Browsing Theses and Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Department "Romance Languages and Literature (MU)"
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La poesia testimonial Womanista de Excilia Saldaña, Nancy Morejón y Georgina Herrera
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] My Ph.D thesis, entitled "The Womanist Testimonial Poetry Written by Excilia Saldana, Nancy Morejon and Georgina Herrera," is a post-colonial, sociological, ... -
#Languagemixing on Twitter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)The influence of the English language on the world stage is such that it now constitutes a kind of global Lingua Franca. As such, English has supplanted French as the language of diplomacy, of culture, and of social prestige. ... -
Las culturas indígenas Mexicanas en el pensamiento de Octavio Paz
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Esta investigación analizará la visión homogeneizante con la que Octavio Paz estudió a las culturas indígenas mexicanas actuales a través del paradigma ... -
The life and novels of H. G. Wells
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)Text from page i: "My plan for the discussion of the novels has been shaped largely by my conviction that in all of the novels the main interest, both to Wells and to the Reader, lies in the matter of theme. I have discussed ... -
La moda en las cronicas de Enrique Gomez Carrillo
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The ogre as lycomorph
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)This dissertation introduces, defines and applies to French literary analysis a term of my own invention: lycomorphism. This is a literary phenomenon by which an essentially human figure is characterized as wolfish via the ... -
Propaganda, masculinity, and the French interwar novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)My dissertation centers on literary representations of non-normative gender performances, the struggle around new gender norms, and the lived realities of gender in pre- and post-World War I- (WWI) era France. The novels ... -
El proyecto de nación en la narrativa de Juana Manuela Gorriti: diferencias y similitudes con las propuestas de echeverría, sarmiento y mármol
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Esta disertación analiza el proyecto nacional propuesto en la obra de la escritora argentina Juana Manuela Gorriti en el siglo XIX. Dicha propuesta ... -
Relaciones familiares conflictivas y resignificaci�n de la familia en la narrativa de escritoras Mexicanas contempor�neas
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Esta disertación se basa en el estudio de tres novelas mexicanas, Amora de Rosamaría Roffiel, Dos mujeres y Vida y peripecias de una buena hija de ... -
Rememorando la guerra civil : una relectura de las novelas historicas de Max Aub a partir de la "memoria historica"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)La Guerra Civil española es uno de los temas más estudiados en la literatura de finales de siglo XX y principios de siglo XXI. Este interés ha llevado a realizar lo que algunos denominan la recuperación de la “memoria ... -
La representación de la literatura indigenista e indígena en dos obras Colombianas: José Tombé de Diego Castrillón Arboleda y En Defensa de mi Raza de Manuel Quintín Lame
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)This dissertation is a study of the Indian's problem that is depicted in the Andean narrative of Indigenist, Indianist and Indigenous literature and how the literary movement of Indiginism created a wave of reivindicative ... -
Rethinking French identity through literature : the case of four 21st century novels.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Reading French newspapers or watching TV broadcasts in the mid-teens of the twenty-first century, it is hard to deny or to ignore that France is currently (or still) undergoing an identity crisis. This crisis is of course ... -
St. John of the Cross : the poetics of heroism and the heroism of poetics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)In Chapter 1, I demonstrate a dialectical circularity between St. John's early years through the year 1568 and his theological, vocational and literary achievements. Chapter 2 offers a verbal and nominal analysis of the ... -
Stepping out of the cloak of voiceless-ness : a post-colonial and feminist analysis of the representation of the black female voice in the Afro-Hispanic narrative
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)My dissertation focuses on the articulation of the black female voice in the literary traditions that have emerged in the Equatoguinean and Afro- Costa Rican socio-cultural contexts in the contemporary period. It interrogates ... -
Vers une nouvelle colonisation : le Roman du dictateur Francophone Subsaharien et Caribeen
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)This study proposes to examine the representation of neo-colonialist governments in black Francophone novels. The dissertation examines the modes and means by which several post-independences writers depict, portray, ...