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Wheatley, Carmen. "Donne and Spanish literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235777.
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Arzac, Sergio. "Spanish Migration in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84163/.
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Spain underwent drastic social and political changes in the last decades of the twentieth century which also affected the nation’s patterns of emigration. Contemporary Spanish literature and film that portray these decades reflect the country’s fluctuating characteristics of migration. ¡Vente a Alemania, Pepe! (1971) by Pedro Lazaga, Coto vedado (1985) by Juan Goytisolo, El hijo del acordeonista (2003) by Bernardo Atxaga, and Yoyes (2000) by Helena Taberna demonstrate Spain’s migration trends during the last years of Franco’s dictatorship and the transition to democracy. The nation’s highly increased socioeconomic development in the 1970s and 1980s which eventually led to a first-world status also affected emigration, which can be seen in Carlota Fainberg (1999) by Antonio Muñoz Molina, Kasbah (2000) by Mariano Barroso, Restos de carmine (1999) by Juan Madrid, and Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (2009) by Isabel Coixet.
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Faulkner, S. "Adapting Spanish literature : cinema, form, history." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.598953.
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This thesis examines literary adaptation in Spanish cinema as a site for the interaction of formal questions central to the study of film and literature and ideological concerns crucial to late twentieth-century Spain. While cinematic adaptations of literary texts have previously been neglected as they seemingly dilute 'pure' cinema, or have been subjected to analyses which seek to prove the artistic superiority of literature, this study demonstrates that the literary adaptation genre can be creatively energetic and conceptually challenging by drawing examples from Spanish cinema and television of the late dictatorship, transitional and democratic periods. Given the propaganda exercise mounted through cinema under Franco, in chapter one I argue firstly that ideological issues are particularly significant in Spanish film - even though a contradictory appeal to a historical Structuralist models is prevalent in Spanish film scholarship. I contend secondly that because literary adaptation constitutes a dialogue between two media, formal issues are also inevitably raised. In chapters two, three and four I foreground ideological questions by examining three themes of particular importance to late twentieth-century Spain - the recuperation of history, the negotiation of the rural and the urban, and the representation of gender - and consider the related stylistic issues of the supposed affinities between cinematic expression and nostalgia, the city and phallocentrism. In chapter five I place the formal question of the narrator centre stage by assessing Buñuel's previously unacknowledged stylistic debt to Galdós as manifested in his adaptations of <I>Nazarín </I>and <I>Tristana, </I>and examine the ideological implications of the two artists' shared subversion of realism. Questions of history and form are therefore inseparable, and every cinematic adaptation holds in tension its influence by, or its inflection of, the ideology and form of the literary text on which it is based.
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Castro, Lingl Vera. "Assertive women in medieval Spanish literature." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.704745.
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Harrison, Stephanie Chantall. "Preservice Teachers Perceptions of Literature: A Study in a University Spanish Literature Class for Future Spanish Teachers." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7062.
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This qualitative study gave insight on the benefits that a university literature course for future Spanish teachers could contribute to preservice teachers as part of their preparation program. Nine university students participated in this study as they were the ones enrolled in this first-time offered university literature course for Spanish teachers. Data were collected from pre- and post-questionnaires, journals, and course observations. The findings suggested that the preservice teachers grew in pedagogical content knowledge, literary content, resources and strategies, and felt an overall sense of preparedness to use literary sources in their future classrooms
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El, Akel Nesrine. "Identity and belonging in Spanish-Moroccan literature." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/identity-and-belonging-in-spanishmoroccan-literature(441b624e-b0d4-4b5d-93e4-d8c46714793e).html.
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This thesis examines literature written in Spanish by Moroccan authors and Spanish authors with a Moroccan background. It includes the study of literature produced in colonial and post-colonial Morocco, as well as that which was produced in Spain after the first migration flux of the late 1980s. The thesis is in three parts. The first considers the influence, impact and heritage left by the Spaniards during their time in Spanish Morocco (1912-1956). It examines how the Protectorate cultivated in Moroccans a sense of belonging in respect of the Hispanic world and how this is reflected and eventually challenged in local literature. A central motif in this period is Al-Andalús, which helped create an imaginary homeland for Moroccans that transcended national borders. The second part turns its attention to matters of postcolonial identity. Covering the period from the moment of Moroccan independence in 1956 until the present, it examines writers’ need to reclaim a specifically Arab identity in the wake of their colonial past. In this context, we consider how writers negotiate notions such as modernity and tradition, and how the sense of identity which they convey in their work is informed by or defined against social, cultural and political realities, especially in the treatment of sex and sexuality. The third and final part of the thesis investigates the period from 1990 onwards, which corresponds to possibly the most productive time for literature written by Moroccans in Spanish (or indeed Catalan, since Catalonia was the destination for many migrants in the 1980s). Considering the literature produced both by Moroccans who had settled in Spain and those still writing from Morocco and from the Spanish enclaves, it explores the dominant themes of the time, such as immigration, double identities, cultural betrayal and belonging, with a view to understanding how writers assert their multiple identities through their work and against the background of misconceptions about what it means to be Spanish or Moroccan or both.
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Faro, Forteza Agustín. "Películas de libros /." Zaragoza : Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=014845544&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Flitter, D. W. "Romantic traditionalism in Spanish literature and ideas, 1814-1850." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375889.
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Shephard, Marion. "Mummy's boy : Don Juan in the modern Spanish and Spanish-American novel." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271032.
