El interés por el medio ambiente y la relación que existe entre el ser humano y la naturaleza han incentivado que diferentes ramas interdisciplinares como la ecología y la literatura trabajen juntas para lograr nuevos métodos que ayuden a conservar, mantener y fomentar la biodiversidad en la naturaleza y su conservación. En la literatura, teorías como la ecocrítica facilitan el análisis literario en el cual la relación que existe entre la naturaleza y el ser humano es un punto central de investigación. El objetivo de este estudio fue investigar la relación que existe entre el ser humano y la naturaleza en la novela El camino del escritor Miguel Delibes. El método que utilizamos fue elmétodo de la hermenéutica. En nuestra investigación vimos de qué maneras se ve reflejada la integración del ser humano y el medio ambiente. También profundizamos en los términos ecosofía, biocentrismo y desarraigo en la novela El camino. Además, concluimos que la identidad de Daniel el Mochuelo está ligada a la naturaleza.Las conclusiones a las que llegamos están de acuerdo con el objetivo de nuestro análisis. Daniel, el personaje principal de la obra, tiene una personalidad ligada a la naturaleza y la integración entre el ser humano y la naturaleza se ve reflejada en la novela de diferentes maneras.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 551-594).

This dissertation is a recovery project, and as such it introduces Adrián del Valle, a prolific Spanish-born literary modernista and anarchist activist who dedicated his life to social reform in in turn-of-the-century Cuba and beyond. In addition to a critical introduction, this project includes my translation of his 1907 collection of integrated short stories Por el camino [Along the Way], which, as all of his works, is long out of print. Por el camino complicates critical models grounded in nationality and therefore invites us to construct and apply an alternative model better suited to handling a transnational epistemology of space, which allows for the constant flow of people, ideas, and texts, as well as commercial and political influences, across borders. In developing this epistemological framework, I blend two theoretical concepts—“multitude” and “imagined communities”—to situate del Valle in his dynamic historical moment. Del Valle wrote Por el camino in the throes of the Second Industrial Revolution, the Age of Synergy, which I argue can be understood as an early age of globalization. Por el camino also stands at the crossroads of Latin American modernista short fiction and the international anarchist movement, thus challenging critical positions that treat modernismo as an apolitical and socially apathetic literary movement obsessed with elitist aesthetics and escapism and anarchism as a mutually exclusive movement wholly concerned with achieving practical social and political reforms. Through my reading of del Valle’s work, I demonstrate that modernismo and anarchism are two manifold and simultaneous responses to the complex socio-political, economic, cultural, and spiritual crises that grew out of Latin America’s transition into modernity. / Globalization -- Anarchism -- Modernismo -- On the translation -- Along the way. / Department of English

The purpose of the project was to design a curriculum guideline for educators to teach computed radiography. This project can be used as a stand-alone course, or integrated into existing radiologic technology courses.

The focus of this study is to investigate what images of Sweden are transmitted in the novel The road to Ithaca (1994), by the Uruguayan author Carlos Liscano. The study focuses on the first half part of the novel for this taking place in Stockholm, Sweden, in the early nineties. The aim is to investigate by what literary strategies and literary subgenres the images of Sweden are transmitted.    The theoretical framework applied derives from studies of the literary genre of the picaresque novel and its bufonesco mood, such as the literary strategies irony and laconism. For the analysis Mieke Bal´s concept of focalization and semantic axes are used.      The study shows that in Sweden there are parallel worlds to the official world of the welfare state; in the shadow side of society there are the metecos, unwanted residents: the undocumented and the mentally ill. Through a picaresque and ironic style, the author shows that Sweden is a neat, clean, but culturally hermetic society; almost perfect on the surface, but with a lot of hidden “trash” beneath.    The welfare state of Sweden seams benevolent in its integrative intention, but is, at the same time, blind, or even worse, disinterested in the new reality of the country; that of the welfare state in dissolution and Sweden as a Tower of Babel.