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Kongzi, Rawls, and the sense of justice in the Analects.
(2006-07-31)This dissertation is a comparative study of the philosophy of John Rawls and the Confucian Analects regarding the idea of a sense of justice. The first aim of this work is to correct a view that has been advanced by several ... -
Krylov methods for solving a sequence of large systems of linear equations.
(2015-07-22)Consider solving a sequence of linear systems A_{(i)}x^{(i)}=b^{(i)}, i=1, 2, ... where A₍ᵢ₎ ϵℂⁿᵡⁿ and b⁽ⁱ⁾ϵℂⁿ using some variations of Krylov subspace methods, like GMRES. For a single system Ax=b, it is well-known that ... -
"Kubla Khan," The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, and the decomposing subject of Coleridge's corpus.
(2009-08-24)In "Kubla Khan" and its prose introduction, Coleridge offers repeated examples of conscious efforts to gather up the loose ends of history, both globally and personally, in political and spiritual contexts. "The Pains of ... -
"L'artiste createur, L'homme aimable": A Survey of the Artistic and Commercial Success of Jean-Baptiste Isabey
(2014-04-30)Jean-Baptiste Isabey was one of the most successful French artists of the nineteenth century, yet his name is unfamiliar today. His popularity survived eight different regimes, from Louis XVI to Napoléon III. Known as the ... -
La búsqueda de la redención individual como utopía en la narrativa de Gabriel García Márquez.
(2010-06-23)En la literatura latinoamericana existe un gran énfasis en lo social con respecto a la búsqueda utópica. Mientras la sociedad puede representar un vehículo o un obstáculo en la búsqueda utópica, a veces ésta resulta ser ... -
La búsqueda de los valores perdidos en el cuento latinoamericano contemporáneo.
(2008-06-11)Through the lens of ethical criticism, the ideas of the Russian cultural theorist Mikhail Bahktin, and the assertions of the Spanish psychiatrist Enrique Rojas, this thesis examines the search for values in four Latin ... -
La condición posmoderna y el absurdo en el cuento latinoamericano contemporáneo.
(2011-05-12)Esta tesis analiza el enlace de la condición posmoderna y el absurdo en los cuentos "Chac Mool" (1954) del mexicano Carlos Fuentes (1928), "Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes" (1972) del colombiano Gabriel García ... -
La identidad femenina en tres obras de escritoras latinoamericanas contemporáneas.
(2007-12-03)In the last decades we have witnessed the flourishing of a literature written by Latin American women whose objective is to explore the treatment of feminine identity and all of the concerns related to the topic. This ... -
La imagen de la nostalgia en la novela latinoamericana de mediados del siglo XX.
(2011-05-12)En base a un acercamiento ecléctico que percibe la literatura como una expresión simbólica de crítica social, en esta tesis se considera la nostalgia como un concepto fundamental en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea, ... -
La justicia y el absurdo en el cuento latinoamericano contemporáneo.
(2009-07-01)Esta tesis analiza el tema de la justicia en una muestra significativa de la cuentística latinoamericana de la segunda parte del siglo veinte considerando como caso de estudio los cuentos “Luvina” de Juan Rulfo, “La siesta ... -
La muerte física y psicológica en obras poéticas de Federico García Lorca
(2019-04-05)La muerte es un tema omnipresente en la obra del poeta español, Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) desde sus primeras colecciones, en que se crea un lenguaje poético de símbolos asociados con la muerte que emplea a lo largo ... -
La permanencia de la utopía en la novela contemporánea latinoamericana escrita por mujeres.
(, 2014-06-11)Esta tesis comprueba la persistencia de los planteamientos utópicos en la narrativa latinoamericana contemporánea escrita por mujeres, para lo cual se consideran dos novelas representativas de esa narrativa: Diez mujeres ... -
La relevancia de la memoria en la nueva narrativa chilena: el caso de Marcela Serrano y Ramón Díaz Eterovic.
(2006-07-30)The objective of this thesis consists of following the trajectory of the concept of memory in the New Chilean Narrative while employing a critical literary approach oriented toward Cultural Criticism. We analyze Lo que ... -
La ropa hace la mujer : explorando la cuestión de la voluntad femenina en obras de Emilia Pardo Bazán y Benito Pérez Galdós = Clothes make the woman : exploring female agency in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s short stories and in La de Bringas by Benito Pérez Galdós.
(2018-05-03)En el siglo XIX se comenzó a debatir el papel de la mujer española. Emilia Pardo Bazán, considerada la autora fundamental del naturalismo español, ilumina la lucha de la mujer en el siglo XIX de obtener algún control sobre ... -
La trayectoria de la justicia en la literatura latinoamericana.
(, 2014-01-28)Esta tesis propone que el concepto de la justicia conforma un elemento fundamental e ineludible en la literatura latinoamericana. Siguiendo las ideas planteadas por filósofos sociopolíticos de la actualidad tales como Axel ... -
Labels on the altar : the convergence of worship and learning in British church museums.
(, 2013-09-16)Church museums are atypical institutions that foster both worship of God and learning of the history of the building and its people. A conflict often arises between these two roles of worship center and museum, which can ... -
Labor “meats” religion: economic restructuring in the meatpacking industry and religious adherence in the Midwest.
(2008-06-09)Labor market trends are often examined in light of their economic significance. However, little attention has been devoted to the relationship between economic trends and their potential impact on religion. Focusing on ... -
Lafayette in Hamilton: History in Art
(2019-05-22)Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, based on historian Ron Chernow’s award-winning biography of the nation’s first Treasury Secretary, quickly became a cultural phenomenon after opening on Broadway in 2015 and introduced a new ... -
Lamentation in the late plays of Shakespeare.
(2019-04-16)This thesis will consider portrayals of lamentation and weeping in The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and Cymbeline. These late plays of Shakespeare identify and assess various motivations behind affective response. In The ... -
Lancer
(2019-05-23)The Oxford English Dictionary defines poetic license as “the freedom to depart from the facts of a matter or from the conventional rules of language when speaking or writing in order to create an effect.” This definition ...