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The four main thesis novels are Alas's La Regenta (1884), Gald6s's Fortunata y Jacinta (1886-7), Puig's Boquitas pintadas (1969) and Cabrera Infante 's La Habana para un infante difill1to (1979). Specific criteria for the Don Juan novel are drawn up and seducers not fulfilling the prerequisites of the attractive, vain, sexually potent, deceitful and diabolically impious Don Juan rejected. Classical literature ( myths of Zeus, satyr stories, Ovid's AI'S AlI1atoria) and early Spanish ballads concerning irreverent gallants are posited as influences on the Don Juan legend. The two key plays are Tirso de Molina's EI bur/adOJ' de Sevilla (1630) and Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio (1844). Other sources include Don Juan works by Zamora, Espronceda, Moliere, Shadwell, Byron, Lenau, Shaw, Mozart and Sh'auss and the memoirs of Casanova. The progression is h'aced from the early Don Juan plays, in which the seducer's father is the sole parental presence, to the novel, in which Don Juan's domineering and adoring mother exercises a powerful influence on her son. Early classical mother figures such as Venus (Cupid), Liriope (Narcissus) and Jocasta (Oedipus) are analysed as her predecessors. The three main psychologists consulted regarding the seducer's umesolved Oedipus complex are Freud, Jung and Otto Rank. Other theorists include Maraft6n, Kierkegaard, Lafora, Brachfeld, Weinstein, Miller, Aramoni, Mandrell, Smeed and Kristeva. The thesis counterbalances the views of those who see Don Juan as immature, effeminate, melancholic or hysterical with others who consider him to be powerful, masculine, confident and eloquent, revealing the modern Don Juan to be a complex and multifaceted figure. The importance of the novels' musical themes is considered together with the different ways in which Don Juan is made to suffer in variations ofTirso's hellfire, The thesis demonstrates that, in spite of being metamorphosed into a mother's boy, Don Juan continues to wreak his infernal charm over author and audience alike.
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Mentan, Julia Elizabeth. "Beyond art and politics : voices of Spanish modernism /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6661.
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Lewis, Huw Aled. "The Otherworld in popular medieval Spanish literature, with Celtic analogues." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307229.
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Thomas, D. G. "History, commitment and propaganda in the Spanish novel of the Spanish Civil War 1936-1966." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.374924.
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Ruiz-López, Agnes. "Hermetic Text and Subtext: Paranormal Phenomena in the Works of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera and Benito Pérez Galdós." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1037.
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This research seeks to establish a connection between the Hermetic tradition and the paranormal phenomena found in the works of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera --- “Un alma en pena” (1862), Póstumo el transmigrado (1872) and Póstumo el envirginado (1882) --- and Benito Pérez Galdós´s La sombra (1870) and “Celín” (1871). By establishing a Hegelian influence in their works, we uncover the possible origin of these paranormal events.
German Idealism, so widespread during the first half of the 19th century, seems to have given both authors access to new currents of thought, allowing them to explore the union of art with the metaphysical. Thought is given precedence over sensation and Idealism prevails over Empiricism. Nature is now seen to be spiritual, as well as spatial, and among the major exponents of this movement is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), whose philosophy states that human knowledge is based on the “Idea,” a concept in which nature and spirit fuse.
Hegel holds the traditional hermetic conception of philosophia perennis that supposes a universal truth common to every culture, religious tradition, and belief upheld by humankind. By examining the Hegelian influence in the works of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera and Benito Pérez Galdós, and relating major passages of their works to the precepts contained in the Corpus Hermeticum, the Emerald Tablet, and the Kybalion (1908), we uncover a subtle, sometimes explicit, presence of this esoteric doctrine, which allows the authors to explore the metaphysical side of life.
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Moore-Martinez, Patricia. "THE EMERGENCE OF THE SPANISH PENINSULAR CAMPUS NOVEL." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/33726.
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Spanish<br>Ph.D.<br>This doctoral dissertation identifies a new sub-genre in Contemporary Spanish Peninsular Literature, the Spanish Campus Novel. The impetus for research was to ascertain whether or not the genre characterized the Spanish novels dealing with university life (SpCN). The texts in question build upon the British and American Campus Novel tradition while inflecting it with issues, styles and themes particular to Spanish literature.
I examined nine examples of the Spanish Campus Novel (SpCN) to determine their distinctive characteristics: Carlota Fainberg, Antonio Muñoz Molina (1999); El inquilino (1989) and La velocidad de la luz (2005), Javier Cercas; Todas las almas (1989) and Negra espalda del tiempo (1998), Javier Marias; El enigma (2002), Josefina Aldecoa; Último domingo en Londres (1997), Laura Freixas; Mimoun (1988), Rafael Chirbes; and Soy un escritor frustrado (1996), José Angel Mañas. In spite of variances in the circumstances of the protagonists, the repetition of key elements created a justification for the academic novel classification.
