Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) was exiled from Spain in 1938 due to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He lived in Great Britain, America and Mexico and he never returned to his homeland. Until the mid-1960s, he was considered by the Spanish literary establishment to be an evasive and astringent poet. Since then, critics have recognised and praised the ethical quality and nature of his work and he is now considered to be one of the most profound and influential Spanish poets of the twentieth century. Despite the growing body of critical work on Cernuda, the salient role played by memory in his poetry has received little sustained critical attention. Critics have tended to stress the nostalgic and the evasive rather than the ethical and contemplative role played by memory in his work both before and after his departure from Spain. The objective of this thesis is to provide a more balanced view of the poet’s use of memory in his early and mature poetry. Rather than limiting his concept of memory to nostalgia for his youth or his homeland, it argues that he deploys memory as an instrument of self-analysis, self-discovery and self-criticism. The first chapter concentrates on his pre-exilic poetry in order to show that memory plays a fundamental role in his poetics prior to the experience of physical exile. The central body of the thesis examines the increasingly analytical and philosophical role played by memory in a selection of his mature prose and verse texts written outwith Spain.

La ville est un objet matériel et symbolique construit par la relation que les hommes entretiennent avec elle. Cette relation est tissée par les expériences que chacun vit dans une ville (hypothèse phénoménologique), la ville vécue personnellement notamment dans ses dimensions sensibles, informée par la réalité sociale. Ce qui définit et détermine cette relation est l'imaginaire, entendu comme réserve d'images ou de schèmes mais aussi comme processus dynamique d'autoproduction. L'imaginaire de la ville ne se laisse appréhender qu'à travers un imaginaire personnel, toujours empreint d'un imaginaire collectif. Nous proposons de décrire l'imaginaire d'une ville à partir de la représentation fictionnelle qu'élabore un auteur dans son œuvre, et plus particulièrement à partir du point de vue paysager de la ville. La ville élue est Barcelone et les auteurs, quatre habitants barcelonais, L. Goytisolo, J. Marsé, E. Mendoza, M. Vázquez Montalbán. La méthode géolittéraire s'inscrit dans le prolongement des théories élaborées par Gilbert Durand sur l'imaginaire, de la géographie humaniste et de la sociocritique littéraire. La spécificité de la démarche réside dans la pratique affirmée de l'interdisciplinarité, nécessaire à une lecture des textes consciente des processus langagiers à l'œuvre dans les romans, processus fondamentaux dans la construction de la représentation. Les lectures des romans seront mises en perspective avec des discours d'habitants dans le but de mieux comprendre la relation de la ville fictionnelle à la ville réelle. Le résultat de la recherche se présente sous la forme d'un recueil mythographique et poétique de Barcelone, élaboré à deux niveaux d'analyse (les discours non paysagers et ceux paysagers).

The overall objective of this study is to compile the ethnohistory and contemporary perspectives of selected historically connected Hispanic communities that were affected by the OST. The project can be divided into two parts: 1) a brief history of each community under study and its historic relationship to the OST, and 2) a description of contemporary community views of the trail. Of special interest will be any contemporary knowledge related to the role played by the trail (and/or events related to the trail’s history and use) that affected the history and perspective of each community. Also of interest will be any places or resources along the trail that have significant cultural meaning to the subject communities. The selected communities targeted by this project are intended to sample the range of ethnic, geographic, and historically-connected populations along the trail routes. These include Hispanic communities associated with the development of the trail, communities founded by emigrant populations known to have used sections of the trail as migration routes in the 19th century, communities that were established to support trail trade, and communities that were founded along the trail after its period of historic use. The following communities participated in this study: Abiquiú, New Mexico, Gallina, New Mexico, San Luis, Colorado, Agua Mansa, California, and San Gabriel, California.

