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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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El heroe romantico de la comedia de teatro largo de Manuel Breton de los Herreros

Lozada Guzman, Myrna Irene 06 April 2019 (has links)
<p> The comedies of Manuel Bret&oacute;n de los Herreros in the nineteenth century Spanish Romantic literature introduced a new character with romantic and neoclassic traits. This new personality pursued an internal, heroic mission to adapt to the codes of an evolving and modern world. Bret&oacute;n de los Herreros incorporated a novel form of romantic heroism, by combining the features of the romantic hero of the tragic drama into a person of neoclassic virtues. The prior romantic hero was replaced by Bret&oacute;n&rsquo;s modern man. The goal of this Dissertation is to confirm the comedy as an effective literary style that influenced the Romantic liberal movement and announced the decay of the liberal tendency towards a more realistic literary approach in the perspective of the heroic virtues. Bret&oacute;n de los Herreros displayed four heroic styles that are related among themselves and which reflect novel literary perspectives of the new romantic character. His new hero transforms his or her former tragic nature into a personality more akin to the values of the Neoclassic movement. This new hero brings into the Nineteenth century the heroic virtues of the Illustration and thus, forces the Romantic literary movement to reevaluate the violent style as the only alternative of the hero&rsquo;s expression of his or her &lsquo;Self&rsquo;. The four romantic comedies of this Dissertation will explain the similarities and the differences among Bret&oacute;n&rsquo;s sensible heroes that coexisted with the tragic heroes. Key words: h&eacute;roe rom&aacute;ntico, comedia rom&aacute;ntica, Romanticismo, Bret&oacute;n de los Herreros</p><p>
2

Exile and agency in caribbean literature and culture

Hart, David W. January 2004 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Florida, 2004. / Title from title page of source document. Document formatted into pages; contains 204 pages. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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The grace of effort: Studies in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean form

Matos, Nicole Catherine 01 January 2008 (has links)
The literature of the contemporary Caribbean has been often recognized for its highlighting and heterodoxy of literary form. In this dissertation, I offer a series of case-studies in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean literary aesthetics, centered on what Gordon Rohlehr, in an earlier landmark study, wryly called "The Problem of the Problem of Form." The redoubling complexity indicated by Rohlehr suggests the intricacies characteristic of Caribbean form: its inventive inscription of oral features within a textual field; its baroque interdisciplinarity and crossing of genre boundaries; its dense allusiveness and self-referentiality; and, overall, its sheer unapologetic linguistic, stylistic, and structural difficulty. Though oral and textual modalities have been treated sometimes as polarizing, viewing Caribbean writers as passionate formalists may better reflect the true integration and interdependence of orality and textuality within Caribbean writing. This conceptualization might also help to ground and clarify Caribbean writers' much-theorized, distinctive stance vis-à-vis literary modernism and postmodernism—a stance perhaps best described briefly as the merging of postmodern strategy with high-modernist mood. But finally, as my title suggests, it is an additional figurative and ideological tension within contemporary Caribbean literature, that of art/work, that is most significant to my study of Caribbean formalism. This particular paradox—artful work; the considered, constructed, and achieved "grace of effort" (Derek Walcott, "The Antilles" 81)—can be seen, I suggest, underlying the very diverse formalisms of such Caribbean authors as Derek Walcott, Jamaica Kincaid, Robert Antoni, David Dabydeen, Mark McMorris, and Nalo Hopkinson. This foregrounded sense of a literature wrought—not over-wrought, but wrought in the sense of artfully made, with purposefulness and intent, and with process visible—can, I think, usefully illuminate the most distinctive features of the works I examine: their unusually pronounced metaphorics and stylistics; their interactivity, staging interventions in the space that opens between text and reader; and their subtle pressing of the textual, wherever possible, toward the visual and material. Caribbean formalism ultimately emerges as formalism of an unusually dynamic, metamorphic, and transforming type: historically and politically aware, culturally relevant and effectual.
4

Doan Trouble de Fish

Willis, Kedon Kevin 07 May 2013 (has links)
Doan Trouble de Fish is a collection of short stories examining the way of live for different Jamaicans in their home country and in America. The collection opens from the first-person perspective of a teenage boy struggling to understand his place amongst his group of friends in "Sat'day" and, in "'Ooman Conversation," ends with an omniscient look into the lives of a group of adult women struggling to maintain agency against the pressures of poverty. In between, we hear a boy recounting a dramatic beating from his mother, witness an encounter between a young girl and a "duppy" in the countryside, see the transformation of a man dressing in his wife's clothes to feel powerful, and are treated to guidelines on being a closeted homosexual in Jamaica. The diverse characters and points-of-view are meant to offer a tableau of what it's like to inhabit the island or to be a product of its environment. Jamaica is the unspoken character of Doan Trouble de Fish. But the more popular depictions of an island paradise are abjured in favor of urban squalor and uncompromising heat. The Jamaican environment is often harsh to the collection's characters, particularly to its women and non-masculine men. A concept underlying many of these stories is the liability of identity. A central theme to the collection is the maintenance of personal integrity in the face of an environment unwelcome to one's identity. Some characters find a way to forge ahead. Some are still trying to figure it out. / Master of Fine Arts
5

