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Seeking Infinity: Exploring The Meaning And Potential Of Young Adult Literature, Jacinta Yanders

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The category of Young Adult (YA) Literature has experienced tremendous growth in terms of readership and works produced over the course of the last fifteen years or so. While there has been some scholarly work done on the category, the research pales in comparison to almost any other facet of literature. For whatever reasons, scholars have largely decided to ignore the changes that have occurred in YA. However, that has not stopped readers from continuing to read these books. In fact, this paper not only addresses the background and what I believe to be the defining characteristics of YA, but …

Una Relectura De La Violencia En Los Papeles Del Infierno De Enrique Buenaventura, Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En este ensayo se lleva a cabo un análisis de la violencia en tres obras del ciclo Los papeles del infierno de Enrique Buenaventura. Con ese propósito se aplican las categorías de violencia propuestas por S. Žižek y los análisis sobre la violencia en el teatro latinoamericano de ese periodo llevados a cabo por Severino Albuquerque (1991) y Diana Taylor (1991). Concluyo que este ciclo es un conjunto de obras que da testimonio de la violencia sistémica y simbólica en Colombia durante los años 50 y 60, y que las obras de Buenaventura hacen visible la violencia objetiva por medio …

La Pervivencia De La Tragedia Y Sus Ecos En El Teatro Mexicano: Las Adoraciones De Juan Tovar, Claudia Gidi

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En este ensayo se retoma el debate en torno de la pervivencia del género trágico. Se revisan algunos de los rasgos esenciales de la tragedia en la tradición clásica, y se propone entenderla como un fenómeno artístico que se transforma a lo largo de la historia. Se cierra la reflexión con el estudio de algunas de las características más importantes del género en Las adoraciones, del mexicano Juan Tovar.

Semejanzas Conceptuales Entre La Dramaturgia De Alfonso Sastre Y Yusuf Al-’Ani, Muaed Ahmed Ali

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Este artículo estudia desde el punto de vista comparatista la producción dramática del español Alfonso Sastre y el iraquí Yusuf Al-’Ani en los años sesenta del siglo XX. Se destaca la tarea renovadora que en este periodo lleva a cabo cada uno de estos dramaturgos. Alfonso Sastre formula su estética de la Tragedia compleja y Yusuf Al-’Ani denomina la Comedia negra (Al-comedia asawdaa). Se explica la concepción dramática literaria que defienden, los motivos que los han empujado adoptar estas nuevas líneas teatrales y el mensaje que transmiten a través de sendas obras teatrales que han sido seleccionadas: Crónicas romanas y …

Darwin Y El Niño De El Sexto Sentido, David Sergio

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Procedimiento Práctico De Enseñanza Para El Desarrollo De La Memoria Corporal En El Actor A Través De Las Acciones Físicas, Rubén Arcas Olivera, Iván Herrera Peco, Ana Colomer Sánchez

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En el presente trabajo se plantea un procedimiento práctico de ejercicios físicos de enseñanza basado en la teoría de las acciones físicas utilizadas para el entrenamiento de la memoria corporal, con el objeto de evaluar si existe una relación directa entre este procedimiento y la mejora en la capacidad de conseguir una interpretación fluida y orgánica en los actores.

Dicha evaluación se ha realizado, mediante el diseño de un cuestionario específico que ha sido presentado y respondido por actores, voluntarios, tanto previa como posteriormente a la realización de las sesiones prácticas.

The Disappearance Of The Character In The Theatre Of Angélica Liddell: The Nubila Wahlheim Paradigm, Jesús Eguía Armenteros

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

In this article I will analyze the negation of the fictional character for the Artistic Poetics of Theatre inside Theatre in Angélica Liddell’s work Monólogo necesario para la extinción de Nubila Wahlheim y Extinción in order to explain her artistic strategy.

Representaciones De La Corte En La Poesía De Quevedo, Carmen García De La Rasilla

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Reseñas

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

La Inevitable Pareja: Paralelismo Y Feminidad Literaria En El Cine Español De La Democracia, Juan Senís Fernández

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En este artículo se estudia cómo el uso del paralelismo contribuye a afianzar ciertas características literarias consideradas típicamente femeninas dentro del imaginario cultural colectivo durante la España de la democracia. Para ello, y después de explicar en qué consiste dicho uso, se realiza el estudio de un corpus de películas españolas estrenadas en dicho periodo que cumplen con las siguientes características: incluir una escritora entre sus personajes y no ser ni adaptaciones de obras literarias ni biografías fílmicas. A través de este estudio, se intenta demostrar cómo estas películas tienen un efecto paradójico en el imaginario colectivo, ya que, por …

Sismología En La Fiesta Del Chivo De Mario Vargas Llosa: Heteroglosia En La Narración Del Trauma, Pablo Francisco José Carreño Cabrejos

