (1999), and Claudia Hernández's short story "La han despedido de nuevo" from her collection Olvida uno (2005). Chapter 3 focuses on the performance of affect and orality in four documentaries about Nicaraguan experiences in Costa Rica, thus presenting different perspectives on the less studied phenomenon of intra-regional migration. Chapter 4 ties together the histories, encounters, and communities discussed in the previous chapters by listening to transnational musical representations of Mexican, Salvadoran, and Nicaraguan immigrant experiences. The influence of the Mexican corrido and Latin America's nueva canción are considered in my analysis of the music, lyrics, and audiences of a variety of artists, including the Mexican norteño ensemble Los Tigres del Norte, the Salvadoran group Tex Bronco, and the Nicaraguan singer-songwriter Flor Urbina. Finally, my conclusion sets the stage for future work on representations of immigrant experiences to better understand the movements and migrations that continue to foster encounters between different cultures throughout the Americas and the world.
2010-07-25T21:37:13Z
2010-07-25T21:37:13Z
2010-04-27
2010
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10778
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6399
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La evolucion de la critica literaria en Chile
Dyson, John P.
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish, 1965.
2020-08-20T16:52:03Z
2020-08-20T16:52:03Z
1965-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30628
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Myth and archetype in the new Spanish novel (1956-1970) : A study in changing novelistic techniques
Thomas, Michael D.
Romance literature
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese, 1975.
2020-08-20T14:40:15Z
2020-08-20T14:40:15Z
1975-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30624
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Martinez Sierra
Gidinghagen, Myrtle Rosalie
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1920. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-09-21T18:31:10Z
2015-09-21T18:31:10Z
1920
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18486
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Subaltern Saints: Medieval Iberian Hagiography in Dialogue with Latin American Testimonio
Alder, Erik Adams
Rivera, Isidro J
Manning, Patricia
Bayliss, Robert
Arias, Santa
Corteguera, Luis
Medieval literature
Religion
Hagiography
Medieval
Saints
Spanish
Subaltern
Testimonio
This dissertation rereads five thirteenth-century Spanish hagiographic poems in the light of modern subaltern studies: the anonymous Vida de Santa María Egipciaca, and Gonzalo de Berceo’s Martirio de San Lorenzo, Vida de San Millán de la Cogolla, Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos, and Vida de Santa Oria. Observing the numerous similarities between hagiographic writing and twentieth-century Latin American activism literature known as testimonio—the innocent and suffering victim, the elite facilitator of the narrative, the illiterate speaker, and the sense of urgency caused by oppression and injustice—the project concludes that the invention and promotion of martyrs and saints provided a crucial space for Christianity to constitute and maintain its power and identity while at the same time providing a space for diverse, marginalized individuals to find expression and influence in their societies. In hagiography, as in testimonio, powerful writers seek legitimacy within their communities by representing, imitating, conveying, facilitating, or portraying voices in pain, exploiting the heroism of suffering and the ideal of administering to others in need. In this way, the politics of suffering unifies the discourses of both hagiography and testimonio as multivalent interests and variant powers cohabitate not merely to entertain or instruct, but to motivate change in society.
2018-04-20T21:20:08Z
2018-04-20T21:20:08Z
2017-05-31
2017
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15299
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26314
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Influences of materialistic ideas in the novels of Blasco Ibán̋ez
Vogt, Verne
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish, 1966.
2020-08-20T14:23:12Z
2020-08-20T14:23:12Z
1966-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30623
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Philosophical aspects of Juan Valera's novels
Dolbee, Myrtle Elizabeth
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1925.
2016-07-21T15:09:01Z
2016-07-21T15:09:01Z
1925
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21157
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Social aspects of the works of Joaquin Dicenta
Elliott, Maude
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1924.
2017-11-20T16:00:11Z
2017-11-20T16:00:11Z
1924
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25437
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El Desengaño en un Sueño by Angel de Saavedra
Modesitt, Hazel Marie
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1930.
2017-10-19T15:06:55Z
2017-10-19T15:06:55Z
1930
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25161
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DEFFENSA DE POESIA ,A Spanish Version of Sir Philip Sidney' s Defence of Poesie
Chambers, Dwight
2020-03-31T14:47:28Z
2020-03-31T14:47:28Z
1956
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30249
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EMBODYING MODERNITY IN MEXIO: RACE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE BODY IN THE MESTIZO STATE
Dalton, David Scott
Day, Stuart A
Tosta, Luciano
Acosta, Rafael
Persley, Nicole Hodges
Hoeg, Jerry
Latin American literature
Latin American studies
Film studies
critical race theory
cyborg
lettered city
mestizaje
posthumanism
post-revolutionary Mexico
Mexico’s traumatic Revolution (1910-1917) attested to stark divisions that had existed in the country for many years. After the dust of the war settled, post-revolutionary leaders embarked on a nation-building project that aimed to assimilate the country’s diverse (particularly indigenous) population under the umbrella of official mestizaje (or an institutionalized mixed-race identity). Indigenous Mexican woud assimilate to the state by undergoing a project of “modernization,” which would entail industrial growth through the imposition of a market-based economy. One of the most remarkable aspects of this project of nation-building was the post-revolutionary government’s decision to use art to communicate official discourses of mestizaje. From the end of the Revolution until at least the 1970s, state officials funded cultural artists whose work buoyed official discourses that posited mixed-race identity as a key component of an authentically Mexican modernity. Throughout this dissertation, I argue that post-revolutionary state and lettered officials viewed the hybridization of indigenous and female bodies with technology as paramount in their attempts to articulate a new national identity. As they fused the body with technology through medicine, education, industrial agriculture and factory work, state officials believed that they could irradicate indigenous “primitivity” and transform Amerindians into full-fledged members of the nascent, mestizo state. In the pages that follow, I analyze the work of José Vasconcelos, Emilio “El Indio” Fernández, El Santo, and Carlos Olvera. These artists, and many others, used very different media and produced their works during different decades; however, each artists’ work posits the fusion of the body with technology as key to forming an “authentic,” Mexican identity. The most remarkable finding of my study is that thinkers with vastly different worldviews concurred with the idea that technology could modernize indigenous bodies and thus aid in their assimilation to the modern, mestizo state.
2017-08-13T22:36:47Z
2017-08-13T22:36:47Z
2015-05-31
2015
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14080
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24838
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Ethical aspects of the Quijote
Jeffries, Mary Agnes
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1924.
2016-07-13T13:36:17Z
2016-07-13T13:36:17Z
1924
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21082
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Narrative techniques in the rural novels of Enrique Amorim
Helwig, Frank Scott
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese, 1972.
