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Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance On The Early Spanish Stage, Christopher B. Swift
Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance On The Early Spanish Stage, Christopher B. Swift
Publications and Research
Radical Theatricality describes medieval and early modern oral traditions through the culture of “jongleuresque” performers: juglares, trovadores, and other itinerant players, who have been relegated to the fringes of theatre history.
Being A Pilgrim: Art And Ritual On The Medieval Routes To Santiago, Kathleen Ashley, Marilyn Deegan
Being A Pilgrim: Art And Ritual On The Medieval Routes To Santiago, Kathleen Ashley, Marilyn Deegan
Kathleen M. Ashley
The Way of St James has been a pilgrimage event for over 1000 years as people have flocked to the site of the burial of the apostle St James the Great. Legend states that the body of James was carried by boat from Jerusalem to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, where a church was erected on the site of the tomb. There is no single route for the pilgrims to follow, but there are several key paths. Kathleen Ashley and Marilyn Deegan capture the experience of the medieval pilgrim through an examination of art, historical and social contexts as well …
The Basque Country: The Heart Of Spain, A Part Of Spain, Or Somewhere Else Altogether, Paddy Woodworth
The Basque Country: The Heart Of Spain, A Part Of Spain, Or Somewhere Else Altogether, Paddy Woodworth
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The Basque Country exhibits contradictory symptoms of good health and chronic internal rupture. A flexible and robust economy and a vibrant cultural life are undermined by opposed senses of identity, which make almost any statement about the region deeply contentious. The verifiability—or otherwise—of Basque nationalist and Spanish nationalist readings of Basque history and culture matter less today than the fact that they are held with genuine conviction by big sectors of Basque society. Both traditions have their own legitimacy, but neither has been capable of fully acknowledging or including the other. Paradoxically, Francoism reinforced Basque nationalist identity, and anxieties about …
Spain, Reincarnated: Julio Medem’S Caótica Ana And New Spanish Media(Tion) In The World, Susan Martin-Márquez
Spain, Reincarnated: Julio Medem’S Caótica Ana And New Spanish Media(Tion) In The World, Susan Martin-Márquez
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Spanish director Julio Medem’s visually stunning yet controversial 2007 film Chaotic Ana was panned for its ostensibly Manichaean treatment of gender relations and its crudely scatological ending, both of which have distracted attention from the work’s fascinating incursions into global politics. While the film’s complex layering of hawk and dove imagery figures centuries of male violence against women, it is also imbricated with an extended meditation on the divergent roles of the United States and Spain on the contemporary world stage. Through the male protagonist Said, a Saharawi painter, the film artfully shifts postcolonial guilt for the fate of the …
A Vindication Of The Spanish Mother. Maternal Images In The Filmic Make-Over Of The Nation, Andrés Zamora
A Vindication Of The Spanish Mother. Maternal Images In The Filmic Make-Over Of The Nation, Andrés Zamora
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The maternal figure as an explicit or oblique image of the Spanish nation has undergone a good share of indignities throughout the modern cultural history of the country, from the nineteenth-century Mater Dolorosa to the stepmother of those forced into exile after the civil war, from the terrible matriarchs of Benito Peréz Galdós, Federico Garcia Lorca and Camilo José Cela to the patriarchal mothers of Spanish oppositional cinema in the final phase of the dictatorship and first years of the democratic transition. This latter avatar of the Spanish mother, so well reconstructed by Marsha Kinder, had the bewildering destiny of …
At What Cost?: Spanish Neutrality In The First World War, Carolyn S. Lowry
At What Cost?: Spanish Neutrality In The First World War, Carolyn S. Lowry
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
While historians have gone to great efforts in studying the belligerent powers during the First World War, very little attention has been paid to such neutral powers as Spain. Several European nations declared neutrality in 1914, but many strayed from this course in favor of active belligerence. Spain, however, remained neutral for the war's duration; thus, this thesis examines and explores the nature of Spanish neutrality during the First World War. Spain's decision to adhere to a neutral policy required serious consideration as it had to weigh the consequences and advantages of intervention; however, military and economic weakness, as well …
Uses Of A Myth: Al-Andalus, Serafín Fanjul
Uses Of A Myth: Al-Andalus, Serafín Fanjul
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In the last two decades, the Spanish press treatment of the Muslim world reflects a change of tone from unsympathetic to enthusiastic, although the information is still marred by confusion and ignorance. This change of attitude has occurred in other Western countries as well, and it is due in part to immigration trends, control over oil resources, and the relativism of official discourses towards the Third World. In the case of Spain, however, there is an additional internal element at play: the mass-media reinvention of a mythical al-Andalus as a tolerant and pluralistic society. This idealized interpretation of seven centuries …
Legacy, Susana Almuiña
Legacy, Susana Almuiña
Theses and Dissertations
I am interested in family secrets and the rules and mores that may constrain family behavior or adversely affect a member’s destiny. I make work that looks askance at the efforts to hide from the world those events or secrets that reflect badly on a family. I look at the places where I have discovered some of them: family furniture and objects around the house, which can shed, metaphorically, the secrets and stories that are part of family tradition. I focus light on the lives of my uncelebrated ancestors and bring them, however briefly, into the collective consciousness.
