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- ?Una nacion afro-ecuatoriana? Un estudio de "Juyungo" y "El ultimo rio" de Adalberto Ortiz y Nelson Estupinan Bass.
- Creator
- Ramirez, Cyntia A., Florida Atlantic University, Horswell, Michael J.
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Ecuador is characterized by its variety of ethnic groups, including mestizos, Indians and African descendents that have formed a rich heritage of multiple cultures. Whereas much attention has been given to indigenous and indigenista literature, there is a large gap in Ecuador's literary criticism on its afro-Ecuadorian literature. This thesis examines two afro-Ecuadorian novels, Juyungo (1942) and El ultimo rio (1966). I explore the social and economic environment in which afro-Ecuadorians...
Show moreEcuador is characterized by its variety of ethnic groups, including mestizos, Indians and African descendents that have formed a rich heritage of multiple cultures. Whereas much attention has been given to indigenous and indigenista literature, there is a large gap in Ecuador's literary criticism on its afro-Ecuadorian literature. This thesis examines two afro-Ecuadorian novels, Juyungo (1942) and El ultimo rio (1966). I explore the social and economic environment in which afro-Ecuadorians had to live during the beginning of the 20 th century. Whereas Ecuador's contemporary racial ideology and the social construction of the individual dates from the colonial times, the authors of these afro-Ecuadorian novels contest that discrimination and racism and propose a radically different conception of the nation, one more inclusive of its diverse cultures.
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- 2004
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13149
- Subject Headings
- Ecuadorian literature--Criticism and interpretation, Ecuador--20th century--Social aspects, Ecuador--20th century--Economic aspects, Spanish American literature--Black authors, Ortiz, Adalberto--Juynungo, Estupiñán Bass, Nelson--El ultimo río, Multiculturalism--Ecuador
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- Document (PDF)
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- Y tu hijo tambien: La representacion de la masculinidad en la literature y el cine mexicanos (1915--2001).
- Creator
- Colhouer, John P., Florida Atlantic University, Erro-Peralta, Nora
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In Mexico, fragmentation is an integral element in social, political, and literary realities expressing an inequality among its citizens. This disparity is reflected in literary and cinematic representations. The Mexican male is the agent that perpetuates the fractured society, and his representation in the arts reflects the impediments to social progress in both the heterosexual and homosexual communities. The novels Los de abajo, Pedro Paramo , and La muerte de Artemio Cruz, present the...
Show moreIn Mexico, fragmentation is an integral element in social, political, and literary realities expressing an inequality among its citizens. This disparity is reflected in literary and cinematic representations. The Mexican male is the agent that perpetuates the fractured society, and his representation in the arts reflects the impediments to social progress in both the heterosexual and homosexual communities. The novels Los de abajo, Pedro Paramo , and La muerte de Artemio Cruz, present the traditional Mexican male and images of masculinity in the heterosexual community. El vampiro de la Colonia Roma by Luis Zapata introduces the male homosexual character into Mexican discourse and implies how he is affected by fragmentation. The film Y tu mama tambien (2001) by Alfonso Cuaron proposes that inequality will be perpetuated if Mexican society does not change its views of what is to be considered "masculine."
Show less - Date Issued
- 2005
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13229
- Subject Headings
- Masculinity--Mexico, Machismo--Mexico, Motion picture industry--Mexico, Motion pictures--Political aspects--Mexico
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- Document (PDF)
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- Como Me Lo Contraron Te Lo Cuento: Estudio Critico Y Traduccion De "Vivir Del Cuento" De Manuel Ramos Otero.
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- Gregor, Patricia., Florida Atlantic University, Gamboa, Yolanda
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There are characters whose existence depends upon their stories being told, and the same may be said of authors. The Puerto Rican author Manuel Ramos Otero died on October 7, 1990, leaving a body of work that includes four collections of short stories, two books of poetry, and a novel. At present, his work is not well-known outside of Puerto Rico. His readership is limited to Spanish speakers since he wrote exclusively in Spanish and his works have not been translated. This study introduces...