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (1891-1961), the ruthless Dominican Republic ruler dominated his island’s politics for over thirty years. In his acclaimed 2000 novel, The Feast of the Goat, Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa creates Urania Cabral, a 49-year-old émigrée who at 14 left her nation after becoming Trujillo’s sexual victim. The novel, told from many perspectives, focuses on her return, the dictator’s last day, and the story of the four conspirators waiting to ambush him the night of May 30th 1961. My study analyzes the complex narrative structures of the novel as masterful “rupturing” techniques. Through these the reader pieces …

On Spanish Loanword And Loanblends In Hawai'i Creole English, Robert N. Smead

Faculty Publications

Hawai'i Creole English (HCE) has been the object of much linguistic research. Virtually all researchers agree that its principal lexical sources include English, Hawaiian and Japanese. Other languages, such as Chinese and Portuguese, have also contributed. To date, however, few publications have considered Spanish as an important lexical source for HCE. The research reported herein attempts to remedy that oversight by considering ten putative loanwords and loanblends thought to derive from Spanish. These include ethnic markers associated with and local dishes brought by Filipino and Puerto Ricans immigrants in the early twentieth century. By documenting cultural traditions and consulting authoritative, …

Oral Interviews For Testing In The High-School Spanish Classroom, John C. Akers, Casey Calvert, Kalle Davis

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

Our project offers strategies and materials for the beginning Spanish classroom to increase oral proficiency of students through an emphasis on individual and small-group interviews with the teacher, which will be an integral part to every classroom test. These interviews will be referred to also as “One-On-One orals,” “OOOs,” or simply “encounters,” inspired by the oral proficiency interviews (OPIs) first developed in the 1980s to measure speaker competence in a second language--as per the proficiency guidelines of the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). (Our project’s classroom materials begin on page 5.)

As we know today, the …

Improving Language Skills And Creating Global Citizens, Begoña Caballero-Garcia, Katie Haney, Savannah Mack

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

The focus of this project is to improve oral and written proficiency and enhance cultural awareness of students enrolled in Spanish III Honors. Students will improve and learn effectively through weekly exercises that focus on critical thinking, synthesizing in Spanish and working collaboratively. Emphasis will be placed on reciprocal teaching and cooperative learning. We plan for the students to each choose a Spanish speaking country that they will research based on monthly topics, and then share the information found with their classmates. Students will be assessed at the beginning of the project in October and again in March through taped …

Progressive Vowel Nasalization In Brazilian Portuguese, N. Douglas Porter, Dr. Willis Fails

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This study examines the nature of nasalized vowels in Brazilian Portuguese and specifically looks at data regarding progressive nasalization, which occurs when a nasal consonant (like /m/ or /n/) affects how nasal the vowel is that follows it (as in the word mito or minto).

Wmu Career And Student Employment Services – Present Practices And Future Recommendations For Employer Relations, Amanda Jeppesen

Honors Theses

Career services offices currently find themselves in a rapidly changing environment. Due to economic hardship, students and employers are expecting more effective and fruitful engagement, and offices must create innovative solutions to provide such engagement on shrinking budgets. Career services staff charged with conducting employer relations activities are charged with brokering these relationships between employers, students, faculty and staff, and the offerings of their departments. The purpose of this study is to determine current practices for the career services offices at Western Michigan University, Oakland University, and Central Michigan University. Then, best practices identified by industry experts will be explored …

Resisting (And Reproducing) Language Domination In A Bilingual Kindergarten Classroom, Roxana Gamble

Honors Theses

In modern U.S. society, English is considered the language of power while Spanish is considered a minority language, unfit for academic or professional settings. These macro-level power inequalities are evident in micro-level interactions between students and teachers in mainstream schools. Dual language education programs, however, attempt to challenge this ideology by elevating the status of minority languages and their speakers. In this study, I use an ethnographic/discourse analysis approach to examine how one teacher's practices in a dual language kindergarten classroom work to both reproduce and resist dominant ideologies about Spanish. Through participant-observation, interviews, and audio recordings of naturallyoccurring speech, …

Two-Way Dual-Immersion Programs, Monica Nealis

Honors Theses

According to the 2010 U.S. Census, “of the 281 million people aged 5 and over in the United States, 55.4 million people (20 percent of this population) speak a language other than English at home” (Center for Applied Linguistics). As this number of English language learners, also known as ELLs, continues to grow, families and educators alike are looking for effective programs and instructional strategies to serve these children and adults (CAL). “Dual-language education” is an umbrella term used for an additive form of education in which students are taught literacy and other content (reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social …

Labor, Vera Bauluz

CGU MFA Theses

I make sacred objects from scratch, from ready mades, from industrial materials, and sometimes from trash or recycling. I treat those objects with love and reverence to embed them with essence and soul. I propose conversations with objects exquisitely executed, that question our social order and the machine, easily understood by everybody, although still challenging our understanding of contemporary art.

