Dissertations / Theses: 'Tales, Latin'

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Van, Lier Amadeus Moritz Christof. "International Outsourcing of Services towards Latin America." Thesis, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, 2011. http://catarina.udlap.mx/u_dl_a/tales/documentos/bce/van_l_am/.

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Garza, Nestor. "Land policy and prices in Latin America : spatial economic tales of Colombian cities." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708483.

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Cremer, Thomas Karl Josef. "Commutation initiative for small reserve value business in Latin America." Thesis, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, 2010. http://catarina.udlap.mx/u_dl_a/tales/documentos/bce/cremer_tk/.

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Insurance companies transfer parts of the risk, they assume from their policyholders, to reinsurers. Underwriting reinsurance business is the process of relocating risks from an insurer to a reinsurer. A reinsurance business is considered to be in run-off, if the reinsurer discontinues to underwrite it. Various active run-off management approaches address the issue of such legacy business. The content of this paper covers the development and implementation of a specific run-off management project at the reinsurance company, Swiss Re, called the commutation initiative for small reserve value business in Latin America. In general terms, commutations are an instrument to prematurely terminate contracts. To reach a commutation agreement, the contractual counterparts negotiate a compensative payment, derived from the remaining contract value. By transferring this commutation payment, all contractual obligations are ceased and the contract reaches finality. This paper describes the prioritization of the initiative within the Swiss Re project landscape, the definition of the project scope, the estimated impact of macroeconomic factors and the valuation technique used for the calculation of commutation offers.
(cont.) Based on the mentioned aspects, the paper contains reasonable expectations on the project performance and potential. Finally the paper contains the evaluation of the initiative, discussing the reasonableness of the project targets and the adequacy of the project approach for the specific situation at Swiss Re as well as the suitability of the process structure and the performance measures. The content of this paper also includes the assessment of the project´s impact on operations, especially concerning run-off administration costs. A final judgement on the project performance cannot be rendered yet, as the project is still in progress. The indications displayed in this paper suggest, that further research and future initiatives should focus on improving the accounting system and contract structuring in order to reduce the occurrence of run-off contracts. .

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Niesing, Eva. "Nation Branding Practices in Latin America. A Diagnosis of Brazil, Chile and Colombia." Thesis, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, 2013. http://catarina.udlap.mx/u_dl_a/tales/documentos/bce/niesing_e/.

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In the globalized world of today a well-elaborated, long-term oriented nation branding strategy which includes the government, the public and the private sector as well as the nation´s citizens themselves can help nations to improve and to better control their nation image. Nation branding activities increase the countries´ competitiveness in the global marketplace and help to foster the tourism arrivals, inward foreign direct investment flows and exports as well as they help to attract talented workforce and students. Despite its growing importance, most Latin American countries still have not engaged enough in the area of nation branding and mostly only focus their activities on the tourism promotion. The region´s countries have a good image regarding soft factors such as their people and tourism attractions but have a weak image regarding their products, services and investment opportunities. Brazil has a relatively good nation image in many dimensions but still has not developed an extensive nation branding strategy. Chile and Colombia are among the Latin American countries which have started to conduct more complete and advanced nation branding activities. Although such advances can be observed, there is still a lot of improvement potential in the nation branding practices of Latin American countries.

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Workman, Jameson Samuel. "Chaucerian metapoetics and the philosophy of poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8cf424fd-124c-4cb0-9143-e436c5e3c2da.

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This thesis places Chaucer within the tradition of philosophical poetry that begins in Plato and extends through classical and medieval Latin culture. In this Platonic tradition, poetry is a self-reflexive epistemological practice that interrogates the conditions of art in general. As such, poetry as metapoetics takes itself as its own object of inquiry in order to reinforce and generate its own definitions without regard to extrinsic considerations. It attempts to create a poetic-knowledge proper instead of one that is dependant on other modes for meaning. The particular manner in which this is expressed is according to the idea of the loss of the Golden Age. In the Augustinian context of Chaucer’s poetry, language, in its literal and historical signifying functions is an effect of the noetic fall and a deformation of an earlier symbolism. The Chaucerian poems this thesis considers concern themselves with the solution to a historical literary lament for language’s fall, a solution that suggests that the instability in language can be overcome with reference to what has been lost in language. The chapters are organized to reflect the medieval Neoplatonic ascensus. The first chapter concerns the Pardoner’s Old Man and his relationship to the literary history of Tithonus in which the renewing of youth is ironically promoted in order to perpetually delay eternity and make the current world co-eternal to the coming world. In the Miller’s Tale, more aggressive narrative strategies deploy the machinery of atheism in order to make a god-less universe the sufficient grounds for the transformation of a fallen and contingent world into the only world whatsoever. The Manciple’s Tale’s opposite strategy leaves the world intact in its current state and instead makes divine beings human. Phoebus expatriates to earth and attempts to co-mingle it with heaven in order to unify art and history into a single monistic experience. Finally, the Nun’s Priest’s Tale acts as ars poetica for the entire Chaucerian Performance and undercuts the naturalistic strategies of the first three poems by a long experiment in the philosophical conflict between art and history. By imagining art and history as epistemologically antagonistic it attempts to subdue in a definitive manner poetic strategies that would imagine human history as the necessary knowledge-condition for poetic language.

