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The Humor of Alejandro Casona (open access)

The Humor of Alejandro Casona

Alejandro Casona is a major playwright in the Spanish language today. He is known chiefly for his fantasy and humor. The intent of this paper is to show that his humor is a device for obtaining the attention of those whom he would teach.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Benson, Barbara B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
After the Storm: an Adaptation of Sobre las Ruinas, by Roberto J. Payró (open access)

After the Storm: an Adaptation of Sobre las Ruinas, by Roberto J. Payró

The present thesis is an experiment in adaptation of one of Roberto Payró's plays for staging in English. Sobre las Ruinas was chosen both because it is one of the best known of his works and because no previous translation is known to exist.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Kimbell, Minerva A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elements of Tremendismo in the works of Carmen Laforet (open access)

Elements of Tremendismo in the works of Carmen Laforet

The purpose of this thesis is to review and to analyze the part that tremendismo has played in the fiction of Carmen Laforet. To this end, each of her published volumes will be studied individually so that her relationship to tremendismo may be clearly seen in each of its various stages.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Palmer, Joe Lerner
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Technique for Transition from Pattern Drill in Spanish to Large-exposure Reading (open access)

A Technique for Transition from Pattern Drill in Spanish to Large-exposure Reading

The purpose of the present study is to develop and explain a teaching aid for Spanish word recognition, to be presented as advance preparation for large-exposure reading.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Harvey, Norma Ruth
System: The UNT Digital Library