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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Modern Spain"”.
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Transatlantic Figures In Early Modern Spain (1550-1650)
… Peru, while Juan Ruiz de Alarcón was born in New Spain, and friar Gabriel Téllez visited the island of La Española between 1616 and 1618, before coming back to the Peninsula. Through this study, the atlantic space is conceived as a means of communication that connects everything. Through it, the …
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El mundo visionario en la España moderna: manifestaciones y problemas. Una aproximación desde la tratadística y la Inquisición
… the keys in the social and cultural dynamics of modern Spain. In this sense, we propose to study the visionary realities that are inserted within a Christian confessional society, such as the Hispanic one, influenced by the Counter-Reformation. In order to achieve it, we have to consider the fact …
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Between Tradition and Transgression: Education, Culture, and (Inter)national Pedagogies in Spain (1857–1931)
… in late nineteenth- and early- twentieth century Spain: the Institución Libre de Enseñanza (Free Institute of Teaching), the Escuela Moderna (Modern School), and the Escola Nova Catalana (New Catalan School). Studying these movements syncretically, analyzing both similarities and differences, the …
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Cultural Achievements and Social Reality in The Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba 929-1031
… thesis will focus on the history of al-Andalus (Modern Spain) beginning with the Muslim conquest in 711 and ending with the break up of the Umayyad caliphate in 1031. During this period, many scholars and commentators argue that there was a "Golden Age" of religious tolerance between Jews, …
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In Her Place: Geographies of Urban Female Labor in Spanish Culture (1880--1931)
… spaces in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Spain. For that reason, my thesis draws a geography of urban female labor through the analysis of the symbolic condensation of class, gender, and space in the cultural representations of urban working women. By doing so, I shed light on the …
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Deconstructing Biopolitical and Performative Modes of Gender in Spanish Science Fiction
… Their work offers a startling prescience for modern Spain, with elements mirrored in Butler and Repo’s gender-focused studies. Gender identity is malleable and non-essential to the functions of reproduction and identity in every piece we examine. That idea is central to this thesis, which …
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Literary representation of spanish immigration in the United States of America (1900-1950): transculturation, hybridization, and the third space
… in Brooklyn (1953) y Fiesta: A Novel of Modern Spain (1960), de Prudencio de Pereda; Pinnick Kinnick Hill: An American Story (2003), de Gain W. González; The Lower East Side Kid That Made It Good: The Autobiography of Claude Morell (2008), de Claude Morell; y Las hijas del Capitán (2018), …
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The Heroics of Conquest: Hernán Cortés in the Early Modern Hispanic Epic
… how the politico-historical conditions of early modern Spain and Mexico gave rise to varying concepts of heroism. Through an analysis of Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega’s *Mexicana* (1594), Antonio de Saavedra Guzmán’s *El peregrino indiano* (1599), Juan Cortés Osorio’s *Las Cortesiadas* (c. 1665), …
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Powerful Magic: Sorcery, Magic, Witchcraft and the Spanish Inquisition as Catalysts for Women's Power
… religion, and even political systems. Early modern Spain was no different as the Catholic Church and the monarchy supported efforts of formulating and redefining society's definitions of gender while at the same time striving to popularize these beliefs throughout the country. Relying on the …
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Tendencies of the generation of '98 as exhibited in the dramatic works of Jacinto Benavente and Gregorio Martinez Sierra
<p>One of the most widely discussed movements of modern Spain is the activity of a literary school usually termed the Generation of '98. The Spanish American War proved to be the final humiliation of a century of political and economic decline in Spain.</p><p>A group of young men decided that …
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Searching for the writing subject in La vida de la Monja Alférez: autobiografía atribuida a Doña Catalina de Erauso
… into the writing subject phenomenon in Early Modern Spain to evaluate the messages that the collective writing subject is imparting. Applying Paul Smith's concept of the writing subject as a psychological collective entity that presents messages to the reader (xxx), the work can be evaluated …
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Huérfanos de Orfeo: poesía y música en la cultura de los Siglos de Oro
… and music. It focusses on the case of early modern Spain, and it studies a large corpus of poetry in Spanish from 1500 to 1700. The corpus includes Renaissance and Baroque poems of many genres and from many sources, both printed and manuscript, by canonical and by lesser known poets, all of …
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Memories of the War of Spanish Succession in eighteenth-century Spain (1714-1758)
This thesis recovers Spain’s engagement with the Utrecht Enlightenment. Early eighteenth-century Spanish history saw speculation as the means to make sense of a changing world. Political writings transformed social speculation into political debate. Fears about usury failed to influence debates …
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Un Buenos Aires ibérico: Cultura impresa y modernidades divergentes en el exilio (1936-1959)
… <em>Un Buenos Aires ibérico: Cultura impresa y modernidades divergentes en el exilio (1936-1959) –Iberian Buenos Aires: Print Culture and Diverging Modernity in Exile (1939-1959)–</em>, analyzes print culture as a site of interaction between the intellectuals and artists exiled from the Spanish …
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Roots of empire: State formation and the politics of timber access.
During the early modern period, Spain's empire extended into parts of five continents, separated by vast stretches of water. Spain depended on wooden ocean-going vessels to connect and defend its imperial holdings. Timber supplies, therefore, were essential to the continued functioning of one of …
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The Quest for Knowledge: Religious Enquiry and Intellectual Discovery in the Works of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza
… Rejecting the conventional paths for early modern women of either marriage or convent life, she decided to devote herself to the cause of the faith in an unconventional way and travelled from Catholic Spain to Protestant England where she undertook missionary work and founded her own …
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Memory in Early Modern Spanish Poetry and Poetics: Rhetorical Traditions, Philosophical Debates, Political Contexts
This doctoral thesis explores how early modern Spanish lyric poets and poetic theorists shaped sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish culture and thought through their cross- disciplinary engagement with contemporary theories and practices of memory. Focusing on the works of Juan Boscán (ca. …