Chapter One reviewed criticism of the Anglo academic novel and established essential characteristics of the majority of the novels: campus location, academic protagonist, satire and humor, job-insecurity, political correctness and departmental politics. I reviewed the socio-political history of the Spanish university in order to contextualize the SpCN, both its paucity and its recent emergence. Chapter Two examines the works of Antonio Muñoz Molina and Javier Cercas; their protagonists share the commonality of living and working in the US. Chapter Three considers two novels of Javier Marías and how the author plays with the both the academic novel and fiction. Chapter Four reviews the novels by Josefina Aldecoa and Laura Freixas and the manner in which stereotypical professors (sexually predatory ones) imply certain cultural mores. Chapter Five investigates the lyrical novel of Rafael Chirbes and its contribution to the campus novel. Additionally, José Angel Mañas’ bleak comedy is investigated as unique, the only novel taking place in Spain. The conclusion summarizes the novels, the identified Anglo and Spanish characteristics and contextualizes the novels within current trends in recent Spanish Peninsular fiction. Lastly, an overview of four Latin American Campus Novels is suggested for further research<br>Temple University--Theses
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Hambrook, Glyn. "The influence of Charles Baudelaire in Spanish modernismo." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1985. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13072/.
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Existing critical response to the question of Baudelaire's influence is confined almost exclusively to isolated assumptions articulated by critics who make little attempt, if any, to substantiate their claims, and who, thereby, show scant regard for the burden of proof associated with the study of causal influence. This study proposes to test the validity of such assumptions, and to formulate a more structured appraisal of the issue than has been made hitherto. To this end, it has sought to assemble pertinent evidence and to assess its value as an indication of a real literary debt. Enquiry is structured accordingly. The thesis begins with an exploration of methodological considerations designed to establish the conceptual basis of enquiry (Part One). It then proceeds to study the diffusion of Baudelaire's work in Spain between 1857 and 1910, and, subsequently, to examine critical reaction to the poet during the same period (Part Two). Finally, it studies the theme of Baudelaire's influence in modernismo with reference to the work of six poets whose work is representative of or which, in one case, prefigures the modernista movement in Spain: Manuel Reina, Rubén Darío, Francisco Villaespesa, the brothers Machado and Juan Ramón Jiménez. The particular objective of each case study varies according to the evidence available and the extent of existing critical response, but basically these objectives are three in number. First, to analyse unequivocal influences. Second, to ascertain, where no conclusive proof of influence exists, the extent to which the possibility of influence may be entertained. Third, to indicate, where pertinent, that the question merits more detailed examination than is possible in a general survey of this kind. The study concludes that although Baudelaire's work was reasonably well-diffused, his direct influence was slight and can be proven far less than existing preemptory claims suggest.
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McCloskey, Jason A. "Epic conflicts culture, conquest and myth in the Spanish Empire /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3350507.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct. 8, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-03, Section: A, page: 0890. Adviser: Steven Wagschal.
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Stone, Thomas. "Rewriting the "Great Man" Theory: Historiographic Critique in Spanish American Literature." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/489746.
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Spanish<br>Ph.D.<br>This dissertation is a survey of postmodern historical fiction in 20th and 21st century Spanish American literature. It has diverse manifestations, but the defining characteristic of this kind of historical fiction is a rejection of any rigid distinction between historical and fictional discourse. This is a descriptive rather than a normative study: it examines how eight different authors use the techniques of postmodern historical fiction to develop implicit critiques of the “great man” theory of history. The Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle popularized this theory in the 1800s, and it asserts that biography is the proper model for history, namely, the biography of prominent individuals – “great men.” It treats these people as the source of history. Opposing this historiographic ideology, many authors of postmodern historical fiction see such figures as subjects that can be “written” and “re-written”; they are not the source of history, but the product of historical discourse. I conduct close readings of nine primary texts to elucidate how they challenge the “great man” historiography of four significant figures from Spanish American history: Montezuma, Simón Bolívar, Christopher Columbus, and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. I conclude that the historiographic critiques in these texts converge around three common strategies in their critiques: an extension of character from the domain of fiction to the domain of history, the subversion of the literary genres of biography and autobiography, and a commitment to rewriting the traditional narratives of specific historical events.<br>Temple University--Theses
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Munoz, Victoria Marie. "A Tempestuous Romance: Chivalry, Literature, and Anglo-Spanish Politics, 1578-1624." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1479905568694913.
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Ramirez-Nieves, Emmanuel. "Repenting Roguery: Penance in the Spanish Picaresque Novel and the Arabic and Hebrew Maqama." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467380.
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Repenting Roguery: Penance in the Spanish Picaresque Novel and the Arabic and Hebrew Maqāma, investigates the significance of conversion narratives and penitential elements in the Spanish picaresque novels Vida de Guzmán de Alfarache (1599 and 1604) by Mateo Alemán and El guitón Onofre (circa 1606) by Gregorio González as well as Juan Ruiz’s Libro de buen amor (1330 and 1343) and El lazarillo de Tormes (1554), the Arabic maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī of Basra (circa 1100), and Ibn al-Ashtarkūwī al-Saraqusṭī (1126-1138), and the Hebrew maqāmāt of Yehudah al-Ḥarizi (circa 1220) and Isaac Ibn Sahula (1281-1284). In exploring the ways in which Christian, Muslim, and Jewish authors from medieval and early modern Iberia represent the repentance of a rogue, my study not only sheds light on the important commonalities that these religious and literary traditions share, but also illuminates the particular questions that these picaresque and proto-picaresque texts raise within their respective religious, political and cultural milieux. The ambiguity that characterizes the conversion narrative of a seemingly irredeemable rogue, I argue, provides these medieval and early modern writers with an ideal framework to address pressing problems such as controversies regarding free will and predestination, the legitimacy of claims to religious and political authority, and the understanding of social and religious marginality.<br>Comparative Literature
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Morgan-Tamosunas, Erica Charlotte. "Towards a cultural analysis of contemporary Spanish cinema." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369152.