Luis Serrano Alarcón is one of the most important and relevant composers of our time. He is sought after as a composer, lecturer, and conductor throughout the world. His works have been performed in over 30 countries worldwide by some of the leading musical ensembles in the United States, Europe, and Asia, as well as being highly decorated by winning many prestigious composition contests including the International Band Competition Contest of Corciano, Italy. Born in Valencia, Spain, Alarcón is relatively self-taught in composition, which is a testament to his natural-born gift for composition. His compositional output ranges from the traditional Spanish pasodoble to chamber music, solo pieces, and sophisticated masterpieces for orchestra and wind ensemble. His work Duende: Four Preludes for Symphonic Wind Ensemble was commissioned by the University of St. Thomas Wind Ensemble, Minnesota (USA) in 2010. From its premiere, it became an extremely popular piece among wind band conductors. Duende’s appeal can be attributed to its fusion of Spanish popular music, the symphonic energy of Manuel de Falla’s scores, Iberia by the Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz, and the presence of jazz and Latin music. A detailed conductor’s guide will be provided in this document that includes but not limited to an analysis of form and structure for each movement, conducting considerations, and rehearsal suggestions and techniques. Last but not least, an in-depth exploration into the composer’s background, Spanish musical influences, and the Spanish Band movement and traditions has been conducted. Through this process, an uncovering of intriguing and relevant points of interest have come to the surface. Alarcón’s music sounds the way it does and appeals to the masses because of the juxtaposition of its infectious, Spanish musical elements, as well as its traditional symphonic music components. Moreover, the long and historical past, culture, and traditions of Spanish Bands creates an enormous influence and motivation to compose for the wind band genre. More than two-thirds of all municipalities in Valencia, Spain have musical societies that serve as sponsors for the bands and other ensembles, provide music education, and function as a social center to the townspeople. They are also supported by the Valencian Federation of Musical Societies, all branches of government, the business community, and the media. The musical ensembles participate in both non-competitive and competitive performance activities. Non-competitive performances include concerts, wind band festivals, honor bands, and massed bands. Wind band competitions are sponsored at the municipal, provincial, regional, and international levels. Many of these performance types are combined for special celebrations like patron saint holidays, including Las Fallas and Moros y Cristianos.

Juan Luis Segundo (1925-1996) was a Uruguayan Jesuit priest who, I argue, based his liberation theology on his understanding of existentialism. The major contribution of this thesis is the exploration of unknown and unexplored sources in Segundo's work. These sources support my thesis of his basis in existentialism and are corroborated by his mature theology. This thesis is significant because the connection between existentialism and liberation theology has been widely overlooked. My starting point is Segundo's 1948 book, in which he combines existentialism with personalism and develops a transcendental method grounded in love and inter-subjectivity. The following three chapters develop my argument through his engagement with four existentialist thinkers: Berdyaev, Sartre and Camus, and Heidegger. Chapter 3 demonstrates how Segundo follows Berdyaev's primacy of freedom, which allows for human creativity, but Segundo takes it as a "quality of the will" and relates freedom to love. Berdyaev influences Segundo's preference for a methodology yielding consistent growth rather than a systematic approach to theology. Chapter 4 shows how Sartre's and Camus' understanding of freedom and limits influenced Segundo's sense that a person's lived reality must be the starting point for theological reflection (e.g. the hermeneutic circle). In chapter 5, I use an unpublished manuscript to show how Segundo uses the place of tradition in the Christian church and the role of tradition in Heidegger's phenomenological analysis of Dasein in order to build his theology of "liberative human seeking and divine revelation". In the final two chapters, I draw the new sources together with two of Segundo's widely read books: Faith and Ideologies (1982) in chapter 6 and The Liberation of Theology (1975) in chapter 7. In chapter 6, the transcendental method he first wrote about in 1948 returns and he addresses materialism and personalism. Chapter 7 serves as my conclusion and uses Segundo's hermeneutic circle as the fullest manifestation of my argument.

L’objectif de cette Thèse consiste à accroître nos connaissances sur la société argentine par une approche particulière. Nous sommes persuadés que la littérature policière est une métaphore de la société contemporaine et qu’à travers son analyse nous parviendrons à mieux comprendre son fonctionnement. Notre travail ne cherche pas à donner une vision globale du genre mais à confronter la production dans deux étapes critiques de l’histoire argentine : la Décennie Infâme (1930-1943) et la crise postménémiste (de 1999 à nos jours). Suivant le modèle créé par Karl Marx (« Le 18 brumaire de Louis Bonaparte ») nous les avons appelées Tragédie et Farce. En effet, nos recherches nous ont permis de découvrir les résonances qui existent entre les deux périodes. Cette Thèse s’inscrit dans le cadre de la sociocritique. La lecture socio-historique des textes nous fera passer en revue tout le vingtième siècle, des préceptes modernistes du Siècle des Lumières à l’hypermodernisme de Gilles Lipovetsky ou à la modernité liquide de Zygmunt Bauman. Nous avons organisé notre travail selon trois éléments principaux et indissociables : la ville, la figure du détective et la société ; à travers ces pages nous avons suivi leur évolution. / The objective of this Thesis is to increase our knowledge of Argentinian society by a specific approach. We are convinced that detective literature is a metaphor of the contemporary society and that through its analysis we will arrive at a better understanding of it. Our work does not seek to give a comprehensive view of this literature but to confront literary production with two critical periods of Argentinian history: the Infamous Decade (1930-1943) and the post-Menemist crisis. Following the model created by Karl Marx (“The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoléon”) we have called them Tragedy and Farce. Our research shows the resonances between these two periods. Our research consists of a sociological approach. A sociohistorical reading of the literary texts brings us to review the whole of the twentieth century, from the modernistic precepts of the Age of Enlightenment to the hypermodernism of Gilles Lipovetsky or the liquid modernity of Zygmunt Bauman. We have organized our work according to three principal and indissociable elements: the city, the figure of the detective and the society; throughout these pages we have followed their evolution.

