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Manuel Puig Y Los Espacios Queer : Una Tercera Lectura De La Realidad, Matthew Berg

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Manuel Puig es una de las figuras más importantes de la literatura latinoamericana. Si bien comparte la capacidad de capturar la realidad latinoamericana con sus contemporáneos, Puig es único en su interpretación del mundo a su alrededor desde la perspectiva queer, como corresponde a su estatus de hombre gay. Además, el tejido de referencias populares en sus novelas para representar la realidad, los personajes y sus vidas demuestra una práctica de la comunidad queer de tomar elementos populares y aplicarlas a la vida nuestra, haciendo una lectura queer de estas obras y haciéndolas aplicar a nuestra realidad. De esta manera, …

(Un)Faithful Renditions: Gender Dynamics In An Adaptation Of Don Gil De Las Calzas Verdes, Raul Galoppe

Department of Spanish and Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Recent stage versions of Tirso de Molina’s Don Gil de las calzas verdes have departed from traditional cape-and-sword approaches and experimented with psychological traits and gender ambiguities. Interestingly, these departures from canonical staging seem to occur more frequently among productions in English, as if translations served the liberating purpose of releasing tensions between texts and their original contexts, hence facilitating the process of adaptation. This article examines the process of adaptation for an upcoming New York production of Don Gil, written by Dave Dalton and subject of an ASTR Targeted Research Areas Grant. The new version, tentatively entitled Love’s a …

Los Hilos Históricos Y Literarios Que Unen A En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas De Julia Álvarez Y Un Día En La Vida De Manlio Argueta, Ingrid Torres

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Un día en la vida del salvadoreño Manlio Argueta y En el tiempo de las mariposas de la dominicana Julia Álvarez realzan las vidas y la tragedia de una familia campesina durante la Guerra Civil de El Salvador y las mundialmente conocidas hermanas Mirabal. Aunque ambas familias protagonistas estén en polos opuestos de la pirámide social de ambas naciones, a través de este trabajo se explorarán las conexiones literarias e históricas entre ellas, especialmente su naturaleza testimonial, el hecho de que son productos del exilio, de la experiencia del sobreviviente y además de lo crucial que es mantener tanto la …

Las Formas De La Realidad En Cien AñOs De Soledad, John Zimmerman

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

I picked this novel as a thesis not only because it gives an interesting picture of the life of the Buendia family but also because of its political aspects relating to Latin America and especially Colombia. It describes the Civil Wars in Colombia from 1885 to 1902 in which the liberal and conservative parties played an important role. The novel gives a fascinating account of the massacre of the banana strikers as a result o f the strike against the American United Fruit Company and the members of the Buendia family involved in it.

The Buendias’ genealogy begins with incest, …

La MatemáTica Y La TeoríA Del Conocimiento En La FiccióN De Jorge Luis Borges, Aleksandra Todorovich

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

For many of us, connecting math and literature seems very bizarre since we think that it is very hard to use numbers to express our literary thoughts. Yet, we forget that first mathematicians were philosophers (or is it the other way around?) who wanted to explain nature and events around them in simple mathematical findings. Somehow throughout human history, as our knowledge was expanding and it became increasingly harder and harder to be well rounded like the Greeks, we became specialized and detached from other sciences. Nevertheless, math stayed in the core of each new science that would branch throughout …

Ficción E Historia En Gabriel García Márquez : Cien Años De Soledad Y Vivir Para Contarla, Wilfredo VizcaíNo

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Los personajes de estas dos obras de García Márquez se comprometen con la realidad social y literaria, en una necesidad vital de reafirmarse como pueblo condenado por la fatalidad de los errores históricos y la búsqueda de una identidad enclavada en un pasado convulsivo.

