Dehumanization in the Theater of Valle-Inclán and Muñiz (open access)

Dehumanization in the Theater of Valle-Inclán and Muñiz

This study proposes to establish an intrinsic relationship between Valle-Inclán and Muñiz based on the theme of dehumanization in their theater. It examines (1) the stylistic techniques which each playwright uses to depersonalize his characters, (2) the manner in which these characters dehumanize each other, (3) the role of society as the agent of dehumanization, and finally, due to each author's preoccupation with one social convention in particular (4) the devastating effects on men of the vestiges of an outmoded code of honor. The principal works used for the study are Valle-Inclán's Martes de carnaval, Luces de Bohemia, and Divinas palabras, and El tintero, Un solo de saxofón, Las viejas difíciles, and El grillo by Carlos Muñiz. Such an analysis proposes to reveal a profound literary affinity between these two writers, a bond which unites Valle-Inclán and Muñiz in a common protest against the dehumanization of mankind.
Date: December 1979
Creator: Burgess, Debra S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Ideas in the Novels of José María de Pereda (open access)

Social Ideas in the Novels of José María de Pereda

Pereda's literary fecundity and his literary achievement attain their peak in his novels; through these novels he attempts to present a clear portrayal of the social aspects of provincial Spain.
Date: 1948
Creator: Buell, Emma Lee Fulwiler
System: The UNT Digital Library
Romantic and Realistic Elements in the Theater of Don Manuel Tamayo y Baus (open access)

Romantic and Realistic Elements in the Theater of Don Manuel Tamayo y Baus

A critical study of the drama of Tamayo y Baus.
Date: 1948
Creator: Booth, Venita Keown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social and Political Background in the Novels of the Mexican Revolution (open access)

Social and Political Background in the Novels of the Mexican Revolution

This thesis examines the agrarian, ecclesiastical, political, industrial, and educational background of the Mexican Revolution through the eyes of six of Mexico's novelists: Azuela, Lopez y Fuentes, Guzman, Romero, Muñoz, and Campobello.
Date: 1940
Creator: Robinson, Sibyl C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Material for Conversation in Spanish at the High School Level (open access)

Material for Conversation in Spanish at the High School Level

This thesis consists of material for conversation in Spanish at the high school level.
Date: 1944
Creator: Lee, Louise Cleveland
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Foreshadowing of Women's Liberation as Seen in Selected Plays of Molière (open access)

A Foreshadowing of Women's Liberation as Seen in Selected Plays of Molière

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of revealing certain liberated female traits that are to be found as early as the seventeenth century in certain plays of Moliere. A study of the major events in Moliere's life and of the social climate and salons of his time, together with a close analysis of the plays themselves, is necessary to understand this important aspect of his works. In essence, this study attempts to show how Moliere's women emerge as independent individuals who refuse the role society usually assigns them. Although these female characters are products of the seventeenth century, their actions and attitudes are used in this thesis to indicate a foreshadowing of the twentieth-century, liberated woman.
Date: May 1977
Creator: Owen, Jacqueline
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computer Applications to Second Language Acquisition (open access)

Computer Applications to Second Language Acquisition

This thesis is intended to give a panorama of technology in foreign language pedagogy. Although my field of study is French, the computer applications under scrutiny do not relate solely to the teaching of French. This paper begins with a criticism of the rigid listen-and-repeat language laboratory concept while tracking the rise of communicative language learning theory; follows the microprocessor revolution in language consoles; documents the development of computer-assisted instruction; showcases software evaluations of computer-assisted language learning; explores telecommunications; discusses satellite dishes and other computer peripherals; presents the results of a survey of Texas universities; and concludes with the presentation of the evolving language media center.
Date: May 1991
Creator: Guillory, Helen E. (Helen Elizabeth)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Denis Diderot Lettres à Sophie Volland, 1759 (open access)