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Ortega, Jimenez Grisell. "A Canadian woman takes an interest in troubled Mexico: Agnes C. Laut's journalistic and philanthropic work in revolutionary Mexico, 1913-1921." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32253.

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Agnes Laut (Ontario, 1871 – New York, 1936) was a Canadian journalist, novelist, financial advisor, and a farmer who became closely involved with United States-Mexico relations during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1921). This research analyses Agnes Laut's editorial work, travels, and publications about Mexico and its social strife. Furthermore, it explores her role as coordinator among US civic and religious associations aiming to relieve Mexico's social troubles through humanitarian aide. This thesis is a first approach to the study of the impact of foreign civic society and philanthropic organizations in revolutionary Mexico.
Agnes Laut (Ontario, 1871 – New York, 1936) était une journaliste canadienne, romancière, conseillère financière et une fermière qui était étroitement engagé dans les relations entre les États-Unis et le Mexique pendant la Révolution mexicaine (1910-1921). Cette investigation analyse les travaux éditoriaux, les voyages et les articles publiés d'Agnes Laut sur la problématique de Mexique. En plus, cette recherche étudie son rôle comme liaison entre les organisations civiques et religieuses des États-Unis et son but de améliorer la situation troublé de la population au Mexique à travers de la philanthropie. Cette thèse est un premier effort pour étudier l'effet des organisations civiques étrangères dans le Mexique révolutionnaire au début du XXème siècle.

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Fernández, Marmissolle Daguerre Pablo. "La cooperación descentralizada entre gobiernos locales a través de redes internacionales en América Latina." Thesis, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, 2013. http://catarina.udlap.mx/u_dl_a/tales/documentos/lri/fernandez_m_p/.

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Villagra, Cayamana Renée Antonieta, and del Pino Fernando Enrique Zuzunaga. "Trends in corporative income taxation in Latin America." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/116131.

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The main objective of this study is to expose the corporative income taxation granted by the legislations of different Latin American countries, trying to identify and analyze trends that emerge from such treatment. This paper does not intend to make a critical or comprehensive analysis of the corporative income taxation. This paper identifies the most important issues of the resident’s income taxation, deductible expenses, non-resident taxation and withholdings, and the anti-avoidance measures introduced by the domestic legislation of Latin American countries in order to avoid the base erosion.
El principal objetivo del presente trabajo es exponer el tratamiento del impuesto a la renta corporativo que otorgan las diferentes legislaciones de los países de Latinoamérica, procurando identificar y analizar las tendencias que de dicho tratamiento surgen; sin pretender hacer un análisis crítico ni exhaustivo de las mismas. Se identifican los aspectos más importantes del impuesto a la renta de los residentes, los gastos deducibles, los aspectos vinculados a la tributación de los no residentes, así como las medidas defensivas introducidas por las legislaciones domésticas que los Estados se han visto en la necesidad de implementar unilateralmente a fin de evitar laerosión de la base.

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Nilsson, Martin. "Demokratisering i Latinamerika under 1900-talet : – vänstern och demokratins fördjupning." Doctoral thesis, Växjö universitet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-409.

