930 resultados para Literature, Modern|Literature, Romance
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Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-06
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This dissertation explored the relationship among poets, cities, and the construction of nation-ness. It was an interpretive reading of Chilean poetry and Chilean-ness as a way of inventing the nation from its very origins, starting with the colonial epic poem La Araucana and the founding of Santiago, its capital city. In this dissertation, poetry not only dealt with cities or "city poets" but also with the very conception, drafting, and systematic invention of cities as a "dream of order". The construct of a "community" of Chileans has maintained family ties with "Melancholy" in the collective imagination. This structure of melancholy reinforced the idea of "an order and a community" passed along by poets through generations. This dissertation also explored the moment when this melancholic family was fractured, divided, and Santiago was darkened by the events of September 11, 1973 and the rise of dictatorship, brutality, and censorship. ^ The methodology employed to examine different aspects of the construction of the city-nation included theoretical approaches such as Benedict Anderson's idea of nations as "imagined communities," Ángel Rama's analysis of Latin American urban rationality in his book The Lettered City , and the idea of the poet as an urban seer or visionary, the "flâneur" studied by Walter Benjamin in Charles Baudelaire's poetry. A central finding was that this "imagined community" have been severely transformed since 1950. In Chilean poetry, two works served as major referents: Pablo Neruda's Canto General, a totalizing idea of collective identity carved from the stones of the ruins of Machu Picchu, and Nicanor Parra's Poemas y Antipoemas (1954), which begun to illustrate the slow "decomposition" of the "The Lettered City." Among such conflicting images of (post-)modernity, poet Enrique Lihn became the central counter-figure who put an end to a long tradition of producing canonical nation-building cultural artifacts. His book El paseo Ahumada (1983) impacted the new generations of Chilean poets. The conclusion brought together the five-century history and diverse poetic experiences of the traditional Lettered City with the latest currents of marginalized urban poetry (1987-2003), the so-called "barbarians," flâneurs who were (re)inventing Chilean-ness in the globalized, and anti-Utopian city of "Sanhattan." ^
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The comedies of Pedro Muñoz Seca (1879-1936) received extraordinary public acclaim for over thirty years, yet critics rejected them. Although several experts have recently begun to study his plays in an objective manner, this author has generally either been underrated or omitted from theater histories. This study identifies the merit, contributions and relevance of Muñoz Seca's works so that the unwarranted void that now exists in Spanish theater annals is justly filled. Historical and biographical backgrounds and a brief sketch of the development of comedy in Spain serve to introduce the literary, political and social contexts in which the author develops the subgenre known as "astracán" and introduces the "fresco" character type. ^ This analysis illustrates Muñoz Seca's verbal comic techniques---the use of regional dialects and individuals' speech peculiarities, double entendres, incongruence, periphrasis, and ingenious plays on words. It also explores the author's profound theatrical sense manifested in inter-textual references and self-reflexivity within the content of his plays. In addition, it identifies the scenic creativity he displays through the use of cinematography, the removal of color from stage decor (or the elimination of scenery altogether), and the original application of music to create comic effect. Furthermore, this study comments the satirical tone projected in Muñoz Seca's characters' idiolect and barbarisms as socio-political conditions worsen. Finally, it brings forth the author's use of parody to criticize his society and to deride other theatrical genres in vogue during his time. ^ While the polarization between Muñoz Seca's popular success and the critics' rejection can be explained by esthetic and ideological prejudices, this dissertation ascertains that the true nature of the author's plays has not been properly identified. The "astracán" is a double parody; however, since it caricaturizes a comic subgenre that is already burlesque, its defining parodic features have been consistently misinterpreted as mere exaggerations and defects. What is more, as its critical content is not recognized, its renewing function goes unnoticed. Muñoz Seca's "astracán" illustrates an era of the Spanish comic stage and paves the way for the theater of the absurd. Its merit and relevance must be recognized. ^
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The logic of argument, by C.C. Hoag.--On Milton's knowledge of music, by S.G. Spaeth.--George Herbert: an interpretation, by W.S. Hinchman.--The younger Wordsworth, by C.H. Burr.--Vita nuova, chapters 24 to 28, by A.G.H. Spiers.--Some Franco-Scottish influences on the early English drama, by J.A. Lester.--Heine and Tennyson: an essay in comparative criticism, by C.W. Stork.--The Franklin's tale, by W.M. Hart.--Ipomedon: an illustration of romance origin, by C.H. Carter.--The Moors in Spanish popular poetry before 1600, by W.W. Comfort.
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Selección de textos modernos sobre el tema de "la lucha por la identidad", de diferentes géneros (prosa, teatro, poesía), orientados a alumnos de enseñanza secundaria. Incluye una introducción sobre el contexto del desarrollo de la literatura moderna; notas explicativas de las alusiones históricas y literarias; una sección de interpretaciones de los textos que permite a los lectores establecer comparaciones, estimulando el debate de ideas, el uso del lenguaje y el pensamiento crítico; y un apartado con preguntas para que los alumnos se familiaricen con los textos y se preparen para los exámenes.
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Selección de treinta lecturas extraídas de la literatura en lengua inglesa de los últimos tres siglos, desde Daniel Defoe, autor (nacido en 1660) de la primera novela en inglés, a Phyllis Dorothy James, considerada la "reina del crimen" de los últimos años del siglo XX. Los textos están ordenados cronológicamente por fecha de publicación y van acompañados de una biografía del autor, ejercicios de comprensión, vocabulario, gramática, debate, expresión oral y redacción. Dirigido a estudiantes de inglés de nivel intermedio o intermedio-alto, y adecuado para alumnos que preparen el examen Cambridge First Certificate o la certificación IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) de inglés como segunda lengua o de literatura. Incluye las soluciones de los ejercicios.