2020-08-19T16:12:47Z
2020-08-19T16:12:47Z
1972-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30616
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Memoria prestada. La represión y los movimientos estudiantiles en dos casos de estudio: México (1968) y España (1960-1977)
García Genel, Angélica
Pérez, Jorge
Garibotto, Verónica
Day, Stuart
Acosta, Rafael
Falicov, Tamara
Literature
1968
Fracoism
Memory
Mexico-Spain
Student Movements
Trauma
Abstract Throughout this dissertation, I address the nuances of memory in regards to the student movements and the consequent governmental repression in two cases of study: Spain during the late Francoism, and in Mexico, 1968. Here, I propose that novels, films and other visual objects (such as collages and photographs) that have been produced during the 21st century display an aesthetic that I call “memory borrowings.” This is a hybrid aesthetic that incorporates archival materials, but that also, by means of several fictional techniques, re-defines and re-constructs the discourses surrounding these events. It is an aesthetic that destabilizes and/or creates a distance with the notion of trauma. The relevance of these cultural objects and their pursuit of creating a distance with the notion of trauma lies in the intent to incorporate a new generation of young students into the shaping of memory the act of remembering. Since ex-president’ Vicente Fox Quesada’s (2000-2006) re-opening of the case related to Tlatelolco in 2002, along with the recent events in Ayotzinapa, Mexico where 43 students went missing (2014), the memory of the massacre in Tlatelolco has regained interest. On the other hand, research involving the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco is often approached as a monolithic period, even though the dictatorship went through changes and different stages. Therefore, references of the specific participation of students and young leaders in rebelling against the regime can still be explored; while the cultural objects I analyze offer an opportunity to study mnemonic processes from the perspective of those who, as of today, work to on update and keep the conversation of these student movements active. I join to the conversation related to memory and trauma studies seeking to share my findings about the way recent cultural production engages those who seemingly are yet to establish a connection with the memory of the student movements during the Spanish late Francoism and in Mexico, 1968.
2019-05-07T15:17:17Z
2019-05-07T15:17:17Z
2017-05-31
2017
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15183
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27786
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The historical dramas of Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch
Back, Carrie Anna
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1930.
2016-11-30T14:14:43Z
2016-11-30T14:14:43Z
1930
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22083
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The Poetry of Angel Crespo
Metzler, Linda Diane
Romance literature
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese, 1978.
2020-08-19T17:41:03Z
2020-08-19T17:41:03Z
1978-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30620
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HACIA LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DEL SUJETO Y SUS PROCESOS DE LECTURA EN LA HIPERTEXTUALIDAD LATINOAMERICANA
Acuna-Zumbado, Eduardo
Kuhnheim, Jill S.
Anderson, Danny
Unruh, Vicky
Day, Stuart
Falicov, Tamara
Latin American literature
Latin America
Hypertext
Holopoetry
Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986)
Concrete poetry
Brazil
Reader response
Subjectivity
ABSTRACT Eduardo Acuna-Zumbado, Ph.D. Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of Kansas This study contends that hypertextual writing puts forward, by its multilinear structure and its decentered process of reading, subjects that have abandoned essentializing unity in space and time. The virtual reading subjects configure themselves through their transitions in the reading process. These hypertextual reading subjects are consciousness consisting of multiple identities defined by the spaces that they traverse and functioning in an interconnected network that cannot be interpreted as unitary subjectivity in the virtual space. They have to be understood as a locus of multiple connections that interpret and decode a text. In the first chapter I interpret Jorge Luis Borges's "La Biblioteca de Babel" (1941), "El libro de arena" (1975), "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan" (1941), and Brazilian Concrete Poetry (i.e., the poems: "Life" y "Terra" (1956) by Decio Pignatari, "Verde Erva" by Ferreira Gullar (1958), and "A Ave" (1956) and "Solida" (1956) by Wlademir Dias-Pino) as precursors to hypertextual writing or proto-hypertexts. These two modes of textual production implement techniques that attempt to break with the traditional linearity associated with the written text and propose different reading approaches for their readers. Building upon this idea of multilinearity, in chapter two I explore the holopoetry of the Brazilian Eduardo Kac as a textual practice that subverts the traditional bidimensional and static medium of visual/verbal representation to favor a tridimensional medium of production. Chapter three focuses on Condiciones Extremas (1998, 2000, 2005), a Colombian hypernovel with three versions written by Juan B. Gutiérrez in the tradition of science fiction. This text uses Literatronic, an adaptive narrative system, which attempts to avoid the possible dispersions of the reading subject in the virtual space. Finally, I turn to the Spaniard Jaime Alejandro Rodríguez's gabriella infinita (1995, 1998-9, 200?), and analyze three versions of this multiform and metaphoric fiction whose labyrinthine structure presents many narrative "realities" that force the reader to navigate through multiple spatial-temporal points simultaneously.
2008-09-15T03:31:34Z
2008-09-15T03:31:34Z
2008-07-21
2008
Dissertation
http://dissertations2.umi.com/ku:2585
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4169
SP
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Algunos aspectos interesantes de la filosofía de Don Miguel de Unamuno
Jason, Leo H.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1932.
2017-04-26T16:30:44Z
2017-04-26T16:30:44Z
1932
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23785
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The writings of Manuel Rojas
Scott, Robert
Latin American literature
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Chile
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish, 1967.
2020-08-21T16:36:14Z
2020-08-21T16:36:14Z
1967-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30645
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Archetypal patterns in four novels of Alejo Carpentier
Skinner, Eugene R.
Literature
Latin American literature
Caribbean literature
CUBA
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese, 1969.
2020-08-21T14:15:45Z
2020-08-21T14:15:45Z
1969-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30636
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The ideals of Galdós as shown in his dramas
Mustard, William H.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1922.
2016-07-12T18:30:51Z
2016-07-12T18:30:51Z
1922
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21078
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The historical dramas of Eduardo Marquina
Mueller, Helen Welch
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1932.
2017-06-08T17:54:14Z
2017-06-08T17:54:14Z
1932
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24433
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A study of the works of Ramón Pérez de Ayala
Wheeler, Josephine
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1932.
2017-02-28T19:58:03Z
2017-02-28T19:58:03Z
1932
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23311
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Raquel by Vicente García de la Huerta
Gayford, Dorothy
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1925.
2016-08-23T17:10:50Z
2016-08-23T17:10:50Z
1925
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21366
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The Adulteress in Spanish Tragedy (1830-1930)
Amend, Tracie Noelle
Versteeg, Margot
Pérez, Jorge
Mayhew, Jonathan
Bayliss, Robert
Leon, Mechele
Literature
Theater
Gender studies
Adulteress
Decimononico
Haunting
Spain
Theatrical semiotics
Tragedy
Throughout Spain's history, the importance of the male honor code has remained a dominating theme in Spanish literature. For Spanish tragedians, the obsession with the male honor code involves the display of the adulteress on stage. This theatrical convention originated primarily in the Baroque theater of the seventeenth century, but is reiterated continually on the Spanish stage until the 1920s. This dissertation examines the way in which "modern" tragedians implement the Baroque model of the adulteress in order to evoke catharsis in the Spanish spectators and assuage modern anxieties through the repetition of glorified theatrical tradition. The periods included are the height of Spain's belated Romantic period (1833-1840), Noeromanticism and Realism in the late nineteenth century (1870-1895), Miguel de Unamuno's experimental tragedies in the early twentieth century (1898-1910), and the avant-garde break with the Baroque model in the 1920s.
2009-10-13T04:19:30Z
2009-10-13T04:19:30Z
2009-05-15
2009
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10391
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5525
EN
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Guzmʹan de Alfarache y la segunda parte Espuria
Baum, Theresa Rosa
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1922. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-12-04T15:10:05Z
2015-12-04T15:10:05Z
1922
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19131
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El Delincuente Honrado, by Don Gasper Melchor de Jovellanos
Wakenhut, Juliett Wilhelmina
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1928.