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This study deals with the issue of democratization in Latin America during the 20th century, and in particular the role of the left in this process. The purpose of this study is to empirically analyze the role of the left as a political actor in the process of democratization toward the deepening of the democratic rule in Latin America. The research questions are: what role did the left have in the transitions to electoral democracies during the 20th century in Latin America? Why did the left have the role it had in the transitions? How does the left’s view of democracy affect the transition to electoral democracy, and the further democratization to deepen democratic rule? What structural constraints affect the left’s ability to deepen democratic rule? A comparative qualitative method and different theoretical concepts of democracy, democratization, elite perspective, mobilization and organizations have been used, and examples from different Latin American cases are given. One empirical conclusion is that the role of the left in the transitions to electoral democracies varies from participation with active left leaders, collective left actions, to not have any significant role at all. A second empirical conclusion is that in cases where left wing governments have tried to enforce a model of participatory democracy, the result has been “ coup d’état” or rebellions conducted by military forces and supported by the economic elite and the United States of America. In other cases when left parties in government instead have remained within the framework of an elite democracy, the result has rather been stabilization of the liberal democratic rule. The main theoretical conclusions are as follows: the theoretical discussion about democratic consolidation and the deepening of democracy have to consider that different actors’ (in this study the left) preferences for various models of democracy differ; the actors’ view of democracy matter in the game of democratic development and democratic consolidation; and the relations between the elite actors’ preferences for different models of democracy determine the outcome of a specific form of democratic model (in this study electoral democracy, liberal democracy or participatory democracy).

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Bardallo, Bandera Joaquín. "A Tale of Two Latin American Countries Within the Same Region and a Very Different Democratic Rule of Law Experience." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31271.

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The following thesis analyzes why is the democratic rule of law stronger in Uruguay than in Mexico? This work focuses on the state of the democratic rule of law in Mexico and Uruguay. The premise of this thesis is that there is a gap in the literature on causes that have historically made Uruguay the country with the strongest democratic rule of law in Latin America and Mexico one with the weakest democratic rule of law. Historical institutionalism is used to see how the evolution of the sequencing of political regimes as well as the evolution of civil-military relations in the two countries may explain the divergent outcomes. Emphasizing path-dependency, this analysis is conducted using a methodology of process-tracing. This research serves to put forward propositions in the form of a testable hypothesis on the causes that have led Mexico and Uruguay down different paths when it comes to the democratic rule of law. It also serves to fill a gap in the literature as cross-national differences on rule of law in Latin America have not been sufficiently well-explained.

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Fröh, Ellen. "Latinämnets ställning i den svenska gymnasieskolan. En studie av förändringar med fokus på 1900-talet." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-36573.

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Arbetet beskriver i sin första del latinämnets historia i den svenska gymnasieskolan med tyngdpunkt på 1900-talets senare del. Det är en utveckling som gått från att ha latin som bärande språk både som skolämne och som undervisningsspråk under 1500-talet till att vara ett småämne som inte alla skolor erbjuder idag. Den andra delen av arbetet undersöker vilka förändringar som påverkat latinämnet i gymnasieskolan och vad det har fått för följder. Några kurs- och timplaner från 1900-talet har granskats och personer med anknytning till latinundervisning intervjuats. Ur detta framkommer det att den nya gymnasieskolan som infördes 1965 har påverkat ämnets ställning i skolan stort genom att det inte längre var obligatoriskt att läsa latin på den då s.k. latinlinjen. En andra påverkan är gymnasiereformen 2000, då latinämnet delades upp i tre kurser. Detta har visserligen gynnat tillgängligheten (på de skolor som erbjuder latin), men fört till grundare kunskaper, då förhållandevis många elever väljer att läsa endast den första kursen. En tredje påverkan på latinämnet har även den reform i början av 1990-talet haft som gjorde det möjligt för kommunerna att fritt fördela en summa pengar på de utbildningsbehov de prioriterar. Eftersom latin i dagens samhälle inte ses som ett viktigt och nyttigt ämne, är det inte förvånande att kommunerna inte prioriterar latinämnet.
The essay describes the situation of Latin in the Swedish High School with focus on changes during the 20th century.

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Turnator, Ece Gulsum. "Turning the Economic Tables in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Latin Crusader Empire and the Transformation of the Byzantine Economy, ca. 1100-1400." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10753.

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This dissertation investigates the growth and decline of a major Mediterranean commercial economy at the crossroads of Christian Europe and the Muslim Middle East from 1100 to 1400. New and old evidence uncovers the transformation of the commercial economy of the Byzantine Empire in its relations with the Middle East, western Europe, and Crusader principalities established in Byzantium's ruins. Ultimately, this work helps identify and understand the economic roots for enduring divisions between East and West, and it is unique in observing from Byzantium's perspective the transformation of the Middle East--the economic dynamo of the ancient and medieval Mediterranean.
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James, Paula. "Unity in diversity a study of Apuleius' Metamorphoses : with particular reference to the narrator's art of transformation and the metamorphosis motif in the Tale of Cupid and Psyche /." Hildesheim ; New York : Olms-Weidmann, 1987. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/15604421.html.

