El Espejo literary journal contains writing by Spanish students at the University of North Texas including essays in Spanish literature and linguistics and creative pieces such as poetry and short stories.

In the present study, the three principal theories of Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin--the carnavalesque, grotesque, and dialogical--are applied to the musical-theatre genre of the Spanish zarzuela. The focus of the study centers on the works of composer Pablo Sorozábal and the various librettists who collaborated with him, among them the renowned literary author Pío Baroja. Within this study, zarzuela is first analyzed on its own in terms of the academic debate surrounding the genre and its importance in terms of both literary and musical criticism. After establishing the particular capacity of the zarzuela to make important cultural contributions, the central theoretical framework of the thesis is established via Bakhtinian theory, and several links are drawn between this theory and the genre of the zarzuela, which is shown to be a body of work often capable of conveying subversive messages, both cultural and sociopolitical. With this critical lens, then, the specific sociopolitical context of Spain between 1931-1942 is analyzed and described in order to illustrate the various extratextual and intertextual elements at play in Sorozábal's zarzuelas. The three works ultimately studied are Katiuska (1931), Adiós a la bohemia (1933), and Black, el payaso (1942). By way of highlighting the Bakhtinian characteristics …

This thesis aims to demonstrate the crucial role of cultural aspects such as attitudes, values, social common places, and expectations in the international advertising industry. Through the analysis of written advertisements used in the United States and France, general trends regarding various commercial sectors and products (automobiles, electronics, cosmetics, and so forth) are highlighted and explored. From a linguistic perspective, the purpose of this thesis is not only to observe the semantic differences between translations of the same slogans and messages, but also to draw attention to the tools used in doing so.

El Espejo literary journal contains writing by Spanish students at the University of North Texas including essays in Spanish literature and linguistics and creative pieces such as poetry and short stories.

Encyclopedia article discussing Verena Stefan's book, "Häutungen. Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen. Gedichte. Träume. Analysen (1975)."

Encyclopedia article discussing the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and publishers.

Encyclopedia article on literary themes in texts that focus on the sexual change (from man to woman or from woman to man) of a main character.

Encyclopedia article discussing writer Peter Huchel.

Encyclopedia article discussing writer Volker Braun.

Encyclopedia article discussing writer Elisabeth Reichart.

Encyclopedia article discussing writer Reiner Kunze.

Encyclopedia article discussing writer Rainer Schedlinski.

Book chapter discussing censorship and review processes and the case of Günter Kunert.

Encyclopedia article on "exile literature," a collective term that describes all literature produced by writers during a period of voluntary or forced exile from their homeland.

Article on the experimental narrative union of masculine and feminine in Ingeborg Bachmann's 1971 novel, "Malina."

Encyclopedia article discussing writer Elke Erb.

Encyclopedia article on literature produced in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the eastern, socialist part of divided German from 1949-1990.

This thesis (i) presents a critical analysis of the political allegory and dramatic elements employed by Antón Arrufat in Los siete contra Tebas in order to comment upon the conflict in Cuban society during and immediately after the Cuban revolution; and (ii) further analyzes that conflict using an anthropological approach in order to establish partial reintegration as an additional final phase in the rites of passage journey.

This book chapter discusses processing historical and social change in literature and film during the German unification.

This article discusses keeping the public sphere public and problematizing censorship in the former German Democratic Republic for American University students.

Encyclopedia article "inner emigration," an expression describing the attitude of those writers who chose to stay in Germany during the period of national socialism, but who did not support the national socialist agenda.

Encyclopedia article discussing writer Uwe Kolbe.

Book chapter discussing images of the Berlin Wall in German Democratic Republic short prose.

This book discusses Volker Braun's dramatic re-vision of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) society.