Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa. / After many years of hard study and careful research, we can state that focusing on the teaching area is not the key to achieve a good proficiency when learning a foreign language. This idea is based on the fact that, even though there have been many attempts to develop a good method for teaching languages through many decades, none of them has proved to be accepted by the whole language teaching community. Since our work was originally planned to encompass teaching and learning, from our point of view the process of learning is undoubtedly the most important thing. Consequently it must be studied in depth.

Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Literatura. / En general, la condición femenina se manifiesta en los roles principales y secundarios que la mujer ha adoptado tradicionalmente en la sociedad, es decir, la manera como la mujer ha logrado insertarse en ella. Esta manera de insertarse corresponde claramente, en primer lugar, al hecho de que la sociedad está regida por el hombre; es por eso que se habla de una sociedad masculina, machista, que le ha impuesto roles a la mujer; segundo, a que los roles de la mujer están determinados por su configuración biológica, ineludible para determinar su función, y la tercera consideración se refiere a las presiones e influencias que el devenir histórico ha dejado caer sobre la mujer. Aunque las presiones de la historia afectan a ambos géneros, la condición de dependencia de la mujer las hace más vulnerables. Esto se revela en el trasfondo histórico social que da marco a la narrativa de la escritora que vamos a estudiar, a la vez que determina actitudes y reacciones frente a las imposiciones del medio en que se desenvuelve. Especialmente, en la narrativa de Edith Wharton se hace presente en forma muy marcada el trasfondo puritano que la presiona constantemente y que la lleva a explorar las contradicciones de la vida, aquéllas que en particular afectan a la mujer. Específicamente, estas contradicciones aparecen en el retrato que Wharton hace de sus personajes femeninos, que nos describen cómo ellas, llevadas por la pasión, enfrentan situaciones que las llevan a elegir un mundo opuesto al que su situación las condenaba a vivir.

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Hispánica mención Literatura

nforme final de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Hispánica con mención en Literatura / En este primer capítulo nos proponemos mostrar un panorama general acerca de la ciencia ficción (en adelante CF) y las problemáticas que pueden desprenderse de ella, para así tener una base sobre la cual instalar nuestros análisis personales de diferentes novelas del género. La primera parte del Seminario de Grado el curso se enfocó en abordar lo que más adelante expondremos, es decir, la historia del género, su definición, y sus distintas manifestaciones en subgéneros; para lo cual leímos y vimos varias o bras que resultan representativas de la CF. Además, se dedicó tiempo a procesar la bibliografía con la que trabajaremos, y a discutir distintos aspectos de la misma. Así, durante la segunda parte del curso, enfocada a la producción de nuestros informes fin ales, pudimos aplicar y ampliar lo visto en clases en función de la obra que cada uno decidió analizar. Antes de comenzar, es pertinente mencionar un suceso que tomó lugar tras asistir al primer encuentro de seminario de grado: nos enteramos de que todos manejamos un nivel de inglés que nos permite leer en el idioma. Este aspecto resultó relevante, pues la gran mayoría de las obras y bibliografía de ciencia ficción es producida por angloparlantes. Luego de llegar un acuerdo común, el profesor guía decidió reestructurar el programa del curso, en función de incluir textos actuales que carecen de traducciones. Tal decisión impactó nuestro paso por el seminario, pues el espectro de posibilidades para elegir nuestro objeto de estudio se vio favorablemente ampliado.

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Tesis para optar al grado de Licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa / Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades / Faulkner’s fiction is pregnant with the uncontrollable forces phenomenon. These forces override human volition and prediction. In The Sound and the Fury the most important expression of these forces is Caddy as a symbol of female sexuality. In this thesis I explore how characters view this phenomenon. These phenomenon is investigated by using Ricoeur’s hermeneutical literary approach

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa / The scope of this work is to understand the ways in which different elements concerning a postmodern view of Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things come together to conform a comprehensive understanding of this narrative. I plan on considering urban subjects and their movements within the city by means of space ―the place they occupy inside the city, their activities―how they plan on surviving, and the ways in which history and memory collide to form a sense of community that is long gone. Also, elements such as the city itself as a place where interactions between people living in duress are conducted, and the space as background for those interactions. All of these aspects will play part in finally acknowledging to what extent is this a city of ‘Last things’ a place which is on the verge of destruction, but that recycles and transforms the last things into new ones. This will take on the form of the point of view of a newcomer to the city, someone who experiences these new situations as she finds herself into them, with the fresh eyes of someone who has been outside it, and understands what the difficulties are in finding a sense of belonging in a place which does not lend itself to do so, but in doing so finds herself entangled in the city’s movements.

Facultad de Filosof?a y Humanidades / Departamento de Ling??stica / Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa / Introduction From the emergence of the term Utopia in Thomas More?s book of the same name, many controversial and prolific discussions have appeared throughout time. These discussions involved not only cultural and sociological aspects, but also those concerned more with the inner dimension of the self: his desires, ambitions and transformations. What More really meant by using this term we have no certainty, because in it he refers to several different factors that have an effect in the life of the island portrayed in his book. In opposition to Utopia, meaning ?a happy place where a person has nothing to worry about because his/her government provides everything they need?, there is Dystopia, which could be defined as ?a society being controlled by a repressive state, in both individual and collective ways?. Starting from this point, the general topic that gives rise to the object of study in this work is the urban subject, Anna Blume in Paul Auster?s In the Country of Last Things, immersed in a dystopian city nearly to be extinguished and conditioned by spaces that exert powerful forces on the prevalence of the self.

The character of Holden Caulfield can be sincerely identified as an ornament. An ornament, such as a flower vase in an impeccable table, or a beautiful desk in the middle of a study room delicately decorated. But for this purposes, Holden Caulfield is a ornament of a society that is not aware of its existence or his importance. An ornament within his family, that looks more like an award cabinet than a loving Christmas postcard.

Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades / Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licencia en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa / Our research began through Blake’s poetry, by seeing how the people he portrayed were engulfed by the city, how this new modern construct affected their daily living. As Heather Glen has very accurately stated in her Blake’s London: “The eighteenth-century London street was […] a place where that sense of the other as object –often as feeble and wretched object- […] was the dominant mode of relationship (148).” This new type of urban mode of living is extreme to the 18th century Englishman, a place where the rule becomes to survive, if you can, in this distant society. “This world simply is. Reciprocal human relationships in which otherness is acknowledged and the needs of all harmonized do not exist: the only relationships […] are instrumental ones. People have become objects (155).” As is very well shown through Glen and Blake in this case, this is a very bleak prospect. Cities become in a way, object-enemies, by this I mean that the city is distant and unfamiliar, in much the same way people are according to Glen, and each citizen has to do what he can to survive in this hostile world. Glen specifically focuses her analysis on Blake’s London, a portrayal of this growing metropolis that pushes the common Londoners further into ‘their’ corner; they watch it with fear because it is becoming distant. They belong in the city, for without them the city would not function, yet they are mere objects, they are not part of its creation or development. They are not free in the city.