Volume 1. How to be someone: A formula to Conquer the world is the misunderstanding by a Latin-American of what success means in the First World. / <p>Volume 1 is the first edition of a following publication to be released every April.</p><p></p>

El pintor quiteño, Miguel de Santiago (ca. 1630-1706), siendo especialista en series pictóricas, emprendió un estudio anatómico artístico para representar a las imágenes religiosas con un elevado nivel de realismo. Es así que pintó una serie de ocho pinturas conmemorando la tradición de las Siete Palabras de Cristo. El carácter vanguardista de esta serie elaborada en la Audiencia de Quito a mediados del siglo XVII, hizo que se las asocie con una leyenda. Actualmente una de estas obras se encuentra en el Museo de los Descalzos del Rímac en la ciudad de Lima, y constituye el objeto de estudio para la presente tesis. Así que se emprendió una labor investigativa dentro de archivos, bibliotecas, museos, entre otras estancias del Ecuador y Perú, con el fin de identificar la procedencia, atribución, contexto y motivos de elaboración, conexión y variantes de la leyenda, finalmente se analiza sus funciones y significados a lo largo de toda su existencia. / The quitenian painter Miguel de Santiago (ca. 1630-1706) had being a specialist in pictorical series. He started an artistic and anatomic study in order to represent religius images with a high realism level. Thus he painted a serie with eight paintings depicting Christ’s Seven words on the cross. The avangardist pictorical serie made in the Audiencia de Quito in the mid seventeenth century, was associated with a legend. Currently one of these paintings is in the Descalzo´s Museum in Rímac district at Lima city. Therefore this painting is the subjet to study in this thesis. The researching had taken place in archives, libraries, museums and other locations in Ecuador and Peru. In order to indetify the provenance, atribution, context and reasons for the creation, legend’s relations and variants. Finally a survey of functions and meanings throughouth the painting’s existence. / Tesis

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:21:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tania Cristina Bordon Miotto.pdf: 14092663 bytes, checksum: 3c34d7165d854ef70caf725a625be014 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-04-11 / This paper seeks to understand and summarize the design methodology of restoration of the Chapel of St. Michael in São Paulo, in order to understand the attitudes of intervention that allowed her to reintegrate the community and know the procedures crucial in this new qualification. Since the goal we intend to investigate this situation that gave it importance, and list the shares of the pioneering phase of IPHAN with the current intervention. At this stage it must be demonstrated that preliminary steps and executive ended up happening simultaneously, with the working methods of empiricism, visible in the unfinished documentary research, the fragile oral records, in the absence of technicians and laboratories and also by the lack of previous experience. From the effects of history on the identity of the Monument, with interest in the outcome - in light of existing documents - we aim to understand the connections of greater importance that collaborated to develop the theme of heritage. Confronted the contents of the letters to property, attempted to understand how, in the reality of implementation, the spatial, historical and aesthetic stand out in the intervention process. Also on opposing sides of the theories of restoration, important in relation to pipelines and showing that the title of heritage makes us aware of the facts and aware of the attitudes and their consequences / Este trabalho busca conhecer e sumarizar a metodologia de projeto de restauro da Capela de São Miguel Arcanjo, em São Paulo, no propósito de entender os posicionamentos de intervenção que possibilitaram reintegrá-la à comunidade, bem como conhecer os procedimentos determinantes nesta nova qualificação. Como o objetivo pretende-se investigar esta situação que lhe conferiu importância e relacionar as ações da fase pioneira do IPHAN com as da intervenção atual. Nesta etapa deve-se demonstrar que etapas preliminares e executivas acabavam acontecendo simultaneamente, com empirismo de métodos de trabalho, visíveis nas inacabadas pesquisas documentais, nos frágeis registros orais, na ausência de técnicos e laboratórios e, ainda, pela falta de experiência anterior. A partir dos efeitos da história na identidade do Monumento, com interesse nos resultados - à luz dos documentos existentes nos propomos a entender as conexões de maior relevância que colaboraram para desenvolver o tema do patrimônio. Confrontados os conteúdos das cartas patrimoniais, tentou-se entender como, na realidade de execução, as características espaciais, históricas e estéticas se destacam no processo de intervenção. Também se polemizou acerca das teorias de restauro, fundamentais em relação às condutas e mostrando que o título de patrimônio nos torna conscientes dos fatos e cientes sobre as atitudes e suas conseqüências

