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Historic-Critical Description Of Libro De Buen Amor Of Juan Ruiz, Flora Sarinopoulos

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

My purpose has been to give a historical description of the Libro de buen amor . This I have it expedient to do by creating four broad categories: First, a brief introduction to the author and book; second, generalities about Juan Ruiz' attitude toward love; third, illustrations in respect to characterization, human behavior, local color, proverbs, and apologues; and fourth, a classification of the comedy of the work.

The Attitude Of Galdos Toward The Carlists, Irma M. Barnes

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

Benito Pérez Galdós, one of Spain's greatest novelists since Cervantes, was so modest and reticent that little is known about his personal life and intimate thoughts. He who liked to tell stories so well that he gave to the world over a hundred, never wanted to tell his own.

A Student Edition Of El Equipaje Del Rey José By Benito Pérez Galdós, Katherine Ann Gardiner

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

Introduction written in English.

It is the aim of this introduction to give the student of Spanish language and literature some tangible background as a preparation and aid for the appreciation of El Equipaje Del Rey José. The author, Don Benito Pérez Galdós, was very human, and one can hardly read any of his novels without soon discovering this humanity. He took all of Spain and its people and showed them to the whole world in his novels, for they have been translated into many languages. It will be an aid to the student to have some explanation of the …

Spain's Problem As Seen By Her Eminent Contemporary Essayists, Nina Porter Fatjo

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

The vision of a new Spain obsessed with the Generation of 1898, but this unanimity split when cause and remedy were sought. Some preached reform through the regeneration of Spanish values, other through Europeanization--an infiltration of modern though and culture from Europe.

It is the purpose of this thesis to learn by a study of the works of the leading essayists what each considered the cause of Spain's decadence and what remedy each thought the best medicine for the malady.