Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Theatre, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 68).

Publicada en 1993, País de Jauja de Edgardo Rivera Martínez se convirtió en una de las novelas más importantes de la narrativa peruana contemporánea. Esta relata las vivencias de Claudio Alaya Manrique durante un periodo de vacaciones en la ciudad de Jauja. Como relato de un proceso de madurez, País de Jauja puede ser catalogada como una novela de aprendizaje o Bildungsroman, subgénero de origen europeo que narra el tránsito a la adultez de un protagonista niño o adolescente. El presente trabajo estudiará la novela de Rivera Martínez dentro del marco de la novela de aprendizaje en la cual tiene sus raíces, a la vez que explorará la singularidad andina de este relato. Para dicho fin se analizará la tradición de la novela de aprendizaje y su asimilación en el contexto peruano. A continuación, se establecerá el vínculo con la narrativa andina y se explorarán los recursos técnicos que despliega la novela. En tercer lugar, se determinará cómo se construye la memoria en el texto, para finalmente sostener que País de Jauja elabora una propuesta simbólica de nación. / Tesis

Ismael ‘Maelo’ Rivera (1931–1987) is a foundational Afro-Puerto Rican salsa singer. Known among his fans, peers, and contemporary researchers as El Sonero Mayor (loosely, The Greatest Singer-Improviser), Maelo’s voice became inscribed in the aural tapestry of barrios in Latin America and the Caribbean, beginning in the mid-1950s. After his death on May 13, 1987, Maelo has gained a sense of sacredness amongst fans and devotees who identify themselves as maeleros and maelistas in places such as Panama, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico. My interlocutors ascribe Maelo’s songs with a particular affective strength that for them differentiates him from other salsa singers. His music has become the medium for the creation of relational bonds that respond to their particular local contexts as well as their personal and collective histories. In both countries, maeleros and maelistas listen to his songs as stories where they find keys to endure the difficulties of day-to-day life in their respective socio-political, cultural, and economic situations. This dissertation studies the friendships and relational affinities maeleros and maelistas articulate through Maelo’s music and biography, examining the creative work they do in order to celebrate his presence in their everyday. I argue that Maelo inspires a sense of secular devotion amongst his fans through the ways in which he mediates the crossing of the sacred and the profane through his repertoire and life by voicing multiple expressions from diverse Black Atlantic religions. I understand the sense of communion maeleros and maelistas share as a devotional sense of kinship in which friendship, and mainly male friendships, are central. I propose that such mediations of the sacred, and the Maelo-centered sense of devotional kinship I study, must be framed in relation to larger histories of the political definition of life in Latin America and the Caribbean. In such histories, the spectrality of the voice has served both as a tool for casting Black and indigenous groups as unworthy of citizenship and as a means for these groups to endure such marginalization. By examining the context-specific ways in which Maelo connoisseurs reinterpret his music and life in Venezuela, Panama, and Puerto Rico in his afterlife, this dissertation proposes that maeleros and maelistas enact a political theology that dramatizes the contemporary stakes of larger bio-political histories in which illness has long-been connected to delinquency as tools of power used to police and discipline modern citizen bodies. This is vital to one of the central theses of this dissertation: that Maelo’s stories of vocal illness, addiction, and imprisonment—what I call his wounded masculinity—are key to the sense of sacredness he has gained during his afterlife as a spectral figure whose songs, images, and myth accompany his fans, peers, and devotees in their everyday.

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Med denna uppsats har jag ämnat att undersöka det skifte i popularitet och berömmelse som har skett mellan Diego Rivera och Frida Kahlo, vilka var ett par under stora delar av sina respektive liv. Vid tiden då de verkade var Rivera den mest erkände av de båda, men med 1900-talets senare hälft har Kahlos berömmelse kommit att bli vidsträckt. Detta skifte har jag undersökt genom att studera konstnärernas liv och konstnärskap i ljuset av såväl nationella som internationella omständigheter vid tiden för konstnärernas verkande, och därefter studerat åren som följer deras död. Då har jag återigen tagit hänsyn till internationella såväl som nationella perspektiv, och faktorer såsom stil, politik och kulturella företeelser har undersökts för att klarlägga hur, när och varför detta popularitetsskifte sker.

Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2009. / Thesis advisor: Antonio García-Lozada. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Spanish." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-107). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1974. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Guias para exploração mineral são normalmente baseados em modelos conceituais de depósitos. Esses guias são, normalmente, baseados na experiência dos geólogos, em dados descritivos e em dados genéticos. Modelamentos numéricos, probabilísticos e não probabilísticos, para estimar a ocorrência de depósitos minerais é um novo procedimento que vem a cada dia aumentando sua utilização e aceitação pela comunidade geológica. Essa tese utiliza recentes metodologias para a geração de mapas de favorablidade mineral. A denominada Ilha Cristalina de Rivera, uma janela erosional da Bacia do Paraná, situada na porção norte do Uruguai, foi escolhida como estudo de caso para a aplicação das metodologias. A construção dos mapas de favorabilidade mineral foi feita com base nos seguintes tipos de dados, informações e resultados de prospecção: 1) imagens orbitais; 2) prospecção geoquimica; 3) prospecção aerogeofísica; 4) mapeamento geo-estrutural e 5) altimetria. Essas informacões foram selecionadas e processadas com base em um modelo de depósito mineral (modelo conceitual), desenvolvido com base na Mina de Ouro San Gregorio. O modelo conceitual (modelo San Gregorio), incluiu características descritivas e genéticas da Mina San Gregorio, a qual abrange os elementos característicos significativos das demais ocorrências minerais conhecidas na Ilha Cristalina de Rivera. A geração dos mapas de favorabilidade mineral envolveu a construção de um banco de dados, o processamento dos dados, e a integração dos dados. As etapas de construção e processamento dos dados, compreenderam a coleta, a seleção e o tratamento dos dados de maneira a constituírem os denominados Planos de Informação. Esses Planos de Informação foram gerados e processados organizadamente em agrupamentos, de modo a constituírem os Fatores de Integração para o mapeamento de favorabilidade mineral na Ilha Cristalina de Rivera. Os dados foram integrados por meio da utilização de duas diferentes metodologias: 1) Pesos de Evidência (dirigida pelos dados) e 2) Lógica Difusa (dirigida pelo conhecimento). Os mapas de favorabilidade mineral resultantes da implementação das duas metodologias de integração foram primeiramente analisados e interpretados de maneira individual. Após foi feita uma análise comparativa entre os resultados. As duas metodologias xxiv obtiveram sucesso em identificar, como áreas de alta favorabilidade, as áreas mineralizadas conhecidas, além de outras áreas ainda não trabalhadas. Os mapas de favorabilidade mineral resultantes das duas metodologias mostraram-se coincidentes em relação as áreas de mais alta favorabilidade. A metodologia Pesos de Evidência apresentou o mapa de favorabilidade mineral mais conservador em termos de extensão areal, porém mais otimista em termos de valores de favorabilidade em comparação aos mapas de favorabilidade mineral resultantes da implementação da metodologia Lógica Difusa. Novos alvos para exploração mineral foram identificados e deverão ser objeto de investigação em detalhe. / Guidelines for mineral exploration are normally based on models conceptualized for a certain type of deposit been investigated. These guidelines are normally based on geologists experience in a certain kind of mineralization, descriptive and genetical data, and expertise judgement. A numerical probabilistic and not probabilistic approach to predict the occurrence of a certain type of deposit at a certain place is a new procedure which started to gain acceptance among the exploration community. This thesis uses recent methodologies based on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to generate mineral favorability maps for gold exploration. A case study at Rivera Crystalline Island, Paraná’s basin erosion, situated in northern Uruguay illustrate the method. To build favorability maps five sources of data and information were used and integrated, including: 1) satelite images; 2) geochemical survey; 3) airborne geophysical survey; 4) geo-structural mapping and 5) altimetry. These informations were combined with a conceptual model based on the characteristics of existent mines in region, mainly the San Gregorio Mine. The conceptual model included descriptive and genetic characteristics of San Gregorio Gold Mine, which is the most significant known gold occurrence in the region. The construction of favorability maps involved database preparation, data processing and the use of tools to integrate all different informations. During data processing distinct maps were generated and disposed in layers (Information Layers) for further integration. The multiple layers were organised in various groups named Integration Factors; i.e. geophysical factor, geochemical factor, etc. Afterwards, the layers were combined using two distinct methodologies, named: 1) Weights of Evidence (data driven) and 2) Fuzzy Logic (knowledge driven). Favorability maps resulted from using the two above mentioned techniques. Resultant maps from both methods indicated high favorability at known occurences validating the approach. The maps also coincides in showing high favorability at various other sites within the Rivera Crystalline Island. Weights of Evidence delineated smaller high favorable areas when compared to Fuzzy Logic based maps. However, Weigths of Evidence produced higher probability within the favorable zone when compared to the maps generated using Fuzzy Logic framework. New exploration targets were identified and should be object of detailed investigation.

Essa dissertação é uma proposta de releitura do conjunto de murais no interior da Capela de Chapingo, México. Tal releitura de crítica artística relaciona-se à apropriação de uma metodologia derivada da própria noção de capela, metodologia essa que compactua com o ambiente artístico em questão e com a fenomenologia do contemplador desse conjunto. O objetivo dessa proposta é apresentar as nuances envolvidas no conceito-chave, por parte da historiografia artístico-religiosa, de suporte-capela, isto é, a capela não apenas como ambiente religioso, mas como ocasião artística / This paper is a re-reading proposal for the set murals inside the Chapingos Chapel, Mexico. Such critice of art are related to appropiation of a methodology derived from the own notion of chapel. The objetive of this proposal and methodology is to present the details involved in the key-concept of support-chapel not only as a religius espace, but as artistic medium too

This translation and commentary thesis presents a theory of literary translation based on the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, informed by and applied to a translation of parts 0, 1 and 2 of the novel A fuego eterno condenados (1994) by Chilean author Roberto Rivera Vicencio. Using an approach based on the iterative development of a theoretical framework and translation, it examines how specific translation problems from the text can contribute to and benefit from a translation theory based on the ideas of Deleuze. Analysing the work of Lawrence Venuti as indicative of a shift by Translation Studies from thinking of translation in terms of equivalence to thinking of it in terms of difference, the thesis builds on Venuti’s research, offering a systematic treatment of Deleuze’s earlier work to theorise translation as the production of simulacra in which the translator creates solutions in the domain of the Actual to a translation problem that exists in the Virtual. It then goes on to examine Deleuze’s later work, written in collaboration with F ́elix Guattari, to develop a conceptual framework based on the concept of the texture of prose derived from the principles of a minor, or nomad, science. This framework is used to address specific problems arising in the translation, deriving a series of practical techniques and considerations that can be used to create this kind of texture in the application of a Deleuzean theory of translation to literary texts.