Browsing by Author "Kallendorf, Hilaire"
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Rubi Cordovi, Rene (2018-03-19)In the religious system known as Regla de Ocha-Ifa, changes occur that are important today for the reconfiguration of identity and cultural elements of Cuba and its diaspora. One of the most accepted concepts to explain ...
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Rodriguez Gonzalez, Carlos Andres (2016-06-01)This dissertation explores the ethical-political relationship of Colombian art production (literature, film, and installation art) from 1995 to 2015 that focused on the Colombian War. During the period of time between the ...
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Aguilar, Julio C (2014-07-25)Madness and art are two concepts that are quite often historically interrelated. The term “madness” designates various mental ailments, depression being one of them (major depressive disorder or depressive episodes in their ...
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Garcia Urena, Guillermo (2018-07-26)This research analyzes the concepts of humanity and animality in the Hispanic Early Modern period from an interpretation of the social processes of exclusion and domination as processes of animalization and domestication. This ...
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Brewer, Jeremi (2012-07-16)This dissertation demonstrates how ACE has successfully equipped thousands of poor Filipinos with the tools necessary for them to raise themselves out of poverty by offering them a culture-specific curriculum that they can ...
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Rodriguez Nacif, Murat (2014-12-01)My dissertation studies the end of the poet as a public intellectual in Latin America. I analyze the works of Rubén Darío, particularly El Rey Burgués, the nonfiction works of Jorge Luis Borges, and culminate with the ...
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Kallendorf, Hilaire (1995)Madness and irrationality appear as recurrent motifs in Renaissance literature, not only in England but also on the Continent. Shakespeare incorporates the terminology and imagery of the Elizabethan exorcist to paint a ...
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Dunai, Amber (2015-04-29)This study illuminates the connection between the conventions of medieval mystical texts and the English dream vision genre. It diverges from the majority of dream vision studies by addressing the entire range of English ...
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Mielke, Lynne Ellen (2012-07-16)The printing press was introduced to Puebla, Mexico, in the middle of the 17th century. Juan de Borja y Gandía and his wife Inés Vásquez Infante, Spanish immigrants from Cadiz, Spain established a printing press and book ...
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Serrano Vinuelas, Paloma (2022-04-12)This study analyzes the nature and links between enjoyment, boredom, and anxiety in the Spanish language classroom at the university level. The students participating in the study were enrolled in courses of Spanish for ...
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Pfannkoch, Thomas Andrew (2019-05-20)This study explores practices of forgiveness in post-Reformation England in light of the rejection of the Sacrament of Penance. I argue that forgiveness for 16th-century English Protestants was a communal technology and a ...
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Montejo-Pizzaro, Martha M (2015-08-04)Flotar en la viscosidad. Literatura cubana de los 90, is a dissertation that focuses on Cuban literature in the 90s as one of the stages of major changes and literary projections after 1959 in Cuba, as part of Latin American ...
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Palacios Perez, Jose (2014-07-01)Fifty years after Fernando González’s death (1895-1964) his books are still widely read literary circles and his cultural legacy is vibrant, but academic approaches to his work are rare and they focus on a limited number ...
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Gray, Jordan A. (2017-11-02)I explore how two early modern plays, Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam, depict grief as feminized emotion. I consider how Shakespeare uses women as mediums for grief and how Cary gives female ...
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Robles Garcia, Damian (2022-01-24)The present study analyzes impoliteness phenomena in Don Quixote and the first known English translation of the same (1607-1620). It examines the very dynamics of denoting insults and offenses in the translated novel. This ...
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Valero Martinez, Jose Angel (2019-03-18)This dissertation proposes a political reading of the Argentinian writer Ezequiel Martínez Estrada. Considering his essay production between the years 1933 and 1956, I illustrate in which manner the paramount problem in ...
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George, Ana (2010-07-14)The novel, as a genre, has been nourished since its inception by history. In this vein, literary production in Latin America has not been an exception. From the time of the conquest to the beginnings of the republican era, ...
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Byabartta, Debarati (2019-04-03)This dissertation is a critical comparative study of four distinguished cinematographic traditions, namely the USA, Spain, Mexico, and India, where their respective societies, politics, histories, and cultures form the ...
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Rolnick, Diane McGavock (2015-07-15)While often taken as sentimental in nature, poetry about death provides poets and readers an artistic space for processing grief. The Latin American Neobaroque, a way of writing poetry know predominantly for its intellectual ...
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Cabrera Ortega, Yoandy (2019-03-07)This study analyzes the differences and similarities among the multiple portrayals of mythological figures as embodiments of human emotions (or “affects” as Freud calls them), especially rage and erotic desire, from Ancient ...