Éste trabajo se propondrá examinar a través de la intertextualidad de las memorias, la tradición oral, los acontecimientos y los personajes, que estas dos obras, Cien años de soledad, y Vivir para contarla no son solamente el resultado de los artificios literarios, sino una correspondencia literaria de dimensiones mítico-mesiánicas dentro de un marco de una visión …

La Situacion Socio-Politica Y Cultural De Puerto Rico Manifestada En El Ciclo Novelistico De Manuel Zeno GandíA, Robert Osmar Membreno

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Works of microcultural relevance are characterized by being read and valued primarily within the confines of a given culture. They sometimes do not transcend their own linguistic, geographical, and cultural borders, but rather, bestow upon a country, a territory, or in this case, an island, a sense of identity. Without these works, the cultural profile of a people would be blurred and even non-existent. Consequently, the fact that a work fails to speak to other cultural and linguistic contexts may actually attest to its literary importance. This is the case with the writings of Manuel Zeno Gandía, which lay the …

Ruptura Y Retorno : Representaciones Del Exilio En La Narrativa De La Posguerra EspañOla, Ana Morata GarcíA

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No abstract provided.

Una Escritora Ilustrada De Fines Del Siglo Xviii Y Principios Del Xix : Maria Rosa De Gálvez, Juana Bertha Laauwe

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This thesis focuses on the life and literary legacy of one of the Hispanic world’s women, María Rosa de Gálvez (1768-1806) who wrote her poetic works and lyrical compositions in the Neoclassic Period. Gálvez is the author of seven original tragic dramas, five original comedies, a collection of poems and two translations.

Since one of the many issues that concerned the Spanish Enlightenment was the abilities and rights of women, this is also included in the analysis. Gálvez’s literary works proposed a new type of woman, like the characters in her plays: strong women who protest the plight of Spanish …

Phonological Facilitation Through Translation In A Bilingual Picture-Naming Task, Paul Amrhein, Aimee Knupsky

Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

We present a critical examination of phonological effects in a picture-word interference task. Using a methodology minimizing stimulus repetition, English/Spanish and Spanish/English bilinguals named pictures in either L1 or L2 (blocked contexts) or in both (mixed contexts) while ignoring word distractors in L1 or L2. Distractors were either phonologically related to the picture name (direct; FISH–fist), or related through translation to the picture name (TT; LEG–milk–leche), or they were unrelated (bear–peach). Results demonstrate robust activation of phonological representations by translation equivalents of word distractors. Although both direct and TT distractors facilitated naming, TT facilitation was more consistent in L2 naming …

La DesmitificacióN De La ColonizacióN En La Literatura Contemporanea Latinoamericana, Lidia E. Fuego-Lazo.

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Every writer has codes that need to be identified on his work. Most of the time, a good author has something to denounce in society. They use literature as a means to express it. A good reader has the responsibility to find the real story behind a writer’s text.

In this case, there are two masterpieces written at different times from each other but full of codes which tie them together. They are: The Harp and the Shadow by Alejo Carpentier and Hie Pond, by Manuel Zeno Gandía. These books have something in common: they establish a connective link between …

La RepresentacióN Del Indio En La NovelíStica De José MaríA Arguedas, Teresa Gizzi

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La meta principal de esta tesina es analizar la representación del indio en la sociedad peruana de los años treinta. Esta sociedad se encuentra en conflicto, además, fría y cruelmente jerarquizada. El indio inocente es maltratado y subyugado ante la mirada angustiada de un pueblo que presencia aterrorizado la extinción de su raza y usurpación de su propio territorio. Falsos poderes hipócritamente se debaten en una lucha interna, haciendo creer que han de ayudar al indio, pero la única solución es la doble marginalidad del ya desgastado estrato de una sociedad farsante. Las críticas de Sodonie Smith, Julia Watson y …

El Machismo, La DiscriminacióN Social Y Racial, Y El Abuso Sexual En Tres Novelas Del Escritor Peruano Mario Vargas Llosa : La Ciudad Y Los Perros, La Casa Verde, Y PantaleóN Y Las Visitadoras, Enith Krause

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No abstract provided.

