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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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 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 ...