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Generacion salida:: arquetipos narrativos de la fuga de jovenes

Beard, Caroline E. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

In less than a decade since the onset of the global economic crisis, more than 2 million people have left Spain in search of work and the possibility of a livable existence. Many of these economic exiles are young and ...
Goal setting and its influence on achievement in the Spanish language classroom: combining second language acquisition, achievement goal theory, and goal setting theory

Miller, Alyssia (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

The present study employs an interdisciplinary approach that bridges theories from second language acquisition, education, and psychology, and centers on finding new techniques to help students learn. In this study, I ...
Han’gŭlization and romanization: two models of script change

Alford, Timothy Wayland (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

Script change is a branch of language planning and language policy. To assist language planners and policy makers with their endeavors, I have performed a Qualitative Research Synthesis to determine if the Han’gŭlization ...
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 ...
Investigating the effects of mindfulness meditation on l2 learners’ self-efficacy in an instructed foreign language context

Morgan, William Justin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

A large body of research in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) is dedicated to the effects of individual differences among language learners. One commonly studied factor is self-efficacy, and its related subcomponents of ...
Ironic images of motherhood in contemporary French cinema

Moore, Ann Marie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

There is an increasing trend for contemporary French cinema to feature the family unit. As such, it now serves as the ideal locus for criticism and commentary on individual family members. One of the key members, who ...
Kristeva par kristeva: les enjeux de l'intertextualite

Hope, Sandrine (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

This dissertation aims to demonstrate the intertextuality of Julia Kristeva’s novels with her own theoretical writings, revealing the connections between the two discourses and a continuity of thoughts by Kristeva as well ...
La escritura de la memoria como herramienta de diálogo en la metanovela española del siglo XXI

Hines-Brooks, Shelly Marie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

This dissertation explores how the use of metafiction in four novels that were published in the 21st century creates a dialogue with the historical memory of the Spanish Civil War. These works, which are referred to as ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lafemme stendhalienne et l'amour courtois dans Le rouge et le noir

Henderson, Melissa Lynn (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

The vestiges of courtly love deployed in Stendhal's 1830 novel, Le rouge et le noir;, invite a re-examination of two of Stendhal's exceptional women, Mme de Rênal and Mathilde de La Mole. In my introduction (Chapter I "La ...
Lajoie de la Nausée: l'exploration de la conscience Sartrienne dans un optique Bouddhiste

Carden, Caroline Rue (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

Jean-Paul Sartre is known for an existential philosophy grounded on atheistic foundations. Considering his expressly non-spiritual view of existence, a remarkably similar philosophical basis between Sartre’s existentialism ...
Laprostituta:: idiosincrasias del naturalismo en el mundo hispano

Clachar, Larissa (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

This dissertation is a comparative study of three novels: Nana (1880) by Emile Zola, La desheredada (1881) by Benito Pérez Galdós and Santa (1903) by Federico Gamboa. The three novels deal with the life of a young prostitute, ...
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 ...
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 ...
María de Zayas’s Novelas Amorosas y Ejemplares through the lens of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex

Tamper, Valencia L. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

This dissertation examines María de Zayas’s first framed novella collection, Novelas amorosas y ejemplares (1637), using the feminist theories of Simone de Beauvoir as developed in her book The Second Sex. Zayas, a ...
Masks and moments of discernment in the bildungsroman caribeñounidense: the case of Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz

Blackbourn, Forrest Maddux (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

This dissertation explores the coming-of-age processes of characters that are perceived as marginal as a result of migratory experiences involving the Caribbean and the United States. Through the theoretical frameworks of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

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