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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature"”.
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Sancho Panza: Su conducta y sus motivos
<p>This dissertation meticulously traces and analyzes the behavior and motivations of Sancho Panza throughout <em>El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha and Segunda Parte del Ingenioso Caballero Don Quijote de la Mancha. </em>To date, seemingly all criticism of Sancho has studied him on the …
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A Corpus-Based Study on the Portuguese Translations of English Adversative Coordinating Conjunctions and Adverbs in News Texts
… how adversative coordinating conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs are translated from English into Brazilian Portuguese through a parallel corpus built specifically for this research. The corpus is composed of 59 news articles extracted from the online versions of the British magazine …
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The Acquisition of Morphology Among Child L2 Learners of Spanish: Comparing Pedagogical Interventions
<p>Much of the current research in language acquisition investigates adult L2 and bilingual child learners as opposed to child L2 learners. While language acquisition presents one challenge for teachers of child L2 learners, a second challenge is how and to what extent to incorporate the …
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Un informe sobre el sistema educativo de Jalisco : presentado al profesorado ...
<p>Este informe es el resultado de datos conseguidos mediante investigaciones realizadas en México.</p><p>Las visitas y los períodos de residencia en México en otros años despertaron mi primer interés en el sistema educativo de ese país. Durante el verano de 1964 me dediqué a examinar a fondo el …
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Las Telenovelas Y La Propaganda
… las intenciones de sus guionistas? </p> <p> Usando las teorías de George Szanto en cuanto a la propaganda inconsciente y las de Miguel Sabido en cuanto a los programas de `entretenimiento-educación,' este trabajo analiza las ideas encontradas en dos telenovelas populares recientes y sus efectos …
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Maruja Mallo: La Realidad Femenina Dentro Del Surrealismo En España
… thesis examines the dual role of women as muse and artist within the surrealist movement in Spain, with a specific focus on the life and work of Maruja Mallo. Using feminine theories of men's fear of women as creator of life and creator of art in their own right, I examine the cultural …
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Metamorfosis Y Transformación En Holmberg, Lugones Y Cortázar (1906-1956)
… En el caso de Lugones y Holmberg, escribieron cuando Argentina estaba en pleno auge positivista y las teorías de Darwin estaban cobrando una fuerza considerable. Cortázar en cambio, dejó el país y escribió desde París, pues no soportó la dictadura peronista que manipulaba a las masas argentinas. …
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Airiños: For Orchestra and Two-Part Women's Choir, and a Biography of The Poet Rosalía de Castro
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>Spanish poet Rosalía de Castro was a central figure in the Galician</p> <p>cultural and literary revival of the mid nineteenth-century. One of her most</p> <p>significant books is Cantares Gallegos, a book of poems written in Galician that</p> <p>serves as an homage to the …
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<i>Presenciar el pasado</i>: Witnessing the Spanish and Argentine Dictatorships through Film and Television
… the ways in which recent (1999–2017) films and television series ask today’s spectators to witness the 20<sup>th</sup>-century Spanish and Argentine dictatorships by analyzing these texts on both a narrative and technical level. I examine torture in the Argentine films<em> Garage Olimpo</em> …
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The Dictator Novel in YA Latinx Fantasy
… the power of the dictator novel in Latinx literature, specifically within the young adult fantasy genre. Drawing upon the work of Jennifer Harford-Vargas to examine the relationship between the forms of power and the power of the narrative form and how this creates ways to defy and rebel …
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A Qualitative Analysis of Brigham Young University's Golden Age Theater Production and Outreach Course
… University's Golden Age <em>Comedia</em> (GAC) and Golden Age Theater Production (GATP) courses. The two courses cover much of the same academic material, but one of the differences between the two approaches to the teaching of Golden Age literature is that the GATP course incorporates a theater …
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Understanding the Feelings, Perceptions, and Attitudes of Students Who Participate in a Service Study Abroad Program
This study was designed to understand the experience of being a service study abroad student. It examined feelings, perceptions and attitudes that developed as students from Brigham Young University participated in a service-centered study abroad program to Guadalajara, Mexico. The study enumerates …
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Desde el margen: Teatro alterno y comunidades hispanas de Nueva York, 1997–2017
… Jorge Merced, Marco Antonio Rodríguez, and Eva Cristina Vásquez. It explores the relationships between the mentioned authors and the Hispanic communities of New York City, principally the process of how history and memories of these communities are reflected in a theatrical repertoire. …
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La RepresentaciÓn De La Mujer En Las Novelas Ejemplares De Cervantes
… protagonistas no son tímidas ni dóciles; cuando se enfrentan con situaciones peligrosas, deshonorables o chocantes, luchan vehemente para proteger su honor y el de sus familias. Comparadas con los hombres, las mujeres protagonistas son más virtuosas, más honorables y más fieles en cuanto al …
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Rompiendo Fronteras: Representaciones Innovadoras De La Mujer En El Cine Chicano De Robert Rodriguez
<p>En este estudio examino representaciones tradicionales de la mujer en el cine chicano y las comparo y contrasto con las del cine del director Robert Rodriguez. Propongo que las mujeres asumen la figura o de la Virgen de Guadalupe o de la Malinche tradicionalmente. Robert Rodriguez rompe con …
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Femicide in Mexico: From Malinche to Modern Women
… several jobs, including selling hamburgers and hotdogs in front of her house, selling used clothing, and serving as a part-time housekeeper (Valdez 7-8). One evening Olga did not return home after a meeting (Valdez 7). It can be assumed that Irma. being Olga's mother, experienced a wide …
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Prospects for Improving Bilingual Education: An Analysis of Conditions Surrounding Bilingual Education Programs in U.S. Public Schools
… research supports the benefits of bilingualism and bilingual education for both English Language Learners and monolingual English speakers. The U.S. does not have bilingual education programs in proportion to the needs that these programs could meet for students in public schools. If …
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Playing Gender In the Dramatic Works of Griselda Gambaro
… writer, Griselda Gambaro, La malasangre (1981) and Antígona furiosa (1986). Of particular interest to this project is the playing or "performance" of gender roles in relation to socio-political and socio-economic factors. I examine the portrayal of notions of masculinity and femininity by both …
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La transtextualidad en El mal querer de Rosalía
… una variedad de textos musicales y visuales. Usando primariamente la noción de la transtextualidad expresada por Gerard Genette en su obra, <em>Palimpsestos </em>(1982), esta tesis explora cómo las relaciones transtextuales en los aspectos literarios, musicales y visuales de <em>El mal …
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