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Anderson, Ruth A. "Borderline romance : three southern transformations of Floire and Blancheflor /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8276.
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Hoekstra, Joshua M. "iTEXTS: TECHXTUAL POETICS, AUTHORSHIP AND RE-WREADERS IN 21ST-CENTURY SPANISH LITERATURE." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/37.
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In 2007, Nuria Azancot published an article in the magazine El Cultural in which she identified a burgeoning group of Spanish writers that she referred to as the “Nocilla Generation.” The catalyst behind the article was a literary reunion that took place weeks before in Seville and brought together authors from all parts of Spain to talk about the status and future of writing. She described them as “transgressors” and “bloggers” who hybridized literary genres and held a revolutionary approach to the literary that was clearly marked by the Internet. Numerous articles and dissertations have since highlighted the impact that technology has had on the literature of this generation and how the Internet has allowed these authors a very active presence on social media. Few of these critical examinations have engaged in close textual analyses of the works of this so-called “Nocilla Generation” of writers. This dissertation engages with these issues for the purpose of exploring three main points. First, it seeks to identify and examine the role of the Internet on the literary production of Agustín Fernández Mallo, Alberto Olmos and Vicente Luis Mora. Second, it looks at the way that the internetization of literature implicitly undermines the traditional understanding of authorship. Third, the project suggests that the concept of an author as the source of an original creation should be replaced with a “re-wreader” (a blend of reader and writer infused with the repetitive nature of the prefix “re.”). The main thesis of this dissertation is that the interneticized text gives rise to a new understanding of authorship that is best captured in the figure of a re-wreader writing re-wreaderly texts that echo the ideas of the readerly and writerly from Barthes. The result: a textual space at once strange yet familiar in which a search for meaning, textual stability or origins gives itself over to the pleasure of the search, a search for something or nothing, a search for the search, a search in which all the material of the world (printed and digital) is there to be used and repackaged into a new literary creation.
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Cabana, Barbara. "El discurso vindicatorio de Juan Goytisolo y Zoé Valdéz : deconstrucción y recodificación del lenguaje hegemónico." FIU Digital Commons, 2004. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1952.
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The goal of this dissertation is to explore the use of transgressive language in the works of Juan Goytisolo and Zoé Valdés. This study examines the socio-political and cultural contexts in which the narrative of both authors develops, as well as the textual devices employed by these writers for undermining the "official history" imposed by the dictatorial regimes in Francoist Spain and Castro's Cuba. Furthermore, this dissertation argues that the deconstructing strategies in Goytisolo and Valdés mark their literary trajectory. Their vindicatory standpoints seek an alternative discourse of national identity.
The function of language in demythifying and recodifying hegemonic discourse is examined in Goytisolo's trilogy Señas de identidad, Reivindicación del conde don Julián, and Juan sin tierra; and the novels of Zoé Valdés La nada cotidiana and Te di la vida entera. The parallelisms in the literary works of Goytisolo and Valdés are established by contrasting the authors' revisionist approach to history, the self-reflexivity of their novels, the sexual referent, and the use of irony and parody. The theoretical framework incorporates poststructuralist theorists such as Todorov, Foucault, Lacan, Barthes, Derrida, and Kristeva; the psychoanalytical theory of Freud; and the feminist theories of Cixous and Irigaray. The comparative approach of this study and the interplay of power, politics, aesthetic creation, and author's psychology provide an illuminating perspective that could be of interest to individuals from a variety of disciplines.
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Novell, Yosebe. ""Los cachorros de la postguerra" : vitalidad literaria en el discurso autobiografico en Espana /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3174652.
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London, John. "Reception and renewal in modern Spanish theatre : 1939-1963." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357661.
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Pineros, Carlos Eduardo. "Prosodic Morphology in Spanish: Constraint Interaction in Word Formation." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392740585.
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Piovam, Carolina. "Espaço, Personagem e Memória em "Ana-Não", de Agustín Gómez-Arcos /." Araraquara, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/141944.
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Orientador: María Dolores Aybar-Ramírez<br>Banca: Maria Augusta da Costa Vieira<br>Banca: Wilma Patrícia Marzari Dinardo Maas<br>Resumo: O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar o espaço, a personagem e a memória em "Ana-Não", romance de 1977, escrito em francês por Agustín Gómez-Arcos, autor espanhol autoexilado na França. Esta é uma das obras do escritor que pertence à literatura exilada e, portanto, traça um panorama relacionado à questão da Guerra e, sobretudo, do Pós-Guerra Civil espanhola. A partir dos estudos sobre o espaço, na narrativa, observa-se uma intrínseca relação entre o tempo-espaço ficcional e a Espanha histórica, ditatorial. No percurso de viagem feito pela protagonista Ana-Não, do extremo Sul ao extremo Norte espanhol, verifica-se um espaço caótico que contribuiu para a formação da identidade da personagem. As experiências adquiridas pela protagonista nos espaços pelos quais passa, juntamente com os retornos às suas memórias, apresentam a instauração de uma identidade efetivamente Republicana. Desta forma, a análise visa alcançar uma ressignificação dos valores relacionados aos espaços formais e artísticos propostos pela semiótica russa, bem como indagar a influência destes para a afirmação de uma heroína que vai construindo, por meio desta narrativa, um Bildungsroman feminino e, simultaneamente, a memória individual, coletiva e histórica dos vencidos.<br>Abstract: El presente trabajo tiene por objetivo analizar el espacio, el personaje y la memoria en "Ana-Não", novela de 1977, escrita en francés por Agustín Gómez-Arcos, autor español autoexilado en Francia. Ésta es una de las obras del escritor que pertenece a la literatura exilada y que, por lo tanto, establece un panorama relacionado a la cuestión de la Guerra y, sobre todo, a la Posguerra Civil española. A partir de los estudios sobre el espacio, en la narrativa, se observa una intrínseca relación entre el espacio-tiempo ficcional y la España histórica, dictatorial. En el viaje recorrido por la protagonista Ana-Não, del extremo Sur al extremo Norte español, se verifica un espacio caótico que contribuye a la formación de la identidad del personaje. Las experiencias adquiridas por la protagonista en los espacios por los cuales pasa, juntamente con los retornos a sus memorias, presentan la instauración de una identidad efectivamente Republicana. De este modo, el análisis pretende llegar a atribuir nueva significación de los valores relacionados a los espacios formales y artísticos a partir de la semiótica rusa, así como indagar la influencia que éstos ejercen en la afirmación de una heroína que va creando, por medio de la narrativa, un Bildungsroman femenino y, simultáneamente, la memoria individual, colectiva e histórica de los vencidos.<br>Mestre
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Wilson, Rachelle. "Historical Memory and Ethics in Spanish Narrative." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1062813/.