Show moreThere are characters whose existence depends upon their stories being told, and the same may be said of authors. The Puerto Rican author Manuel Ramos Otero died on October 7, 1990, leaving a body of work that includes four collections of short stories, two books of poetry, and a novel. At present, his work is not well-known outside of Puerto Rico. His readership is limited to Spanish speakers since he wrote exclusively in Spanish and his works have not been translated. This study introduces the author to the English-speaking reader, locating the work in its literary context, and presents a critical analysis and, to my knowledge, the first English translation of his short story "Vivir del cuento." It includes a discussion of the controversy regarding the appropriateness of English in Puerto Rican literature.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13327
- Subject Headings
- Ramos Otero, Manuel.--Vivir del cuento., Ramos Otero, Manuel--Criticism and interpretation., Puerto Rican literature--20th century--Criticism and interpretation.
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- Document (PDF)
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- Mas alla de la palabras: La textualidad en los tejidos de Jalq'a y Tarabuco.
- Creator
- Duff, Maria Nuria., Florida Atlantic University, Horswell, Michael J.
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The textiles of Jalq'a and Tarabuco, from Bolivia, are known worldwide for their beauty and complex designs. While most academic attention has concentrated on weaving techniques and esthetics, this thesis explores the semiotics of the designs, not only in an ethnographic context, but as an expression of ideology, cosmogony, and the indigenous groups' cultural history. In addition to reading colonial Andean sources on the pre-Inca and Inca weaving traditions, I analyze the symbolic elements of...
Show moreThe textiles of Jalq'a and Tarabuco, from Bolivia, are known worldwide for their beauty and complex designs. While most academic attention has concentrated on weaving techniques and esthetics, this thesis explores the semiotics of the designs, not only in an ethnographic context, but as an expression of ideology, cosmogony, and the indigenous groups' cultural history. In addition to reading colonial Andean sources on the pre-Inca and Inca weaving traditions, I analyze the symbolic elements of a sample of acsus, women's traditional skirts. I link the symbols still used today to depictions of pre-Inca mythology and the cultural inclusions from Hispanic culture that have created a syncretism from processes of transculturation.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13350
- Subject Headings
- Textile design--Bolivia, Indians of South America--Influence, Indian textile fabrics--Bolivia, Indian philosophy--Bolivia, Tarabuco, Bolivia--Description and travel
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- Document (PDF)
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- El estado, el bandido y La Violencia en Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazabal.
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- Rojas, Maria Eugenia., Florida Atlantic University, Duno-Gottberg, Luis
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The period of Colombian history known as La Violencia (The Violence 1948-1963) was characterized by widespread terror and crime. Liberals and Conservatives faced off in a battle to win control over the state, more specifically, to achieve hegemony. Peasants and urban dwellers were in the middle of such confrontation. And eventually, were co-opted by the rhetoric of each fraction, thereby becoming murderers, victims, or both. Colombian writer Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazabal recreated this time in...
Show moreThe period of Colombian history known as La Violencia (The Violence 1948-1963) was characterized by widespread terror and crime. Liberals and Conservatives faced off in a battle to win control over the state, more specifically, to achieve hegemony. Peasants and urban dwellers were in the middle of such confrontation. And eventually, were co-opted by the rhetoric of each fraction, thereby becoming murderers, victims, or both. Colombian writer Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazabal recreated this time in two of his novels, Condores no entierran todos los dias y El ultimo gamonal. His historical narrative accounts the events and succeeds in recreating the languages and practices of La Violencia. This study will address these themes and explain how Gardeazabal portrays the role of the conservative State and its connections with criminal practices.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13403
- Subject Headings
- Álvarez Gardeazábal, Gustavo--Criticism and interpretation, Colombia--Politics and government--1946-1974, Violence--Colombia--History--20th century
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- Document (PDF)
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- Un negro para la nacion: Raza e identidad nacional en las obras de Alejo Carpentier y Jacques Roumain.
- Creator
- Tucker, Walteria C., Florida Atlantic University, Duno-Gottberg, Luis
- Abstract/Description
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This study questions the representation of the "black subject" in Alejo Carpentier's ¡Ecue Yamba O! (1933) and Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosee (1944), in order to discuss the mechanisms of inclusion and/or "cooptation" employed by the liberal-marxist elite in their nationalist/anticolonial efforts. During the time period in which these two works were written, the ideological, economic and political interventionism of the United States inspired various movements or artistic...
