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Le Chevalier au Cygne: A Critical Edition with Introduction, Notes and Glossary of the 14th Century Revision as Preserved in Brussels MS. 10391 and Lyon MS. 744

Pukatzki, Gisela (University of Alabama Libraries, 1971)
Étude des manuscrits conservés de La Chanson du Chevalier au Cygne et de Godefroi de Bouillon (Buxelles, Ms. 10391, Lyon, Ms. 744): prolégeomènes à édition critique

Emplaincourt, Edmond A. (1975)
French Cyberlanguage

Untied Auchettl, Bethany Renée (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The popularity of the Internet as a vehicle for communication has considerably influenced French written language. This has lead to the development of a new kind of written code, French cyberlanguage. Although cyberlanguage ...
Experimental methods in phonosemantics: preliminary testing of the antonymic hypothesis as a way of mediating between the arbitrary nature of linguistic representation and aspects of iconism

Freeman, Geremy Richard (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The question of whether or not linguistic sounds might convey inherent meaning has never conclusively been resolved. This is an empirical study weighing evidence for and against the existence of phonosemantics, also known ...
The power of PowerPoint in listening at beginning levels of Spanish

Martinez Valencia, Francia Eliana (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This study took place during the Spring and Fall semesters of 2008 at the University of Alabama in two Elementary Spanish classes. Using a combination of the findings reported by Mueller (1979), Bransford and Johnson (1972), ...
Moderne pikareske Romane?: Ein Vergleich zwischen Günter Grass' Die Blechtrommel und Saul Bellow's The adventures of Augie March

Loesch, Simon (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

In this thesis, I compare Günter Grass' Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) to Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March, with particular attention to the picaresque features of both works. Initially, the concept of picaresque ...
Searching for the writing subject in La vida de la Monja Alférez: autobiografía atribuida a Doña Catalina de Erauso

Williamson, Amy Cahill (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

The writing subject in the La Vida de la Monja Alférez: Autobiografía atribuida a Doña Catalina de Erauso is a difficult subject to determine because of the apocryphal nature of the text, the impact of multiple authors on ...
The usage and integration of English loanwords in German

Seidel, Uwe (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

The purpose of the present study was to determine the usage and integration of English loanwords in Der Spiegel magazine from the year 1990 until 2010. This thesis builds upon a study published in 1990 by Wenliang Yang on ...
Verbal synonymy: an investigation of native speakers' and German learners' usage

Susur, Ebru (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

Fourteen intermediate non-native Germans studying at a university in the southern United States were asked to participate in a partially questionnaire-based study on verbal synonymy and language acquisition. As comparative ...
Narrativa Centroamericana de la Posquerra: Aproximaciones de identidad nacional, raza y genero

Robinson, Gregory Alexander (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

The short story narrative genre has had a tremendous impact on Central America since the beginning of the 20th Century. This study examines the common themes of identity, race, and gender in 6 contemporary authors from ...
La novela policiaca femenina hispánica: hacia un canon de tendencia posmodernista

Florez, Monica (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

This dissertation, entitled La novela policiaca femenina hispánica: hacia un canon de tendencia posmodernista, examines 11 detective novels from Hispanic women writers of the present century in order to establish the ...
Lessing und Nietzsche als "freie Geister": Nietzsches Urteile über Lessing und die Verwandtschaft von Lessing und Nietzsche in philosophischer Fluktuanz

Mueller, Reinhard Gerald (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Previous research that connected Lessing and Nietzsche confined their engagement, on the one hand, largely to individual aspects of kindredship in thought and writing. On the other hand, Nietzsche's judgments of Lessing ...
Elementos definitorios de la posvanguardia y el posmodernismo en México y Guatemala: transculturación, intertextualidad e indentidad en la ficción corta de seis autores

McCrary, Virginia Ledesma (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

This dissertation entitled: Elementos definitorios de la posvanguardia y el posmodernismo en México y Guatemala: Transculturación, intertextualidad e identidad en la ficción corta de seis autores, investigates six collections ...
In regard to the individual: a Rousseauian approach to the nature of man in select French and Francophone films and in film adaptations of the French and Francophone novel and play

Miceli, Robin Suzanne (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

The influence Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy has on French and Francophone literary and cinematic works mostly likely occurs on a superficial level to most students. This manuscript attempts to unveil the profundity ...
Fantastic encounters: identity, belief and the supernatural in works by Paul Féval

Holley, William Bradley (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Nineteenth-century French fantastic tales are rampant with supernatural creatures and events. The manifestation of supernatural phenomena, as a literary device, creates a relationship between the reader and the author that ...
Die Darstellung des Luftkriegs bei Hans Erich Nossack, Heinrich Böll, Alexander Kluge und Dieter Forte

Fink, Fabian (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

W.G. Sebald claimed that German writers of the post-war time have remained silent when it came to writing about the air-raids over Germany, the bombing of the German cities and the suffering of the people living there. ...
Naturalistic philosophy in the Spanish Golden Age picaresque novel

Milstead, Andy Micah (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

My dissertation analyzes three canonical Spanish Golden Age picaresque novels through the lens of naturalistic philosophy. The works selected for my study are the anonymous Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), Guzmán de Alfarache ...
Lexical borrowings in the Colombian online newspaper El tiempo from 1990 to 2012

Gómez, Maria Lorena (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

This study examined the introduction, adaptation, usage, and acceptance of lexical borrowings in the Colombian online newspaper El Tiempo from 1990 to 2012. While building on the foundation of prior research of sociolinguistic ...
Espejo de identidades: género, inmigración y violencia en cine dirigido por mujeres españolas y latinoamericanas

Boris, Marta (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

My dissertation Espejo de identidades: género, inmigración y violencia de género en directoras latinoamericanas y españolas, examines four 4 Latin American films and two 2 Spanish films, all of which were directed by ...
La honte et la culpabilité: destins de femmes dans les récits algeriens du xxe et xxie siécle

Matu, Florina (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

This dissertation aims to explore a variety of representations of shame and guilt in twentieth and twenty-first century Algerian works written by women. More specifically, I argue that in three recent autofictional works ...

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