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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
This dissertation examines the representation of migrant subjects in the United States by a group of contemporary Latin American novelists: Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia, b. …
Este ensayo presenta una lectura espacial de la posición tanto física como social conferida al “Otro” norteafricano en cinco películas españolas, cuyos años de estreno …
My dissertation explores how historical narrative has become central to contemporary Peruvian literature, analyzing its function and significance in political, cultural, and literary debates on …
My dissertation analyzes the interpersonal relationships of the characters in Cervantes' prose fiction, especially Don Quijote and the Novelas Ejemplares, in terms of the theory …
This dissertation engages in the debate about ethics within the humanities, specifically, in literature that comes out of periods of political violence. In contexts of …
This dissertation analyzes detective novels written in Spain and Latin America in the last thirty-five years, focusing on how the texts debate the idea of …
This dissertation analyzes historical novels written in Spain and the Spanish peripheries (Basque Country, Catalonia, and Galicia) in the last fifteen years, focusing on how …
The poem “Grandeza mexicana” (1604) by Bernardo de Balbuena (c. 1562-1627) is one of the main components of the pantheon of cultural artifacts that defines …
While scholars have examined at length the critical problems of humor and violence in Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, rarely have they considered the workings …