Hispanic Studies Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the Hispanic Studies department.

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"El melancólico vacío": Poesía, poética y melancolía entre La Galatea de Cervantes y las Soledades de Góngora (1585-1614)

Description:: This dissertation studies the philosophical implications and formal repercussions of melancholy in Spanish poetry at the turn of the seventeenth century, along with the constructions …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Valencia, Felipe (creator); Gaylord, Mary (Director); Merrim, Stephanie (Reader); Bass, Laura (Reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Spanish Golden Age poetry; Renaissance poetics; pastoral; Cervantes; La Galatea; Huarte de San Juan; Juan de Arguijo; Francisco de la Torre; lyric theory in the Renaissance; Góngora; Soledades; Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea; Melancholy; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de > 1547-1616; Huarte, Juan > 1529?-1588; Arguijo, Juan de > 1567-1628?
Language:: Spanish
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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"En el entretanto": José de Sigüenza (1544–1605) y la construcción discursiva de El Escorial

Description:: The present dissertation examines the construction of the Royal Monastery of El Escorial under Philip II as a prolonged process of making, inhabiting and interpretation …
Year:: 2026
Contributor:: Urbita Ibarreta, Carmen (creator); Bass, Laura (Advisor); Vaquero, Mercedes (Reader); Kimmel, Seth (Reader); Brown University. Department of Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Spain--San Lorenzo del Escorial
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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"Mira, señora, el poder de tus dioses": Modalities of Conversion in Medieval Iberian Romance

Description:: Rafael Ramis Barceló remarked in an article published in 2023 that the influence of the thirteenth-century Majorcan philosopher Ramon Llull on Spanish literature has never …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Parsard, David Lal (creator); Vaquero, Mercedes (Advisor); Bass, Laura (Reader); Vargas-Díaz, Aurelio (Reader); Brown University. Department of Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Literature, Medieval spain; Middle Ages; early modern Spain; Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316; libros de caballerías; Romances
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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After the Earthquake: Literary Responses to Catastrophe in Mexico City, 1985-2000

Description:: The dissertation examines the representations of catastrophe that emerge in Mexico City following the devastating 1985 earthquake and the upheaval of the nineties. The study …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Garner-Prazeres, Julia Hilary (creator); Ortega, Julio (Director); Mazzucchelli, Aldo (Reader); Pastor, Beatriz (Reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Mexico City; catastrophe; Earthquakes; Disasters; Science fiction; Mexico--Mexico City
Language:: English
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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American Cultural Anxiety and the Beginnings of Hispanism: George Ticknor Reads Spanish Literature

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Description:: George Ticknor (1791-1871) was an instrumental figure in establishing a scholarly reputation for the United States in the early to mid nineteenth century. His writings …
Year:: 2018
Contributor:: Leigh, Taylor Carrington (creator); Vaquero, Mercedes (Advisor); Martinez-Pinzon, Felipe (Reader); Bass, Laura (Reader); Brown University. Department of Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: intellectual history; Ticknor, George, 1791-1871; History of Spanish literature (Ticknor, George); Hispanism; Spanish literature; Spain; Massachusetts--Boston; literary history; Cantar de mío Cid; North American review; Bouterwek, Friedrich, 1766-1828; Sismondi, J.-C.-L. Simonde de (Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde), 1773-1842; Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859; Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817; Spanish history; National character; Jauss, Hans Robert; Fish, Stanley Eugene; Harvard College (1780- ); Universität Göttingen
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Arte y Literatura: Estéticas de Ruptura en las Narrativas de César Aira, Roberto Bolaño y Mario Bellatin

Description:: The exchanges between literature and the visual arts are a growing topic of interest in the panorama of contemporary Latin American literature. This thesis examines …
Year:: 2016
Contributor:: Tobar Thommel, Ingrid Carolina (creator); Ortega, Julio (Director); Clayton, Michelle (Director); Clayton, Michelle (Reader); Sáenz, Inés (Reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: César Aira; Roberto Bolaño; Mario Bellatin; twenty-first century Latin American literature; Art and literature; Aira, César > 1949-; Bolaño, Roberto > 1953-2003; Bellatin, Mario > 1960-
Language:: Spanish
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Bailemos bajo la tormenta