The Function Of The Culinary Art In The Latin American Literature Of The Twentieth Century : Simbología Culinaria En Las Obras De Cómo Agua Para Chocolate, Arráncame La Vida Y Corazón’S Café, Esther Schmidt

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The following theses will be developed by describing the purpose of the culinary arts in Latin American Literature. This paper will describe which feelings it creates for their audience.

The following books are going to be the basic study lines: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. Arráncame la vida by Angeles Mastretta and the short story Corazón’s Café by Judith Coffer Ortiz. Laura Esquivel, wrote this novel in the form of twelve recipes in which the reader gets to know about her life that happened during the Mexican Revolution. However, the most important messages sent throughout the entire novel, …

"MíO Cid" Revisited From Middle Ages To Postmodernity : Freedom And Transgression In Medieval Structures Of Servitude, Alina Bengochea

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Partiendo de las obras del psicólogo social Erich Fromm, autor de El miedo a la libertad, la tesis analizará dos cantares de gesta y establecerá un estudio comparativo entre el Poema del Mío Cid, interrelacionándolo con Las Mocedades de Rodrigo y El cantar del Roldán a partir de los postulados de Fromm cuando examina la evolución y transformación de la sociedad desde el punto de vista psicológico y sociológico.

Según Fromm la Edad Media le ofreció a sus habitantes el sentido de comunidad cuando aún el proceso de individuación no se había conformado en esa época. Este sentimiento de protección …

La Mujer Mirada : Una AproximacióN A La Mujer Vestida De Hombre En La Comedia Del Siglo De Oro EspañOl, Betty Sermeno

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Hombres y mujeres siempre han tenido un lugar en la sociedad a la cual pertenecen. Sin embargo la historia muestra como en siglos anteriores la balanza se inclinó con privilegios hacia el sexo masculino y negó una igualdad de oportunidades al femenino. Hecho que impulsó a la mujer a buscar alternativas que le permitieran llegar al mundo que le era negado; y precisamente las artes se convirtieron en las difusoras de sus proezas, pensamientos y capacidades.

Ese proceso ha sido la motivación de esta reflexión, especialmente enfocada en los dramaturgos de la comedia del Siglo de Oro español, que a …

Los Estilos Literarios En Las Obras De Ana Teresa Torres, Betty SáNchez

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

La obra narrativa de la escritora venezolana, Ana Teresa Torres comienza en los años sesenta pero se da a conocer después de ganar el concurso de cuentos del diario El Nacional en 1984. Ella ha publicado varias novelas, entre ellas: El exilio del tiempo en 1990, Doña Inés contra el olvido en 1992 y Los últimos espectadores del acorazado Potemkin en 1999, novelas investigadas para el desarrollo de esta tesina, cuyo propósito es analizar los estilos literarios en las obras de Torres. En las obras escogidas para este trabajo, Torres utiliza una serie de eventos históricos que han conmovido al …

El Juego Del Lenguaje : La ConfiguracióN Del "Yo" En La Narrativa De Norah Lange Y Rosa Chacel, Berta C. Roldan

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Labyrinths of the Language: Shaping the "I" in Norah Lange and Rosa Chacel's Narrative

Although the Avant-Garde movement spread internationally in the early 1900's, very few women in Spain and Latin America were recognized for their contributions to a new style of prose. The purpose of this thesis is to study the representation of the subject and the fragmentation of the "I" in the narrative of Norah Lange and Rosa Chacel. Both writers were iconoclastic in the use of new forms and influenced the way literature and the arts were perceived in their era. They marked a new beginning to …

Cartas Y Memorias Como RepresentacióN Humana Y Literaria De Federico GarcíA Lorca Y Pablo Neruda, Dalia Milagros Santiago