Show moreThis study questions the representation of the "black subject" in Alejo Carpentier's ¡Ecue Yamba O! (1933) and Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosee (1944), in order to discuss the mechanisms of inclusion and/or "cooptation" employed by the liberal-marxist elite in their nationalist/anticolonial efforts. During the time period in which these two works were written, the ideological, economic and political interventionism of the United States inspired various movements or artistic resistence against "yankee" power in the Caribbean. My study shows how Carpentier and Roumain incorporate the "black subject" in their narratives tin order to generate a national identity to be used as an weapon against U.S. influence in their countries. I also analyze how the characterizations of these "black subjects" in ¡Ecue Yamba O! and Gouverneurs de la rosee, function within the Cuban and Haitian nationalist ideologies of the time period.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13404
- Subject Headings
- Roumain, Jacques,--1907-1944--Criticism and interpretation, Carpentier, Alejo,--1904-1980--Criticism and interpretation, Blacks in literature, Race awareness in literature, Blacks--Haiti--Race identity, Blacks--Cuba--Race identity, Negritude (Literary movement)
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- MANIFESTACIONES AMBIENTALES Y LITERARIAS DEL EROTISM EN "CIEN ANOS DE SOLEDAD." (SPANISH TEXT) (GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, COLOMBIA).
- Creator
- OSSORIO, BIANCA., Florida Atlantic University, Rangel, Vicente H.
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Esta tesis es el estudio del amor en la novela Cien anos de soledad del autor Gabriel Garcia Marquez, estudio compuesto de los siguientes capltulos: I) El autor y su obra; II) Incidencias de la realidad socioeconomica, III) Particularidades del tropico y de las costas latinoamericanas; IV) El erotismo a la luz del psicoanalisis; V) Influencia surrealista; VI) Las multiples caras del amor, y los personajes; VII) La soledad y el amor. Siguiendo la biografia del escritor en el primer capltulo,...
Show moreEsta tesis es el estudio del amor en la novela Cien anos de soledad del autor Gabriel Garcia Marquez, estudio compuesto de los siguientes capltulos: I) El autor y su obra; II) Incidencias de la realidad socioeconomica, III) Particularidades del tropico y de las costas latinoamericanas; IV) El erotismo a la luz del psicoanalisis; V) Influencia surrealista; VI) Las multiples caras del amor, y los personajes; VII) La soledad y el amor. Siguiendo la biografia del escritor en el primer capltulo, el segundo y tercero enfatizan los factores ambientales que influencian el amor. El cuarto y quinto analizan el amor de acuerdo con las teorias psicoanaliticas y la modalidad literaria del surrealismo. El sexto y septimo complementan el tema y conducen a La conclusion de que el despliegue de erotismo que revela la obra, es--contrario a lo que parece--un mensaje moralizador de su autor.
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- 1971
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13461
- Subject Headings
- García Márquez, Gabriel,--1927-2014--Cien años de soledad, Love in literature
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- VERSIFICACION EN LA OBRA POETICA DE JOSE DE ESPRONCEDA: UN EJEMPLO DE LAVARIEDAD ROMANTICA.
- Creator
- BERMUDEZ, ALBERTO C., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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Esta tesis analiza la obra poetica de Jose de Espronceda desde el punto de vista de su metrica. Espronceda es catalogado el tipico poeta romantico espanol. Lo que se pretende aqui es reiterar, a traves de la metrica, la filiacion del poeta al movimiento. El estudio esta compuesto de los siguientes capitulos: I) El romanticismo espanol y su metrica; II) El autor y su obra; III) Las poesias de Espronceda; IV) Borracores y copias atribuidos a Espronceca; V) Un poema largo; VI) Otro poema largo....
Show moreEsta tesis analiza la obra poetica de Jose de Espronceda desde el punto de vista de su metrica. Espronceda es catalogado el tipico poeta romantico espanol. Lo que se pretende aqui es reiterar, a traves de la metrica, la filiacion del poeta al movimiento. El estudio esta compuesto de los siguientes capitulos: I) El romanticismo espanol y su metrica; II) El autor y su obra; III) Las poesias de Espronceda; IV) Borracores y copias atribuidos a Espronceca; V) Un poema largo; VI) Otro poema largo. Siguiendo el resumen del movimiento romantico en Espana en el primer capitulo, el segundo trae la biografia del poeta. Los capitulos tres, cuatro, cinco y seis estan dedicados a la obra poetica de Espronceda. Termina este estudio la conclusion de que la metrica del poeta comprueba la conexion de este a los preceptos y caracteristicas del movimiento al que pertenece.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1974
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13621
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Romance
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- RAMON DEL VALLE-INCLAN'S "LUCES DE BOHEMIA": AN ANNOTATED EDITION WITH INTRODUCTION AND AMPLIFICATIONS. (SPANISH TEXT).