Description:: RESUMEN: Cuando Sabrina, una estudiante americana de una universidad prestigiosa, se empareja para trabajar con Javi, un guapo bombero madrileño afectado por un TOC homosexual, …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Frankel, Allie (creator); Estrada Orozco, Luis Miguel (thesis advisor); Martínez-Pinzón, Felipe (reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Attitude (Psychology); Mental health; Anxiety; Suicide; Depression, Mental; Spanish language; Spanish film; Drama; Suicide--Prevention
Language:: Spanish
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Bodies of Evidence: The Grotesque Body and the Reconfiguration of Nation in Mexican Historiographic Metafiction

Description:: Latin American historiographic metafiction is presently enjoying prominence as the object of unprecedented market success and renewed critical attention. Much has been made in recent …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Matthews, Kyle James (creator); Ortega, Julio (Director); Mazzucchelli, Aldo (Reader); Olea Franco, Rafael (Reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: historiographic metafiction; nation; identity; bodies; Bakhtin; Lacan; Žižek; Fernando del Paso; Jorge Volpi; Ignacio Solares; Álvaro Uribe; Historical novel; Group identity; Grotesque; Bakhtin, M. I. (Mikhail Ivanovich); Lacan, Jacques > 1901-1981; Žižek, Slavoj; Paso, Fernando del > 1935-; Volpi Escalante, Jorge > 1968-; Solares, Ignacio > 1945-; Uribe, Alvaro > 1953-; Mexico
Language:: English
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Borges and the Avant-garde: A Transatlantic Foundational Exchange, 1919-1923

Description:: Jorge Luis Borges' participation in the Spanish literary vanguard of the 1920s constitutes a formative and prolific segment of his career, largely underappreciated within the …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Decker, Polina Krylova (creator); Ortega, Julio (Director); Mazzucchelli, Aldo (Reader); Valis, Noel (Reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Jorge Luis Borges; influence; Spanish Ultraism; German Expressionism; Transatlantic avant-garde; Poetry; Translations; Borges, Jorge Luis > 1899-1986
Language:: English
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Codes of Silence: Contemporary Family Narratives of the Colombian Armed Conflict

Description:: “Codes of Silence” studies contemporary literature and film that responds to the internal armed conflict between guerrilla groups, paramilitaries, and the state in Colombia throughout …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Hunt, Mai (creator); Martínez-Pinzón, Felipe (Advisor); Thomas, Sarah (Advisor); Whitfield, Esther (Reader); Brown University. Department of Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Families; Contemporary Literature; War; Colombia; Silence in literature
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Conflictive Voices: Authorship, Authority, and Peru’s Internal Armed Conflict

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Description:: Taking Peru’s Internal Armed Conflict (~1980-2000) and its many “struggles of voice” (Lucero 2008) as case study, the present dissertation looks to examine the literary …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Renker, Tess (creator); Clayton, Michelle (Advisor); Thomas, Sarah (Reader); Whitfield, Esther (Reader); Brown University. Department of Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Peru; Latin American literature; Authorship; Indigeneity; Publishers and publishing; Andes Region; Contemporary Literature; Race and Ethnicity; War; Peruvian literature; Andean Studies; Rurality; Literature--Women authors; Ex-Combatants; Indigenous Studies; Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group)
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Conversa, Morisca, and “Old Christian” Descendants of the Medieval Iberian Go- Between

Description:: While scholars have examined at length the so-called "Celestina Cycle," or works inspired by La Celestina, they have not compared the parallel reception of this …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Nate, Andrea Frances (creator); Vaquero, Mercedes (Advisor); Bass, Laura (Reader); Burshatin , Israel (Reader); Brown University. Department of Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Literature, Medieval spain; Iberians; heterodoxy; blood purity; Delicado, Francisco, active 16th century; Silva, Feliciano de, 1486-1554; Mancebo de Arévalo; Moriscos in literature; conversos; Celestina (Rojas, Fernando de)
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Critical Edition of "El lacayo fingido"

Description:: El lacayo fingido (1599-1603) is a highly entertaining comedia palatina cómica, that is, a comedy of noble and royal protagonists situated at a geographic or …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Browder, Ali (creator); Bass, Laura (Advisor); Vaquero, Mercedes (Reader); Hicks-Bartlett, Alani (Reader); Brown University. Department of Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: performance; Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635; early modern Spain; Golden Age Spanish theater; dama-donaire; ocular proof; honor; monarchy; Humor
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Desastre y Desvío: Narrativas de la Catástrofe en el Chile Contemporáneo

