The impact of economic crisis on tourism in Spain seen by the perspective of newspaper (study based on newspaper articles) The aim of the thesis is recognition of possibilities of analysis and interpretation of texts and reflection on limitations that emerge from this analysis. The thesis is divided in theoretical part and research. The theory starts with politic-economic background of the topic and continues with linguistic specifics of text analysis. The role of media is mentioned afterwards; also the description of the language used in the media and principles that rule newspaper article creation are described. One chapter is dedicated to the construction and description of corpus. Theoretical description of discourse analysis and narratological analysis follows. Research focuses on qualitative analysis and narratological analysis based on corpus written in Czech as well as in Spanish.\\

This study aims to investigate and analyse certain aspects regarding the current condition of the Philippines. Both of its culture and its polities, approached within perspectives of historical epochs of colonialism and its aftermaths regarding post-colonial discourse. The contemporary society of the Philippines has been deeply imprinted by its colonial legacies and left a profound mark on its culture, tradition and the development of its politics both from the institutional perspectives and international context. This project aims to confront some of the structural roots and causes that contribute to its national crisis such as mass poverty and the persisting oppression that permeates within the society of the Philippines, regarding its national identity and its global status as a former colony under western powers. The context of this project is about the enduring and uneasy relationship between the Philippines and the former western hegemonic powers, Spain in the late 15th century and the United States in the early 19th century, that have assumed territorial border in the archipelago. In which it has subsequently determined and consolidated, however constrained and inescapable, many of the historical, cultural and political formations that have influenced developmental trajectories in the Philippines Society.

xii, 128 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Beginning in the early decades of the nineteenth century, British artists became increasingly fascinated by the Alhambra palace complex in Granada, Spain. This thesis examines the prints of three such artists who traveled to Granada, James Cavanah Murphy (1760-1814), John Frederick Lewis (1805-1876) and David Roberts (1796- 1864), in order to shed light on their shifting attitudes and approaches to the Alhambra. A comparison of Murphy's publication of 1815 and the works of Lewis and Roberts, published in the 1830s, will reveal a shift from an attempt to accurately and methodically record Granada's palace complex, to an increasingly subjective and emotionally-based approach. The social and cultural context of Britain and Spain in the early nineteenth century, and the role played by the accompanying text in these publications will also be considered. / Committee in Charge: Dr. Andrew Schulz, Chair; Dr. Kate Mondloch; Dr. Elizabeth Bohls

Between 1810 and 1826 Spain lost most of her possessions in the Americas, and the inhabitants of Spanish America ceased to be subjects of the king, and became citizens of a series of new republics such as Mexico, Peru, Chile and Colombia. This thesis explores how the transition from colonial to republican rule was experienced by the inhabitants of the provinces of Santa Marta and Riohacha (Colombia), and the extent to which the transition implied a radical break with the colonial past. Santa Marta was among the most important royalist strongholds in the northern part of Spanish South America, and the thesis offers an interpretation of the much-neglected theme of Spanish American royalism during the independence period. It focuses on the social and 'ethnic' configuration of the provinces, and it discusses how different social/ 'ethnic' groups were constructed in the colonial period, how they responded and acted during the wars of independence and what the transition to republican rule implied for the make-up of nineteenth-century society. The analyses of late colonial and early republican society are done principally (but not exclusively) through a detailed discussion of marriage practices and patterns. The study is based primarily on archival sources from Spanish and Colombian depositories.

This study discusses the self-steem and self-concept perceived by Spanish adolescents through the Millon Adolescent Personality Inventoty (M.A.P.I.). The participants were 342/ 364 adolescent of both sexes between 13 and 18 years, divided into two age groups (13-15 and 16-18 years old). All scored significantly low in self-steeem or self-concept for their development. Results showed that these adolescents were socially unconfortable, annoyed with their school responsabilities, insecure, annoyed with their body image, emotionally weak and exhibited low academic achievement. / Este estudio tiene como objetivo el análisis de la autoestima y del autoconcepto percibido por los adolescentes españoles a través del Millon Adolescent Personality Inventoty (M.A.P.I.). Los participantes fueron 342/364 adolescentes, entre 13 y 18 años, divididos en dos grupos de edades  (13-15 y 16-18 años), de ambos sexos, y que de una forma signicativa, perciben su autoestima o autoconcepto poco gratificante para su desarrollo. Los resultados denotan que estos adolescentes se muestran incómodos socialmente, molestos con sus obligaciones escolares, inseguros, fastidiados con su imagen corporal, emocionalmente lábiles y con un inadecuado rendimiento académico.