- Creator
- BAHAMONDE, JOSE RICARDO, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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This edition was prepared as an independent or classroom study tool, in Spanish, for students of contemporary Spanish drama. The introduction includes a brief chapter on Valle-Inclan's biography. the following chapters focus their attention on the evolution of the author's style from his early period up to the esperpentos. the opinions of critics are mentioned throughout to familiarize the reader with authoritative references as well as with his work. Once the esperpento period is reached,...
Show moreThis edition was prepared as an independent or classroom study tool, in Spanish, for students of contemporary Spanish drama. The introduction includes a brief chapter on Valle-Inclan's biography. the following chapters focus their attention on the evolution of the author's style from his early period up to the esperpentos. the opinions of critics are mentioned throughout to familiarize the reader with authoritative references as well as with his work. Once the esperpento period is reached, one chapter is devoted to the treatment of the represented in Luces de bohemia. Finally the play is annotated in English and the difficult vocabulary is glossed. Amplifications at the end of each scene give additional, valuable information. More than fifty sources were consulted and/or quoted. By using this edition the reader deals with only one volume representative of what many references had to say about Valle-Inclan, his times, his works, the esperpento, and Luces the bohemia.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1974
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13677
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Romance
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- AN ANNOTATED EDITION OF THE COMEDY "EL GENIO ALEGRE" BY SERAFIN AND JOAQUIN ALVAREZ QUINTERO.
- Creator
- GAZTELU, JOSE M., Florida Atlantic University, Rangel, Vicente H.
- Abstract/Description
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This edition was prepared in order to help the student decipher the complex dialectical language of this most characteristic play of the Quintero brothers, which is riddled with the popular speech of southern Spain. The introduction has four chapters. It begins with an explanation of the social circumstances in Spain at that time. Followed by a short biography of the authors ; and then, a third chapter dealing with the characteristics of their works in relation to the literary mainstream of...
Show moreThis edition was prepared in order to help the student decipher the complex dialectical language of this most characteristic play of the Quintero brothers, which is riddled with the popular speech of southern Spain. The introduction has four chapters. It begins with an explanation of the social circumstances in Spain at that time. Followed by a short biography of the authors ; and then, a third chapter dealing with the characteristics of their works in relation to the literary mainstream of Spain. The last chapter is a summary and analysis of the play and its characters. Finally, the annotation in English, in which special care was taken to identify all difficult passages; translate them and place them on the same page in which they occur, in such a way as to achieve a balance between the footnotes and the glossary, to make it easier and more enjoyable to read the work.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1977
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13834
- Subject Headings
- Álvarez Quintero, Serafín,--1871-1938--Criticism and interpretation., Álvarez Quintero, Joaquín,--1873-1944--Criticism and interpretation.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- UNA EXPLICACION LITERARIA DE DOS POSTURAS POLITICAS CONTRADICTORIAS EN LA OBRA DE RAMON DEL VALLE-INCLAN. (SPANISH TEXT).
- Creator
- SERRANO, ELIVIO O., Florida Atlantic University, Rangel, Vicente H.
- Abstract/Description
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The main force that directed the course of Valle-Inclan's literary work was his spiritualism. This spiritualism, the essence of Valle-Inclan's Carlism, led to a desire on his part to transcend the senses and chronological time, and found expression in his art, guiding the evolution of his aesthetics from the Sonatas to the Esperpento, permeating his traditionalism as well as his radicalism, and manifesting itself in the mystical-aesthetic perspective expounded in La lampara maravillosa. Valle...
Show moreThe main force that directed the course of Valle-Inclan's literary work was his spiritualism. This spiritualism, the essence of Valle-Inclan's Carlism, led to a desire on his part to transcend the senses and chronological time, and found expression in his art, guiding the evolution of his aesthetics from the Sonatas to the Esperpento, permeating his traditionalism as well as his radicalism, and manifesting itself in the mystical-aesthetic perspective expounded in La lampara maravillosa. Valle-Inclan parallels the process of spiritual life substituting the divine intervention that characterizes the mystical phenomenon with artificial means, namely, the use of marihuana. The perspective that he obtains through this process offers a grotesque, radical vision of Spanish reality; to better reflect this bitter reality, Valle-Inclan created the technique of the Esperpento. This approach seeks to clarify the confusion among critics dealing with this writer's contradictory political postures.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1977
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13847
- Subject Headings
- Valle-Inclán, Ramón del,--1866-1936--Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- AN ANNOTATED EDITION OF: CARLOS ARNICHES' "LA SENORITA DE TREVELEZ.".
