Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / As indicated in the subtitle, this thesis is a study of miners, their problems and environment, their hopes and aspirations as portrayed in the field of belles lettres rather than in political, economic and social treatises. The task undertaken is a work of interpretation and synthesis. It is a study of French and Spanish literature dealing with mining and the circumstances which inspired it. This study is concerned with the accuracy as well as the artistry of the fictional portrayals. It endeavors to examine the reality of the social and psychological factors which they reveal. Literature divorced from reality creates an incomplete and false situation which Taine calls, "une illusion de bibliotheque." [TRUNCATED]

Thesis advisor: Irene Mizrahi / This study is an analysis of the theatre of the Spanish contemporary playwright Raúl Hernández Garrido. It explores in depth his tragedy Los engranajes and it applies (in a more referential manner) the results of this investigation to the rest of his plays: Los malditos, Los restos: Agamenón vuelve a casa and Los restos Fedra, included in the cycle Los esclavos. The author utilizes myth and greek tragedy intentionally in order to make readers reflect upon the concepts of destiny and the fragility of human action as well as the fragmentation, hopelessness and dissatisfaction of contemporary societies. My study demonstrates that the formal innovation of these plays and the use of tragedy as their argumental framework present not only a criticism about these concepts but also an approach towards change and a social ethic of hope founded in creative freedom and the cooperation between the text and all people involved in the creative process. As a theoretical frame of reference for my study I use texts from Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Friedrich Nietzsche, René Girard and Emmanuel Levinas. Their reflections about the genre of tragedy and/or the concept of the tragic shed light upon my analysis of themes such as human suffering, trauma, the abuse of power, violence and the ethics of responsibility in the works of our author. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2011. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Romance Languages and Literatures.

Thesis advisor: Kathleen Dunn / Nearly a century ago, a deadly pandemic swept the globe, taking with it over 25 million lives. This pandemic was caused by the elusive Spanish influenza of 1918. Although many decades have passed since this pandemic, research has yet to uncover the exact origin of the Spanish influenza and the cause of its increased virulence. By examining the current research on the Spanish influenza, some of the secrets of this virus can be uncovered. Most of today's research supports the theory that the hemagglutinin receptor of the Spanish influenza was the most likely source of its potency and that it was an amalgamation of swine and human strains created from a common avian strain that created this virus. Based upon the information that has been uncovered, there is a considerable chance that the Spanish influenza or a similar strain could return in the future. The processes of recombination and reassortment create an endless amount of genetic variants of the virus and any one of them has the potential to be lethal. Although a natural emergence of lethal influenza is a potential threat, the artificial reconstruction of the Spanish influenza or another lethal strain for the purposes of bioterrorism may be an even bigger threat. Thus, it is necessary for researchers to press on with their search for the secrets of the Spanish influenza so that a future outbreak can be avoided. As researchers continue to do their job, the government must also take action and develop the most efficient approach to protecting the public from deadly strains of influenza. / Thesis (BS) — Boston College, 2003. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Biology. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

Este trabalho tem por objetivo estudar os chamados verbos de cambio do espanhol a partir da perspectiva teórica das colocações. Inicialmente foi realizada uma análise quantitativa, com base na Linguística de Corpus, que permitiu identificar construções recorrentes com os verbos hacerse, ponerse e volverse na produção de falantes nativos do espanhol. A seguir, buscou-se identificar colocações integradas por esses verbos, ou seja, formas de coocorrência de palavras que não se pautam pelas possibilidades gramaticais oferecidas pela língua, mas por restrições combinatórias. Também foram aplicadas as funções léxicas, com base na Teoria Sentido-Texto, às colocações encontradas. Os resultados indicam que a noção de mudança ultrapassa as construções predicativas com hacerse, ponerse e volverse, sendo encontrada em colocações que, a rigor, não podem ser classificadas como construções com verbos de cambio. Os resultados também indicam que uma parte da produção com verbos de cambio é formada por combinações cujo significado não está no conteúdo semântico de cada uma das palavras integrantes, mas está vinculado à expressão como um todo. / This work aims to study the so-called change of state Spanish verbs from the theoretical perspective of collocations. Initially a quantitative analysis was done based on Corpus Linguistics, which allowed us to identify recurring constructions with the verbs hacerse, ponerse and volverse in the production of native Spanish speakers. Next, we sought to identify collocations integrated by these verbs, i.e., forms of co-occurrence of words that are not guided by the possibilities offered by the language grammar, but by combinatorial restrictions. Based on the Meaning-Text Theory, we also applied lexical functions to the collocations found. The results indicate that the notion of change exceeds the predicative constructions with hacerse, ponerse and volverse, which were found in construcctions that, strictly speaking, cannot be classified as change of state verb constructions. The results also indicate that some of the production with verbs of change is formed by combinations whose meaning is not in the semantic content of each word, but is in the expression as a whole.

Studies on mythological themes have largely ignored the Spanish Middle Ages, and critical works on literature of this period have neglected the mythological aspect. This is, therefore, not only a vast, but on the whole a new, subject, and my thesis cannot be definitive. I explore some of its possibilities in the hope that this will inspire further study. Having examined various mythologies I conclude that classical mythology is the principal one to receive treatment in medieval Spain. In my introduction I consider the works through which the writers of the Spanish Middle Ages received their knowledge of mythology and the ways in which they adapted it to suit a medieval reader. In chapters II-IV, I study a selection of medieval works, both prose and verse and from different genres. In each work I examine the writer's treatment of the mythology he found in his sources and the ways in which he introduced his own original mythological details and the purpose they serve. In chapter V, I consider the development of the use of two mythological characters through the period and chapter VI draws the thesis to a conclusion. I compare the use of mythology in the early and late Middle Ages and show that the passing of time increases interest in, and knowledge of, mythology. The didactic use that" the early writers made of mythology develops into the aesthetic use made of it by the fifteenth-century writers. A detailed analysis of the use a fifteenth century work makes of a thirteenth-century one proves that works from the earlier century must have had a much greater influence on the later ones than has been generally acknowledged; it also throws into doubt the conception of the fifteenth century as pre-Renaissance.

Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses. / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2031-01-02

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2031-01-01

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What is our relationship with nature? How do we represent nature in written text? The short stories that compose this book relate with how to address the interaction between mankind and the space it occupies on Earth. Cambió todo tanto offers different voices that tackle how human activity (precisely, industry) alter the physical realm. And how that alteration reciprocates in human behaviour and consciousness.

<p>En el presente estudio se analiza tres canciones y tres cuentos hispánicos (ver página11 bajo el título “Presentación del corpus”) con el propósito de identificar algunas de las manifestaciones del mito del amor romántico como el triángulo amoroso, la idealización del ser humano y el dolor como estímulo amoroso. También se enfoca la visión de la mujer y el papel que ésta ocupa en los diferentes cuentos y canciones, si se adapta o protesta a lo establecido por la sociedad patriarcal. Para conseguir esto hemos utilizado el método semiótico que nos permite instaurar una relación entre el texto y el contexto, también la teoría del sistema binario de Hélène Cixous y la teoría del Mito del amor romántico son elementos esenciales para el análisis.Como resultado concluimos que nuestra literatura está impregnada de las manifestaciones del mito del amor romántico y que éste a su vez es utilizado con distintas finalidades. El triangulo amoroso no está presente en todos los cuentos y canciones, mientras que el dolor y la idealización del ser humano sí. Notamos como en la mayoría de los casos la mujer ocupa su papel tradicional y se adapta a las normas preestablecidas.</p>