Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Author "Olivar, Jordi"

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Behind the Blurred Lines of Social Critique: Identifying the Living Dead in Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza’s [•Rec] Trilogy

Smith, Judson (2014-05-20)

The purpose of this thesis is to establish the relationship, within the theoretical/critical framework of postmodernism, between the [•Rec] horror movies and the social/historical context to which they belong. The intention ...

Crematorio: Una comparación ecocrítica entre la novela y la serie de televisión

Gallego, Jose Ignacio (2015-05-06)

This thesis aims to compare the novel Crematorio by Rafael Chirbes with the television series of the same title, focusing on political corruption, land speculation and environmental damage associated with these activities. ...

Decadencia, desigualdad y degeneración: El Madrid médico-social en La prostituta de López Bago

Hidalgo Sánchez, Sandra (2015-11-18)

La Prostituta (1884) es una novela médico social de Eduardo López Bago que nos presenta, sin tapujos, el Madrid de finales del siglo XIX. Los males de la época son introducidos a través de la crítica anticlerical y por ...

Del ángel del hogar a la mujer nueva en Las chicas del cable y La otra mirada

Aranda Aranda, Zara (2020-04-30)

This master’s thesis focuses on today’s television representation of female subalternity at the beginning of the twentieth century in Spain. The feminist movement of that time was gradually growing stronger in the country, ...

El olvido está lleno de memoria: History in Post-Franco Spain

Wild, Matthew J. (2012-05-15)

This thesis explores Jerónimo López Mozo’s play El olvido está lleno de memoria (2003) and its attempt to recuperate historical memory in post-Franco Spain. In continuing the trend of demystification of Franco and his ...

Estudio diacrónico de quitar y toller en la época medieval

Vidales de la Vega, Carlos (2020-05-14) ETD File Embargoed

In view of the increase in diachronic studies, the focus of this research is to understand the development of the Spanish verbs, quitar and toller. The goal in this investigation is, on the one hand, to study what was the ...

Fronteras de cal: Discursos identitarios en la literatura futbolística

Lopez Pajares, Alvaro (2014-05-12)

The present thesis studies the construction of collective identity through soccer literature in Spain. This literature acts as a good example of discursive mechanisms that are used by the different imagined communities ...

Performatividad, agencia y trangresión del espacio en la autobiografía de Loreta Velázquez: The Woman in Battle

Riesco-Cuadrado, Miguel Ángel (2020-05-13)

The Woman in Battle es la sorprendente autobiografía de Loreta Velázquez, una mujer nacida en la Cuba española decimonónica y educada en Nueva Orleans que decidió tomar parte en la Guerra de Secesión luchando con el Sur, ...

Transcendent Synesthetic Poetry of Octavio Paz

Cortez, Lionel (2012-05-16)

During his life and even after, the poetry of Mexican poet and 1990 Nobel Prize winner, Octavio Paz, has provided academic fodder for many critics, teachers and students. The lyrical nature and open structures of poetry ...