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El Modelo De Autorización Del Relato En La Historiografía Medieval Castellana: La Escritura Y Lo Real En La Cronística Alfonsí, Santiago Normann Kalinowski Nov 2012

El Modelo De Autorización Del Relato En La Historiografía Medieval Castellana: La Escritura Y Lo Real En La Cronística Alfonsí, Santiago Normann Kalinowski

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This thesis explores the nature of the relationship between truth and text during a key moment in Castilian culture. Focusing on xiiith century historiography, supervised by King Alfonso X “el Sabio”, the thesis proposes an evolution of “textual truth” along a set of specific theoretical principles and formal (literary/rhetorical) features. The first part defines “authority” and “authorization” of the written word: Chapter 1 studies the fundamental issues surrounding the writing of History; Chapter 2 provides precedents, starting in the Bible, for an understanding of “sacred” authorship that will be recognizable in the Primera Crónica General; Chapter 3 analyzes …


Acercamiento Interartístico A La Pintura De Género De Murillo Y El Pícaro Literario Del Siglo De Oro. Personajes Que Reflejan Una Realidad Social, Jimena Zambrano Aug 2012

Acercamiento Interartístico A La Pintura De Género De Murillo Y El Pícaro Literario Del Siglo De Oro. Personajes Que Reflejan Una Realidad Social, Jimena Zambrano

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This thesis compares the visual representations of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and the novels La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades and Rinconete y Cortadillo, to demonstrate their inter artistic relationship. Utilizing a base of socio-critical and semiotic theories, the construction of a reality within the works through the representations of children characters will be studied.


Baroque Worlds Of The 21st Century, Xavier Gamboa Jun 2012

Baroque Worlds Of The 21st Century, Xavier Gamboa

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This dissertation furnishes an analysis of the unfolding twenty-first century neobaroque phenomenon. Thus this disquisition delves through assorted cultural artifacts from the current digital era as well as manifestations of neobaroque motifs; these virtual baroques of the twenty-first century range from memento mori, video games, social networking sites and the sponsors of these neobaroque manifestations--the corporations, a baroque legacy. This thesis seeks parallels, as opposed to replications of the first modern global culture--the historical baroque of the seventeenth century; it also provides an extensive etymological research of the international and evolving meaning of baroque, taking also into consideration its political …