2016-07-29T15:13:06Z
2016-07-29T15:13:06Z
1928
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21232
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(Un)Natural Pairings: Fantastic, Uncanny, Monstrous, and Cyborgian Encounters in Contemporary Central American and Hispanic Caribbean Literature
Foster, Jennifer M. Abercrombie
Padilla, Yajaira
Garibotto, Verónica
Pérez, Jorge
Unruh, Vicky
Britton, Hannah
Rabasa, Magalí
Latin American literature
Latin American studies
Women's studies
Central America
Cuba
Cyborg
Fantastic
Gender Studies
Queer Studies
Since the turn of the 20th century many writers, playwrights, and poets in Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean have published fantastic, gritty, and oftentimes unsettling stories of ghosts, anthropomorphic animals, zoomorphic humans, and uncanny spaces. These unexpected encounters and strange entities are an embodiment of muddled boundaries and a creation of unsettling and sometimes monstrous myths and fictions. Cultural theorists from Central America and Cuba have associated this kind of literature with a growing culture of disenchantment and cynicism that is rooted in the loss of utopian and egalitarian ideals associated with past revolutionary projects. Through the course of this dissertation, I look beyond cultural disenchantment as I show how many writers—especially women—from Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica) and the Hispanic Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic) have utilized strange, fantastic, and sometimes grotesque elements in their work in order to imagine alternative, utopic futures that challenge gendered hierarchies in society. Traditional dualistic categories that require all-or-nothing identities (of being all good, all bad, all feminine, all masculine, etc.) are broken down in the literature that I explore from both regions. By joining sacred domestic spaces in uncanny environments, mixing the dead with the living, blending animals with humans, and rendering passive women into abject, erotic monsters—these (un)natural pairings contest and contradict naturalized gender and sexual hierarchies by revealing the fluidity of supposedly inherent and fixed boundaries. At the same time, the (un)natural pairings that I explore provide an unlikely and creative space where traditional gender and sexual ideologies are especially foregrounded, which invites the reader to rethink conventional and hierarchal structures of power, especially as they relate to gender in Hispanic Caribbean and Central American societies.
2018-01-28T22:29:54Z
2018-01-28T22:29:54Z
2016-05-31
2016
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14578
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25750
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Panorama critico de la novela chilena (1843-1949)
Guerra-Cunningham, Lucía
Latin American literature
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese, 1975.
2020-08-19T16:31:13Z
2020-08-19T16:31:13Z
1975-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30617
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The Carlist Wars in the serial novels of Galdós, Baroja and Valle-Inclán
Mikulski, Richard Michael
Romance literature
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Benito Perez Galdos
Pio Baroja
Ramon del Valle-Inclan
Spain
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish, 1956.
2020-08-20T17:19:27Z
2020-08-20T17:19:27Z
1956-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30630
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Work and the Post-Crisis: Artistic Representations of Claustrophobic Labor Spaces in Argentina (2001-2011)
Gowan, Ian Pope
Day, Stuart A.
Garibotto, Verónica I
Pérez, Jorge
Bayliss, Robert
Bial, Henry
Latin American literature
Theater
Film studies
Argentina
This dissertation treats a variety of works of Argentine theater, film, and narrative produced between 2001 and 2011, a historical period that serves as the context for the playwrights, directors, and authors studied in this project, as well as for the characters that they depict through their fictional works of art. Common to each of the artistic representations analyzed is a special emphasis placed on a claustrophobic labor space, which I read as a microcosm for Argentine society. This unique setting represents a space from which to establish a critical reflection of the physical, social, racial, and sexual limitations confronted by Argentine citizens of the post 2001 economic crisis. The decision to focus on the suffocating conditions encountered by these characters represents a strategy employed by artists of recent years in order to highlight the lasting detrimental impact of the economic crisis on the country for a full decade after the climax of said economic downturn, despite moderate socioeconomic and political reforms employed during the Kirchner years (2003-present). Although there is not an easily identifiable political discourse shared by artists and texts treated in this project, the emphasis on the problems faced by Argentina of recent years is no doubt a strategy by which to highlight the failure of the neoliberal system employed by Carlos Menem (1989-1999), which arguably resulted in the current situation, and the inability to construct an alternative system capable of providing the country's citizens (especially of the lower and middle class) with a full socioeconomic recovery from the events of 2001.
2013-09-29T16:26:45Z
2013-09-29T16:26:45Z
2013-08-31
2013
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12910
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12241
en
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Hag(e)ografía: Propaganda ideológica y política geográfica en los discursos hagiográficos peninsulares. La construcción de la nación española (siglos XIII a XVII)
Garcia Otero, Maria Jose
Rivera, Isidro J
Bayliss, Robert
Manning, Patricia
Corteguera, Luis
Versteeg, Margot
Medieval literature
Religion
Medieval history
Early modern
Hagiography
Lives of saints
Medieval
Spanish
This dissertation explores two thirteenth century hagiographic poems by Gonzalo de Berceo, Vida de San Millán de la Cogolla and Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos, and two seventeenth century hagiographic comedias by Lope de Vega, El santo negro Rosambuco de la ciudad de Palermo and San Diego de Alcalá. I call these works `hag(e)ographies', a term that I propose in order to highlight the underlying geo-political and propagandistic agenda that is explicitly conveyed in the Spanish representations of the lives of saints. I argue that these Medieval and Early-Modern Spanish written hagiographies were not only artistic representations conceived by committed religious followers with the purpose of commemorating the lives of holy historic/legendary figures, but rather, that these productions were strategic tools used to spread ideological propagandas, constantly (re)produced, or rather `tradapted (re)creatively', with the intention of facilitating the geo-political expansion of the hegemonic (Castilian, Christian and Catholic) powers, towards the (re)construction of a Mater Hispania lost to the Muslims in 711, and thus, the (re)creation of the Spanish nation as we know it today. My literary analyses call upon a diverse body of contemporary hagiographical cultural productions and artifacts (i.e. paintings, sculptures, and altar pieces, rituals, performances and celebrations), in an effort to bolster my thesis and effectively situate the literature within its historical, political and cultural context of production.
2013-07-14T15:58:56Z
2013-07-14T15:58:56Z
2012-01-01
2012
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12235
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/11471
es
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Living the Polemic: The Mexican Novel in the Age of Modernismo, 1876-1908
Rapp, Jacob W.
Unruh, Vicky
Anderson, Danny J.
Kuhnheim, Jill S.
Day, Stuart A.
Flores, Ruben
Latin American literature
Modern literature
González Peña
Carlos
Gutiérrez Nájera
Manuel
López Portillo y Rojas
José
Mexico
Modernismo
Nervo
Amado
At the end of the nineteenth century several writers in Mexico and other countries in Spanish America began to experiment with new literary forms and ideas; these intellectuals eventually came to call themselves modernistas and their cultural production has come to be known as modernismo. Though many studies have analyzed modernismo as an hemispheric phenomenon, my approach in this dissertation focuses on the uniquely national issues and circumstances that shaped how modernismo developed in Mexico and how modernismo shaped Mexican cultural development from 1876 to 1908, a period that corresponds historically with the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. Mexican modernistas provoked heated debates about the relationship between literature and society as they engaged in conversation with opponents who represented the literary establishment, and in their novels, modernismo became an influential discourse that both challenged deterministic worldviews and advocated personal freedom. Bringing together cultural histories of Mexico with more traditional literary analyses, this dissertation traces both the struggles (i.e. between science and religion, tradition and innovation, cosmopolitanism and nationalism) and the continuities (i.e. liberalism and the autonomization of culture) that guided the production, circulation, and consumption of the Mexican novel at the turn of the twentieth century. In my readings of Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera's Por donde se sube al cielo and Amado Nervo's Pascual Aguilera, El bachiller, and El donador de almas, I establish the outlines of the modernista challenge to materialist explanations of human behavior and the desire to incorporate cosmopolitan culture into Mexico's cultural field. Contrasting these novels with José López Portillo y Rojas's La parcela both demonstrates the anxiety that modernismo provoked among more traditional writers as well as reveals a shared desire for greater autonomy from politics among Mexico's fin de siècle cultural elite. Formal innovation and traditional nationalism form an uneasy alliance in Carlos González Peña's La musa bohemia, which I analyze in terms of the changes made to the modernista sensibility by the members of Mexico's Ateneo de la juventud. I conclude by documenting several examples of similar literary debates in which traces of the modernista discourse can be seen throughout Mexico's twentieth century.