The Central American literary community and historiographical critics maintain a constant dialogue in regards to banana literature. Authors such as Asturias, Fallas, and Amador capture the pervasive nature of the banana enclave in their works. My research reveals the ways in which capitalist power controls and redefines spaces in the banner enclave. By taking a closer look these novels reveal the monopolistic power of the United Fruit Company exploits and destroys the natural space, this manuscript becomes a geographical map of the fictionalized banana enclaves, exposing the capitalist oppressing forces, which dominate nature and control the company workers. Chapter one explores different historical interpretations of the banana enclave, focusing on the geographical spaces in Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica. The second chapter discusses the novel Prisión verde (1950), by Ramon A. Amador, and pointed to enclave plantations and neighboring towns as weaponized spaces that control the inhabitants. Chapter three focuses on Mamita yunai (1941), by Carlos L. Fallas, to show how the banana enclave exploits natural spaces and leave a country ruined by corruption. The fourth chapter concentrates on the banana trilogy by Miguel A. Asturias composed of Viento fuerte (1950), El papa verde (1954) y Los ojos de los enterrados (1960), and examines how geographical spaces in the banana enclave intertwine with total economic, political, and social control in Guatemala. In sum, this thesis brings to light the narrative techniques these authors use to construct and manipulate space within the banana enclave, as a reflection of the capitalist world of Central America.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Spanish)--Vanderbilt University, Dec. 2007. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

<p>The principal questions that are high lightened in this study are: How is the discrimination of the Indigenous people in Latin-America represented in the works of Jose María Arguedas and Miguel Angel Asturias? How are these two authors interrelated in terms of the defense of a cultural belonging? And finally, can these be associated to Paulo Coelho’s narrative content and techniques?</p><p>This work shows how, as Nelson Gonzalez-Ortega names it, a narrative discourse of resistance (based on the consequences of the cultural merging of the European and Latin-American people) is expressed and transformed into modern literature. It shows how the works of these authors protect and transmit the interests and the cultural origins of the Latin-American Indigenous people. These origins are expressed by language, myths, storytelling techniques and the presentation of an alternative perspective of the world. It also shows, through analysis of their writing, how some of these authors as dual cultural human beings struggled to balance the two cultural elements they are constituted of.</p><p>Focus will be on Asturias Hombrez de Maiz, Arguedas Los ríos profundos and Coelhos 11 minutos and El Zahir.</p>

The principal questions that are high lightened in this study are: How is the discrimination of the Indigenous people in Latin-America represented in the works of Jose María Arguedas and Miguel Angel Asturias? How are these two authors interrelated in terms of the defense of a cultural belonging? And finally, can these be associated to Paulo Coelho’s narrative content and techniques? This work shows how, as Nelson Gonzalez-Ortega names it, a narrative discourse of resistance (based on the consequences of the cultural merging of the European and Latin-American people) is expressed and transformed into modern literature. It shows how the works of these authors protect and transmit the interests and the cultural origins of the Latin-American Indigenous people. These origins are expressed by language, myths, storytelling techniques and the presentation of an alternative perspective of the world. It also shows, through analysis of their writing, how some of these authors as dual cultural human beings struggled to balance the two cultural elements they are constituted of. Focus will be on Asturias Hombrez de Maiz, Arguedas Los ríos profundos and Coelhos 11 minutos and El Zahir.

