Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Spanish and Portuguese by Title
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Una fecunda ignorancia: la alegoría en Felisberto Hernández como señal de su vigencia
(Georgetown University, 2018)The Uruguayan writer Felisberto Hernández (1902-1964) has been typically depicted as an outsider or a marginal figure within Latin-American Literature. Paradoxically, his influence and popularity have grown in time, with ... -
Universo sicario : espacios traumaticos y asesinos a sueldo. una aproximacion comparativa
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Visions of antiquity remembering the classical past in the Castilian Roman Antique
(Georgetown University, 2010)The appearance of the Libro de Alexandre and the Libro de Apolonio in the thirteenth-century Castilian literary scene represents the first time in which the key classical narratives about Alexander the Great, the Trojan ... -
Vulnerable Cosmopolitanism in Latin America: Hospitality Dynamics/ Pop Interferences in Contemporary Literature and Film
(Georgetown University, 2016)This dissertation studies the interrelation between cosmopolitanism, hospitality and pop culture in 20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film. Some of my research's leading questions are: what are the ethics ... -
“WHY ARE THESE UNDERLINED?” DEPTH OF PROCESSING AND TYPE OF WRITTEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK IN L2 SPANISH COMPOSITIONS
(Georgetown University, 2017)There is an ongoing debate as to whether written corrective feedback (WCF) is effective for the improvement of adult second language (L2) writers’ accuracy. Ever since Truscott (1996, 1999) began arguing against grammar ...