- Creator
- MANDIOLA, ANA., Florida Atlantic University, Rangel, Vicente H.
- Abstract/Description
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This edition was prepared as a study aide for the students of Spanish Literature at the college level. The work consists of two chapters. Chapter I presents the author, Carlos Arniches, the man and the playwright, while it offers relevant information on the language techniques and the characters he chooses. A section is also dedicated to the brief presentation of Arniches' sainetes followed by a study of the grotesque tragedy, in particular of La senorita de Trevelez. Chapter II covers...
Show moreThis edition was prepared as a study aide for the students of Spanish Literature at the college level. The work consists of two chapters. Chapter I presents the author, Carlos Arniches, the man and the playwright, while it offers relevant information on the language techniques and the characters he chooses. A section is also dedicated to the brief presentation of Arniches' sainetes followed by a study of the grotesque tragedy, in particular of La senorita de Trevelez. Chapter II covers exclusively the annotated edition of La senorita de Trevelez. The annotations are in English; all difficult expressions are explained with the necessary background for the best comprehension of the text. A bibliography of all the sources consulted is included. The student of the Spanish language will find in this edition a tool for a better mastery of the language, the culture of the time and the colloquial Spanish idiom.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1978
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13906
- Subject Headings
- Arniches y Barrera, Carlos,--1866-1943--Criticism and interpretation, Arniches y Barrera, Carlos,--1866-1943--Señorita de Trevélez
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La generacion de cuentistas cubanos de entre guerras y su contribucion al desarrollo del cuento en Cuba e Hispanoamerica. (Spanish text).
- Creator
- Mesa, Adrian Victor., Florida Atlantic University, Schwaller, John F.
- Abstract/Description
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Proponemos demostrar en este trabajo que la generacion de cuentistas cubanos de entre guerras, es la que consolida el cuento como genero literario independiente de la novela. Influye en el proceso de formacion de la nacionalidad cubana, haciendo una gran contribucion a las corrientes literarias que predominan en este periodo. Hemos hecho un estudio de los mas importantes autores, analizando sus obras, mostrando como han contribuido al desarrollo del cuento.
- Date Issued
- 1991
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14689
- Subject Headings
- Short stories, Cuban--20th century--History and criticism, Cuban literature--20th century--History and criticism
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Satire of the cuckold in the work of Francisco de Quevedo.
- Creator
- Averhoff, Ida Ibis, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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The "cuckold" is the prototype of the consenting husband in Quevedo's time. He represents the hypocrisy, the vanity, and, most of all, the moral decadence of Spanish society in the 17th Century. Quevedo expresses his great disillusion with the amoral behavior of his people and, through his satire, attempts to give a lesson on morality. Quevedo was able to transfer onto his work Spanish ideas and realities, giving them a serious character as that of an ascetic or a politician, with the...
Show moreThe "cuckold" is the prototype of the consenting husband in Quevedo's time. He represents the hypocrisy, the vanity, and, most of all, the moral decadence of Spanish society in the 17th Century. Quevedo expresses his great disillusion with the amoral behavior of his people and, through his satire, attempts to give a lesson on morality. Quevedo was able to transfer onto his work Spanish ideas and realities, giving them a serious character as that of an ascetic or a politician, with the pessimistic and sarcastic tone typical of his satire. Two important and influencing factors on his work and his way of looking at life were the family and cultural environment he was exposed to and the effect of his physical defects, which he succeeded in compensating due to his energetic personality. Quevedo used conceptism as his literary style, applying his genius to the creation of metaphors, taking the Spanish language to its maximum expression as no one else had done before him.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1992
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14805
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Romance
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Black woman as an erotic being in Spanish-Caribbean narrative.
- Creator
- Henry, Marlyn Fay., Florida Atlantic University, Erro-Peralta, Nora
- Abstract/Description
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Characterization of Black women as erotic beings in Spanish-Caribbean narrative has shifted significantly from 1880 to 1990. Their representation as totally submissive and erotic beings has evolved into that of socially conscious and self accepting Black women. In Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes (1882), Cecilia and Maria de la Regla are depicted as objects of male sexual desires. Diaz's Pascua in Cumboto (1948) and Asturias' Mulata de tal (1963), although eroticized, insinuate an underlying...
