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Representaciones de la violencia en la poesía de la guerra civil española
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Este trabajo analiza las representaciones de la violencia en la poesía escrita en español durante la guerra civil española. Analizaremos diferentes aspectos temáticos de la violencia y compararemos el tratamiento ...
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 ...
Deception and truth: the use of letters in the comedies of Iriarte and Moratin
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This study examines the dramatic and thematic role of staged letters in the neoclassic comedies of Spain's eminent comediographs Tomás de Iriarte and Leandro Fernández de Moratín. The plays under consideration include ...
The beautiful woman in medieval Iberia: rhetoric, cosmetics, and evolution
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
Literary portraits of the beautiful woman in medieval Iberia tend to emphasize several physical features, such as long, blond hair, or light-colored and hairless skin. This study examines the specific features of the ...
La folie, le mal de l'Afrique postcoloniale dans le Baobab fou et la folie et la mort de Ken Bugul
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Cette thèse vise trois objectifs. Le premier consiste à démontrer que les conflits, les guerres et les crises comportementales en Afrique aujourd'hui sont liés à la crise identitaire, conséquence directe des six ...
Georges Perec: autobiographie et trauma
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Georges Perec (1936-1982) a largementété étudié pour ses prouesses linguistiques et son talent d'écrivain hors-pair. Cependant, un nouveau domaine sur lequel se penche aujourd'hui la critique littéraire, à savoir ...
Cimarroneando con GH
(2012)
This trailer introduces Cimarroneando con GH, a 30 minute documentary that includes interviews that establish a dialogue with Georgina Herrera's own poetry. The documentary was produced and directed by Professor Juanamaria ...
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 ...
Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont : women's epistolary and pedagogical fiction in the eighteenth-century
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (1711-1780) dedicated her life to writing and teaching young women. In all, she wrote 70 volumes of prose including several articles in magazines she founded and edited, novels, fairy ...
Nancy Morejón: Paisajes célebres
(2012)
This trailer introduces the documentary "Nancy Morejon: Paisajes Celebres." The film is available on DVD at the University of Missouri Libraries. MERLIN Catalog record: http://merlin.mobius.umsystem.edu/record=b10545269. ...
El boxeador afrodescendiente entendido como "El Otro" en Los Golpes de la Esperanza de Alberto Salcedo Ramos
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
En esta tesis de maestría analizo la manera en la que el periodista Alberto Salcedo Ramos representa a los boxeadores de ascendencia afro a través de su libro Los Golpes de la Esperanza. En este texto, exploro la posibilidad ...
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, ...
l'Ecorce grossiere, l'ame aristocrate : literary representations of Cajuns in Francophone Louisiana, nineteenth century to present
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Cajuns have traditionally been defined as originating from French Acadian refugees who arrived in Louisiana from present-day Nova Scotia beginning in the late eighteenth century. However many of the people today who identify ...
Conjunciones y disyunciones entre raza y gnero: Representaciones flmicas y literarias de inmigrantes Latinoamericanos y Africanos Subsaharianos en la espana contempornea.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This dissertation is a study of literary and cinematographic works of the contemporary period that depict the complex experiences that the recent immigration phenomenon in Spain has brought along not only for the new ...
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 ...
Bridging the gap in French romantic representations of blackness 1750-1880 : the male mulatto in French literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This dissertation traces the evolution of the male mulatto in literature from his appearance in the early nineteenth century to his sudden disappearance in the late 1880's. In this dissertation I argue that the literary ...
Un cajón vacío es inimaginable. efectos del poder y la censura en la cultura cubana del período de la revolución
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] En las páginas que siguen exploramos los efectos del poder en la cultura cubana del periodo de la Revolución y lo hacemos a través de las metáforas de ...
Arauco domado de Lope de Vega: etica y estetica
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Este estudio sobre Arauco domado de Lope de Vega revela las distintas concepciones del hombre americano durante la época de la conquista americana. Una de estas posiciones recurre a la autoridad de Aristóteles para proponer ...
Garifuna: the birth and rise of an identity through contact langugage and contact culture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Garífuna is the language of the Garífuna people, African descendants who live mostly on the Atlantic coast of Belize, Guatemala and Honduras (including ...
Gendering migration from Africa to Spain: literary representations of masculinities and femininities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This projects analyzes the work of a variety of African authors—Donato Ndongo's short story “El sueño” (1973) and novel El metro (2007), Maximiliano Nkogo's short story “Emigración” (2000), Najat El Hachmi's novel El último ...