In the last decades of the nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth century, Spainand the emerging Hispanic American states substantially improved their relationships. Whenand why did the prestige of Spain in Hispanic America strengthen to the extent that it favoredan active and strong participation of the Crown as an arbitrator in sensitive border confl icts,as the case of the Peruvian-Ecuadorian controversy? This article presents an approach to therole of Spain as a moral and political authority in America in the late nineteenth century, withparticular emphasis on the case of boundary arbitration between Peru and Ecuador. / En las últimas décadas del siglo XIX e inicios del siglo XX se llevó a cabo una mejora sustancialen la relación entre España y los nacientes Estados hispanoamericanos. ¿Cuándoy por qué el prestigio de España en Hispanoamérica se fortaleció al extremo de favoreceruna activa y sólida participación de la Corona como árbitro en delicados confl ictos limítrofes,como el caso de la controversia peruano-ecuatoriana? En este artículo se presentauna aproximación a la fi gura de España como autoridad moral y política en el continenteamericano en las postrimerías del siglo XIX, con particular énfasis en el caso del arbitraje delímites entre el Perú y el Ecuador.

abstract: Arrangements of music from other instruments have always played a key role in expanding the guitar repertoire. This project investigates the life and work of eighteenth-century composer Antonio Soler (1729-1783), specifically his sonatas for solo keyboard. This study carries out a formal inquiry on Soler's influences, including a background of Soler's life and training, his connection with Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), and an overview of the eighteenth-century sonata in Spain. Timbres, articulations, tessitura, and other aspects of Spanish folk music are discussed as related to Soler's composition style. Five sonatas are analyzed in connection to Spanish folk music, and part of this study's focus was arranging the sonatas for two guitars: R. 48, 50, 60, 106 and 114. An overview of the current arrangements of Soler's sonatas for guitar is included in Appendix A. / Dissertation/Thesis / D.M.A. Music 2014

