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The Search For Liberty In The Theatre Of Alfonso Sastre, Dorothy Thornton Hunter
The Search For Liberty In The Theatre Of Alfonso Sastre, Dorothy Thornton Hunter
Master's Theses
Alfonso Sastre, born in 1926, was a child during the Spanish Civil War. His temperament and personality were shaped by a Spain in the state of transition. He has seen coups d'états, dictatorship, a republic and monarchy. With each change of government Spain was searching for a way to unite her divided self, a self which had been divided since the Moors invaded Spain in the eighth century. Sastre has reflected Spain's search for liberty and has produced what he calls a "Theatre of Social Agitation, "the fundamental theme of which is revolution. With this type of theatre Sastre proposes …
The Speech Of The Andean Mestizo In The Novels Of Ciro Alegria, Catherine Thorburn Neale
The Speech Of The Andean Mestizo In The Novels Of Ciro Alegria, Catherine Thorburn Neale
Master's Theses
This inquiry is made and presented from the point of view of a language teacher. After a student has acquired the basic skills of reading, writing, and speaking the foreign language, a most practical medium with which to continue his language study is literature. As well as gaining an understanding of people through literary study, he also may see the language in use as a tool for communication and become aware of some possibilities of it as an artistic medium. This study is concerned with the works of the Peruvian writer Ciro Alegria, who includes in his novels many examples …