The aim of the work is to present Argentinian literary tradition as reflected in the Jorge Luis Borges' essays and collections of poems from his early creative period (twentieth and thirtieth of 20th century). The corpus of the analyzed works is created by three collections of poems - Passion for Buenos Aires, Moon across the Way, San Martin Copybook and three books of essays - Evaristo Carriego, The Size of My Hope and The language of the Argentines. At the beginning, the text is focused on Argentinian (respectively on Hispanoamerican) cultural context at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Then, the text continues by analysis of six Borges' books mentioned above reflecting five most important Argentinian motives - pampa, gaucho, compadrito, Buenos Aires and its suburbs and dictator. The author notices different attitudes to Argentinian topic and concludes that Argentina symbolizes very important theme, which is influenced also by Borges' predecessors (e. g. Sarmiento, Hernández or Lugones). Key words: Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian literary tradition, cultural identity, textual analyse, Buenos Aires, suburb, pampa, compadrito, dictator.

Tesis para optar al grado de Doctor en Literatura Hispanoamericana y Chilena / Como es sabido y Borges (1899-1986) mismo lo señala, pasó su niñez “detrás de una verja con lanzas, y en una biblioteca de ilimitados libros ingleses. Palermo del cuchillo y de la guitarra andaba (me aseguran) por las esquinas” Esta pequeña cita instala una problemática no menor en su obra y que contiene la relación siempre en tensión entre Latinoamérica (periferia) y Europa (centro). La investigación examina especialmente el diálogo interdiscursivo e intercultural entre Borges y dos románticos ingleses: William Blake (1757-1827) y John Keats (1795-1821) a través de la desterritorialización de Tyger y Nightingale del contexto romántico inglés decimonónico y su reterritorialización en la Argentina borgeana moderna / postmoderna del siglo XX. Metodológicamente, se ha realizado un análisis del poema “The Tyger” de Blake y del poema “Ode to a Nightingale” de Keats para dilucidar su significación o significaciones románticas. Posteriormente se ha examinado la obra ensayística, cuentística, lírica de Borges en búsqueda de los significados que él atribuye a tyger y nightingale descubriéndose una polisemia compleja otorgada por sus acercamientos serios o jocosos. En otras palabras, Borges desestabiliza la relación significante /significado de tyger y nightingale y su contexto romántico. Tanto tyger como nightingale diseminan rizomáticamente por la obra de Borges a través de los principios de conexión y heterogeneidad que permiten unirlos a nuevos significados diversos sin que se llegue jamás a un significado definitivo. Borges instalaría una postergación infinita del significado que asemeja un deslizamiento, un rodar, un nomadismo con múltiples entradas y salidas entre los discursos involucrados. (Kristeva, 1980; Derrida, 1975; Deleuze/Guattari, 1997; Barthes, 1974). Aunque la investigación se encuentra aún en progreso, la recodificación que hace Borges de los significantes románticos ingleses tyger y nightingale parece tener importantes implicancias desde la perspectiva del postcolonialismo, ya que el juego literario conducido por Borges establece una relación de paridad con el centro que cuestiona la sujeción periférica de América Latina al centro Europeo.

Este estudo compara a mímese poética do mundo árabe-islâmico, especialmente no livro de contos As mil e uma noites, com a mímese poética do mundo hispano-americano na obra literária de Jorge Luis Borges. A obra anônima das Noites tornou-se a principal referência para especular tanto as formas e as estratégias de construção narrativa quanto os conteúdos temáticos na criação poética do escritor argentino. Devido à magnitude da produção literária borgeana, este estudo considerou o livro El Aleph (1946) e três contos de El libro de arena (1975)- El espejo y la máscara, Undr e El disco. O trabalho se propõe afirmar que a poética árabe-islâmica, enquanto acervo da cultura universal constituiu-se num dos elementos vitais para a construção da poética narrativa de Jorge Luis Borges / This study compares the poetic mimesis of the Arabic-Islamic world, specially the book of tales The Arabian Nights, with the poetic mimesis of the American- Hispanic world in Jorge Luis Borges literary production. The anonymous literary composition The Arabian Nights became the main reference to speculate both the form and the narrative construction strategies as well as the thematic contents as a poetic creation of the Argentinian author. Due to the magnitude of the borgesian literary production, this study has only considered the book El Aleph (1946) and three narratives of El libro de arena (1975) El espejo y la máscara, Undr and El disco. As a result, the study proposes to state that the Arabic- Islamic Poetics, albeit a universal cultural patrimony, constituted itself in one of the vital elements to the construction of Jorge Luis Borges Narrative Poetics