O teatro trans-ibérico: Raul Brandão e Valle-Inclán tem como objetivo: pesquisar, analisar e comparar a literatura dramática desses dois artistas e escritores contemporâneos; ambos representantes de suas gerações literárias, na península ibérica, e desencadeadores de uma moderna dramaturgia no início do século XX. Antes de apresentar o estudo comparativo do teatro português e espanhol, do início do século XX, faremos observar alguns aspectos históricos e sociais da contínua decadência peninsular deste período, questões que aproximam ambos ainda mais, e que enfaticamente influenciaram na formação dos temas, das concepções artísticas e literárias dos dramas desses dois autores de povos vizinhos. Um painel amplo e detalhado da vida e obra de cada autor, em seu respectivo contexto histórico, fez-se aqui necessário para vislumbrar o percurso realizado por cada um deles e o desenvolvimento de suas respectivas produções literárias. Testemunhas comprometidas com esse período, Raul Brandão e Valle-Inclán, ao término da Primeira Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), na plenitude literária de suas vidas, decidiram criar uma dramaturgia de vanguarda. Jesus Cristo em Lisboa (Brandão, 1927) e Los cuernos de Don Friolera (Valle-Inclán, 1921) são frutos do inconformismo de uma época conturbada; peças características de um teatro, que apostava em mudanças e, sobretudo, buscavam alguma reação sinestésica de suas respectivas sociedades. Elegemos os dois dramas mencionados, por serem considerados os precursores do teatro moderno, e por se tratarem de peças polêmicas, produções cinematográficas e de difícil encenação. Tratando-se também de estudo comparativo, recolhemos um conjunto de recepções críticas sobre nossos autores e suas respectivas obras dramáticas, em vida tanto quanto postumamente. Por fim, após investigação, conclui-se a respeito das diferenças e semelhanças desta dramaturgia ibérica, presente nas peças de Raul Brandão e Valle- Inclán. / The objective of O teatro trans-ibérico: Raul Brandão e Valle-Inclán is to research, to analyze and to compare those two artists\' dramatic literature and contemporary writers; both representatives of their literary generations, in the Iberian Peninsula, and provocative of a modern theater in the early century XX. Before presenting the comparative study of the Portuguese and Spanish theater, of the beginning of the century XX, we will observe some historical and social aspects of the continuous peninsular decadence of this period, subjects that approximate both still plus, and that emphatically they influenced in the formation of the themes, of the artistic and literary conceptions of those two authors\' of neighboring people dramas. A wide and detailed panel of the life and each author\'s work, in his/her respective historical context, was here necessary to glimpse the course accomplished by each one of them and the development of their respective literary productions. Witness committed with that period, Raul Brandão and Valle-Inclán, in the end of the First World War (1914-1918), in the literary fullness of their lives, they decided to create a vanguard theater. Jesus Cristo em Lisboa (Brandão, 1927) and Los cuernos de Don Friolera (Valle-Inclán, 1921) are the result of the dissatisfaction of a disturbed time; pieces characteristics of a theater, that it bet in changes and, above all, it looked for some reaction synesthésique of their respective societies. We chose the two mentioned dramas, because they are considered the precursors of the modern theater, and because they were controversial pieces, cinematographic productions and of difficult staging. As a comparative study, we collected a group of critical receptions about our authors and their respective dramatic works, in life as much as posthumous. Finally, after investigation, it is concluded regarding the differences and similarities of this Iberian theater, present in Raul Brandão\'s pieces and Valle-Inclán.

La más constante mujer is a Spanish Golden Age play written by Juan Pérez de Montalbán in 1631 and published for the first time in 1632. Although he was once one of the most famous playwrights in Madrid, known for running in the same literary and social circles as Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca, the bulk of the dramatist's work has been greatly ignored by scholars, or is referred to as being of second rate, and the author himself has nearly tragically been forgotten throughout the centuries following his short life. Although research has been conducted to chronicle the literature produced by Montalbán, his plays have been generally overlooked by modern scholars and very little of the dramatist's theatrical production has been analyzed within the last one hundred years. As a result, there are no modern editions of his plays. The intention of this thesis is to provide a regularized critical edition of La más constante mujer, together with an in-depth analysis of the life and times of its author, and the play's main themes, topics, influences, and characteristics.

The sub-state nationalist conflicts in both Northern Ireland and the Basque Country have undergone significant de-escalation. However, while the transformation of the conflict in Northern Ireland involved a negotiated agreement with the host state, that of the conflict in the Basque Country did not. Thus, if the shape of the outcome represents the dependent variable, exploring these transformations requires an examination of three interrelated independent variable groupings. The first explores the operational capacities of each movement through an examination of their resources, and how access to these resources may have changed over time and impacted the overall strategies. Secondly, an examination of state responses to both the conflict itself as well as to changing movement strategies is undertaken. Finally, the third grouping seeks to explore the dynamics the above variables have on the way in which the sub-state nationalist organizations are led and directed. This project found that while both the Republican Movement and the MLNV experienced motivating pulls toward de-escalation and pursuit of movement goals increasingly dominated by institutional politics (Grouping 1), the differences in the responses of the host States (Grouping 2), and the organizational structures through which movement assessments and decisions are funnelled (Grouping 3), allowed for the MLNV to make the more radical commitment to de-escalation in the absence of a negotiated settlement, while the Republican Movement was able to move the bulk of, but not all, its membership into a negotiated agreement with the British state. The Republican Movement experienced greater optimism for and motivation in negotiations than did the MLNV, while the MLNV experienced greater motivation toward de-escalation more generally.