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Garcia, Lemos Alejandro. "A Tale of Two Campaigns: Political Crises and Electoral Strategies in Colombia During the Elections of Presidents Cesar Gaviria in 1990 and Ernesto Samper in 1994." FIU Digital Commons, 2002. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3840.

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This study holds that recurring political crises prior to Colombian elections broadly shape electoral strategies. Through reviewing the history of Colombia, political crises emerge as a salient characteristic that precedes most elections and affects electoral strategies. To measure the impact of political crisis on electoral strategies, two Colombian presidential campaigns were analyzed: that of César Gaviria in 1990 and of Ernesto Samper in 1994. The examination of descriptive data, from both case studies and interviews with key political consultants, were used to identify how political crises have resulted in the modifications of the campaigns. The findings showed that the electoral strategies for the two cases were adapted or modified due to the extreme conditions resulting from crises, such as the assassination of three presidential candidates before the 1990 election. The study concludes that crises led to the modification of electoral strategies in three specific areas: preparation of the campaigns, organization of the strategies, and in campaign themes and advertising images.

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Dooley, Timothy William. "Jerome's text of the gospels, the 'Vetus Latina', and the 'Vulgate' : with comparative tables of Jerome's text of Matthew and Mark." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/jeromes-text-of-the-gospels-the-vetus-latina-and-the-vulgate(f410746c-2c0e-4c2b-accd-26bcf91e0573).html.

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The Vulgate is a collection of Latin translations from Genesis to Revelation, and its name defines its central function: a common translation into a single language for wider dissemination among the faithful. However, its status as a Latin Scriptural translation is far from unique; it is joined by a great number of extra-Vulgate works called Vetus Latina, Old Latin. The Vulgate collection’s rise to prominence is primarily owed to its tradition. This tradition states that the Dalmatian exegete and monk Jerome of Stridon completed the Vulgate initially by order of his patron Pope Damasus. This original commission included the four Gospels at first and was completed in the early 380’s. The complete Vulgate collection would at first be attributed to Jerome who himself had claimed such completion. Throughout Ecclesiastical History, the attribution of the majority of the Vulgate New Testament has diminished to a scholarly consensus that Jerome completed only the Vulgate Gospels. It is this final certitude that this dissertation explores. Through a close examination of verifiable Hieronymian witness of the Gospels, especially Matthew and Mark, an evaluation of Jerome as a witness to the Vulgate Gospels is presented. To evaluate Jerome as witness for the Vulgate may at first appear to be a counterintuitive approach; Jerome’s involvement with the formation of the Vulgate is has been traditionally considered inextricably linked to the story of the Vulgate. This dissertation provides reevaluation of the historical division between Vetus Latina and Vulgate. This overview of the two Latin traditions is presented in the introduction. The next chapter examines sources and events surrounding the Latinization of the church in the Fourth Century. In this context, this dissertation examines the pontificate of Damasus and his relation to the exegete Jerome. Next, Jerome’s literary creations from his Roman period in contact with Damasus are evaluated. This is followed by an evaluation of the citations in Epistle 22 and an original interlinear translation of Jerome’s preface to his Gospel translations. The following two chapters present analysis of the Commentary on Matthew and the Homilies on Mark, respectively. An exhaustive comparative table of Jerome’s text, the Vulgate, and Vetus Latina examples follows each chapter. Following this presentation of Jerome’s Matthew and Mark, a discussion of the possibilities of Vulgate Paul’s editor is presented. This leads to some suggestions that serve as a call to reconsider the traditional history and rebuild the understanding of the Vulgate based on deductive considerations of extra-Vulgate translations and Patristic citations.

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Marasco, Corena. "The Triage Principal| An Autoethnographic Tale of Leadership in a Catholic Turnaround School." Thesis, Loyola Marymount University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3689638.

