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This work analyzes the intersections between the notions of geography, power, and resistance, specifically focusing on how these concepts produce and are productive of one another within a French Caribbean context. Focusing on the works...
This study analyzed the effects of the interactive reading with instructor support (I.R.I.S.) model on reading comprehension as compared to a traditional (direct-teaching/lecture format) instructional model. The I.R.I.S. model combines...
The main goal of this dissertation is to examine the prosodic differences between English and Spanish that lead to different interpretations of ambiguous relative clauses. Prosody, or the rhythm, stress, and intonation of a spoken...
The aim of this thesis is to explore the complex identity of the banlieusard within the French society. The banlieue, known in English as the “projects”, is home to underrepresented and marginalized descendants of North- and West-...
This dissertation investigates transfer and markedness in bilingual and L2 Spanish stop-rhotic sequences (e.g., the 'br' in brisa 'breeze'). It also examines the phonetics-phonology interface in Spanish. To this end, it explores the...
The trickster is a well-known and thoroughly studied mythological figure. Therefore, this thesis will not seek to further define the trickster figure, but rather take the trickster figure of Norse mythology, Loki, and uncover his unique...
A central issue in second language acquisition (SLA) research is the relationship between morphosyntactic and lexical-semantic knowledge among L2 learners. It has been proposed that, L2 language acquisition starts with transfer of L1...
This dissertation explores the role of food representation and identity in Hispanic cultural production as they participate in establishing resistant agency despite historical contexts of authoritarian oppression. Accordingly, I explore...
Latin America has historically sustained political, economic, and social upheaval, creating a vacuum of patriarchal power dynamics indicative of gender violence. These dynamics are reflected in personal and political trauma narratives....
The topic of identity is a highly debated topic among Jewish scholars as well as a recurrent theme in works of literature written by Jewish authors throughout the world. In the twentieth century several historical events have shaped and...
This work proposes that the biodiversity crisis that has been documented in recent years in the Amazon is directly related to the ideas about the use of nature that the first European explorers, conquerors, and settlers proposed about...
This dissertation examines a previously under-researched factor in second language (L2) lexical processing, namely, grammatical class. Although a wealth of research using monolingual and brain-damaged participants suggests that this...
The subject of my doctoral dissertation is the abduction and illegal adoptions of children of Republican parents during the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975) and the continued struggle of thousands to acknowledge and resolve this violation...
An on-going debate in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) concerns the role of explicit information (EI) about language in language acquisition. This study explores the role of EI in how instructed second language learners of...
Esta tesis doctoral analiza el proceso de creación y de transmisión de los cuentos o historias que forman parte del Quijote. Se examina la función e importancia de la pluralidad de voces narrativas que ofrecen, mediante la técnica del...
The scope of power, truth and knowledge in multiple layers of society reaches the coffee plantation of La charca, the Valencian fields of La barraca, and the rural terrain of central Spain in El caballero encantado, written by Manuel...
During the last 17 years, research on Processing Instruction (PI) has shown that PI is an effective focus on form technique for a variety of linguistic structures and for a variety of target languages. This presentation seeks to extend...
Les quartiers immondes d'Haïti: L'image du bidonville Haïtien dans l'œuvre romanesque de Lyonel Trouillot = Relegated Neighborhoods in Haiti: The Representation of Haitian Slums in the Novels of Lyonel Trouillot
Se servant exclusivement des romans de l’écrivain contemporain haïtien Lyonel Trouillot, ce travail présente les bidonvilles en Haïti, caractérisés actuellement par la vulnérabilité aux catastrophes naturelles et des conditions de vie...
Understanding and defining nation and identity in diaspora has long characterized the cultural production of Caribbean authors. Notwithstanding, Hispanic Caribbean authors that have emigrated to the United States face this question...
My dissertation "Género, clase, etnia y raza en la (re) presentación de la mujer inmigrante y extranjera en Argentina (1880 -1930), studies the various ways in which the representation of immigrant and foreign women, who arrived to...
This study examines the development of a new hybridized genre by women writers in nineteenth-century France that I have named the novelogue. The term novelogue was chosen because it illustrates the creative combination of the novel and...
The ecology of language aims at the preservation of biodiversity in nature, language and culture which would result into an ecological form of globalization. This task has been undertaken by Manuel Rivas (b. 1957), a contemporary...
This thesis looks at the intertextuality among Lessing's Nathan der Weise, Kleist's Der Findling and Kafka's Das Urteil. Focus is laid on the repeated deployment of specific character types: an elderly, morally minded merchant and his...
La orientación principal de este estudio se centra en la obra narrativa y poética del escritor José Lezama Lima (1910-1976) con el propósito de analizar cómo la sinergia de sÃmbolos actúa en el universo imaginario lezamiano, y asÃ...
To err is human. To self-repair fortunately is also. (Postma, 2000, p. 98) The overarching purpose of this research is to explore whether second language (L2) learners can identify speech errors in a digital recording of their own oral...
This dissertation explores contemporary literary representations of the Haitian Duvalier dictatorships (1957-1986), by authors Nadine Magloire, Kettly Mars, Evelyne Trouillot, and Marie-Célie Agnant. The questions that I explore through...