2017-05-07T20:08:35Z
2017-05-07T20:08:35Z
2014-12-31
2014
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13713
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23946
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Spanish object pronouns of the third person
Easterling, Aldis Byron
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1922. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-09-21T18:30:31Z
2015-09-21T18:30:31Z
1922
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18469
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The POETRY OF Jose HIERRO
Brown, Bonnie M.
The poetry of Josff Hierro, one of the major poets to emerge in
Spain after the Civil War, 1 reflects the decreasing rigidity in the
boundaries between the novel and poetry. 2 This is especially evident
in the narrative style of much of the poetry of this epoch, often characterized by free verse, long, rambling lines and an anecdotal plot. One
also sees a preference for a first-person speaker who both observes and
participates in the world he describes. Frank K. Stanzel's counnents
about the manipulation of speaker and perspective with respect to the
novel are also helpful to the critic of post-Civil War poetry: "Presence of the author means that the narrator and the narrative process
take on a definite shape in the reader's imagination in addition to the
narrated events. In this case report-like·narration usually predominates
(R)eport-like narration is well suited to gradual change, development, and certain processes which only become truly meaningful when they
are illuminated by the imagination of the author or when explained and
interpreted by him. ,.3 The speaker in post-war poetry is often a kind of
novelistic character, based, of course, on the poet's nature and experience, but transformed so as to transcend the limitations of time and
individual personality.
2020-03-31T13:39:17Z
2020-03-31T13:39:17Z
1976
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30244
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Juan Ruíz de Alarcón Classical and Spanish influences
Melvin, Miriam Virginia
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1941.
2018-06-01T15:03:30Z
2018-06-01T15:03:30Z
1941
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26446
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The rhetorical prose of Fray Luis de León in Los Nombres de Cristo
Goode, Helen Dill
Language
Literature
Literature
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese, 1962.
2020-08-20T17:02:31Z
2020-08-20T17:02:31Z
1962-12-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30629
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When the Literary Mutates and the Digital Emboldens: Transformations in Spanish Electronic Literature of the 21st Century
Valadez, Rafael
Pérez, Jorge
Versteeg, Margot
Garibotto, Verónica
Bayliss, Robert
Vicente, Marta
Literature
LGBTQ studies
Web studies
authorship
blogs
hybridity
hypertext
netiana
public intellectuals
My dissertation analyzes Spanish-language electronic literature from Spain produced using new media technologies over the last 20 years. It more specifically looks at blogs, hypertext novels, hybrid publications that use digital codes needing scanning, and authorship. This project argues that new media technologies are exerting agency on both the physical and cyber world by affecting how literary texts are produced, presented to the reader, and embedded into everyday life. To achieve this, I propose looking at electronic texts through an Actor Network Theory approach as presented by John Law that treats all actors as interacting with various elements, both human and non-human, to create meaning. Supporting this approach is a combination of cyber-ecological and queer methodology that treats digital elements as having agency. In particular, I engage with scholars Stacy Alaimo and Jane Bennett to show that new technology has enabled the formation and visibility of original forms of literary and cultural expression through social media and traditional publishing avenues. Thus, the environment of digital works must be incorporated into any interpretation of the text as a whole. I employ this approach to better analyze a growing presence of individuals, cyber-intellectuals, engaged in social justice causes related to women’s, LGBT, and human rights who are able to network online via blogs and in the physical world to advance their activism. The analysis on hypertext novels provides a more complete understanding of the assemblages that construct meaning in digital works. Hybrid projects, where the content is partially in print and partially available on the Internet, serve to address the convergences of the digital and the physical worlds. Convergences such as these are also impacting the role of authorship in the production of texts in 21st century Spain. Digital components have become a part of everyday life and, subsequently, demand our attention as scholars in order to understand technology’s role in literature and, by extension, society and our lives.
2019-05-10T16:19:15Z
2019-05-10T16:19:15Z
2017-12-31
2017
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15612
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27837
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Don Quijote and the novels of Peréz Galdós
Herman, Jack Chalmers
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Romance Languages and Literatures, 1950.
2020-08-26T15:21:04Z
2020-08-26T15:21:04Z
1950-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30679
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La isla en presente perfecto: articulaciones de lo cotidiano en la producción cultural de Cuba posterior a 1974
Alonso, Raciel
Arias, Santa
Garibotto, Veronica
Tosta, Luciano
Zamora, Omaris Z
Falicov, Tamara L
Caribbean studies
Latin American studies
Caribbean literature
affect
Cuba
everyday life
film
poetry & music
transitions
La isla en presente perfecto explora la música, poesía y cine de Cuba y su diáspora para entender cómo las prácticas cotidianas y los espacios públicos—y su representación en la producción cultural—dan forma a los valores y percepciones de los cubanos en relación a cuestiones más amplias de identidad nacional, raza, clase y sexualidad. Específicamente, se analizan periodos de transición política, económica y social, cuando la plasticidad de valores colectivos y estrategias de percepción se transparenta al ser desafiados por nuevas circunstancias. Este proyecto se centra en expresiones cotidianas de la cultura, tan a menudo invisibles al ojo crítico al parecer ordinarias o mecánicas por naturaleza. Sin embargo, mi investigación demuestra que son, de hecho, un espacio importantísimo de negociación cultural que se enchufa a redes afectivas en el mero corazón de los procesos que definen la vida y la experiencia en la Cuba posrevolucionaria. El primer capítulo indaga sobre lo efectos de la política cultural cubana de los setenta, posterior al notorio quinquenio gris y durante el auge del movimiento musical de la Nueva Trova, que buscaba reeducar al pueblo cubano mediante la celebración de tradiciones musicales autóctonas que inscribieron el proyecto socialista del gobierno a la vida diaria. El capítulo dos documenta los efectos del Periodo Especial de los noventa en la poesía cubana, explorando la poesía experimental de Reina María Rodríguez y Víctor Fowler Calzada, donde nuevas estrategias para comprender la vida cotidiana se catalogan como respuesta a la crisis de representación que el Periodo Especial propició. El tercer capítulo se enfoca en el cine cubano del siglo XXI que se centra en el punto de vista de los niños para interrogar la forma en la cual la figura simbólica del niño se utiliza al representar una nueva generación de cubanos que ya no temen a los efectos del capitalismo y el consumismo, lo cual sitúa a Cuba dentro del mercado mundial. El último capítulo analiza la poesía, música y cine de jóvenes cubanos en la diáspora mientras intentan construir puentes culturales a la isla, conectarse a su herencia, y promover la construcción de una “Cuba digital” a través de la colaboración en foros virtuales, páginas web de noticias, y los medios sociales. Por lo tanto, este proyecto de investigación contribuye a los estudios críticos de expresiones populares de cultura que han sido marginadas en Cuba y su diáspora, los estudios del afecto en el Caribe, y la teorización de lo cotidiano en los estudios culturales. Al develar la plasticidad de valores colectivos durante periodos de transición, la atención crítica se desplaza de las maniobras políticas y económicas superestructurales del gobierno cubano a la influencia de flujos afectivos y prácticas cotidianas sobre las percepciones del pueblo de Cuba.
