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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

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

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

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 …