El tratamiento estético de la figura de la prostituta en la lírica modernista española

This PhD thesis sets out to show, firstly, that Spanish modernist poets are lavish in their sublimation of the figure of the prostitute in their lyrical compositions. It argues that ultimately, they do not do this randomly or arbitrarily, but in response to a series of mechanisms that turn this sublimation into an investigation within the modernist movement. The need for a study such as this one seems indisputable, as not very much work has been done on this topic in Spanish literature, unlike in other literatures (particularly Latin American literature, precisely in the same turn-of-the-century period and in connection with Modernism). What little work has been published on the treatment of the figure of the prostitute in turn-of-the-century Spanish literature refers to narrative prose, notably the realist and naturalist novel, as well as the short story. Also, such work usually lacks a general theoretical framework, as it deals with one novel, one author, or in the case of greater generalisation, a specific type of novel. The study of this figure in literary texts involves studying Modernism itself, as it neatly draws together the panoply of topics so dear to Modernism, namely, the erotic, the marginal, the feminine, the cursed and Culturalism...

Disruptive Threads and Renegade Yarns: Domestic Textile Making in Selected Women's Writing 1811-1925

Thesis (Ph.D, English) -- Queen's University, 2016-08-03 13:57:45.102

Florilegium

This thesis is composed of two parts, encompassed in a third: a poetry collection; a critical dissertation; and an artist’s book. The thesis as a whole is entitled Florilegium. This title, from the Latin flos, or ‘flower’, and legere, ‘to gather’, refers to the medieval system of collecting extracts from various authors to form a larger body of work. It is also applicable to flower-treatises, dedicated to their ornamental nature rather than medicinal or scientific. The critical dissertation comes in the form of a glossary. It intends to show that the flower plays an essential role in linking Modernist poetics with that of its Romantic predecessors and beyond. In isolated and ‘illuminated’ examples from Aristotle to Zukofsky, it examines the lineage of botanical poetry, in the light of its unique linguistic makeup: a vernacularized scientific lexicon established in the Latin of Carl Linnaeus. While the critical component of the thesis is an interrogation of botanical language, the poetry collection is its living representation. To enhance the living nature of the text, I have designed and printed an artist’s book, which also acts as an herbarium for floral specimens collected and pressed over the duration of my degree. The design of the book is in keeping with traditional florilegia, incorporating historic binding techniques, typography, paper, and size.

La literatura de mediados del siglo XX (1950- 1970). Un ojo desnudo que observa a América Latina diferente

El presente trabajo interpreta textos de la literatura latinoamericana (1950-1970) desde la perspectiva ecocrítica, apoyándose en una mirada sistémica de pensadores del paradigma emergente que proporciona una lectura renovadora en torno al discurso literario desde un enfoque de ecología profunda. Esta literatura indaga sobre la génesis propia haciendo dialogar elementos sagrados de la cultura con todo lo demás, de esta forma, lo indígena, lo africano, lo europeose expresa desde las voces de los persona- jes con una mirada neoparadigmática, que transgrede la visión tradicional del paradigma de la modernidad en cuanto lectura de la identidad latinoamericana.AbstractThe following article analyzes on Latin American literature texts (1950-1970) from an ecocritical perspective. It is based on a systemic look from the emergent paradigm thinkers. This paradigm gives a new kind of reading regarding literary texts focusing on deep ecology perspective. Latin American literature explores its own genesis bringing together sacred and non sacred elements from culture. In this sense, Indigenous, African and European cultures sets up a dialogue. Cultures express themselves throughout the characters’ voices in texts embracing a neo-paradigmatic look that trespasses the traditional vision of modernity in regard to Latin American identity.

Lessons in english literature with a short dictionary of bristish, iris, and american autors

UANL

Communication strategy and migration policy; an exploratory literature survey pertaining to the Latin American situation

Includes bibliography

Rotten Symbol Mongering: Scapegoating in Post-9/11 American War Literature

A rhetorical approach to the fiction of war offers an appropriate vehicle by which one may encounter and interrogate such literature and the cultural metanarratives that exist therein. My project is a critical analysis—one that relies heavily upon Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic method and his concepts of scapegoating, the comic corrective, and hierarchical psychosis—of three war novels published in 2012 (The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers, FOBBIT by David Abrams, and Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain). This analysis assumes a rhetorical screen in order to subvert and redirect the grand narratives the United States perpetuates in art form whenever it goes to war. Kenneth Burke’s concept of ad bellum purificandum (the purification of war) sought to bridge the gap between war experience and the discourse that it creates in both art and criticism. My work extends that project. I examine the symbolic incongruity of convenient symbols that migrate from war to war (“Geronimo” was used as code for Osama bin Laden’s death during the S.E.A.L team raid; “Indian Country” stands for any dangerous land in Iraq; hajji is this generation’s epithet for the enemy other). Such an examination can weaken our cultural “symbol mongering,” to borrow a phrase from Walker Percy. These three books, examined according to Burke’s methodology, exhibit a wide range of approaches to the soldier’s tale. Notably, however, whether they refigure the grand narratives of modern culture or recast the common redemptive war narrative into more complex representations, this examination shows how one can grasp, contend, and transcend the metanarrative of the typical, redemptive war story.

Graham's American monthly magazine of literature, art, and fashion.

Editors: Jan. 1841- G. R. Graham (with E. A. Poe, Jan. 1841-May 1842; C. J. Peterson, Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, 1842; R. W. Griswold, July 1842-June 1843; R. T. Conrad, Jan.-June 1848: J. R. Chandler, J. B. Taylor, Oct. 1848-Dec. 1849).

A classified catalogue of theological and religious books, comprising a large collection of standard works, American and foreign; old and rare works, and recent publications, to September 1, 1871. Also an addenda of miscellaneous literature, works of reference, &c. For sale by Smith, English & Co., booksellers and importers ...

Interleaved.