2019-05-12T17:32:20Z
2019-05-12T17:32:20Z
2018-05-31
2018
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15905
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27869
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THE POETRY OF MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA
Kester, Gary
2020-03-31T14:04:21Z
2020-03-31T14:04:21Z
1970
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30247
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A study of the application of the Arte Nuevo de Hazer Comedias en Este Tiempo of Lope de Vega to his own plays
Duncan, Mabel
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1918. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-05-18T21:56:41Z
2015-05-18T21:56:41Z
1918.
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/17802
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An examination into the philosophy and literary expression of Don Ramon del Valle Inclan
Shores, Belva Agnes
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1921. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-08-19T21:03:00Z
2015-08-19T21:03:00Z
1921
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18348
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El costumbrismo regional de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Betoret-París, Eduardo
Literature
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese, 1957.
2020-08-19T14:02:05Z
2020-08-19T14:02:05Z
1957-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30611
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Las Hijas del Cid, by Eduardo Marquina
Lesh, Edna E.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1928.
2017-01-03T15:08:26Z
2017-01-03T15:08:26Z
1928
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22419
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A Partial Study of Children in Selected Novels of Benito Pérez Galdós
Gear, Dorothy Dale
Shoemaker, William H.
This thesis was submitted to the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
2015-02-12T23:23:12Z
2015-02-12T23:23:12Z
1943-07
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/16658
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Children in the Novels of Benito Pérez Galdós
Cobb, Edna N.
Shoemaker, William H.
This dissertation was submitted to the Department of Romance Languages and Literature and the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
2015-02-12T23:23:22Z
2015-02-12T23:23:22Z
1952-07
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/16659
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Social phases of the seventeenth century as portrayed in the works of Don Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza
McSpadden, Alice M.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Hispanic Languages and Literature, 1924.
2016-08-23T17:11:02Z
2016-08-23T17:11:02Z
1924
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21384
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Short stories of Jacinto Octavio Picón
Grotheer, Martha Louise
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1931.
2017-08-11T18:53:43Z
2017-08-11T18:53:43Z
1931
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24783
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La comedia nueva de Leandro Fernández de Moratín
Buchanan, Nelle Reece
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1925.
2016-06-30T14:47:29Z
2016-06-30T14:47:29Z
1925
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21071
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Some Spanish sources of Grimmelshausen
Byrns, Arthur Grover
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1921. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-10-06T17:57:55Z
2015-10-06T17:57:55Z
1921
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18555
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Structure and transformation of reality in the Colombian novel 1967-1975
Williams, Raymond L.
Latin American literature
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese, 1977.
2020-08-20T13:48:00Z
2020-08-20T13:48:00Z
1977-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30621
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La Garra by Manuel Linares Rivas
Cody, Nellie Margaret
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1930.
2017-04-26T16:30:49Z
2017-04-26T16:30:49Z
1930
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23806
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Freeways and Free Speech, Rail Cars and Rancheras: Geographic and Linguistic Mobility in Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Cultural Production
Postma, Regan Lee
Day, Stuart A.
Unruh, Vicky
Padilla, Yajaira
Pérez, Jorge
Chappell, Ben
Latin American literature
Hispanic American studies
American literature
Agency
Language
Migration
Mobility
Tactic
Voice
This dissertation considers mobility in contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American cultural production (1960s-2000s) and specifically demonstrates how characters utilize creative language to induce an alternate mobility in instances when geographic movement is limited, coerced, or impossible. The analysis of novels and plays highlights the possibilities of human agency via deployments of voice (poetry, song, code-switching, storytelling, parody, and protest, among others). These deployments allow characters to move emotionally to desired places and, in certain situations, to participate in larger social movements against injustices. The first chapter centers on the use of music and poetry as an alternate way of moving in two plays by Hugo Salcedo, El viaje de los cantores (1990), based on the lives of male migrants who die in a boxcar on their journey to the US, and Sinfonía en una botella (1990), on Mexican citizens who attempt to cross the border in automobiles only to find themselves stuck in gridlock traffic. Chapter 2 considers what I term "narrative motion" in Carlos Morton's play Johnny Tenorio (1983) in which a Chicano Don Juan code-switches, and in María Amparo Escandón's González and Daughter Trucking Co. (2005) in which truck-driving protagonist Libertad tells stories to her fellow inmates. The third chapter analyzes what I call "vocal derailments" through the use of orality and parody in Emilio Carballido's play, Yo también hablo de la rosa (1966), and his novella, El tren que corría (1984). Chapter 4 considers the connection between creative language and action in the farmworker movement by analyzing the use of the künstlerroman (artist's) genre in ...y no se lo tragó la tierra (1971) by Tomás Rivera and Under the Feet of Jesus (1995) by Helena María Viramontes. I demonstrate the way the works underscore the need for artists in the movement to continually move against injustice in the fields. This study adds to studies on migration and literature by highlighting the diversity of (im)mobile experiences in Mexican and Mexican-American cultural production and by signaling the possibilities of the tactical voice for those in limiting circumstances on both sides of the border.
2011-10-09T13:31:55Z
2011-10-09T13:31:55Z
2011-08-31
2011
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11636
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8177
en
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The development of the gracioso in the works of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
Newcomer, Charles Andrew
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1930.
2017-09-07T19:55:28Z
2017-09-07T19:55:28Z
1930
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24911
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Amplifying Subaltern Voices: (Media)tion and Marginalized Identities in Guatemala, Mexico, and Brazil
Miller, Tiffany Dawn Creegan
Kuhnheim, Jill S.
Arias, Santa
Day, Stuart A
Andrade Tosta, Antonio Luciano De
Metz, Brent E
Latin American literature
Latin American studies
Ethnic studies
globalization
indigenous
Landless
Maya
mediation
orality
This dissertation explores manifestations of mediation and their relationships with representations of marginalized, principally indigenous subjects, in print and digital media. In my understanding of mediation, I draw from the debate concerning the role of Elizabeth Burgos in the authoring of Rigoberta Menchú Tum's testimonio. This project goes beyond Menchú Tum's classic case to address broadly the role of mediation in a variety of artistic productions in connection with larger social movements. For my purposes, mediation generally refers to two primary processes: the editorial processes involved in the creation of cultural production and the ways in which audiences influence and participate in these procedures. Using a postcolonial and performance studies approach, with particular emphasis on orality, each chapter explores the politics of collaboration and how marginalized subjects negotiate their self-representations. Grounding my study in Rigoberta Menchú Tum's seminal text, Chapter 1 draws from the plethora of definitions of testimonio to explore how Victor Montejo, Kaqchikel poet Calixta Gabriel Xiquín, and the artists who created the murals in San Juan Comalapa have used the genre as a way to project their own voices, albeit mediated, and represent their Maya identities. The next chapter explores poetry by Juan Yool Gómez and Humberto Ak'abal as well as online performances by Ak'abal and Kaqchikel children. These examples demonstrate how Maya speakers have agency in their representations, yet they also show how Internet users other than the original performers influence these texts and recordings. Chapter 3 continues to analyze Maya identities, this time in the context of the Zapatista Movement in Mexico, focusing on issues of collaboration in the artists' books and Facebook account of Taller Leñateros, a collective publishing house in Chiapas. The final chapter shifts contexts quite radically to analyze the negotiation of local and international cultural forms in music by people affiliated with the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra in Brazil in order to explore relationships between mediation and representation of identity in a non-indigenous context. Finally, my conclusion offers possibilities for future work on the relationship between mediation and representations of marginalized identities in other regions of Latin America.