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This study traces the current status of Spanish ethics as seen through the optics of historical memory. Starting from the Spanish Civil War in 1936, the thesis relates contemporary themes to their proposed origin throughout three additional distinctive eras of the 20th and 21st century in Spain: 1982-1996 (Socialist Spain), 1997-2010 (Post-modern Spain), and 2011-present (current Spain). Spanish narratives ranging from Los Abel by Matute, La magnitud de la tragedia by Monzó, "Fidelidad" of Ha dejado de llover by Barba and Las fosas de Franco by Silva are contextualized through their ethical architecture, in accordance with their socio-political context, and relationship to past historical traumas. This work proposes that the themes of anticlericalism, the pursuit of social equality, anti bureaucracy, and political distrust are trends culminating from Kohlberg's third level of morality. The thesis aims to be an exposition and legitimization of different ethical schemas that might otherwise be polarized as wrong and inferior by others.
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Borchmeyer, Florian. "Die Ordnung des Unbekannten : von der Erfindung der neuen Welt /." Berlin : Matthes & Seitz, 2009. http://d-nb.info/994146361/04.
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Brunette-Lopez, Danny. "Laughing at the past: Subversive humor in the Spanish picaresque and its cultural context." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280466.
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In picaresque fiction, subversive humor is related to genre, thematic unity, narrator/protagonists' points of view, and it illustrates fictionalized reality that is linked to contemporaneous culture and society. In this dissertation, I employ theories on humor---superiority, incongruity, release, and entropic---to study humorous episodes in Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), Guzman de Alfarache (1599, 1604) and El buscon (1626). Chapter one provides an overview of theories on humor, beginning with Plato and Aristotle and including modern theorists such as Victor Raskin, Marvin Koller and Patrick O'Neill. The superiority theory begins with Plato and Aristotle and acquires popularity in the seventeenth century with the philosophers Thomas Hobbes and Rene Descartes. The incongruity theory, which treats playful humor, originates in the eighteenth century with philosophers such as Francis Hutcheson, James Beattie and Emmanuel Kant. This theory is also associated with black humor that combines violent extremes of horror and humor and causes people to become both horrified and amused. The release theory, which emanates from Freud's ideas on psychoanalysis relates to an individual's release of forbidden thoughts, inhibitions and anxieties. O'Neill's entropic humor theory, which is related to satire, irony and parody, erodes truths and certainty and exposes the disruption of ordered systems. Henri Bergson's study of laughter functions as a social corrective while Mikhail Bakhtin's view of carnivalesque laughter signifies the symbolic destruction of authority and official culture. Chapter two studies the entropic narrator in Lazarillo de Tormes and the ways in which humor reflects a breakdown of traditional perceptions of reality, the crumbling of ordered systems and the erosion of truth and certainty related to sixteenth-century Spain. Chapter three analyzes four types of humor in Guzman de Alfarache that deal with social and moral dishonesty, horror and humor and literary vengeance. Chapter four treats grotesque black humor in the Buscon that relates to death, gallows humor (galgenhumour), cannibalism and the mutilation of a human corpse (reductio ad absurdum). Subversive humor in picaresque fiction conceptualizes reality that is linked to thematic unity, points of view and the poetics of culture and environment of Spanish society during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Short, Olivia Dorothy. "An Embodiment of a True Woman in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s “Las medias rojas” and “El encaje roto”." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/387.
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This thesis seeks to investigate Emilia Pardo Bazán’s two short stories “Las medias rojas” and “El encaje roto” and how her works correlate with the “new woman” based upon the ideology “The Laugh of Medusa” by Hélène Cixous. I look at the two female characters and prove how Pardo Bazán created the “new woman.” The thesis pursues to display how the author changes how female characters are presented in literature by placing independent, strong, and hopeful women within her works.
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de, Armas Emilio J. "La modernidad de los Versos libres de José Martí." FIU Digital Commons, 2003. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2015.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the collection of poems Versos libres written by José Martí, as a cycle of literary expression closely connected with the origins and development of the modernist movement, as well as to the emergence of what has been later termed the modernism of Hispanic-American literature.