Description:: The dissertation explores how the disaster and its representations are closely linked to figures of madness and deviant sexuality in contemporary Chilean texts. I argue …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Marquez, Arturo A (creator); Ortega, Julio (Director); Mazzuchelli, Aldo (Reader); Epps, Brad (Reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Contemporary Latin American literature and cinema; Chilean narratives post-dictatorship; identity; periphery; Disasters; Queer theory; Biopolitics; Group identity
Language:: Spanish
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Deseosas de salud: La poética de la fisiología en las obras de Teresa de Cartagena, Isabel de Villena y María de Santo Domingo (c. 1463-1517)

Description:: Johan Huizinga once observed that no truth was more certain to the Christian medieval mind than Paul’s assertion to the Corinthians: Videmus nunc per speculum …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Lara Granero, Alba (creator); Vaquero, Mercedes (Advisor); Bass, Laura (Reader); Fuente, María Jesús (Reader); Brown University. Department of Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Early Modern World; Authors, Medieval; Isabel de Villena; Teresa de Cartagena; María de Santo Domingo
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Después de la interdicción: la poesía y la recuperación de la palabra en la posdictadura sudamericana (1980-2005)

Description:: This thesis examines the language of six poets from the Southern Cone and Peru, in the context of a post-dictatorial predicament characterized by the unresolved …
Year:: 2011
Contributor:: Goldman, Silvia (creator); Ortega, Julio (Director); Mazzucchelli, Aldo (Reader); Clayton, Michelle (Reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Latin American; pos-dictatorship; Marosa di Giorgio; R?ger Santiv??ez; Arturo Carrera; Washington Cucurto; Clemente Pad?n; Cecilia Vicu?a; Poetry; Di Giorgio, Marosa; Carrera, Arturo > 1948-; Padín, Clemente; Vicuña, Cecilia
Language:: Spanish
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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El cancionero hagiográfico de Jesús Malverde. Corridos de un culto paracatólico

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Description:: Legend states that a heroic bandit known as Jesús Malverde, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor in the Mexican Northwestern state …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Ortiz Castillo, José Ramón (creator); Vaquero, Mercedes (Director); Mazzucchelli, Aldo (Reader); Vega, Carlos (Reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Jesús Malverde; Corrido; Hagiografía; Corrido hagiográfico; Lírica popular; Frontera mexicoamericana; Narcocultura; Paracatólico; Malverde
Language:: Spanish
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El retorno de lo contemporáneo: La novela latinoamericana en el fin de los tiempos

Description:: The Return of the Contemporary seeks to frame debates about the semantics of our present through a hemispheric analysis of Latin American and Caribbean literature …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Campisi, Nicolas (creator); Clayton, Michelle (Advisor); Martinez-Pinzon, Felipe (Reader); Ortega, Julio (Reader); Vieira, Nelson (Reader); Brown University. Department of Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Mexico; Latin American literature; Brazilian literature; Argentina; Latin America; Caribbean Studies; Neoliberalism; Contemporary Literature; Chile; Dystopian fiction; Apocalypse in literature; Contemporary, The, in literature; Contemporary, The
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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El tiempo y el ser en el Ciclo de Oxford de Javier Marías

Description:: I examine Javier Marías's later novels' temporal structures and narrative techniques, relating them to Henri Bergson's and Martin Heidegger's thought. This interdisciplinary approach aims to …
Year:: 2009
Contributor:: Scharm, Heike (creator); Bou, Enric (director); Ribbans, Geoffrey (reader); Pittarello, Elide (reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Javier Marías; Heidegger; Bergson; Philosophy and Literature; Being and Time; Marías, Javier; Heidegger, Martin > 1889-1976
Language:: Spanish
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Fathers and Daughters in Early Modern Spanish Theater

Description:: This dissertation analyzes the relationship between fathers and daughters in seventeenth-century Spanish theater. While scholarship has examined female characters in their role as daughters in …
Year:: 2015
Contributor:: Betancur, Bryan (creator); Bass, Laura (Director); Merrim, Stephanie (Reader); Kahn, Coppelia (Reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: early modern theater; family relationships; gender; privanza; Families; Fathers and daughters; Sex; Patriarchy; Spain
Language:: English
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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