2017-05-08T01:03:44Z
2017-05-08T01:03:44Z
2014-08-31
2014
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13537
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23965
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The Spanish sources of Le Diable Boiteux
Watson, Lella Virginia Beatrice
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1915. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-12-04T15:10:04Z
2015-12-04T15:10:04Z
1915
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19126
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El ambiente Español visto por Juan Ruiz de Alarcon
Ebersole, Alva Vernon
Theater
Romance literature
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish, 1957.
2020-08-19T15:25:37Z
2020-08-19T15:25:37Z
1957-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30614
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The regionalism of José María de Pereda
Shearer, James F.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1931.
2017-02-28T19:57:52Z
2017-02-28T19:57:52Z
1931
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23299
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La historia en los dramas de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Angulo, José Estéban
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1931.
2017-04-26T16:30:47Z
2017-04-26T16:30:47Z
1931
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23795
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A dictionary of the characters of Cervantes' Don Quijote
Siler, Nora E.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1925.
2016-07-21T15:08:56Z
2016-07-21T15:08:56Z
1925
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21148
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Essays of Palacio Valdés
Epstein, Celia
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1931.
2017-05-11T18:30:28Z
2017-05-11T18:30:28Z
1931
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24102
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THEME AND TECHNIQUE IN THE NOVELS OF ROBERTO ARLT
Clinton, Stephen T
2020-03-31T14:11:46Z
2020-03-31T14:11:46Z
1972
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30248
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Rosalia de Castro
Pierce, Vaudau P.
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish, 1961.
2020-08-21T16:07:37Z
2020-08-21T16:07:37Z
1961-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30642
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Pero López de Ayala as historian and literary artist
Soper, Cherrie L.
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese, 1967.
Pero López de Ayala (1332-1407) has traditionally been considered to be Castile's first great historian in the modern sense--a pre-Humanist, whose historical veracity and innovations in style paved the way for a new era in Spanish historiography.
But despite his high reputation, Ayala and his chronicles have mostly been written about in general histories or in histories of literature; few critics have dealt with him exclusively or in detail. It is my intention, therefore, to present a thorough study of the four chronicles--La Crónica del Rey Don Pedro I (1350-1369), La Crónica del Rey Don Enrique II (1369-1379), La Crónica del Rey Don Juan~ (1379-1390), and La Crónica del Rey Don Enrique III (1390-1396), in order to evaluate the chronicler and his work from both the historical and literary points of view.
2020-08-21T14:01:40Z
2020-08-21T14:01:40Z
1967-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30635
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The creation of mood in Camilo José Cela’s Apuntes carpetovetónicos
Dinneen, Nancy Lane
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese, 1973.
2020-08-19T14:58:56Z
2020-08-19T14:58:56Z
1973-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30613
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Changing narrative techniques in the Mexican indigenista novel
Schmidt, Donald L.
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese, 1972.
2020-08-21T16:26:57Z
2020-08-21T16:26:57Z
1972-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30644
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The gaucho
Hollinger, Frances Claire
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1928.
2017-02-14T19:30:15Z
2017-02-14T19:30:15Z
1928
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23175
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A study of the dramatic versification of Don Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla
Koger, Robert
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1932.
2017-09-21T14:45:23Z
2017-09-21T14:45:23Z
1932
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24988
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Religious ideas of Benito Pérez Galdós
Willmann, Edna Marie
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1927.
2017-01-19T14:56:25Z
2017-01-19T14:56:25Z
1927
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22658
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The philosophy of Pío Baroja with special reference to the influence of Nietzsche
Bolinger, Dwight
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese, 1932.
2018-03-08T19:46:17Z
2018-03-08T19:46:17Z
1932
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26086
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Guzmán el Bueno by Nicolás Fernández de Moratín
Beam, Burl
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1930.
2017-01-03T15:08:30Z
2017-01-03T15:08:30Z
1930
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22425
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FAMILIAS DESMEMBRADAS Y ORFANDADES: REPRESENTACIONES DE UNA ACTITUD POSMODERNA HACIA LA NACIÓN MEXICANA
Tolentino, Adriana
Tolentino-Solano, Adriana
Kuhnheim, Jill
Day, Stuart
Anderson, Danny
Pérez, Jorge
Falicov, Tamara
Latin American literature
Cinematography
Mexican film
Mexican literature
Nation
Orphanhood
The image of the traditional patriarchal family as the perfect allegory for the nation has been widely used in Latin American literature since the 19th century. Within the frame of postmodernism, this study challenges and updates such perfection by centering its discussion on the marginalized perspective of orphanhood. Mexican artists from the turn of the 20th century (1989-2005) use the figure of the orphan to capture a sentiment of disenchantment and isolation resulted from the failure of promoted family/nation ideals. Writers Carmen Boullosa, Jesús González Dávila, Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda, and Mario Bellatín, and filmmakers Marisa Sistach, Gustavo Loza and María Novaro, with their different means of representation, evidence a search in which the orphan diversifies its ties beyond bloodlines. As a result, the orphan (and metaphorically, Mexicans) faces the opportunity to re-define himself outside an ideal of family/nation that no longer represents the reality of present day Mexico.
2010-03-18T13:32:29Z
2010-03-18T13:32:29Z
2009-12-10
2009
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10660
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6007
SP
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Cross-Cultural Queer Encounters: Women, Nation and Queer Culture in Contemporary Spanish Narrative and Film
Sheldon, Megan K.
Pérez, Jorge
Padilla, Yajaira
Versteeg, Margot
Garibotto, Verónica
Vicente, Marta
European studies
GLBT studies
Gender studies
gender studies
migration
nationhood
queer studies
Spanish film
Spanish literature
This dissertation focuses on queer representations of female immigration and travel to and from Spain in contemporary Spanish literature and film from the late 1990s to the present. Through an intersectional analysis that considers race, class, gender and sexuality, I build on the work of scholars who explore the representation of lesbian identity and experiences in contemporary Spanish cultural production. It is my goal to demonstrate the various ways migration and sexuality transverse in more recent works and are intrinsically connected to constructions of Spanish national identity. To this end, I analyze the work of a diverse group of writers and directors, ranging from self-identified lesbian authors such as Mabel Galán, Libertad Morán and Illy Nes to critically acclaimed male directors such as Julio Medem and Fernando León de Aranoa. I examine how these works closely engage with the officially celebrated modernization process in Spain from the early 1990s onward as well as the country’s integration into Europe. As a whole, I argue that these cultural productions reveal the socio-economic and racial hierarchies still at play in Spain’s celebrated “rainbow society.” Additionally, I propose that these works provide a means for questioning globalizing discourses of sexuality and expressions of LGBT liberation across lines of race and ethnicity. Through my analysis, I aim to situate these works within the broader socio-political changes and developments in contemporary Spain as well as question the assumption that cultural, national and sexual identity are fixed entities.
