Theses - Spanish and Portuguese
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Reading as rewriting: Miguel de Unamuno, Jorge Luis Borges and the Quijote
(2019-04-27)The relationship between Miguel de Unamuno and Jorge Luis Borges remains understudied. In this thesis I compare both authors according to their shared interest in reading and rewriting Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quijote de ... -
Torture, Fiction and the Repetition of Horror: Ghost-writing the Past in Algeria and Argentina
The object of this thesis is to study the attempts made by writers and filmmakers in two very different socio-cultural contexts to depict and elucidate the experience of political violence, particularly torture, in the ... -
Spanish and Greek subjects in contact: Greek as a heritage language in Chile
(2018-10-20)The present study aims to capture linguistic variation in subject distribution of two typologically similar languages, Greek and Chilean Spanish, considering adult monolingual and bilingual speakers of Greek as a ... -
Literary Historicism: Conquest and Revolution in the Works of Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012) and Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980)
(2018-07-20)This doctoral thesis analyses the depiction of the historical topics of Conquest and Revolution across the literary writings of Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) and Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012). These historical tropes constitute ...
