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Personajes Femeninos En Veinticinco Comedias De Luis Velez De Guevara, Hilma Maria Espinosa

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

A study of the feminine characters in twenty-five plays by Luis Vélez de Guevara, taken from three general categories of the Spencer and Shevill listing: sixteen "comedias novelescas," seven "histórico-novelescas," and two "comedias divinas."

Each play studied is provided with a short historical bibliography, a brief summary of the plot and the analysis of its feminine characters.

By means of this character, an attempt is made to determine Vélez's special perception and sensibility with regard to the feminine generally and to the treatment of women in a society that the Spanish theater of the Golden Age to some extent reflects. …

A Criação Ficcional De Almeida Faria, Pedro Carlos Louzada Fonseca

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

This study of the author's work -- A Paixão (1965), Cotes (1978), and Lusitânia (1980) -- is a theoretical and critical approach to his artistry within this problematic situation. It is informed by the theory of archetypal symbolism (Northrop Frye and Mircea Eliade), considered here as the manner of pragmatic signification in a referential context. Consequently, the poetic images are referred to their semantic association with ideological aspects of Portuguese reality. The narrative structures of this relationship are a product of both tragic and comic modes as well as the dialectical relationship of these two genre types as conditioned by …