Denis Diderot Lettres à Sophie Volland, 1759

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the letters of Diderot to Sophie Volland for the year 1759 as they are a source of important autobiographical, social, and psychological elements that shed light on Diderot's private and public life. In fact a turning point in the sentimental relationship between Diderot and Sophie Volland, the death of his father, the difficulties experienced in publishing the Encyclop6'die and consequently the coolness in his friendship with D'Alembert make 1759 a crucial year in Diderot's life. The conclusion reached is that the stylistically beautiful and modern letters to Sophie Volland of this year are self-revelatory for they show that the events of 1759 made a great psychological impact upon Diderot and started a process of maturity in his character. These letters can undoubtedly be considered a major part of Diderot's work and they can certainly contribute to a deeper understanding of this genius.
Date: August 1976
Creator: Simmons, Marina C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mariano Azuela, Novelist of the Mexican Revolution (open access)

Mariano Azuela, Novelist of the Mexican Revolution

This thesis discusses the life and works of the Mexican novelist Mariano Azuela, who lived and wrote during the time of the Mexican Revolution.
Date: 1946
Creator: Erickson, Marcia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization and Principal Themes in the Novels of Gustavo A. Martinez Zuviria (pseud. Hugo West) (open access)

Characterization and Principal Themes in the Novels of Gustavo A. Martinez Zuviria (pseud. Hugo West)

This thesis examines the themes in the work of Argentine novelist Gustavo Adolfo Martínez Zuviría, who wrote under the pseudonym of Hugo West.
Date: 1947
Creator: Gerding, Jess L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Las Novelas de Gregorio López y Fuentes (open access)

Las Novelas de Gregorio López y Fuentes

This thesis considers the novels of Gregorio Lopez Y Fuentes.
Date: 1951
Creator: Fulwider, James H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Third and Fourth Series of Pérez Galdós' Episodios Nacionales (open access)

An Evaluation of the Third and Fourth Series of Pérez Galdós' Episodios Nacionales

The purpose of this thesis is to make a study of the third and fourth series of the Episodios nacionales. The study will deal with the plot structure, the characterization, and the historicity of the twenty novels which make up the two series.
Date: 1955
Creator: García, Alfredo Roberto
System: The UNT Digital Library
Romantic Characteristics in Gutiérrez Nájera's Poetry (open access)

Romantic Characteristics in Gutiérrez Nájera's Poetry

This thesis presents a brief background of poetry in Mexico in the nineteenth century, along with a biography of Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and a study of his three poetic periods: 1876-1886, 1886-1890, 1890-1895.
Date: 1951
Creator: Dillard, Jean
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leccioncitas Prácticas en Español Texto para Niños en la Escuela Primaria (open access)

Leccioncitas Prácticas en Español Texto para Niños en la Escuela Primaria

This group of lessons is intended to help the child who does not speak Spanish to learn the language. The text is based on the interests of a child; in his dramatic attempts; in his love of the beautiful and the natural. It is not entirely complete, but the author hopes that it serves to give an idea how these materials can be used.
Date: 1949
Creator: Uranga, Louis V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diccionario Ilustrado para Niños (open access)

Diccionario Ilustrado para Niños

The author has developed a dictionary in Spanish for elementary school classroom use.
Date: 1948
Creator: Rodgers, Mary Lunn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dialogue in the Alarconian Theatre (open access)

Dialogue in the Alarconian Theatre

In this study my aim has been to trace the development of the art in dialogue of Juan Ruis de Alarcón y Mendoza. In a survey of the Alarconian theatre I have attempted to attain an insight into the technique of his dramatic speech and to indicate the sources of potent influence exerted on the dramaturgic skill of this author.
Date: 1950
Creator: Davis, Mary Collins
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spanish Migration in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film (open access)

Spanish Migration in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film

Spain underwent drastic social and political changes in the last decades of the twentieth century which also affected the nation’s patterns of emigration. Contemporary Spanish literature and film that portray these decades reflect the country’s fluctuating characteristics of migration. ¡Vente a Alemania, Pepe! (1971) by Pedro Lazaga, Coto vedado (1985) by Juan Goytisolo, El hijo del acordeonista (2003) by Bernardo Atxaga, and Yoyes (2000) by Helena Taberna demonstrate Spain’s migration trends during the last years of Franco’s dictatorship and the transition to democracy. The nation’s highly increased socioeconomic development in the 1970s and 1980s which eventually led to a first-world status also affected emigration, which can be seen in Carlota Fainberg (1999) by Antonio Muñoz Molina, Kasbah (2000) by Mariano Barroso, Restos de carmine (1999) by Juan Madrid, and Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (2009) by Isabel Coixet.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Arzac, Sergio
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization in Valle-Inclan's Novels (open access)