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Every writer has a history behind his work. Most of the time, his personal life becomes part of his literature. His life becomes transparent through his literary work as well as through his personal writings, in this case, in his personal letters to family members and friends and also in his memories. It is through these letters that we get to know the person, his life related to history as well as their worries of his literary performance towards society. Due to this, I have found imperative the need of the study of the letters of Federico García Lorca and …

Paisaje En Poesía : Símbolos De La Naturaleza En La Poesía De Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Y Jorge Guillén, Christopher N. Kelly

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

La presencia de la naturaleza es un concepto ubico en muchas formas de arte, del cual la poesía no es una excepción. El propósito de este estudio es examinar esta influencia de las imágenes de la naturaleza en la poesía de Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, y Jorge Guillén. Estos símbolos son los que conectan a estos tres poetas la una manera distinta a muchos de sus contemporáneos pues ellos poseen, el deseo de desentrañar la esencia de los secretos del cosmos a través de su poesía. Es evidente que el trabajo de estos tres autores es extenso y por …

On The Functional Equivalence Of Monolinguals And Bilinguals In “Monolingual Mode”: The Bilingual Anticipation Effect In Picture-Word Processing, Paul Amrhein

Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Previous evidence indicates that bilinguals are slowed when an unexpected language switch occurs when they are reading aloud. This anticipation effect was investigated using a picture-word translation task to compare English monolinguals and Spanish-English bilinguals functioning in “monolingual mode.” Monolinguals and half of the bilinguals drew pictures or wrote English words for a picture or English word stimuli; the remaining bilinguals drew pictures or wrote Spanish words for a picture or Spanish word stimuli. Production onset latency was longer in cross-modality translation than within-modality copying, and the increments were equivalent between groups across stimulus and production modalities. Assessed within participants, …

Drum Of Poetry, Drum Of War, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The Aztec upright drum, tlalpan huehuetl, stood totally silent in the Metropolitan exhibit from Mexico, headless, covered with a swirling visual text which includes two carved eagles and three jaguars, each uttering the sign of holy conflagration in war," blazing water" on one side a transfigured warrior rising up in eagle attire—quauhtlehuanitl" eagle rising," a figure of the sun from dawn to midday—and opposite him a drooping eye at the axis of a quincunx, pierced south to north by a short, angular dart—the calendrical sign 4 Motion, the name of this fifth age of the world, destined to collapse in …

Entrevista Con Rogelio Sinán, Alina Camacho Gingerich, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Rogelio Sinan, seud6nimo de Bernardo Dominguez Alba y maestro de varias generaciones de escritores panameios, ha cultivado casi todos los g6neros; se ha distinguido como cuentista, poeta, novelista y director teatral. Nace el 25 de abril de 1904 en Taboga, una islita en el Pacifico, a unos 5 kil6metros de la ciudad de Panama. Publica en 1929, en Roma,. su primer libro de poesias, Onda, poemario con el que introduce la vanguardia a las letras panamefias. En 1970 Sinin regresa a su pais, donde explica literatura a los estudiantes del Instituto Nacional. En 1937 lo nombran c6nsul de Panama en …

Aspects Of Prose Style In Three Chicano Novels: Pocho, Bless Me, Ultima, And The Road To Tamazunchale, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Chicanismo: The Rebirth Of A Spirit, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Reviewed Work: The Road to Tamazunchale by Ron Arias

A Bibliographic Introduction To Twenty Manuscripts Of Classical Nahuatl Literature, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This bibliography is offered as a preliminary guide for students and professionals interested in the texts of the indigenous Nahuatl cultures of Mexico. It is the bibliography I would wish to have were I to begin again my own investigations, which were undertaken with only a general knowledge of Nahuatl culture of the kind available to any curious aficionado of antiquities. While many excellent bibliographies of Nahuatl materials are available (see Note), none have indicated clearly for the uninitiated the primary manuscript sources of the literature or what editions of facsimile, paleography, and translation have been prepared from each. And …