Romance Languages and Literatures electronic theses and dissertations (MU)
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La narrativa digital adaptativa en Condiciones Extremas y El primer Vuelo de los Hermanos Wright de Juan B. Gutierrez
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] This dissertation analyzes the impact of the adaptive digital narrative mechanism in the narrative of Condiciones Extremas and El primer Vuelo de los Hermanos Wright by Juan B. Gutierrez. To ... -
The effectsof context on the acquisition of different types of idiomatic expressions in students of French as a second language at the intermediate level
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Different factors come into play when understanding idiomatic expressions, such as their structures, the level of proficiency of the learners, and ... -
El proyecto de recontrucción moral espiritista de Luisa Capetillo: de la edificación del individuo a la comunidad global
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Esta investigación examina el espiritismo como filosofía moral en la narrativa de Luisa Capetillo (1879-1922). Mi propósito es demostrar que la autora construye su discurso ético utilizando como base el trabajo del francés ... -
Albert Camus en la obra Carlos Martinez Rivas y Charles Bukowski
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)This dissertation aims to shed light on the works of Carlos Martinez Rivas y Charles Bukowski from the perspective of a comparative analysis of their poetic production; the ethics and aesthetics of these authors inserted ... -
"Globalizacion: una aproximacion ecofeminista a la novela mexicana contemporanea escrita por mujeres"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)La presente disertacion examina la representacion del impacto de la globalizacion y sus efectos daninos en el medio ambiente y la mujer en tres textos literarios escritos por escritoras mexicanas contemporaneas. La mujer ... -
Advances in medical infrared thermography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)The association between illness and body temperature dates back to the beginnings of medicine. Over the last few years, infrared thermography has attracted increased attention in various medical applications due to ... -
El negro en Colombia: posición social y relación con su ambiente socioeconómico en las novelas Chambacú corral de negro y Socavón
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)The following doctoral thesis explores the historical and literary context in the novels Chambacú, Black Slum, Manuel Zapata Olivella and Socavón, Helcias Martan Gongora. The document is presented as an analysis of the ... -
Corridos en la guerra contra el narco : estéticas necropolíticas en México
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Narcoculture has been considered a phenomenon of socialization that exists in territories where drug trafficking has become politically, socially, economically and culturally influential. In Mexico, the phenomenon has an ... -
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 ... -
Tragame tierra : El Caribe centroamericano en la ruta hacia el Old West
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] El estudio titulado “Trágame tierra: El Caribe centroamericano en la ruta hacia el Old West” propone una lectura de la novela de Lizandro Chávez ... -
La constuccion de la nacion colombiana a traves de tres novelas sobre la colonizacion de Antioquia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Este estudio comparativo entre Tanta gente: una de las historias de la colonización antioqueña (2013) de Memo Ánjel, La casa de las dos palmas de Manuel Mejía Vallejo (1988) y Terrateniente (1980), analiza la manera como ... -
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, ... -
Displaced voices and accentscapes in French and Francophone Sub-Saharan cinema : recasting, reshaping, and restoring identity (-ies) in transnational films
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)This study features notions of identity, language, integration, journeys of home seeking and homecoming, and the wanderings of homelessness. It explores displaced voices and the self-coined term "accentscape" in ten films ... -
Information and communication technologies : applications and benefits for second language acquisition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)This paper aims to show how the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can help students achieve a higher degree of proficiency in a second language (SL), using these resources autonomously. Furthermore, I ... -
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 ... -
For the love of God and country : nation-building and the (re)gendering of emotions in Francoist Spain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Studies on the history of emotion have shown that the standards of a given society towards basic emotions and the appropriate means of expressing them ... -
#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. ... -
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 ... -
Al-Tahtawi's translations of French works : a precursor to Nahda's and literary modernity in the Arab world
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "This thesis showed that the Nahda project, despite its partial failure because it did end with the end of the century due to the new circumstances and ... -
A glimpse of African identity through the lens of Togolese literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Togo, this small West African nation, is still relatively unknown, even in today's jet set world. The western world is only now discovering the numerous advances Togo has made in its social and economic policies, but most ...