The poetics of Versos libres is based on the liberating function attributed to them by their author, who was determined to reach with this cycle a level of expression where literary modernism and radical Americanism would be fully integrated, in order to enrich the communicative capabilities of poetic language, making it penetrate deep and complex realities: Man's conscience, psyche and creative effort, nature and history.
This study of the Versos libres as a cycle, allows us to characterize the contribution of such a work to Hispanic-American poetry as a result of a literary praxis whose tone makes Versos libres a piece of work that, in its best-realized moments, surpasses the limits of the turn-of-the-century Hispanic-American poetry; thus laying a bridge towards modem poetry in the Spanish language.
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Daganzo-Cantens, Esther A. "Carmen de Burgos : la educación de la mujer y la literatura de viajes como género narrativo." FIU Digital Commons, 2006. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2650.
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This study analyzes Carmen de Burgos’ European travel literature, and focuses on two themes: education and travel literature as a literary genre. An examination of her travel literature reveals two essential elements related to her view of education. The first is the influence that the European educational system had on her way of thinking, particularly with respect to the idea of tolerance, the practice of hygiene, and the important role of nature in education. The second is the development of her view of education as the foundation for the emancipation of women in Spain. Carmen de Burgos espoused the view that the reform of the Spanish educational system was the primary and foundational goal to further social, political and economic progress of women in Spain at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Century.
In the second part of this dissertation I support the theory that her travel literature was her main source to convey to Spanish women the need for social change. I do this by analyzing four properties that are considered characteristic of women’s travel literature: (1) the woman as a hero, (2) scientific authority of women, (3) feminine style, and (4) feminine content. I argue that Carmen de Burgos’s travel literature uses these properties to facilitate her access to women audiences and to assure that this audience regarded her as an authoritative voice.
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Defferding, Victoria Louise. "The Flor Metaphor of Pre-Conquest Nahuatl Literature." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5248.
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The purpose of the present study is to show that the metaphor, flor, of Pre-Conquest Nahuatl literature means much more than the most widely accepted rendering of that metaphor that classic scholars such as Miguel Le6n-Portilla and Angel M. Garibay have attributed to it. Typically flor is referred to as meaning poetry. It is explored in this study as a metaphor that refers to entheogenic plants, their use and the divine words or songs, or poetry, that resulted from their use. As evidence for the theory presented, I examine and discuss various religious practices and important archeological treasures in order to help us understand a broader concept of flor. I then present my findings in a purely literary context. Gordon Wasson's study of pertinent archeological evidences is important to the foundation of this study, especially his studies of mushroom stones, figures of ecstacy and more importantly his study of the statue of Xochipilli, which can be viewed as a three-dimensional chart of the entheogenic substances used by the nobility to create their true or divine words. The rhetoric the nobility used in their meditations was richly poetic, imaginative and filled with metaphors that are elusive to those not wellversed in their noble dialect. As the noble underwent an entheogenic experience, he was transported from the real world via magical flight to the ethereal world of mystical time, space and knowledge. It was there on a search for truth that he would gain wisdom from the divine and be able to express this wisdom through true or divine words in xochitl in cuicatl. Some of the more important themes common to many of the poems studied are the mystery of life, philosophical questions and the importance of friendship. It was found that the additional meaning that we have attributed to the metaphor flor in these poems is an adequate rendering of the metaphor.
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Pedros-Gascon, Antonio Francisco. "Dialogos transatlanticos un "Boom" de Uda y Vuelta /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1187031136.
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Da, Soller Claudio. "The beautiful woman in medieval Iberia rhetoric, cosmetics, and evolution /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4175.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (July 17, 2006) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Townsend, June H. "William Faulkner and the Spanish post-Civil War novel : Luis Martin Santos /." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487844105976954.
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Pena, Sueiro Nieves. "Repertorio de "relaciones de sucesos" españolas en prosa impresas en pliegos sueltos en la Biblioteca Geral Universitaria de Coimbra (siglos XVI-XVIII) /." Madrid : Fund. Univ. Española, 2005. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/516901524.pdf.
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De, Trazegnies Granda Fernando. "Interaction between Literature and Law." Derecho & Sociedad, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/118749.
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The seventeenth century represents formankind the creation of great literary works that narrate the events that occurred in the reality of that time flawlessly. This article wants to analyze the implications and reviews of some literary texts by renowned authors of that time like Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare with modern legal institutions. Also, to think about how literature enriches the science of law.<br>El siglo XVII representa para la humanidad la creación de grandes obras literarias que narran los sucesos acontecidos en la realidad de aquella época de manera impecable. El presente artículo busca analizar las implicancias y críticas de algunos textos literarios de renombrados autores de aquella época como Miguel de Cervantes y William Shakespeare con instituciones jurídicas modernas. Asimismo, reflexionar acerca de la manera en que la Literatura enriquece la ciencia del Derecho.
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Biddington, T. E. "A history of Spanish religious verse (c.1500 - c.1570)." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376363.
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Delp, Lindsay R. "La Guerra Civil Española: Un Estudio de La Literatura Como Un Mecanismo de Recuperar La Memoria Colectiva." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/60.
