Hispanic Studies (Theses and Dissertations)
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From ways of seeing to ways of being : a study of the phenomenological and ontological dynamics of vision in the fiction of Julio Cortázar
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2013)The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that the dynamics of vision in the fiction of Julio Cortazar can be successfully analysed as paradigmatic of phenomenological ontology. A close and comprehensive reading of ... -
Down Mexico Way : identity, community and deracination in post-1960s Mexico and Chicano cinema
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2001)Much attention has been paid to the complex and frequently antagonistic relationship between Mexico and the United States. These neighbouring nations share the longest border in the world and have had close contact over ... -
Defining & redefining the margins : an exploration of the discourse of post-coloniality in the verse of Nicolás Guillén, Pablo Neruda & Ernesto Cardenal
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2000)History teaches us that the imposition of hegemonic structures of the colonial centre can only be truly effective and complete when the cultural personality of the dominated community has been displaced. Aspects of the ... -
Elementos barrocos en la obra esperpéntica de Valle-Inclán : una cala quevedesca
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2005)Critical writing on the work of Valle-Inclan has focused mostly on its relation to aesthetic tendencies of his time, with the intention of assessing it in the context of European art. By contrast, his interest in Baroque ... -
Citizenship and self-representation in the public letters sent to General Primo de Rivera in Spain, 1923-1930
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Hispanic Studies, 2018)The six-year dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923-1930) was a crucial episode in Spain?s twentieth-century history. Amid the post-war crisis of Spanish liberalism, which saw new sections of the population ... -
Dialogues with history : discourses of the Spanish Civil War and Francoist Dictatorsip in the Spanish novel (1996-2011)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2014)Drawing upon the novelistic and linguistic theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, this thesis investigates the narrative strategies used by four novels to inscribe, challenge or subvert current and past discourses about the Spanish ... -
An exploration of the esoteric and music in the novels and short stories of Julio Cortázar
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2014)Far from being polar opposites, esoteric elements and musical motifs complement one another in enriching our construal of the prose fiction of Julio Cortazar. Although numerous studies deal with discrete esoteric themes ... -
Imagination in novels and autobiography in letters : the female presence in Juan Valera's life and fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2014)Juan Valera (1824-1905) left behind a substantial epistolary corpus. Some of the author’s letters have been destroyed over the years, others lost, but all those penned by Valera which still exist have been painstakingly ... -
Responding to the challenge of political violence : the Catholic hierarchy in Northern Ireland (1921-1972) and the Basque Country (1936-1975)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2010)This thesis will examine the response of the Catholic hierarchy to political violence in Northern Ireland (1921-1972) and the Basque Country (1936- 1975). These were critical years in the political development of both ... -
Women writers and the Mexican Revolution
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2003)The aim of this thesis is to explore how women are represented in novels written by women which have conflict as their central thematic concern. Consequently, it was necessary to examine the context in which these texts ... -
No es trágico fin, sino el más felice que se pudo dar : women's interrelationships in the prose of María de Zayas y Sotomayor
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2008)The enigmatic figure of Maria de Zayas acquired renown during her own lifetime for her two novella collections, Novelas amorosas v ejemplares and Desenganos amorosos, which were first published in 1637 and 1647, respectively, ... -
Subverted gender, destabilised identity : how Love transcends desire in the queer tragedies of Federico García Lorca
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2004)This thesis attempts to demonstrate the centrality of the dialectical tension between physical desire and metaphysical Love in the theatre works of Federico García Lorca. The study is informed by contemporary queer theory’s ... -
Kafka, Beckett, Onetti - a poetics of existential estrangement : notes towards the definition of a subgenre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2002)The following thesis was researched and written during the period October 1998 to September 2001 at Trinity College, Dublin. It originated as an investigation into the adequacy of the term 'existentialist' as applied to ...