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Adelardo Lopez De Ayala's Position in the Drama of the Nineteenth Century (open access)

Adelardo Lopez De Ayala's Position in the Drama of the Nineteenth Century

This thesis discusses Adelardo Lopez De Ayala's position in the drama of the nineteenth century. Topics covered include: Literary movements in Spain in the nineteenth century, Lopez De Ayala's treatment of plot, the moral element in Lopez De Ayala's plays and character delineation in Lopez De Ayala's plays.
Date: 1950
Creator: Whaley, Joy
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Amerikanuak eta Asmoak: New World Basques and Immigration Theories (open access)

Amerikanuak eta Asmoak: New World Basques and Immigration Theories

The focus of this thesis is the relationship between immigration historiography and the history of Basque migration to the United States. The depictions of immigration presented by historians Oscar Handlin, Marcus Lee Hansen, and John Higham have been influential in immigration historiography and are presented in the first chapter. The second chapter contains a description of Old World Basque culture and the third chapter presents a brief history of Basque migration to the United States. The fourth chapter discusses to what extent the immigration theories presented in chapter one match the Basque experience in the New World. The concluding chapter contains some observations on the nature of immigration historiography, on the Basques, and on new directions for research.
Date: August 1984
Creator: Echeverría, Jerónima, 1946-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
El Cine De Terror Español Como Espejo De La Cultura Española (open access)

El Cine De Terror Español Como Espejo De La Cultura Española

This study traces the history and culture of Spain as seen through the lens of the nation´s production of horror cinema. Starting from the boom of Spanish horror film in the early 1960s, the thesis compares and contrasts the political and social aspects of Spanish society throughout three distinct eras of the 20th century: 1962 – 1975 (the boom of Spanish horror film through the Franco dictatorship), 1975 – 1999 (the transition to democracy through the end of the 20th century) and 2000 – present (the 21st century). Movies as diverse as Gritos en la noche (1962, Jesús Franco), ¿Quién puede matar a un niño? (1976, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador) and Angustia (1987, Bigas Luna) are framed by culturally-related anectodes as well as correlations to their respective social environments. Special attention has been paid to the production and release of each film, especially in regards to censorship during the Franco dictatorship. The results show that Spanish horror cinema has acted as a true mirror to culture, society and politics in its native country throughout the 20th century and that this trend will likely extend in to the future.
Date: May 2014
Creator: Donahue, Tyler
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dead Planet, Living Planet: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration for Sustainable Development (open access)

Dead Planet, Living Planet: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration for Sustainable Development

This report discusses some vital services that natural ecosystems contribute to human health and development.
Date: 2010
Creator: Nelleman, Christian & Corcoran, Emily
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distribution of a Novel Gram Negative, Capsule-Forming Bacterium (open access)

Distribution of a Novel Gram Negative, Capsule-Forming Bacterium

A novel Gram negative, capsule-forming bacterium was previously isolated in Dr. G. Roland Vela's laboratory. The distribution of this bacterium in soils from various locations was investigated. Soil samples from 188 locations around the world were examined. Isolates of the bacterium were obtained from 50 of these soils, with 48 of the isolates found in soils from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. This suggests that this region is the natural habitat of the bacterium. The other two isolates were obtained from Madrid, Spain and Taipei, Taiwan. None were found in soils from South America or Australia. A lack of variation in morphology and physiological properties in the isolates suggests that a homogeneous population exists, even from widespread geographical locations.
Date: December 1997
Creator: Hughes, Roxana Bejarano
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flute Music of Cristóbal Halffter: His Roots in Spanish Tradition and Place in the Avant-Garde Generación del 51 (open access)

Flute Music of Cristóbal Halffter: His Roots in Spanish Tradition and Place in the Avant-Garde Generación del 51

Cristóbal Halffter, born in 1930, established himself as an important figure in Spanish avant-garde composition in the middle of the twentieth-century. As one of the prominent leaders of the Generación del 51, he helped establish modernity in music as a part of Spain's identity. His compositional style mixing tradition with the avant-garde was built on the success and breakthrough of Manuel de Falla, a composer with close ties to Halffter's family and served as a 'father figure' to the Generación del 51. This study begins with a discussion on Falla's work and reception, as he lay the groundwork for modernism in Spanish music. Further, discussion on Halffter's background and compositional periods, from his nationalist approach in the 1950s to his embrace of the avant-garde in the 1960s and beyond exemplifies Halffter's prominent role in shaping Spanish modernity. This research then sheds light on previously unexplored solo flute works Debla [Solo VI] for Flute and Studie II [Solo III] for Flute by Halffter. Provided is insight to their respective influences (the Spanish debla and the Fibonacci sequence), analysis of each work, and a discussion on their similarities and differences. By taking an informative approach prior to analysis and performance suggestions, readers …
Date: May 2020
Creator: Godoy, Martin, Jr.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Fresco Paintings of San Baudelio (open access)

