Browsing by Author "Cortest, Luis"
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CONVIVENCIA: RASGOS LITERARIOS Y CULTURALES
Gabaldon-Vielma, Juan Rodrigo (2019-05)This dissertation studies the influence of the cultural exchange and the representation of the “other” among Christians, Muslims, and Jews in important texts from the Hispanic Middle Ages. Among the works examined are: ... -
EL PENSAMIENTO EXTRANJERO Y EL EXILIO DE LA LITERATURA CUBANA: EL UNIVERSO LITERARIO CUBANO LLEVA UNA FUERTE DIMENSIÓN FORÁNEA
Hidalgo, Angel (2021-05-14)In this study the idea of exile is fundamental to understanding the thinking of the Cuban writer. It was used to demonstrate that Cuban literature has been largely permeated from the diaspora. In the case of Cuban literature, ... -
Estados de excepción. La violencia transpolítica en la narrativa (reciente) de México, Colombia y Argentina
Romero Pedroza, Guillermo Alberto (2019-05-10)In the last decades, the political violence that characterized the first half of the twentieth century in Latin America has mutated, becoming a daily phenomenon and, therefore, invisible, that exemplifies what Jean Baudrillard ... -
Hotel Argentina: Pasos hacia una construcción de la identidad provisional en la literatura argentina contemporánea (1991-2011)
Sitya Nin, Carolina (2018-05-11)This dissertation proposes a theory of provisional identities conceptualized in the form of discourse innovations that operate as literary solutions to national identity crises and applies it to post-1990 works in Argentinean ... -
Intellectual Virtues and Reasonable Disagreement
Bickel, Jewelle (2019-08)The contemporary problem of disagreement has two prominent solutions. The Conciliationists think that after discovering a case of disagreement one should be less certain of one’s original position. Those who favor Conciliatory ... -
John Harold Moyer’s "Job": A Conductor’s Perspective
Garber, Joel (2017-12)The purpose of this study is to provide an analysis of John Harold Moyer’s (1927-2012) cantata, Job, as well as a pedagogical method for the modern choral director to prepare it for performance. The document is organized ... -
LA CIUDAD COMO TERCERESPACIO EN LA LITERATURA ESTRIDENTISTA
Figueroa Obregón, Rodrigo (2016-05)This dissertation analyzes the main works of Stridentist authors from 1921 to 1939 regarding their relation to Mexico City and Xalapa, Veracruz. It raises the question of what kind of relationship this was and what textual ... -
La obra de Luis Humberto Crosthwaite: frontera sin límites
Romero, Miriam S (2016-12-15)This analysis focuses on the literary works of the Mexican writer Luis Humberto Crosthwaite. The principal objective of this study is to show how Crosthwaite’s works are innovative forms of borderlands literature. Although ... -
Normativity, Human Nature and Practical Reason: A New Approach to an Old Problem
Parish, Max (2017-05-12)Neo-Aristotelian ethical naturalism (henceforth: Aristotelian naturalism) claims ethical goodness is a kind of human natural goodness, where natural goodness is a function of human nature. Call this the core thesis. The ... -
PRIVATE DEVOTION, PUBLIC ACTION: THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF MADAME ACARIE TO POST-REFORMATION FRENCH CATHOLICISM
Kinealy, Teresa (2020-05-08)Among the figures in Post-Reformation France who greatly influenced the development of Catholic spirituality as well as French history and culture is Madame Acarie, a wife, mother, mystic, and reformer who later became a ... -
Skeptical Theism and Epistemic Propriety
Rutledge, Jonathan (2016-05)Contemporary proponents of the problem of evil argue that evil is evidence, even strong evidence, against the existence of God. Next, these so-called atheologians claim that having such evidence against God’s existence ...