Show moreCharacterization of Black women as erotic beings in Spanish-Caribbean narrative has shifted significantly from 1880 to 1990. Their representation as totally submissive and erotic beings has evolved into that of socially conscious and self accepting Black women. In Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes (1882), Cecilia and Maria de la Regla are depicted as objects of male sexual desires. Diaz's Pascua in Cumboto (1948) and Asturias' Mulata de tal (1963), although eroticized, insinuate an underlying androgynous nature which makes them more assertive in their use of sexuality. However, it is contemporary women writers who dismantle the erotic stereotype: Ferre's "Cuando las mujeres quieren a los hombres" (1974) portrays a Black prostitute who, advances socially and economically. Cabrera's Nana in "La tesorera del diablo" (1971) is the bearer of ancestral knowledge and moral values, and Cartagena Portalatin's Aurora, in "La llamaban Aurora," (1978) speaks forcefully on social issues and fully accepts herself as a Black woman.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15115
- Subject Headings
- Latin American literature--History and criticism, Caribbean literature (Spanish), African American women in literature, Sex symbolism, Sex role in literature
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La transformacion de la historia y del lenguaje por Ana Lydia Vega: Representacion del puertorriqueno en sus cuentos.
- Creator
- Santiago, Aida E., Florida Atlantic University, Gosser Esquilin, Mary Ann
- Abstract/Description
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Through careful selection of historical events and linguistic transformations, Ana Lydia Vega, born in 1946, tries to capture the essence of a diverse array of Puerto Rican figures. She bases her fiction on historical facts, cultural aspects, and linguistic peculiarities. Her writing blends these three aspects; however, the use of the unique Puerto Rican verbal expression is the foremost tool of her conceptualization. Because of the attention to detail, her work has become focal in...
Show moreThrough careful selection of historical events and linguistic transformations, Ana Lydia Vega, born in 1946, tries to capture the essence of a diverse array of Puerto Rican figures. She bases her fiction on historical facts, cultural aspects, and linguistic peculiarities. Her writing blends these three aspects; however, the use of the unique Puerto Rican verbal expression is the foremost tool of her conceptualization. Because of the attention to detail, her work has become focal in contemporary Puerto Rican studies. Her work is marked by the constant use of humor even though the daily lives of her characters are marked by the tragedy of Puerto Rican historical search for identity. This study examines four of her stories "Letra para salsa y tres soneos por encargo," "Puerto Rican Syndrome o cosas extranas veredes," "Sobre tumbas y heroes (folletin de caballeria boricua)" y "El regreso del heroe." Her transformation of history, with its political connotations, and of culture through the fine articulation of colloquial Puerto Rican Spanish constitute the focus of this study.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1998
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15564
- Subject Headings
- Vega, Ana Lydia,--1946---Criticism and interpretation, Puerto Rican fiction--History and criticism
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La aventura del heroe: Una aproximacion critica a "Lituma en los Andes" de Mario Vargas Llosa.
- Creator
- Barrero, Gabriela Ovando, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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Lituma en los Andes tackles the universal substance of myths, its atavistic stock of culture, prejudice and superstitions, which applied to the complex Peru uncovers taboos and reveals a political statement, whose non-fictional counterpart can be found in La utopia arcaica: Jose Maria Arguedas y las ficciones del indigenismo, by the same author. This thesis uses a mythological and archetypal approach to prove that the narration--whose underlying element are Andean myths--is structured as the...
Show moreLituma en los Andes tackles the universal substance of myths, its atavistic stock of culture, prejudice and superstitions, which applied to the complex Peru uncovers taboos and reveals a political statement, whose non-fictional counterpart can be found in La utopia arcaica: Jose Maria Arguedas y las ficciones del indigenismo, by the same author. This thesis uses a mythological and archetypal approach to prove that the narration--whose underlying element are Andean myths--is structured as the mythological adventure of a hero who must comply with the archetypal rites of passage: separation, initiation, and return. Lituma's trials lead him to a social and spiritual maturity and to discover the mysterious ancestral Peru, disdained by the more westernized Peruvians of the coast. The Andeans' fear of foreigners is represented by the myth of the pishtaco or throat-cutter, counterpart of the classical Minotaur. The encounter of the two scissioned worlds is only possible through love and friendship, in the framework of a pluralistic society, which is suggested by the novel's resolution.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15667
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Latin American
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La representacion de la aniquilacion de la creatividad artistica femenina en obras seleccionadas de Elena Poniatowska.
