Cette thèse analyse comment la fiction espagnole contemporaine renoue avec la tradition de l'exemplarité littéraire, à travers l'étude d'un corpus de sept œuvres publiées au tournant du XXe (1998-2004). Elle tente de mettre en lumière l'évolution de la notion d'exemplarité dans une perspective diachronique mais aussi synchronique, à travers le prisme du paradigme de pensée contemporain centré sur la notion d'individu. Les nouvelles modalités de l'exemplarité au sein de la prose narrative actuelle sont appréhendées à partir de la réactivation de son support traditionnel -- la figure du héros -- mais aussi des possibilités nouvelles qu'offrent le questionnement des frontières génériques et l'ambiguïté du pacte de lecture. Dans un monde dépourvu de consensus idéologique, les auteurs du corpus forgent leur propre grille d'interprétation du réel et substituent des réponses éthiques particulières, mais toutefois crédibles et acceptables par le lecteur, à l'imposition de vérités globales et universelles. L'exemplarité, telle qu'elle est à l'œuvre dans le roman actuel, entraîne alors une nouvelle forme d'engagement caractérisée par l'énoncé d'une éthique consubstantielle à la création littéraire.

“Creating Community in Isolation: The History of Corpus Christi’s Molina Addition, 1954-1970” examines the history of the Molina Addition in Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, and its serving district, the West Oso Independent School District, from 1954 to 1970. Specifically, this essay begins with an analysis of the elite-driven campaign to annex the blighted Molina Addition in September and October 1954. The city intended to raze the neighborhood and develop middle-class homes in place of the newly annexed neighborhood. Following the annexation of the Molina Addition, African American and ethnic Mexican residents initiated protracted struggles to desegregate and integrate schools that served their area, the West Oso Independent School District, as detailed in the chapter, “The West Oso School Board Revolution.” The chapter examines the electoral “revolution” in which Anglo rural elites were unseated from their positions on the school board and replaced by African American and ethnic Mexican Molina Addition residents. The third chapter, “Building Mo-Town, Texas,” focuses on residents’ struggle to install indoor plumbing, eliminate pit privies, construct paved roads, and introduce War on Poverty grants to rehabilitate the neighborhood. This chapter also offers a glimpse into the social life of Molina youth during the 1960s.

Among the diverse fabric of masculinities that prestigious authors such as Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Tirso de Molina and Agustin Moreto weave into their plots, fashion proves to be a common thread and a particularly useful tool. Thus, as I approach the idea of "Fashionable Masculinities" and investigate a few "macho" and/or not so "macho men" in Early Modern drama I hope to go beyond the traditional interpretations, stereotypes and icons often associated with men---in particular, Spanish men in Golden Age drama. This will be achieved by revisiting typical cases and compared through research and documentation of atypical representations of maleness that could be considered displacements and/or subversions of the social matrix. In effect, this study explores how the male ideal is shaped and judged both by the essence of his personality, as well as his physical appearance (i.e.: clothing, hairstyle, mannerisms, discourse and voice). As such, it becomes evident that masculinity is moulded, influenced, enhanced, exaggerated and even muted as it is subject to the whim of different fashions prevalent at a specific moment in time. Moreover, a multitude of social, cultural, racial and historical factors determine the always changing image of the so called "macho man". / Therefore, in order to explore distinct representations of masculinity I approach three different comedias by three different playwrights while comparing how the main character's masculinity fared in three very important spaces: physical, social and sexual. I focus my attention on Saber del mal y del bien by Calderon. Secondly, Don Gil de las calzas verdes by Tirso and explored El lindo don Diego by Moreto. Each one the these represents a different degree of palatable male identities given this particular social construct.

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La tuna universitaria es una expresión cultural muy popular en España, la cual ha sido adoptada hace más de medio siglo por nuestro entorno universitario, llegando a ser, en la actualidad, no solo parte importante de las actividades culturales del mismo, sino, también, a convertirse en agentes difusores de música de la región a la que pertenecen, obteniendo el reconocimiento de las mismas. El presente trabajo es un estudio, a partir de cinco importantes tunas, que muestra el proceso de apropiación del modelo de tuna español en nuestro país y como dichos grupos han logrado convertirse en parte de las tradiciones de su entorno universitario y regional. Se procedió a realizar una recopilación histórica de cada grupo en base a bibliografía y entrevistas a algunos de sus miembros, además del análisis y recopilación discográfica la cual nos servirá para enfocarnos en sus composiciones dentro del género más popular de las tunas, el pasacalle. Por último, espero que este trabajo aporte al entendimiento de la tradición de la tuna, y a su vez, brinde información acerca de la representatividad e importancia de estas como expresión cultural tradicional en gran parte de nuestro territorio.