The placement of the work and the lighting, as fundamental part of the installation, attempts to generate strokes of conscience that enhance human understanding and capabilities beyond a specific discourse.

Humor and sacred coexist in my installation and in my …

A Comparrision Between Formal Medical Spanish Terminology And The Terminology Used By Low-Income Hispanics, Kathryn Rothas, Christina Isabelli, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

It has been observed by Illinois Wesleyan students enrolled in the Medical Spanish course that when translating for patients in a clinical setting one of the two situations can occur: 1) the Spanish-speaking patient will use terminology unrecognizable by the student when describing their conditions or symptoms; or 2) the student translator will use terminology taught in their Medical Spanish course to describe conditions, symptoms and treatment instructions, but the terminology is unrecognizable by the Spanish-speaking patients. This miscommunication between the translator and the patient can lead to lack of treatment adherence or improper diagnosis due to a misinterpretation of …

Ferradáns Publishes Bilingual Collection Of Spanish Poet's Work, Kim Hill

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Proper Names As Narrative Gaps: A Deconstructive Reading Of Rosario Ferré And García Márquez, Dora Suarez

Honors College Theses

This thesis argues that language in general, and proper names in particular, are surreptitious examples of narrative gaps. In this way, in the context of literature, the narrative gaps enclosed in proper names enable the audience to become an active participant in a type of writing that exceeds the limit of the specific literary text at hand. In deconstructing the way in which proper names and nicknames are used by Rosario Ferré and García Márquez, this exposition shows how names, as conveyors of different identities, systematically enable an exercise of différance: they distinguish subjects while postponing an actual description of …

Autorretratos Del Estado: El Sello Postal Del Franquismo [Review], Carmen García De La Rasilla

Languages, Literatures & Cultures

Review of:

Autorretratos del Estado: El sello postal del franquismo. Ed. Guillermo Navarro Oltra. Cuenca: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2013.

Representaciones De La Corte En La Poesía De Quevedo, Carmen García De La Rasilla

Languages, Literatures & Cultures

No abstract provided.

"Quizá Volverán ...": Four Incidents Of Rape (Or Threatened Rape) In Don Quijote De La Mancha, Stacey L. Parker Aronson

Spanish Publications

En la novela cervantina Don Quijote de la Mancha, se presentan cuatro episodios en que hay mujeres o que son amenazadas con la violación sexual o que son violadas. Estas mujeres son Dorotea, la mujer que le pide justicia a Sancho cuando él gobierna su ínsula, y unas mozas del pueblo donde vive Teresa Panza que son llevadas por unos soldados. En tres de estos episodios las mujeres se resisten a la violación sexual y en un episodio las mujeres son violadas. Lo que parece ser verdad es que el nivel social de la mujer con respecto al hombre …

El Pasado Lingüístico Colonial Y Las Lenguas De Instrucción En La Educación Filipina, David Sánchez-Jiménez

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Patriarchy’S Role In Gender Inequality In The Caribbean, Erin C. O'Connor

Student Publications

While gender equality in the Caribbean is improving, with women’s growing social, economic, and political participation, literacy rates comparable to those in Europe, and greater female participation in higher education, deeply rooted inequalities are still present and are demonstrated in the types of jobs women are in and the limited number of women in decision-making positions. Sexism, racism, and classism are systemic inequalities being perpetuated in schools, through the types of education offered for individuals and the content in textbooks. Ironically, the patriarchy is coexisting within a system of matrifocal and matrilocal families, with a long tradition of female economic …

Duolingo For Homework Practice, Pilar Munday

Languages Faculty Publications

A guide for language educators to use DUOLINGO as homework for their students. Each student can go at their own pace, and can focus on areas which are more difficult to them.

"Maese Pedro" Y Sei Personaggi In Cerca D'Autore: Procedimientos Teatrales De La Narrativa Cervantina En La Obra De Luigi Pirandello, Mara Theodoritsi

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

The present thesis carries out a comparative analysis of the episode maese Pedro, included in the second part of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1615), and Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) in order to explore the resonance of Cervantes in Pirandello’s play. Particular attention is paid to the dramatic techniques developed by Cervantes in his narrative and their reflection in the work of the Italian playwright and Nobel laureate. Drawing on previous studies that have addressed the influence of Cervantes on Pirandello and emphasizing the two-way influence between the Spanish and the Italian literary traditions …

!Que Aproveche! An American Student's Encounter With The Culture And Language Of Spanish Food, Amanda Mills

Honors Theses

As a language teacher, culture is one of the most challenging things to convey to students. It is relatively straightforward to introduce grammar and vocabulary, but culture is an entirely different topic, one that adds a level of complexity that is difficult to describe and harder to convey. I wish I could give students a living, breathing experience of what it is like to visit or live in a Spanish-speaking country, but school budgets and instructional hours typically do not allow for that. To apply my knowledge of Spanish and make it accessible and meaningful to students, I designed a …