http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4774 2013-05-21T08:35:31Z 2013-05-21T08:35:31Z Natividad, Ross D. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8454 2012-12-20T22:04:40Z 2012-08-08T00:00:00Z

Exploring questions of Spanish national identity in selected works of Miguel de Unamuno, Azorín, and Antonio Machado. Natividad, Ross D. Critics of La Generación de 1898 claim that the group’s aims were purely philosophical and intellectual – thus having no practical applications for the country. However, a careful examination of the respective works by Miguel de Unamuno, Azorín, and Antonio Machado indeed reveal how each author specifically strove to rediscover and to resolve the issue of Spanish national identity. A nation is a collective identity engendered by a united moral consciousness. Thus, acting as nation-builders to a nation suffering from longstanding decadence, confusion, and humiliation, these noventaochistas not only offered diverse interpretations of Spanish identity during the crises at the end of the nineteenth century but also sought to awaken the moral consciousness they believed Spaniards were seeking.

2012-08-08T00:00:00Z Martinez, Araceli S. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8444 2012-12-20T22:09:36Z 2012-08-08T00:00:00Z

Rebeldía femenina en la narrativa latinoamericana contemporánea. Martinez, Araceli S. The objective of this thesis is to examine the concept of rebellion in contemporary Latin American literature written by women. On the basis of the ideas of cultural critics Michel Foucault and Julia Kristeva, rebellion is understood in this study as a driving force for survival, cultural development, and resisting diverse aspects of the status quo. To this effect, we investigate diverse expressions of feminine rebellion in the short stories “La muñeca menor” by Rosario Ferré, “El ángel caído” by Cristina Peri Rossi and “Dos palabras” by Isabel Allende. We will demonstrate that rebellion is an essential element of the feminine Latin American narrative, examining three unifying characteristics in each of the analyzed texts: first, a prominence of female figures; second, a reference to narrated worlds with multiple conflicts that intermingle within psychological, cultural, political, and social spheres; and third, the possibility of a magical resolution of conflicts.; La presente tesis examina el concepto de la rebeldía en una porción representativa de la narrativa latinoamericana contemporánea escrita por mujeres. Este estudio indaga en diversas expresiones de la rebeldía en los cuentos “La muñeca menor” (1976) de Rosario Ferré, “El ángel caído” (1986) de Cristina Peri Rossi y “Dos palabras” (1990) de Isabel Allende. En base a las ideas de Michel Foucault y Julia Kristeva, la rebeldía se entiende en este estudio como una fuerza motriz de la supervivencia personal y el desarrollo cultural que, por lo general, resiste diversos aspectos del status quo. De forma complementaria, se detectan en los relatos indicados tres rasgos concordantes: primero, un determinante protagonismo de figuras femeninas; segundo, la referencia en los mundos narrados a múltiples conflictos en que se entremezclan los ámbitos de lo sicológico, cultural, político y social; y tercero, la posibilidad de la resolución mágica de los conflictos.

2012-08-08T00:00:00Z Eichelberger, Julie http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8426 2012-12-20T22:10:17Z 2012-08-08T00:00:00Z

A semantic and pragmatic analysis of the Spanish word 'lie' : implications and applications for the second language learner. Eichelberger, Julie In 1981 Coleman and Kay asserted a semantic prototype to define the English word lie. Hardin (2010) and Cole (1996) both replicated Coleman and Kay’s analysis in Ecuador and Saudi Arabia respectively and analyzed whether or not there is a cross cultural similarity in the interpretation of lie. The following paper examines whether or not the Spanish word mentira or 'lie' in Madrid, Spain includes the same elements from Coleman and Kay’s prototype, and also offers a pragmatic explanation for some lies, specifically, social lies. Secondly, the present study explores possible pragmatic acquisition in a second language with regard to the interpretation of lie according to interlanguage pragmatics and the acculturation theory.

2012-08-08T00:00:00Z Pendley, Alyssa J. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8275 2012-12-20T20:21:02Z 2011-12-19T00:00:00Z

The teaching of the impersonal and passive SE in first and second year Spanish textbooks. Pendley, Alyssa J. This study explores the syntax of the impersonal and passive SE structures in the Spanish language and inspects how these two constructions are explained in three first and three second-year Spanish textbooks. A discussion of the syntax of the impersonal SE and passive SE leads to an examination of the instruction of these two phrasal constructions in the six textbooks. The purpose of this study is to understand how these two important uses of the pronoun SE are described to first and second-year Spanish students.

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