This paper analyzes Russian labor camps as represented in 19th and 20th century literature. A background on the history of the development of labor camps is provided in order to help develop a significant understanding of how and why the...
A partir de la segunda mitad del siglo se veía el cuestionamiento de estas divisiones y la búsqueda de diluir las líneas entre la clase, la raza y el género. Estos cambios fueron provocados por las revoluciones de independencia, los...
This dissertation investigates the locus of language selection during bilingual speech production. In particular, it explores whether distinct language backgrounds, proficiency, and age of acquisition determine language selectivity and...
Latino/a writing has become one of the fastest growing literary expressions in the United States. The success of this literature relies not only on the quality of the texts written by authors of Hispanic background, but also on the...
Readings of the economic thought of Cuban poet and social theorist José artà have focused on the portion of his journalistic works that looks like economic writing in a conventional sense. I argue that MartÃ's economic writings are far...
Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Gabriele Münters Position und Rolle als einzige weibliche Mitbegründerin der expressionistischen Künstlergruppe Der Blaue Reiter. Zu Beginn wird der künstlerische Hintergrund Münters dargelegt. Weiterhin...
This dissertation proposes an interpretation of José Martí's texts in relation to New York City during the Nineteenth Century. This work is a multidisciplinary approach to the discursive and spatial representation of modern cities as a...
This project studies the various ways in which representations of space have been used to gender Manuela Sáenz Aispuru in literary, epistolary, and cinematic texts. I approach this study with an understanding of gender as a social space...
Vocabulary is an essential part of language acquisition. However, heritage speakers and L2 learners learn vocabulary and languages in different environments. A heritage speaker is someone who grows up in a household where a minority...
This dissertation is a translation and critical study of the play María la mosca by the Spanish playwright Miguel Sierra. The study is subdivided into three parts. The first provides an introduction to Sierra's career and work. It...
From 1934 — when guidelines for Socialist Realism were established at the first All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers — to Stalin’s death in 1953, Soviet folklore deliberately promoted the new social order and encouraged the rural masses...
En esta disertación propongo que los movimientos de protesta social que han estado presentes desde la independencia argentina parten de la desigualdad social y son parte esencial de las reivindicaciones para lograr el bienestar general....
The Shadowless "Inappropriate Other": A Lacanian Analysis of Adelbert von Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl, Patrick Süskind's Das Parfum, and F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu
In this thesis, I interpret Adelbert von Chamisso’s novella Peter Schlemihl, Patrick Süskind’s novel Das Parfum, F.W. Murnau’s film Nosferatu, Werner Herzog’s film Nosferatu, and E. Elias Merhige’s film Shadow of the Vampire in light of...
The dissertation is a study of the socio-cultural impact of the automobile in Spanish Literature: repression, economic progress, sexual liberation, fragmented identity, and abandonment. These socio-cultural issues are in the found in the...
Alexander Pushkin, the father of Modern Russian literature, has influenced every great contemporary Russian writer. His timeless poetry and insightful prose solidify him as a leading voice in Russian culture. During his lifetime, Pushkin...
Barbara Honigmann's Autobiographical Writing in Damals, Dann und Danach, eine Liebe aus Nichts, and Roman von einem Kinde: Bridging the Past, Present, and Future
This paper will examine the autobiographical writings of German-Jewish author Barbara Honigmann. Hongimann was born in East Berlin in 1949. She studied theater arts and worked in the theater in Berlin until 1975, when she became a free...
This dissertation examines the experiences of young Frenchwomen from the northeastern département of Moselle who, following the surrender of France to the invading Germans in 1940 and the de facto annexation of Moselle into the Third...
The present study reports the findings of two self-paced reading tasks (N = 98). The primary experiment (subjunctive task) investigated the effects of lexical preference on L1 Spanish and L2 Spanish readers' processing of the subjunctive...
Nineteenth-century French censorship has had a profound impact on both the production and dissemination of literary works. The Loi de 1819, which established one of the first state-sponsored systematic policies of censorship in France, ...
This thesis investigates wondrous events in G.E. Lessing's play Nathan der Weise as well as Kleist's novellas Der Findling and Das Erdbeben in Chili. These textual analyses explore the effects that wonders have on the three narratives as...
La Quête dans le Cuer d'Amours Espris de René d'Anjou Comme Réécriture du Roman de la Rose et de la Queste del Sang Graal: Quête d'Une Nouvelle Éthique Princière
Dans le Livre du Cuer d'Amours espris (1457), René d'Anjo affirme s'être inspiré de deux oeuvres majeures du Moyen Age : le Roman de la Rose (1230-1270) et la Queste del Sang Greal (1225-1230). Le Livre du Cuer partage les qualités d...
This dissertation examines the realization of vowel sequences across word boundaries in Arabic-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals in Puerto Rico, as in the phrase hombre inteligente ‘intelligent man’. Spanish and Arabic have...
In my paper, I investigate how money is depicted and the way it plays a primary function and catalyst in its interactions with the other protagonists, how attitudes toward money manifest in the characters’ actions and reveal their...
Second language acquisition has been observed to be variable in its outcome such that, unlike native speakers, all second language learners do not achieve total success. Second language acquisition is made of macro and micro processes....
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