Esta dissertação propõe-se a uma reflexão sobre os modos através dos quais situações de abandono e restauro arquitetônico se manifestam, convivem e se contrapõem, definindo desafios e possibilidades à restauração de edificações da arquitetura luso-brasileira no Centro Antigo de São Luís (MA/Brasil). Demarcam-se expressões e desafios do restauro arquitetônico, apreendendo-os num contexto histórico-urbano e político-institucional marcado, na atualidade, pelo descompasso entre a degradação de edificações da arquitetura luso-brasileira, inspiradas sobremaneira nos edifícios pombalinos e os múltiplos discursos e determinadas ações, principalmente estatais, que, a partir de 1970, passaram a fazer parte do cotidiano da cidade no sentido da proteção, revalorização e preservação do conjunto arquitetônico e paisagístico do seu velho Centro. Delineiam-se aspectos políticoeconômicos e urbano-territoriais da constituição do Centro Antigo de São Luís, enfatizando-se os determinantes da produção do conjunto arquitetônico lusobrasileiro e as marcas do abandono que, no presente, lhes são peculiares. Configuram-se elementos dos discursos e iniciativas de proteção e preservação de patrimônios urbanos, em particular as ações desenvolvidas no âmbito do Programa de Preservação e Revitalização Urbana do Centro Histórico de São Luís (PPRCHSL). Abordam-se, de modo especial, as contribuições teóricas de John Ruskin, Alois Riegl, Violet-le-Duc, Max Dvorak, Camillo Boito, Gustavo Giovannoni e Cesari Brandi como fundamentos capazes de contribuir para a compreensão de dimensões objetivas, teóricas e metodológicas atinentes ao abandono e ao restauro arquitetônico. Toma-se como referência espacial-arquitetônica da análise a área do Centro Antigo de São Luís, tombada pelo Departamento do Patrimônio Histórico, Artístico e Paisagístico do Maranhão (DPHPA-MA), a qual inclui a área de tombamento federal. Delimita-se, através do estudo de quatro experiências de restauro; agentes envolvidos, especificidades projetuais, desafios enfrentados ao longo das intervenções e o potencial do projeto de restauro como instrumento capaz de contribuir para reverter os limites impostos por uma arquitetura com valor patrimonial, edificada através de técnicas construtivas antigas e em graus diferenciados de abandono. Conclui-se que, no Centro Antigo de São Luís, a despeito das ricas e fecundas expressões de restauro arquitetônico, este ainda encontra-se numa complexa condição, que se manifesta permeada por degradação, abandono e intervenções. / This dissertation proposes a reflection about the ways in which situations of abandonment and architectural restoration manifest, coexist and interpose, defining challenges and possibilities to the restoration of buildings of the Luso-Brazilian architecture in the Old Center of São Luis (MA, Brazil). Expressions and challenges are marked out of architectural restoration seizing them in a historical-urban context and political-institutional marked, today ,by the mismatch between the degradation of buildings of Luso-Brazilian architecture, inspired exceptionally on Pombaline buildings and the multiple discourses and certain actions, especially state actions , which, since 1970, became part of life of the city towards the protection, appreciation and preservation of architectural and paisagistic patrimony of its old center. politiceconomic and urban-territorial aspects are outlined of constitution of the Old Center of São Luis, emphasizing the determinants of the production of architectural and Luso-Brazilian patrimony and the abandonment marks that, at present, are peculiar. Elements of discourses and initiatives of protection and preservation of urban heritage are configured, in particular the actions undertaken under the Preservation and Urban Revitalization of the Historic Centre of São Luis (PPRCHSL). The theoretical contributions are approached specially by John Ruskin, Alois Riegl, Violetle- Duc, Max Dvorak, Camillo Boito, Gustavo Giovannoni and Brandi Cesari, as theoretical framework capable of contributing to the understanding of objective, theoretical and methodological dimensions relating to the abandonment and architectural restoration . Take as spatial-architectural reference of analysis the Old Center area of São Luis, listed by Department of Historic, Artistic and Paisagistic Heritage of Maranhão (DPHPA-MA), which includes the federal listed site. Delimit, by studying of four experiences of restoration; involved agents, projective specificity, challenges faced along the interventions and the potential of the restoration project as an instrument to help reversing the limits imposed by an architecture with heritage value, built by ancient construction techniques and varying degrees of neglect. We conclude that, in the Old Center of São Luis, despite the rich and fertile expressions of architectural restoration, it is still in a complex condition that manifests permeated by deterioration, neglect and interventions.