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Catholic schools are in need of innovative change. The problem lies in how to construct the elements of change to create viability for a school in the face of rapid declining enrollment. Responding to this type of environment as an educational leader requires qualities and characteristics similar to those of first responders in a medical emergency, a term I coined as the triage principal. This autoethnographic research study was designed to answer three research questions: 1. As a new principal at Michael, the Archangel School (MAS), a Catholic school in danger of closing, what challenges did I experience? 2. As a new leader, how did I respond to the challenges to bring about change at MAS? 3. What did I learn from this first year leadership experience? This autoethnographic study is constructed from my voice as a first year, first time principal, using several data sources: my blog, my archival field notes, and three interviews from archdiocesan leaders. Each of the given data sources had contained a data collection procedure resulting in overarching thematic patterns that led to generalizations based on the past experiences at MAS and my review of the literature. The weaving of the past and present of my life's leadership journey in combination with the culture and the people that surround me for this study, has made me realize that I do have a story worth sharing, a story that can potentially help others who might find themselves seemingly lost and alone.

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Pierre, Maxime. "La poétique du carmen : étude d'une énonciation romaine des douze tables à l'époque d'Auguste." Paris 7, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA070114.

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Notre étude analyse l'usage du terme Carmen pour designer à Rome un acte d’énonciation spécifique. La première partie aborde les emplois du terme associe a trois types de sujets - oiseaux, instruments, Cantores - et montre l'unité d'une catégorie qui recouvre sans les traduire les notions modernes de chant et de musique. Le Carmen est ainsi défini comme un acte utilisant les propriétés pragmatiques de la uox entendue comme matière sonore suscitant des effets physiques, sémantiques, et émotifs. Les deux parties suivantes traitent les emplois du terme dans le domaine du droit et de la religion : elles montrent une évolution de sens du terme qui, après avoir désigné des énonciations « magiques » rivales du droit, est réemployé au début de l'empire comme catégorie archaïsante pour designer toutes sortes d'actes ou la parole est censée agir de façon autonome : prières, lois ou prophéties archaïques. Enfin, dans les deux dernières parties, nous analysons l'introduction du terme Carmen comme terme d'autoréférence poétique : définissant tout d'abord une performance d'acteur s'opposant au terme Poema, qui renvoie a une écriture, le terme Carmen va être réevalué par Catulle et Lucrèce comme énonciation fictive. Virgile, Horace et Properce élargissent cette innovation en utilisant le couple canere/ Carmen pour designer l'acte poétique : il s'agit alors par une énonciation globale, d'unifier des pratiques grecques hétérogènes, qu'elles relèvent du iambe, du melos, de l'epos, ou de l'élégie. Cette énonciation unifiante va permettre aux nouveaux poètes d'importer la poésie grecque à Rome dans un geste de refondation culturelle caractéristique de l'âge d'auguste
Our study is an analysis of how the term carmen was used in rome to refer to a specific act of speech. The first part broaches the uses of the word when related to three types of agents - birds, instruments, and cantores - showing the unity of a category which, although not an equivalent, embraces the modern notions of song and music. The carmen is thus defined as an act incorporating the properties of the uox, perceived as sonorous matter that provokes physical, emotional and semantic effects. Part 2 and 3 deal with the uses of the word in the field of religion and law: they show a semantic evolution of the word which, after having referred to "magical" speech acts competing with the law, is renewed at the beginning of the roman empire as an archaising category designating any type of speech act where words are supposed to have an intrinsic efficiency: prayers, laws, or prophecies. Flnally, part 4 and 5 outline the gradual use of carmen as a word of poetic self-reference: first referring to the performance of an actor as opposed to the poema, which is a text, the word carmen is later reconsidered by Catullus and Lucretius as a fictive act of speech. Virgil, Horace and Propertius broaden this novelty by using carmen and canere to refer to the poetic act: it becomes a global speech act category, unifying heterogeneous greek practices, designating either iambos, melos, epos or elegy. This unifying speech act allows the new roman poets to import greek poetry as a significant form qf cultural renewal, which is typical of the augustan age

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Larsson-Toll, Karna. "De overdracht van Nederlandse getuigenisliteratuur naar Zweden : In welk opzicht verschillen de besluiten om vier getuigenisboeken in het Zweeds te laten vertalen en uitgeven Hoe ziet de receptie van deze boeken uit." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Nederländska, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-189550.

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In this case study four non-fiction books are being accompanied on their way from the Netherlands to the public in Sweden, that is from one peripheral language into another. Where did the initiative come from? Were there any subsidies and did that matter? What kind of publishers were involved and were there also other agents involved? Who were the most important cultural mediators? How were the books framed in order to be noticed in the new country? How does all this fit in with the sociological theory of transnational cultural transfer? It turned out that these books more or less followed the expected path with a few exceptions: Two of the books were published by large-scale publishers in Sweden although they had not proved to be successful in the Netherlands. And there were no signs of regular co-operation between the involved publishers. Obviously the translated Dutch books in Sweden are such a marginal business for these publishers that they do not influence their network of foreign publishers. Even if all four books belong to the same genre, they are very differently framed to be noticed in their new country.