Supersession, The Comedia Nueva, And Tirso's La Mejor Espigadera, Matthew D. Stroud
Supersession, The Comedia Nueva, And Tirso's La Mejor Espigadera, Matthew D. Stroud
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
Given Spain's self-identification with the Roman Catholic Church under the Hapsburgs, what is one to make of the great number of comedias that take as their protagonists figures from the Hebrew Bible, individuals revered by Jews as righteous ancestors, models of behavior, and illustrious examples of the triumphs of the Hebrew people faced with endless persecution and oppression? Most of these plays focus on the actions of men (e.g., King David in Tirso’s La venganza de Tamar, and Joseph and Jacob in Mira’s El más feliz cautiverio), but a number of them focus on righteous Hebrew women such …
The Convent As Cultural Conduit: Irish Matronage In Early Modern Spain, Andrea Knox
The Convent As Cultural Conduit: Irish Matronage In Early Modern Spain, Andrea Knox
Quidditas
Irish catholic women religious who migrated to Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries established a strong tradition of schools, hospitals and charitable institutions. Education and learning were important to Irish communities, and were recognised within Spain. Irish nuns and their convents were not part of an enclosed tradition and outreach work was a central aim. Sponsorship links between women were part of a collective plan, and cultural matronage by and for women appears to have been very effective. Censorship by the Inquisition and tridentine orthodoxy was contested by women’s religious houses which resisted censorship of book collections and art …
An Introduction To The Life And Music Of Javier Busto And A Conductor's Analysis Of Missa Pro Defunctis (1997), David D. Wells
An Introduction To The Life And Music Of Javier Busto And A Conductor's Analysis Of Missa Pro Defunctis (1997), David D. Wells
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Born in Hondarribia, in the Basque country of Spain on November 13, 1949, Javier Busto is one of the most recognized composers of that area. This research introduces the composer and his music. The document briefly presents events of his life that promoted his advancement as a composer, with particular attention to his composition "Missa pro Defunctis" (1997). The work was commissioned by the Kobe Chuo Chorus of Japan as a community response to an internationally recognized catastrophe, the terrible earthquake in Kobe, Japan on January 18, 1995. It represents significant creative energy in the organization and development of Busto’s …
The Ephemeral Bloom, Robbieana Leung
The Ephemeral Bloom, Robbieana Leung
Global Tides
The "Journeyer's Journal" consists of short narratives describing international experiences by Pepperdine University undergraduate students. Here, Robbieana Leung describes Cadiz, Spain.
“Esperanza, En Suma” De Una Nueva Vida Mexicana En Pedro Páramo, Rebekah Clark
“Esperanza, En Suma” De Una Nueva Vida Mexicana En Pedro Páramo, Rebekah Clark
The Corinthian
A partir de la victoria mexicana en la Guerra de Independencia contra España que terminó en 1821, los campesinos de la nación tuvieron que empezar una lucha nueva contra el sistema de caudillos elitistas. A pesar de muchas revoluciones, la destrucción del caudillismo afligió a México por décadas. En Pedro Páramo (1955), Juan Rulfo creó una novela, influida por experiencias personales que también muestra los efectos de la Revolución Mexicana y propone la esperanza de una edad nueva, sin la opresión de los caudillos. Porque tanto la vida de Rulfo como la historia de México tienen un papel muy importante …
“Imaginando Historias Feministas A Ambos Lados Del Estrecho: Las Escritoras Españolas Se Enfrentan Al Racismo”, Gema Pérez-Sánchez
“Imaginando Historias Feministas A Ambos Lados Del Estrecho: Las Escritoras Españolas Se Enfrentan Al Racismo”, Gema Pérez-Sánchez
Gema Pérez-Sánchez
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