Jambe dlo… et apres? Participation de la diaspora antillaise a l’ecriture de la nation francaise

Achille, Etienne 17 September 2013 (has links)
No description available.
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La conscience antillaise dans les romans de Jacques-Stephen Alexis

Canales Azpeitia, Maria Cristina 01 January 1990 (has links)
Although critics often use the term "Caribbean consciousness" and critics of Jacques-Stephen Alexis often speak of his antillanite, there does not seem to exist a systematic study of this consciousness in his novels. The purpose of this dissertation was to analyse how this consciousness is expressed in the novels Compere General Soleil, Les Arbres musiciens, and L'Espace d'un cillement, and how these novels contribute to creating this consciousness in the reader. In addition to the introduction, the present work comprises five chapters and a conclusion. Chapter 2 presents the writer and places him in his social, historical and literary contexts. Chapters 3 and 4 explore the cultural and geopolitical criteria which redefine space and spatial relationships within the novels. Chapter 3 studies the relocalization of Haiti in its continental and Caribbean contexts. Chapter 4 analyses Alexis' redefinition of Haitian space which re-evaluates those spaces undermined by official discourse; it also studies his use of the language of nature. Chapter 5 examines the writer's answer to the temporal and historical dispossession which has traditionally plagued the Caribbean person. It analyses the re-writing of history from a Caribbean perspective rather than from a Western or Westernized one. Chapter 6 studies how the novels express a common Caribbean identity. It proposes a definition of Caribbean culture born from a creative process of cultural marronnage and brassage. It explores the racial dimension of the Caribbean consciousness and examines the cultural metissage present in the novels. The conclusion retraces fundamental elements and themes in the Alexian discourse that emerge as expressions of a Caribbean identity and consciousness, allowing Alexis to say, in his last novel, "We, people of the Caribbean ... " ("Nous, gens de la Caraibe ... "). Among these elements, the conclusion stresses a common geographical experience of fragmentation, a common historical process and a shared process of creolization or cultural as well as physical metissage.
7

Reconfiguring mestizaje black identity in the works of Piri Thomas, Manuel Zapata Olivella, Nicolás Guillén and Nancy Morejón /

Dhouti, Khamla Leah. January 2002 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.
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(Re)making men, representing the Caribbean nation| Authorial individuation in works by Fred D'aguiar, Robert Antoni, and Marlon James

Gifford, Sheryl Christie 08 April 2014 (has links)
<p> This dissertation proposes that West Indian contemporary male writers develop literary authority, or a voice that represents the nation, via a process of individuation. This process enables the contemporary male writer to unite the disparities of the matriarchal and patriarchal authorial traditions that inform his development of a distinctive creative identity. I outline three stages of authorial individuation that are inspired by Jung&rsquo;s theory of individuation. The first is the contemporary male writer&rsquo;s <i> return</i> to his nationalist forebears&rsquo; tradition to dissolve his persona, or identification with patriarchal authority; Fred D&rsquo;Aguiar&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Last Essay About Slavery&rdquo; and <i>Feeding the Ghosts </i> illustrate this stage. The second is his <i>reconciliation </i> of matriarchal (present) and patriarchal (past) traditions of literary authority via his encounter with his forebears&rsquo; feminized, raced shadow; Robert Antoni&rsquo;s <i>Blessed Is the Fruit</i> evidences this process. The third is the contemporary male writer&rsquo;s <i>renunciation </i> of authority defined by masculinity, which emerges as his incorporation of the anima, or unconscious feminine; Marlon James&rsquo;s <i>The Book of Night Women</i> exemplifies this final phase of his individuation. </p>
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Writing rehearsals the uses of performance in contemporary Caribbean literature /

Murray-Román, Jeannine, January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 233-242).
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Encyclopedia Wao

Lesko, Daniel S. 08 June 2018 (has links)
<p> Junot Diaz&rsquo;s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, <i>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</i>, is examined as an encyclopedic work of literature and science fiction. In chapter one, this exploration focuses on the fuku as a post-colonial explanation of diaspora, utilizing postmemory to pass on a history of the Americas to future generations. Chapter two transitions into a discussion problematizing assimilation and hybridity, specifically focusing on Oscar and Yunior, attempting to define and understand what Diaz, himself, has pronounced as masculine subjectivities within the novel.</p><p>

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