The Fresco Paintings of San Baudelio

Paper argues that the two distinct styles of fresco paintings of San Baudelio de Berlanga in central Spain were the result of the artist responding to the differing religious needs of the receiving communities, rather than the result of being painted in different periods.
Date: 2005
Creator: Garnett, Rachael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Galician Daily Life and Social Customs as Seen in Pardo Bazan's Rural Short Stories (open access)

Galician Daily Life and Social Customs as Seen in Pardo Bazan's Rural Short Stories

In the portrayal of the Galician people Pardo Bazán's naturalistic pessimism is more evident than in her descriptions of customs or landscape. Her characters are stifled and often shattered by living conditions. The environment weighs heavily upon them, bringing forth the more despicable aspects of human behavior. In spite of this, she succeeds in probing the soul of her countrymen and giving them life in her short stories.
Date: December 1973
Creator: Laughlin, Sally Cornette
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
GEO Year Book 2004/5: An Overview of Our Changing Environment (open access)

GEO Year Book 2004/5: An Overview of Our Changing Environment

This publication discusses global environmental efforts, successes, and setbacks of 2004.
Date: 2005
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Hexagon, Volume 100, Number 1, Spring 2009 (open access)

The Hexagon, Volume 100, Number 1, Spring 2009

Quarterly publication of the Alpha Chi Sigma chemistry fraternity containing articles related to chemistry research and the activities of the organization, including local chapters and groups.
Date: Spring 2009
Creator: Alpha Chi Sigma
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Historical Memory and Ethics in Spanish Narrative (open access)

Historical Memory and Ethics in Spanish Narrative

This study traces the current status of Spanish ethics as seen through the optics of historical memory. Starting from the Spanish Civil War in 1936, the thesis relates contemporary themes to their proposed origin throughout three additional distinctive eras of the 20th and 21st century in Spain: 1982-1996 (Socialist Spain), 1997-2010 (Post-modern Spain), and 2011-present (current Spain). Spanish narratives ranging from Los Abel by Matute, La magnitud de la tragedia by Monzó, "Fidelidad" of Ha dejado de llover by Barba and Las fosas de Franco by Silva are contextualized through their ethical architecture, in accordance with their socio-political context, and relationship to past historical traumas. This work proposes that the themes of anticlericalism, the pursuit of social equality, anti bureaucracy, and political distrust are trends culminating from Kohlberg's third level of morality. The thesis aims to be an exposition and legitimization of different ethical schemas that might otherwise be polarized as wrong and inferior by others.
Date: December 2017
Creator: Wilson, Rachelle
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letter to the Editor: Haunted Hotel: Who of the Two Was the Visitor? (open access)

Letter to the Editor: Haunted Hotel: Who of the Two Was the Visitor?

Letter from JoseLuis Sandoval to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies on the topic "Haunted Hotel: Who of the Two Was the Visitor?"
Date: Summer 2013
Creator: Sandoval, JoseLuis
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
La ley de memoria histórica en el cine y la novela españoles (open access)

La ley de memoria histórica en el cine y la novela españoles

This thesis investigates the Spanish identity crisis through structural, political and representational intersectionality by means of the Law of Historic Memory, also known as LEY 52/2007 del 26 de diciembre. This work, written in Spanish, explores relational aspects of various contemporary themes within four post-Franco novels and four Spanish films: Réquiem por un campesino español by Ramón J. Sender and its corresponding film directed by Francesc Betriu; Soldados de Salamina by Javier Cercas and its corresponding film directed by David Trueba; La voz dormida by Dulce Chacón and its corresponding film directed by Benito Zambrano; and Los girasoles ciegos by Alberto Méndez and its corresponding film directed by José Luis Cuerda. Linked by a variety of human elements that affect the individual as much as the collective, the works explore sacrifice, betrayal, indifference and injustice. Each novel and movie pair offers a glimpse of individual memory that, at the same time, belongs to collective memory. Delving into the effects of LEY, this thesis considers the role of the Catholic Church, the general atrocities of war, the role of women in the Spanish Civil War, and the fractured family unit. Lastly, this thesis delineates how these effects apply to the healing …
Date: December 2018
Creator: Kennedy, Tara L
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Manhood in Spain: Feminine Perspectives of Masculinity in the Seventeenth Century (open access)

Manhood in Spain: Feminine Perspectives of Masculinity in the Seventeenth Century

