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Memorials, Shrines And Umbrellas In The Rain: Poetry And 11-M, Jill Robbins
Memorials, Shrines And Umbrellas In The Rain: Poetry And 11-M, Jill Robbins
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This project examines the representations in recent Spanish poetry of violence, solidarity, and memory, as these intersect with ethnic, linguistic and religious otherness, globalization, communication technology, and nationalisms. The lens through which the analysis is refracted is the poetic response to the Islamist terrorist bombings of working-class commuter trains in Madrid on March 11, 2004 (known in Spain as 11-M). This event, which occurred days before national elections, exposed the contradictory cultural forces that underlie notions of the national identity, economic transformation, the role of the media, and the social contract in Spain today. This became apparent in the massive …
The Function Of Desire In The Legends Of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Kimberly Anne Aaron
The Function Of Desire In The Legends Of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Kimberly Anne Aaron
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the function of desire in the legends of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. In ten of the fifteen legends, the protatonists are led by a misguided desire for something out of the ordinary, rejecting societal norms or common sense, to the point of self- and other-destructiveness. The protagonists create false realities for themselves in which they believe they will be able to conquer their desires with no consequences to themselves or to others. Analyses of desire by psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, philosopher David Hume, and other theologians and thinkers informed this work. …