A Critique of the Representation of Violence in American Literature:

The purpose of this thesis was to draw new insights on Thomas Berger’s classic American novel, Little Big Man, and his representation of fictional violence that is a substantial aspect of any text on the Indian Wars and “Custer’s Last Stand”. History’s major world wars led to shifts in the political climate and a noted change in the way that violence was represented in the arts. Historical, fictional, and cinematic treatments of “Custer’s Last Stand” and violence were each considered in relation to the text. Berger's version of the famed story is a revision of history that shows the protagonist as a dual-member of two violent societies. The thesis concluded that Berger’s updated American legends and unique “white renegade” character led to a representation of violence that spoke to the current state of affairs in 1964 when the world was becoming much more hostile and chaotic place.

A Comparison Study of the English III/American Literature Success of African American High School Students and That of Students Whose Home Language is Haitian Creole

The purpose of the study was to compare the English III success of students whose home language is Haitian Creole (SWHLIHC) with that of the more visible African American high school students in the Miami Dade County Public Schools System, in an effort to offer insight that might assist educators in facilitating the educational success of SWHLIHC in American Literature class. The study was guided by two important theories on how students interact with and learn from literature. They are Reader Response Theory which advocates giving students the opportunity to become involved in the literature experience (Rosenblatt, 1995), and Critical Literacy, a theory developed by Paolo Freire and Henry Giroux, which espouses a critical approach to analysis of society that enables people to analyze social problems through lenses that would reveal social inequities and assist in transforming society into a more equitable entity. Data for the study: 10th grade reading FCAT scores, English III/American Literature grades, and Promotion to English IV records for the school year 2010-2011 were retrieved from the records division of the Miami Dade County Public Schools System. The study used a quantitative methods approach, the central feature of which was an ex post facto design with hypotheses (Newman, Newman, Brown, & McNeely, 2006). The ex post facto design with hypotheses was chosen because the researcher postulated hypotheses about the relationships that might exist between the performances of SWHLIHC and those of African American students on the three above mentioned variables. This type of design supported the researcher’s purpose of comparing these performances. One way analysis of variance (ANOVA), two way ANOVAs, and chi square tests were used to examine the two groups’ performances on the 10th grade reading FCAT, their English III grades, and their promotion to English IV. The study findings show that there was a significant difference in the performance of SWHLIHC and African American high school students on all three independent variables. SWHLIHC performed significantly higher on English III success and promotion to English IV. African American high school students performed significantly higher on the reading FCAT.

THE GUARDIANS OF SIGNS: WOMEN OF LATIN-AMERICAN LITERATURE

One hundred years of solitude, Report on the blind and Alturas de Machu Picchu, outstanding works from the Latin American Literature of the period of its boom, broke the relationship with facile and nineteenth schemes, and brusquely sprouted in a world that went far ahead of the surrealistic theses spread by André Breton. This was possible by the emergence of magical realism in the Hispanic American pens. According to Alejo Carpentier, “Our magical realism is the one we found in a raw state, omnipresent all through Latin America. Here, the unusual is daily, in fact it has always been daily”. It should not be forgotten that Carpentier and Sábato were in Breton’s work staff, because they guarded each a deep knowledge of Surrealism. Yet the history of the religions should also be taken into account, since the knowledge of myths, with Mircea Eliade as the chief head, enables an important and close approach to the works of these authors. That is the reason why, in this essay, the mythical aspects in the previously mentioned works are analyzed.

O realismo mágico e seus desdobramentos em romances de José Saramago

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

As memórias de crónica de una muerte anunciada

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

Acerca de Roderer de Guillermo Martínez : el mysterium iniquitatis en el fin de siglo literario

Este estudio sobre Acerca de Roderer (1992) de Guillermo Martínez (Argentina, 1962) intenta señalar los principios constructivos de esta temprana producción novelística, a la luz de una posible poética espigada de sus ensayos, para dar cuenta de su estilo narrativo. Se destaca la relevancia del tema del misterio de iniquidad concretado como soberbia intelectual, en un espacio-tiempo de producción signado por la trivialidad. Esta nouvelle es una construcción alegórica que sustenta un mundo ficcional de líneas simples y armónicas, en las que la razón poética, desde una nueva sensibilidad, aporta nuevo significado al misterio a través de "revisitaciones" a los grandes textos literarios.

La presencia del cine en las literaturas hispánicas de comienzos del siglo XX : Tres escritores pioneros : Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Francisco Ayala y Horacio Quiroga

Fil: Hafter, Lea Evelyn. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

La presencia del cine en las literaturas hispánicas de comienzos del siglo XX : Tres escritores pioneros : Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Francisco Ayala y Horacio Quiroga

Fil: Hafter, Lea Evelyn. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

La presencia del cine en las literaturas hispánicas de comienzos del siglo XX : Tres escritores pioneros : Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Francisco Ayala y Horacio Quiroga

Fil: Hafter, Lea Evelyn. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Lecturas literarias, tomadas de los mejores poetas y prosistas españoles e hispanoamericanos y seguidas de un breve juicio explicativo y crítico;

Mode of access: Internet.

La literatura española en el siglo XIX, parte tercera.

La literatura catalana en el sigol XIX.--La literatura regional de Galicia.--La literatura hispano-americana.

Opúsculos críticos /

Mode of access: Internet.

Grafómanos de América (patología literaria) t.1

No more published.

Críticas i charlas /

Includes index.

Ideaciones; letras de América, ideas de Europa.

Mode of access: Internet.