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Esta tesis es una exploración de la literatura como un mecanismo de recuperar la memoria colectiva de España después de la Guerra Civil. Los textos de Duelo en El Paraíso por Juan Goytisolo, El cuarto de atrás por Carmen Martín Gaite, Soldados de Salamina de Javier Cercas, y Los girasoles ciegos de Alberto Méndez se utilizan como ejemplos de la literatura de la posguerra que se tratan del tema de la memoria como parte faltante de la sociedad de hoy. El análisis de estos cuatro textos muestra las maneras diferentes en que la literatura puede servir como manera de ganar acceso al pasado.
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Montemezzo, Luciana Ferrari. "Trilogia Dramatica da Terra Espanhola, de Federico Garcia Lorca : a tradução como processo e como resultado." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270312.
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Orientador: Orna Messer Levin<br>Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T17:51:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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Previous issue date: 2008<br>Resumo: Um texto traduzido é, ao mesmo tempo, processo e resultado. O processo refere-se às condições e critérios que levaram à sua efetivação, bem como à pesquisa demandada em torno do tema e da obra a ser traduzida. O resultado é a concretização deste processo, materializada e pronta para o consumo. Nossa tese buscou não só apresentar o resultado das traduções de Bodas de Sangue (1933), Yerma (1934) e A Casa de Bernarda Alba (1936), do dramaturgo espanhol Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), mas também explicitar o processo de pesquisa que, em nossa opinião, em muito pode colaborar para as futuras montagens das peças. Nossa opção se sustenta na hipótese de que o tradutor ¿ sobretudo o tradutor de teatro ¿ deve assumir sua intervenção: não desestrangeirizar completamente a obra, deixando marcas no texto que indiquem sua procedência, a fim de que o leitor-espectador perceba que está diante de um texto traduzido. Dessa maneira, nossa tradução procurou manter alguns aspectos relevantes da cultura espanhola, salientando as diferenças envolvidas no trânsito cultural entre Espanha e Brasil. A tradução promove uma crítica aprofundada do texto, já que o analisa em detalhes, e se detém em minúcias que, via de regra, passam despercebidas nas demais formas de leitura, o que nos leva a crer que nosso trabalho poderá contribuir no sentido de orientar atores, cenógrafos e diretores que se interessem pelas obras aqui traduzidas. Para dar o devido destaque à nossa concepção de tradução intervencionista, utilizamos as Notas do Tradutor (N.T.) como espaço de explicitação de critérios e opções tradutórias, bem como de diálogo com outros críticos e comentadores das obras em questão<br>Abstract: A translated text is, at one and the same time, a process and a result. The process concerns the conditions and criteria that led to its production and also the necessary research about the theme and the work to be translated. The result is the realization of this process, which is materialized and ready for consumption. Our doctoral work aimed not only at presenting the result of the translation of Bodas de Sangue (1933), Yerma (1934), and A Casa de Bernarda Alba (1936), by Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), but also making the research process explicit as, in our opinion, this process can much contribute to future productions of these plays. Our decision is based on the hypothesis that the translator ¿ particularly the translator of drama ¿ should acknowledge his intervention; that is, he should not erase the foreignness of the work completely by leaving marks in the text that indicate its origin so that the reader-spectator can notice that he is in the presence of a translated text. Therefore, our translation tried to keep some relevant aspects of the Spanish culture, by stressing the differences inherent in the circulation of culture between Spain and Brazil. Translation allows deep criticism of the text by analyzing it fully and paying close attention to its minute details that are usually unnoticed in other types of reading; so, we believe that our work can contribute to assisting actors, stage-designers, and directors who may be interested in the works translated here. In order to properly highlight our concept of interventionist translation, we used the Notes by the Translator (N.T.) as the domain of explanation of criteria and translation choices and also of dialogue with other critics and commentators of the works in question<br>Doutorado<br>Literatura Geral e Comparada<br>Doutor em Teoria e História Literária
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Mason, Sofia Sandina Maniscalco. "Testimonio as counter-propaganda : a comparative analysis of Latin-American women's testimonial literature." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14199/.
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This thesis creates a gendered typology of women’s testimonio that foregrounds the Cold War context of the genre. This new perspective reveals that contrary to the assertions of some critics, the texts struggle to convey a unitary propagandic message. Rather, their prime purpose is to counter hegemonic discourse. Yet, far from being unliterary or impersonal, they impart much personal information using a diversity of stylistic devices. The testimonios challenge the profoundly gendered national security discourse of their own governments and the US. The argument that brutal counter-insurgency tactics, widespread incarceration and torture, were necessary to combat “communist-inspired” insurgency is invalidated by these testimonios which replace dichotomising and reductionist Cold War propaganda with accounts of the local, subjective and personal reasons for political involvement. The texts disclose the potentially traumatising lived consequences of US foreign policy and national security strategies to reveal their disproportionate and excessive nature. However, the testimonialistas’ sense of a greater purpose, collective identity and belonging to a wider community enables them to remain resilient in spite of adverse experiences. Despite their loyalty to utopian and egalitarian ideals, sexism from within leftist movements and governments is exposed and denounced by the female protagonists as patriarchal institutions, traditions and gendered identities are consistently undermined. Latin American women, as guerrilleras, organisers and members of peasant and indigenous communities, present themselves as defiant protagonists who, aside from the male-dominated master narratives of the superpowers, demonstrate the strength of their political agency, psychological resilience and ideological convictions.
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Gil, Lydia Mariana. "From the book to the desert : an examination of twentieth-century Jewish writing in Spanish America /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Brooks, Kathryn L. "Anticlerical Sentiment in Castilian and Galician-Portuguese Medieval Literature." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5084.
