Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2007. / Title from screen (viewed on Apr. 27, 2007) Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-85)

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.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rhode Island, 2003. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 215-222).

Thesis (B.A.)--Bi-College (Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges) Comparative Literature Program, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Eastern Illinois University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-60).

Thesis (M. A.)--Florida State University, 2005. / Advisor: Dr. Leigh H. Edwards, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 15, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 49 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: Dennis D. Moore, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 18, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 193 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis reads three American Naturalist novels, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, and Kate Chopin's The Awakening, as challenges to both domestic ideology and to the market. Exploring the boundaries of an individual's interiority and exteriority, these novels suggest an alternate, more fulfilling existence, though never fully conceptualizing it. Naturalism presents characters who must make sense of their world almost wholly on a material level; the world presented in Naturalism is concerned with the what of a person, not the who. Capitalism splits the self by valuing the outward performance rather than the inward development. The female protagonists of these three novels attempt to gain happiness promised by consumerism through the only plot available to them, that of marriage. When this fails, they all three turn to artistic expression as a way to find the inner fulfillment their commercial society refuses. Carrie, Lily, and Edna value the art they pursue not because of its economic value, but because of the emotional liberation it allows them. In developing their art, each of these women gets the chance to examine the interior life that their societies deny. Looking at marriage and the market within these novels, this thesis examines the split between an individual's exterior and interior in fin-de-siècle American fiction.

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.

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