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Originally published as the author's Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington University, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-205).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 336-342). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-174). Also available on the Internet.

Orientador: Maria Celeste Consolin Dezotti / Banca: Claudia Fernanda de Campos Mauro / Banca: Márcio Scheel / Resumo: Este trabalho tem por objetivo estudar Crônica de uma morte anunciada do autor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez. Essa narrativa é construída através de relatos que nos proporcionam o entendimento dos fatos que levam a personagem principal à morte. Analisamos a Crônica sob a perspectiva das narrativas de testemunho bem como da crônica (AIO: 2007), pois percebemos que existem características de ambos os tipos textuais na obra de García Márquez, o que a torna, portanto, a nosso ver, uma narrativa que apresenta a fusão de diferentes características textuais, uma vez que nos apresenta os testemunhos do narrador e das personagens que vivenciaram os acontecimentos fúnebres daquela segunda-feira, através da ficcionalização de um fato cotidiano. Esse hibridismo se acentua quando vemos que há sempre um mistério rondando a narrativa, já que a mesma apresenta características próximas ao romance policial (BOILEAUNARCEJAC: 1991), fornecendo-nos, assim, a tríade típica desse gênero: o criminoso, a vítima e o crime. Analisamos também as memórias individuais e coletivas (HALBWACHS: 2006; BOSI: 2003) apresentadas pelo narrador e pelas personagens. O narrador nos apresenta não somente as visões das personagens, mas também suas impressões pessoais acerca da história, deixando, portanto, suas marcas dentro da narrativa / Abstract: The object of this research is to study the Chronicle of a Death Foretold written by the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez. This literary work is composed by accounts which provide the understanding of the facts about the death of the main character present in this narrative. It is analyzed from the perspectives of witness narratives and chronicle (AIO: 2007), because it is possible to notice that this both textual types exist in the Chronicle of a Death Foretold, demonstrating that this narrative contains different textual characteristics. The mixture of these textual characteristics is observed in the narrator and in the characters evidences of their mournful experiences through the daily events fictionalization. This hybridism is intensified because there is always a mystery around the narrative as it is also observed in detective novels (BOILEAU-NARCEJAC: 1991), in which there is the triad: victim, criminal and the crime. It is also analyzed the individual and collective memories presented by the narrator and the characters, as studied by (HALBWACHS: 2006; BOSI: 2003). In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the narrator presents not just the characters views, but also his own impressions about the whole story, leaving his point of view about the narrative / Mestre

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This study attempted to detremine some of the outstanding problems arising in the teaching of reading to first-grade Spanish-American children, and to discover and evaluate methods and materials used by administrators and first-grade teachers in attempting to solve these problems.

The author of this dissertation examines the role of the United States Navy in the American annexation of the Philippines during the War of 1898. Many historians have considered the American “Imperialist Moment,” but few have considered the primary role played by the United States Navy. The Navy had experienced a period of remarkable growth during the 1880s and 1890s, when that service had switched from the power of sail to steam. The change to steam had been possible only through the study of the British Royal Navy and its engineers. When the U.S. Navy completed its modernization project in the 1890s, it came away with a British understanding of naval engineering and of naval priorities – including the desire to possess naval bases around the globe. This dissertation contains a detailed account of how the U.S. Navy came to understand its needs, and this dissertation demonstrates how the War of 1898 brought home to naval planners the necessity of possessing exclusive American coal stores during wartime. Last, this dissertation includes the thoughts of the most significant American naval planners of the time and their British mentors. This paper is an intellectual history of the U.S. Navy of the late nineteenth century and a specific history of the basis for American foreign policy of the twentieth century. Keywords: History of U.S. Foreign Policy, American Naval History, War of 1898

Within ethnic literature, there appears to have been a rise in unique narrative styles. What was once considered a minimized form of expression, creative nonfiction as a genre is now evolving and includes a diverse group of authors. Yet, the usage of ethno-literacy styles in the creative nonfiction genre is still largely unnoticed amongst the academic community. For students within academe, there is a limited comprehension of the expansive ethnic genres for writing and reading, simply that traditional genres of prose and poetry exist. Through analysis of the writing style know as testimonio within Latino/a literature, this thesis will attempt to dismantle the notion that one must write solely with traditional creative writing limitations. In particular, this research will focus on whether the testimonio writing style can be considered its own genre, or a sub-genre of creative nonfiction. It will also draw upon various feminist theories in order to show the perspectives and contributions of women within the genre. Furthermore, I aim to reconstruct such creative writing restrictions by providing a historical analysis and survey of literatures of both testimonio and creative nonfiction. For the survey of literatures, four creative nonfiction personal essays and four testimonios were chosen according to chronological and cultural influence. Nonfiction authors, Seneca, Michel de Montaigne, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald created the personal essays being analyzed. The testimonies that will be examined were written by Helena Viramontes, Sandra Maria Esteves, Dolores Prida, and Rigoberta Menchu. Finally, a synthesis of the research will be brought to close by including a creative piece that will aim to utilize a cross-blending of the two writing styles.

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