The question of decline in the historiography of seventeenth-century Spain originally included socio-economic analyses that determined the decline of Spain was an economic recession. Eventually, the historiographical debate shifted to include cultural elements of seventeenth-century Spanish society. Gender within the context of decline provides further insight into how the deterioration of the Spanish economy and the deterioration of Spanish political power in Europe affected Spanish self-perception. The prolific Spanish women writers, in addition, featured their points of view on manhood in their works and created a model of masculinity known as virtuous masculinity. They expected Spanish men to perform their masculine duties as protectors and providers both in public and in private. Seventeenth-century decline influenced how women viewed masculinity. Their new model of masculinity was based on ideas that male authors had developed, but went further by emphasizing men treating their wives well.
Date: May 2016
Creator: Gomez, Clemente, Jr.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Opinions of Spanish Women Concerning the Dictatorship of Francisco Franco (open access)

The Opinions of Spanish Women Concerning the Dictatorship of Francisco Franco

Paper discusses the opinions of several Spanish women who experienced life under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco on various political and social topics.
Date: 2005
Creator: Davis, Cassie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Persistence of Castilian Law in Frontier Texas: the Legal Status of Women (open access)

The Persistence of Castilian Law in Frontier Texas: the Legal Status of Women

Castilian law developed during the Reconquest of Spain. Women received certain legal rights to persuade them to move to the villages on the expanding frontier. These legal rights were codified in Las Siete Partidas, the monumental work of Castilian law, compiled in the thirteenth century. Under Queen Isabella, Castilian law became the law of all Spain. As Spain discovered, explored, and colonized the New World, Castilian law spread. The Recopilacidn de Los Leyes de Las Indias complied the laws for all the colonies. Texas, as the last area in North America settled by Spain, retained Castilian law. Case law from the Bexar Archives proves this for the Villa of San Fernando(present-day San Antonio). Castilian laws and customs persisted even on the Texas frontier.
Date: May 1996
Creator: Stuntz, Jean A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Policies to Change the World: Energy Sufficiency - Eight Policies towards the Sustainable Use of Energy (open access)

Policies to Change the World: Energy Sufficiency - Eight Policies towards the Sustainable Use of Energy

This booklet discusses how energy sufficiency is the best solution for reducing energy consumption and waste. It presents policies for reducing global energy consumption such as energy auditing, phasing out incandescent light bulbs, combined heat/cooling energy and power, carbon-negative cooking, smart metering, area road pricing, and other measures.
Date: 2009
Creator: Rohde, Anja & Bee, Hilmar
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rediscovery of the Elements

Interactive DVD documenting the research by Dr. James and Virginia Marshall to trace the history of the elements in the periodic table. It includes biographical information on the scientists who discovered each of the elements, notes about each of the elements with photos, periodic tables, maps and photographs of the cities where elements were discovered, a timeline of discoveries, written articles about the research, and other background documentation.
Date: July 2010
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
Object Type: Website
System: The UNT Digital Library
Renewables 2010: Global Status Report (open access)

Renewables 2010: Global Status Report

This report describes economic trends in building the capacity of renewable energy in several countries.
Date: 2010
Creator: Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Dramas and Novelas of Juan Perez de Montalban (open access)

Selected Dramas and Novelas of Juan Perez de Montalban

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of analyzing and evaluating selected dramas and novelas of Juan Perez de Montalban. This study concludes that Montalban was not a writer of original works, but his familiarity with and utilization of certain literary devices, stereotyped situations, cliches, and popular themes, along with his notable talent in portraying women and rulers allowed him to produce works which met with great acclaim in his lifetime.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Daniel, Lee A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Seville Cancionero: Transcription and Commentary (open access)

The Seville Cancionero: Transcription and Commentary

The Seville Cancionero is a manuscript collection of songs from late fiftennth-century Spain and is preserved today in the Biblioteca Colombina of Seville with the number 7-1-28. This dissertation describes the document and provides commentary and transcriptions of the Seville Cancionero.
Date: August 1960
Creator: Lawes, Robert Clement
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Silencing the Bells: A Statement of Power in Medieval Spain (open access)

Silencing the Bells: A Statement of Power in Medieval Spain

Paper examines the meaning of Christian church bells as a symbol of power in medieval Spain.
Date: 2010
Creator: Butler, Kelly Bevin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Statistics and Information Concerning the State of Texas (open access)

Statistics and Information Concerning the State of Texas

This book covers statistical information for the state of Texas. It includes "great inducements for the investment of capital, health for the invalid, interesting sights and scenes for the tourist and pleasure seeker, broad fields of research for the historian, unsurpassed hunting grounds for the sportsman, and other resources waiting to be unlocked by the key of capital in the hands of labor and industry" (title page).
Date: 1890
Creator: Missouri Pacific Railway Company
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
El valor literario del Lázaro de 1555: género, evolución y metamorfosis (open access)

El valor literario del Lázaro de 1555: género, evolución y metamorfosis

Spanish-language book discussing the literary importance of the classic masterpiece "Lazarillo de Tormes" originally written in 1555, which, according to the note on the back cover, was scorned by critics. Bibliography starts on page 163.
Date: 2017
Creator: Beckman, Pierina E.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library