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Clerical sexual incontinence was a prevalent satirical theme during the Middle Ages manifested by anticlerical sentiment towards reprobate clergymen and the laws that they disobeyed. This satirical genre of literature targeted not only the cleric of a small town, but bishops and cardinals who were also abusers of canon law. The anticlerical theme originated in Western Europe in the time of Constantine when early Christianity was competing with many religions for dominance. In the fourth century, Constantine, through the Edict of Milan, granted religious tolerance to all, thus allowing Christianity to become a major religion. Clerical celibacy originated from the writings of early church fathers such as Augustine of Hippo, Origen, and Tertullian, who determined that celibacy provided greater spiritual access to God. Early patristic church fathers supported the ideal of sexual celibacy for Christians in order to spiritually overcome the other religions. In the fourth century A.D., the church demanded that the clerics remain celibate even though they were married. By the twelfth century, canonical laws demanded that clerics not marry and remain celibate. These laws initiated an extreme sexual repression of clerics who began to sexually seek women, refusing them absolution for their sins if they refused the clerics' sexual advances. The purpose of this thesis is to establish that the corrupt clerics victimized the laity, who, although fearing for their salvation, produced satirical poetry expressing their anticlerical sentiment. This thesis also will present literature that discusses the pros and cons of clerical concubinage. There are three different forms of articulation in this thesis. The first is didactic and teaches the reader by demonstrating literature that encouraged clerical celibacy. The second illustration is satirical poems with the seven deadly sins as a recurrent theme. These poems are divided into two groups: the first is the poems written by the nobility, and the second is the popular anonymous poems, sung to music for peasant entertainment. The third articulation is the proponents of clerical concubinage. This poetry reflects the human side of companionship and need during a tumultuous time when people banded together in order to survive.
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Schönberger, Peter. "Amor hypermedialis : Logiken der Liebe im spanischen Gegenwartsroman ; von der Postguerra zur Postmoderne /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2001. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/326156011.pdf.
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Doyle, Charlotte J. "The actor, theatre and theatricality in Spanish film from 1952-1989." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263295.
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Felix, García Maria del Mar. "Dos tragedias senewuistas : the Spanish tragedy y Los comendadores de Córdoba." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6758.
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Zamostny, Jeffrey. "FAUSTIAN FIGURES: MODERNITY AND MALE (HOMO)SEXUALITIES IN SPANISH COMMERCIAL LITERATURE, 1900-1936." UKnowledge, 2012. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/4.
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I contend in this study that commercial novels and theater from early twentiethcentury Spain often present male (homo)sexual characters as a point of constellation for anxieties regarding modernization in Madrid and Barcelona. In works by Jacinto Benavente, Josep Maria de Sagarra, El Caballero Audaz (José María Carretero), Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent, Carmen de Burgos, Álvaro Retana, Eduardo Zamacois, and Alfonso Hernández-Catá, concerns about technological and socioeconomic change converge upon hustlers and blackmailers, queer seducers, and chaste inverts. I examine these figures alongside an allegorical interpretation of Goethe’s Faust in Marshall Berman’s book All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity (1982) in order to foreground their varying responses to modern innovation. They alternately sell themselves to prosper under consumer capitalism, seduce others into savoring the pleasures of city life, or fall tragically to the conflicting pressures of tradition and change. In the process, they reveal the fear and enthusiasm of their creators vis-à-vis rapid urbanization, fluctuating class hierarchies, the commercialization of art, and the medicalization of sex from the turn of the nineteenth century to the Spanish Civil War.
From a methodological standpoint, I argue that close readings of commercial works are worthwhile for what they reveal about the discursive framing of modernity and male (homo)sexualities in Spain in the early 1900s. Hence, I use techniques of literary analysis previously reserved for canonical writers such as Federico García Lorca and Luis Cernuda to discuss texts produced by their bestselling contemporaries, none of whom has been equally scrutinized by subsequent criticism. Existing scholarship on modernity and sexuality in Spain and abroad helps contextualize my detailed interpretations. Although my project is not a sustained exercise in comparative literature, I do situate Spanish works within historical and literary trends beyond Spain so as to acknowledge the interplay of transnational and local concerns surrounding modern change and sexual customs. By considering the primary texts in relation to varying temporal and geographic contexts, the dissertation aims to be of interest to a readership in and outside Hispanism, and to supplement important studies of modernity, (homo)sexualities, and literature that overlook Spain.
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Eccleston, Rachel. "“Princely Feminine Graces”: Virtue and Power in Early Modern English and Spanish Literature." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23134.
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This project analyzes the intersections between representations of female sovereignty used to promote and rethink feminine virtue in both early modern English and Spanish advice literature and literary texts published in the decade after Queen Elizabeth I’s death. I suggest that the question of women’s sovereignty prompted by the rise of ruling queens in Spain and England influences the prominence of regal women as models of feminine virtue in advice literature and reconceptualizes feminine virtue as a political discourse, forming a new category I term “princely feminine virtue.” Scholarship analyzing the relationship between advice literature and literary works has not recognized England and Spain’s shared indebtedness to princely models to advise and represent feminine virtue. By examining the interplay between feminine virtue, tropes of sovereignty, and the advisory mode in both types of texts, this project emphasizes the widespread potential for women’s exemplary virtue across the social spectrum. In addition to recasting feminine virtue through a princely lens, these texts reveal a shared vision of how performances of feminine virtue are invested with agency and power.