2016-01-02T19:10:56Z
2016-01-02T19:10:56Z
2015-05-31
2015
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13883
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19484
en
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"Erase de nuevo una princesa: las reescrituras feministas de cuentos de hadas de la España del tercer milenio"
García Puente, María
Pérez, Jorge
Mayhew, Jonathan
Arias, Santa
Falicov, Tamara
Padilla, Yajaira
Romance literature
Film studies
Fairy Tales
Feminism
Spain
In this project, I examine the renewed interest in recent Spanish literature and cinema in the feminist rewriting of fairy tales, identifying the social circumstances for its reemergence. As a genre, the fairy tale exhibits a strong potential for subversion due to its propensity for narrative or/and political manipulation. In the context of Peninsular literature, especially since the Francoist period, this genre became associated with several female authors that opposed the official rhetoric through their feminist rewritings of fairy tales. However, after 25 years of democracy and a supposed advancement towards gender equality in Spain, the strong reemergence of the rewriting of fairy tales is especially significant. My purpose in this project is precisely to offer a broader analysis and characterization of this complex cultural phenomenon that aims at denouncing the disadvantaged social situation of women in the globalized Spanish reality of the new millennium. My focus of study is a wide range of literary and cinematic revisitations/rewritings of fairy tales, produced by both men and women, that explore four main topics within the wider context of globalization: precarious labour conditions and work for women, universal standards of beauty for women, gender violence, and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Through the analysis of the works I have selected, I confirm a renewed interest in the feminist rewriting of fairy tales in the last fifteen years in Spain and I prove that these revisions do not merely reproduce patterns of previous periods but constitute a distinctive manifestation: the anti-fairy tale. The Spanish anti-fairy tale of the new milennium is defined by three basic peculiarities: the recurrent presentation of heroines of limited agency, the impossibility of a true happy ending, and the exaltation of females solidarity as an alternative mode of resistance (a novelty in the Spanish tradition of the genre).
2017-05-07T20:11:41Z
2017-05-07T20:11:41Z
2014-12-31
2014
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13655
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23948
es
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Rotrou's Venceslas, a comparison with Rojas's No Hay ser Padre Siendo Rey
Wardell, Madge
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1928.
2016-08-23T17:11:13Z
2016-08-23T17:11:13Z
1928
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21399
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EN CARNE PROPIA: EMBODIED IDENTITIES IN CUBAN AND MEXICAN CULTURAL PRODUCTION
Drickey, Kirsten
Unruh, Vicky
Kuhnheim, Jill
Anderson, Danny
Day, Stuart
Falicov, Tamara
Latin American literature
Contemporary cuban literature
Contemporary cuban film
Contemporary Mexican literature
Contemporary Mexican film
Social role of art
In twentieth-century Cuba and Mexico, each post-revolutionary state consolidated power through cultural production, especially film and literature, by funding national cinema and institutions such as the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists. This project examines the ways in which contemporary writers, filmmakers, and performance artists (1980-2006) emphasize personal, embodied experience to examine and frequently contest the generalized and overarching identity constructs propagated as part of an explicitly national post-revolutionary culture in Cuba and Mexico. Writers such as Ena Lucía Portela, Abilio Estévez, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, Antonio José Ponte, Jorge Volpi, Federico Campbell, performance artist Astrid Hadad, and filmmakers Tommy Lee Jones, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, and Alfonso Cuarón explore how the destabilization of revolutionary ideology and increasing economic and political changes in each country affects the daily lives of artistic subjects, thereby underscoring the social role of art and the tensions between art and commerce in contemporary Cuba and Mexico.
2008-09-08T01:21:17Z
2008-09-08T01:21:17Z
2008-07-28
2008
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2486
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4140
EN
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Alonso Quijano en el Callejón del Gato: Las ficciones de psycho-killers españolas
Meijide Lapido, Arturo Francisco
Pérez, Jorge
Mayhew, Jonathan
Versteeg, Margot
Padilla, Yajaira
Falicov, Tamara
Modern literature
Cinematography
Media
Psycho-killers
Spanish cultural studies
Spanish film
Spanish literature
Violence
The goal of my dissertation is to study the pervasive presence of the psycho-killer in Spanish cultural production of the last two decades. By analyzing selected literary and filmic works, I explore how this character has become a metaphor for the uneasiness caused by the political and socio-cultural changes which took place in Spain from the 1990s onward. However, the adoption of this character is not simply a mimetic process but a reformulation according to literary and cultural traditions such as quixotism and esperpento in order to question the construction of Spanish national identity. The emergence of this figure needs to be examined against the backdrop of the cultural and sociopolitical impact of globalization processes in contemporary Spain and how these processes shape new constructions of national identity. Apart from this, the psycho-killer is a radically individualistic figure that arises as a result of the skepticism and the disenchantment caused by the failures of the young Spanish democracy.
2010-07-05T22:45:21Z
2010-07-05T22:45:21Z
2010-04-23
2010
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10923
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6387
ES
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THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JOSE MILLIA Y VIDAURRE
Edberg, George J.
Jose Milla was one or Guatemala t e most prolific end popular writers. Today he still stands es one ot the great lite:rBJ.7 figures or his cou~ tr,. Luis Alberto Sdnches speaks ot him es "el pr6cer de las letras na-oionalos· guatemalteoaa.nl Rub§n Dar:to considered him to be one of the three best mters ot all C_entral Amer1ca2 along vith Enrique Gdmes Ca-rrillo and RamcJn A. Salazars Marcelino Me~ndez y Pal.9iYo thought ot him as "uno de los esoritorea mu .fecundos y notables de las repltblloaa del Centro. n3 others have variously called hims · "honra y prez de. la litera• tura nacionat,"4 "padre de la novela naoional,"S "padre de las letras l'la• cionales, tt6 "padre de la novela centro emerioana, n7 "escritor mds tecun-do de Gua.temala,nS "una gloria nacion.al de Centro Am6r1oa,n9 and even nel ilustre deoano de la literatura oentro americana.ttlO tet, cur1ousl1' enough, despite so JDaI\Y nattering epithets, no one up to the moment has studied Milla's total literB17 production adeciuate'.q.
2020-03-31T13:52:25Z
2020-03-31T13:52:25Z
1959
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30246
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Andrés Bello, educator and scholar
Turk, Laurel Herbert
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1926.
2016-08-23T17:11:13Z
2016-08-23T17:11:13Z
1926
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21398
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Nicolas Fernandez de Moratín
McLean, Candace Scranton
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1930.
2017-04-26T16:30:45Z
2017-04-26T16:30:45Z
1930
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23790
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Siempre hubo clases: clases medias y modernización en la literatura hispánica decimonónica
Gomis-Izquierdo, Vicente
Skinner, Lee
Anderson, Danny
Versteeg, Margot
Manning, Patricia
Metz, Brent
Modern literature
Latin American literature
Clases medias
Modernización
Esta tesis se centra en el estudio de tres novelas del sigo XIX de tres países diferentes. Suprema ley de Federico Gamboa es de México, La gran aldea de Lucio Vicente López, de Argentina, y Fortunata y Jacinta de Benito Pérez Galdós de España. El análisis de estos tres textos sirve para mostrar cómo los autores crean una relación entre las clases medias bajas y los procesos de modernización por los que atravesaban sus respectivas naciones. A través de esa relación también expresan una crítica hacia dichos procesos. El análisis de estos textos se realiza a la luz de diferentes factores que entran en el mencionado proceso de modernización y que tienen presencia en las tres novelas, tales como la educación, el trabajo, la industria o las inversiones, en conjunción con textos de críticos e historiadores tales como Jo Labanyi, Noël Valis, William Beezley o Carlos Alonso entre otros, y textos contemporáneos a los autores para poner en contexto las novelas analizadas. Por medio de la presentación de estos textos dentro de sus contextos históricos y socio-políticos se puede comprobar cómo los autores proponen que la mala situación de la clase media baja sirve como metáfora del proceso de modernización que los diferentes gobiernos proponían, poniendo así en tela de juicio dicho proceso. Además, la presentación de la familia como elemento alegórico sobre la nación también ayuda a la creación de la crítica hacia la modernización en estos países, ofreciendo así la perspectiva de estos autores sobre el desarrollo de los países en los que vivían.