El objetivo de la presente investigación responde a la voluntad de abordar un acercamiento al pensamiento unamuniano desde una doble perspectiva, la literaria y artística, desvelando cómo las ideas estéticas se integran en su discurso hasta configurar un todo indisoluble. He establecido cinco períodos: La primera etapa, que comprende de 1888 a 1895, se inicia con el artículo “Madrid y Bilbao. Reflexiones de un bilbaíno en la corte” de marzo de 1888, en el cual expresa por primera vez inquietud por la cultura artística. Al cabo de un año, en “Alcalá de Henares. Castilla y Vizcaya” de 1899, Unamuno sienta las bases de su credo estético al plantear la existencia del arte vascongado, la búsqueda intrahistórica que desarrollará en los ensayos de En torno al casticismo de 1895 y los valores estéticos del paisaje. La segunda etapa, que oscila de 1896 a 1900 al ser nombrado Rector de la Universidad de Salamanca, continúa con el planteamiento intrahistórico, cuya premisa resume en que hay que buscar en el pueblo la materia prima del arte (“Sobre el cultivo de la demótica”, 1896). Otro de los pilares sobre el que entreteje su discurso enlaza con la visión de un arte plenairista que entronca con Beruete y Francisco Giner de los Ríos, Miguel de Unamuno se asoma al nuevo siglo como espectador reticente a las nuevas vanguardias que irrumpen en el panorama artístico. La tercera etapa, la más extensa, abarca de 1901 a 1914, resulta crucial para adentrarnos en el juicio estético de Unamuno ya que es cuando ejerce propiamente de crítico de arte y desarrolla todas las concepciones estéticas gestadas en los anteriores años. Se inmiscuye en el ámbito de la crítica teniendo como referente la Estética de Hegel, El Breviario de estética de Benedetto Croce y la Historia de las ideas estéticas de Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo y vierte las bases de su crítica pictórica en “De arte pictótica I y II” de 1912. No obstante la principal aportación es la de erigirse en estandarte de la escuela vasca con Zuloaga a la cabeza, escribió: “Zuloaga el vasco” de 1908, “Nemesio Mogrobejo” de 1910, “Darío de Regoyos” de 1913 y “La escultura honrada” de 1913. La cuarta etapa se extiende de 1915 a 1924, año del exilio a Fuerteventura. Se ratifica a favor de la libertad de expresión y se posiciona contra el estilo grandilocuente del arte germánico. En el contexto de la Primera Guerra Mundial la implicación periodística del escritor es esencialmente política, a excepción de varios artículos dedicados a artistas vascos como: “La labor patriótica de Zuloaga” de 1917, “La obra de arte de Adolfo Guiard”, de 1918 y “En el Museo del Prado” de 1919. La quinta y última etapa, de 1925 a 1936, marcada por el destierro voluntario en París y Hendaya, por la inestabilidad política y por la emergente Guerra Civil. Todo ello sume al escritor en un estado de desaliento que le aleja de las inquietudes artísticas, a excepción de “Mis santas campañas. Paco Iturrino”. Datan de esta época algunos de los retratos más sobresalientes del escritor, como el de Zuloaga de 1925, los de Juan de Echevarría, y el de Daniel Vázquez Díaz de 1936. Del Unamuno dibujante, al Unamuno retratado; el escritor convertido en asunto pictórico, motivo que le lleva a relacionarse fraternalmente con los pintores coetáneos hasta el punto de compartir con los artistas de la vertiente cántabra no sólo una confesada amistad sino también un mismo credo estético, tal y como se analiza a lo largo del presente estudio "Unamuno y las artes". / This research aims to reveal the possible links that existed between the paradigmatic thinker, Miguel de Unamuno, and art, according to their particularities and various forms of expression, artists, concepts and aesthetic preferences. However the facet of Unamuno seen in some biographies (perhaps Colette and Jean - Claude Rabaté along with Jon Juaristi have delved deeper into the subject), his relationship with art remains known but not studied in depth. Some authors have explored this direction with valuable contributions and many of them have highlighted the ideological-plastic understanding between Unamuno and Zuloaga as Tellechea Idígoras, Calvo Serraller, José Carlos Mainer, F. Garín, F. Tomás and Miguel Zuzaga. It is essential to consult catalogs as El Greco: La seva revaloració pel modernisme català, Sorolla y la Hispanic Society – Una visión de la España de entre siglos -, Sorolla - Zuloaga. Dos visiones para un cambio de siglo, and above all: La huella del 98 en la pintura española contemporánea. From his beginnings as an artist in the garret of the painter Lecuona, recognition of his drawing skills and his confession of longing to be a painter, has drawn a line of permanent contact with the arts that has been strengthened by regular treatment with contemporary painters. His incursion in arts as an art critic, as did also Valle-Inclán and Azorín, the interest generated by almost all the artistic intellectuality of end of century, Cossio's monograph on El Greco, the Historia de las ideas estéticas en España by Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, and the Breviario de estética by Benedetto Croce, all favored the gestation of a culture broth which acquired consistency early in the century with the emergence of the avant-garde and the theoretical background of the manifestos. By philosophical-artistic compenetration Unamuno polls reality and extracts from it the intrahistorical formula. Both Velazquez and Zuloaga rose up the genuinely “castizo” reveling the essence of being. The writer oscillates between tradition and progress to enrich his speech with the visual art component, while claims for the humanizing role and drives with Giner de los Ríos the aesthetic appreciation of landscape. From a social conception of art, Unamuno becomes chronicler and critic to establish the basis of creed aesthetic that will be described in the following pages.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 271-277). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

One of the most salient characteristics of Cervantes's literary production is his fascination, one might even say his obsession, with the human capacity for transformation. Nearly all of his plays, novellas, and novels feature characters that adopt alternative identities and disguise or dissimulate their true, original selves. The Novelas ejemplares (1613) encompass a veritable cornucopia of characters that pass themselves off as another. There are women who pass as men, Christians as Turks, Catholics as Protestants, and noblemen as gypsies, among many others. Identity, or at least its appearance, is represented as fluid and malleable. By creatively controlling the signs that they project in public, the characters of the novellas demonstrate a remarkable ability to adapt to innumerable contingencies. Similarly, subjects of the Spanish empire, driven particularly by ethno-religious and socio-economic motives, utilized craft and guile to conceal their identity or simulate another. On a theoretical level, both in Spain and throughout Europe, intellectuals explored the human capacity for transformation, and there emerged a new sense of interiority. As Stephen Greenblatt observes, in the Renaissance, "there appears to be an increased self-consciousness about the fashioning of human identity as a manipulable, artful process" (2). In this study I examine the abundance of deceit and disguise in Cervantes's collection of twelve novellas within the work's sociohistorical context. Specifically, I analyze how the novellas are embedded in two particular threads of cultural discourse on human identity: Spanish social history and early modern European intellectual history. / text