Characterization in Valle-Inclan's Novels

This thesis covers a biography and principal influence of Valle-Inclan, the Sonata novels, Carlist war novels, the Comedias Barbaras, and Flor de Santidad and Tirano Baderas.
Date: 1956
Creator: Hardin, Robert Joseph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Concha Espina's Basic Concepts as Revealed Through the Outstanding Characters in Her Novels and Short Stories (open access)

Concha Espina's Basic Concepts as Revealed Through the Outstanding Characters in Her Novels and Short Stories

This thesis is based on a study of the basic concepts of Concha Espina de Serna as revealed through the outstanding characters in ten of her novels and five volumes of short stories: Despertar para morir(1910), Agua de nieve (1911), La esfinge maragata(1914), La rosa de los vientos (1916), Ruecas de marfil(1917), El metal de los muertos (1920), Dulce Nombre(1921), El cáliz rojo(1923), Tierras del Aquilón (1924), El príncipe del cantar(1929?), Altar mayor (1926), Llama de cera(1927), La virgen prudente(1929), Candelabro(1933), and. La floor de ayer(1934).
Date: June 1954
Creator: Barker, Ray Lloyd
System: The UNT Digital Library
La Sátira en las Novelas de Ramón Pérez de Ayala (open access)

La Sátira en las Novelas de Ramón Pérez de Ayala

This thesis has as its purpose to make a study of the satirical vein that is revealed in the novels of Ramón Pérez de Ayala. It will be the goal to discover in these works the human habits and weaknesses that receive the censure of the author and to determine the means by which the novelist expresses his disapproval.
Date: January 1967
Creator: Cortez, Emiliano Carlos
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Antihero in the Novels of Juan Antonio de Zunzunegui (open access)

The Antihero in the Novels of Juan Antonio de Zunzunegui

Although some of Zunzunegui's works are not so moralistic in intent as others, it will be seen that each one of them criticizes a particular bad trait in the protagonist which leads to unhappiness or defeat, either for the character himself or for someone close to him.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Burkart, Judith E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Representative Gaucho Poetry and Fiction of Argentina (open access)

Representative Gaucho Poetry and Fiction of Argentina

This thesis presents a short history and description of the gaucho of Argentina and explores some of the literature that portrays the gaucho way of life.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Sava, Walter
System: The UNT Digital Library
El Desarrollo de los Caracteres Anormales en las Obras de Emilia Pardo Bazán (open access)

El Desarrollo de los Caracteres Anormales en las Obras de Emilia Pardo Bazán

The purpose of this investigation is to determine the change in characterization that takes place in the works of Emilia Pardo Bazán. Source material include the writings of such critics of Spanish literature as Richard Chandler, Kessel Schwartz, Emiliano Díez-Echarri, José M. Roca Franquesa, Federico C. Saínz de Robles, and José A. Balseiro. Emilia Pardo Bazán wrote a total of twenty novels. From this collection ten were selected which best exemplify the change in characterization in her writings.
Date: November 1971
Creator: Hudgins, Ida Marie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spanish Romantic Drama Sources of Giuseppe Verdi Operas (open access)

Spanish Romantic Drama Sources of Giuseppe Verdi Operas

The Italian composer of operas, Giuseppe Verdi, relied heavily on plays of the Romantic Era as sources for opera librettos. Three such plays were from the Spanish Romantic School: El trovador and Simon Bocanegra by Antonio Garcia Gutierrez, and Don Alvaro o la fuerza del sino by Angel de Saavedra, el Duque de Rivas. The operas which Verdi composed using these plays as sources--Il trovatore, Simon Boccanegra, and La forza del destino--range in popularity from near zenith (Il trovatore) to near nadir (Simon Boccanegra). The study attempts to assess the suitability of the three Spanish dramas as source material for operas, and to determine if this suitability is correlated to each opera's popularity.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Fleming, Leon O.
System: The UNT Digital Library