2008-07-21T23:23:45Z
2008-07-21T23:23:45Z
2008-01-02
2007
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2308
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/3982
SP
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Wanderl[o]st: Lost Identities and Losing Place in the New World (Dis)Order
Whitney, Kendall Abbott
Day, Stuart A.
Unruh, Vicky
Pérez, Jorge
Padilla, Yajaira
De Sousa, Geraldo U
Latin American literature
Comparative literature
Caribbean literature
Antonio josé ponte
Cuban literature
Exile
Neoliberalism
Loriga, Ray
Roberto bolaño
Through the investigation of works by contemporary Spanish and Spanish-American writers--Roberto Bolaño, Abilio Estévez, Lucía Etxebarria, Ray Loriga, and Antonio José Ponte--this project explores subjects that get lost due to shifts toward totalizing economic and/or political systems. Through close textual analysis, it examines who these lost subjects are, why they get lost, and what the ramifications of being lost are for their respective societies and the world at large. The time period that the plots of these works cover (1968 to present) is one marked by socio-economic shifts, responsible for spurring the alienation of the subjects of these texts. In Chile, Pinochet's coup shattered ideals for a new generation; in Cuba, the collapse of the Soviet Union left the island isolated; while in Spain, Spaniards come to grips with the disturbing memories of schism provoked by the Civil War and isolation induced by the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
2009-08-31T02:43:27Z
2009-08-31T02:43:27Z
2009-04-22
2009
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10256
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5452
EN
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The feminine psychology of Jacinto Benavente
Van Sandt, Eileen
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1921. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-10-06T18:33:21Z
2015-10-06T18:33:21Z
1921
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18583
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Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Language and creativity
Siemens, William L.
Literature
Caribbean literature
Latin American literature
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish, 1971.
2020-08-21T14:23:27Z
2020-08-21T14:23:27Z
1971-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30637
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Performing Invisibilities: Conjuring the Ghosts of the Forgotten and Ignored on the Stage
Soll, Katherine
Day, Stuart
Unruh, Vicky
Versteeg, Margot
Garibotto, Verónica
Bial, Henry
Latin American literature
Theater
Modern literature
Chile
Dictatorship
Ghosts
Memory
Spain
Uruguay
The dictatorial tendency to define society through absolute binaries often continues into the discourse of remembrance; the work of transition, then, is the struggle to overcome these reductive dichotomies and capture the fuller complexity of the situation, thereby indeed opening up other spaces for understanding and memory. It is this task that will be undertaken by the plays examined here, as they strive to call attention to those other forgotten and ignored spaces beyond the dominant dichotomous tendencies of (post)dictatorial memory narratives. This process will occur through the implementation of various strategies of visibility and invisibility. The first chapter, “Total Onstage Invisibility,” will explore the use and significance of invisible characters through an analysis of Uruguayan playwright Ricardo Prieto’s 1977 play, El huésped vacío (The Hollow Guest) and Spanish playwright Antonio Buero Vallejo’s 1979 play, Jueces en la noche (Judges in the Night). Both plays employ the figure of an invisible wife, married to the representative of governmental power, in order to draw attention to blind spots in societal and historical perception. Through an examination of Freud’s concept of the uncanny and Rayner’s theories on theatrical ghosting, I will explore how placing a blank space on a stage can force both the audience and characters to rethink their perspectives. This visual field is inverted in the second chapter, “Reverse Visibility,” in which I study the re-centering of marginalized voices in Raquel Diana’s Cuentos de hadas (Fairy Tales, Uruguay, 1998) and Marco Antonio de la Parra’s La secreta obscenidad de cada día (Everyday Secret Obscenities, Chile, 1983). By studying the connotations of the terms public and private, this chapter elucidates the significance of reversing the visual field to privilege marginalized perspectives: domestic women in Fairy Tales and forced collaborators in Everyday Secret Obscenities. This inversion of visibility creates an inversion of power dynamics and simultaneously calls attention to the constructed nature of hierarchies of visibility. In the third chapter, invisibility turns inwards, as I examine “The Invisible Self”: the internal rupture suffered by post-dictatorial generations as they struggle to define a personal identity in the shadow of a barely-remembered societal trauma, using this frame to interpret Andrea Moro Winslow’s No soy la novia (I Am Not the Bride, Chile, 2003) and Sergi Belbel’s Elsa Schneider (Spain, 1987). In these plays, the trauma of the dictatorship itself has become invisible; while they do not explicitly address post-dictatorial society, they demonstrate a preoccupation with trauma as inheritance that allows them to be interpreted as symbolic commentaries on transgenerational trauma. Throughout this study I also explore the significance of the gendering of visibility and invisibility through portrayals of wives, mothers, and daughters.
2019-06-12T02:59:18Z
2019-06-12T02:59:18Z
2018-05-31
2018
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16008
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29310
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Traduction de Leonardo et Camila, Roman extrait de El Viage Entretenidio, par Augustin de Rojas Villandrado
Vaughan, Ethel
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1923.
2016-06-30T14:47:26Z
2016-06-30T14:47:26Z
1923
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21064
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/256762018-02-01T22:28:22Zcom_1808_2076com_1808_1260col_1808_14398col_1808_1951
The realistic technique of Emilia Pardo Bazán
Waldorf, Paul Douglass
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1930.
2017-12-22T18:09:29Z
2017-12-22T18:09:29Z
1930
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25676
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Mariano Jose de Larra, costumbrista
Richardson, Haseltine Antoinette
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1926.
2016-06-30T14:47:15Z
2016-06-30T14:47:15Z
1926
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21053
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Juan José by Joaquín Dicenta
Chrisman, Clarence G.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1932.
2017-06-26T21:11:23Z
2017-06-26T21:11:23Z
1932
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24621
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Competition and Conflict: Ludic Structures and Strategies in Late Medieval Iberian Romance
O'Brien, Michael P.
Rivera, Isidro
Manning, Patricia
Bayliss, Robert
Mayhew, Jonathan
Sax, Benjamin
Medieval literature
Chivalric
Conflict
Iberian
Ludic
Play
Sentimental
The current dissertation analyzes the ludic foundations of the conflictive moments found within Juan Rodríguez del Padrón's Siervo libre de amor, Juan de Flores' Grimalte y Gradissa, Diego de San Pedro's Cárcel de amor, and Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo's Amadís de Gaula. Building on the notion that there is a special reciprocal bond between the concepts of conflict and play, I assert that this binary phenomenon forms the foundation of the Sentimental and Chivalric sub-genres of late medieval Iberia, thus requiring a reclassification of the works under a ludic fiction category. My analysis draws from multiple twentieth and twenty-first century theories on conflict and play in order to analyze plot creation, character motivation and interaction, as well as authorial messaging. My approach attempts to situate the works not only in recent debates about the boundaries and limitations of both sub-genres, but also within the socio-cultural framework of late fifteenth-century Iberia.
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2014-07-05T16:06:28Z
2014-05-31
2014
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13374
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14520
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University of Kansas
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Rafael Pombo, vida y obras
Orjuela, Héctor H.
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish, 1960.
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2020-08-21T15:28:55Z
1960-12-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30640
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University of Kansas
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