- Creator
- Adriazola-Rodriguez, Ana, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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The annihilation of women's artistic creativity in selected works by the Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska is a result of societal conditioning. Two short stories from Lilus Kikus and the short novel Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela portray the process of deterioration and demeaning obliteration of women's creative faculties, as they are conditioned to accept the conventional roles of wife and mother. Poniatowska's texts posit that, upon assuming these roles, the exercise of the creative artist...
Show moreThe annihilation of women's artistic creativity in selected works by the Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska is a result of societal conditioning. Two short stories from Lilus Kikus and the short novel Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela portray the process of deterioration and demeaning obliteration of women's creative faculties, as they are conditioned to accept the conventional roles of wife and mother. Poniatowska's texts posit that, upon assuming these roles, the exercise of the creative artist's use of her imagination is postponed or detrimentally transformed forever. In the selected texts, women's artistic creativity is chronicled first at its best while the characters are girls or adolescents. The neglect, procrastination, and attention to domestic and repetitive tasks as opposed to the pursuit of their creative vein is observed in the adult women characters. Poignantly portrayed is Quiela, Diego Rivera's common-law wife of ten years, who destroys her life and creative power by trying to be the perfect wife. These literary works speak forcefully to the social issues and institutions that place women artists in a bind; are the roles of artist, mother/wife incompatible?
Show less - Date Issued
- 2000
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15786
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Latin American, Women's Studies
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La polâitica de la identidad y la universidad: el ejemplo de la literatura Hispâanica.
- Creator
- Currie, Caitlin., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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This project examines politicization of the university. Critics have long charged that politics, and specifically identity politics, has infiltrated the classroom via radical professors. Scholars who lament the decline of the western canon claim that a massive wave of new untested works - largely written by women and people of color - have replaced the works of dead white men leaving our students ill-prepared. While most of the scholarship in this area has been written in the area of English...
Show moreThis project examines politicization of the university. Critics have long charged that politics, and specifically identity politics, has infiltrated the classroom via radical professors. Scholars who lament the decline of the western canon claim that a massive wave of new untested works - largely written by women and people of color - have replaced the works of dead white men leaving our students ill-prepared. While most of the scholarship in this area has been written in the area of English literature departments, this project focuses on the field of Hispanic Literature. If identity politics has challenged the canon in the university, it is expected that within identity-based disciplines the infiltration of politics should be substantial. To test the politicization of the university, I examined 38 Hispanic Literature survey courses from a variety of American universities. I found a high degree of consistency among these syllabi and concluded that critics of the university have at best overstated their case.
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- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/165334
- Subject Headings
- Spanish literature, History and criticism, Ethnic groups in literature, Multiculturalism in literature, Interdisciplinary approach in education
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Entre Nebrija y Valdâes: un diâalogo gramatical sobre el castellano renacentista.
- Creator
- Lewis, Ron., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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The two earliest grammars of the Castilian language are the Grammar of the Castilian Language by Antonio de Nebrija and the Dialogue of the Language by Juan de Valdâes. The former was published in 1492, a historically paramount year for Spain, while the latter was completed in 1535 but not published until two centuries later. Working with edited texts of both grammars, secondary sources regarding the lives of Nebrija and Valdâes, and information about the history of Spain, this thesis...
Show moreThe two earliest grammars of the Castilian language are the Grammar of the Castilian Language by Antonio de Nebrija and the Dialogue of the Language by Juan de Valdâes. The former was published in 1492, a historically paramount year for Spain, while the latter was completed in 1535 but not published until two centuries later. Working with edited texts of both grammars, secondary sources regarding the lives of Nebrija and Valdâes, and information about the history of Spain, this thesis explores the linguistic substance of both works, evidence of the authors' personal attitudes and dispositions that influenced their works, and the political and social context surrounding all of these factors. The purpose of this investigation is to gain further insight into the Grammar and the Dialogue, as well as the history of Spain and the historical development of Castilian.
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- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3335108
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Spanish literature, Criticism and interpretation, Language and culture, History
- Format
- Document (PDF)