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Avila, Alex. "THE BRONX COCKED BACK AND SMOKING MULTIFARIOUS PROSE PERFORMANCE." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/394.

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The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking is a collection of multifarious prose performances recounting the historical, personal, social, political and cultural constructs of a city birthed by violence. This body of work is accompanied by video, audio, photography, and theatre performance texts. St. Mary’s Housing project, in the Bronx, is the foundation where most of this literary work takes place. The modern day Griot (storyteller) is a Poet, guiding his audience through the social inequalities and disparities that plague St. Mary’s community. The Poet shares personal traumatic insights while simultaneously utilizing writing as a form of survival to the conditions of the Bronx. This multi-platform performance highlights the metaphorical and physical concerns with the cycle of violence. This question is answered through the Poet’s choice by selecting the pen over the gun.

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Servonnet, Emma. "L'art du récit chez Apulée." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/12470.

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Le roman Les Métamorphoses d'Apulée se distingue par les nombreux récits insérés qu’il contient et qui interrompent fréquemment la trame principale. Ces histoires étaient probablement déjà présentes en partie dans le roman grec qui a servi de source à Apulée, les Μεταμορφώσεις. Cependant, ce texte ne nous étant parvenu que sous une forme abrégée (l'ὄνος), il demeure difficile de déterminer à quel point la structure de la version latine des Métamorphoses retient de celle de l’original grec. Certes, certains éléments sont facilement attribuables à Apulée, comme le conte de Cupidon et Psyché, ou encore le 11ème et dernier livre du roman. En plus d’être divertissants, ces récits insérés reprennent les thèmes principaux exploités dans le roman, renforçant la cohérence de celui-ci. Par ailleurs, toutes ces histoires secondaires nécessitent l’intervention de plusieurs narrateurs et, en plus de Lucius (personnage et narrateur principal), divers personnages prennent la parole. Enfin, Apulée accorde aussi une grande attention à la perception que ses personnages ont des événements dont ils sont témoins ou des histoires qui leur sont rapportées. À plusieurs reprises, la subjectivité des personnages influence le récit. Ainsi, les histoires insérées des Métamorphoses, qui peuvent donner l’impression que la trame du récit est brouillonne, sont au contraire l’élément le plus original et le mieux développé du roman.
The Metamorphoses of Apuleius is notable for its numerous inserted tales often interrupting the novel’s main plot. These stories were probably already present, at least partly, in the Greek novel that was used as a source by Apuleius, the Μεταμορφώσεις. However this work is lost and only reached us through an epitomized version (Ὄνος), making it difficult to establish just how much the structure of the Latin Metamorphoses retains from its Greek source. Still some elements can be easily attributed to Apuleius, like Cupid and Psyche’s tale or the novel's 11th (and last) book. Besides having an entertaining purpose, these inserted tales share common themes with the main plot, creating a unity within the novel. Furthermore, multiple narrators are required in order to tell all these stories implying that, in addition to Lucius (the novel’s main character and narrator), many characters play an active part in storytelling. Finally, Apuleius pays great attention to his characters’ perception of events they witness or of stories they hear. And at several occasions the characters’ subjectivity influences the storyline. Thus the Metamorphoses’ inserted tales, even though they may at first give a false impression of confusion, should be considered as the most original and most well developed feature of Apuleius’ novel.

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Regula, Patricia Ferraz. "It takes more than soccer to make Argentinians, Brazilians, Chileans and Mexicans happy." Master's thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/15111.

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Double Degree in Economics from the NOVA - School of Business and Economics and Insper
This dissertation explores the socioeconomic determinants of happiness for Argentinians, Brazilians, Chileans and Mexicans, and analyzes its evolution over the years and between these countries. The analysis in this dissertation is based on the World Value Survey waves 2, 3 and 5. With this data it was possible to analyze and compare the determinants that are most relevant for these populations to self-declare themselves as happy. Determinants such as social class, education, employment, among others, showed significance in some years for some populations and were found not significant for others. Health, religion and national pride were the most consistent, always pointing in the same direction and at least statistically significant in one of its categories.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Tales, Latin'

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