The object of this paper is to describe the stylistic resources in literary texts and find out how textual density in narrative texts is created. Therefore, to a great extent the lyrical features are sought in the narrative. What is explicitly expressed within the text is investigated but what is not in the text, the empty spaces, is also commented on. It is reflected upon the concretizations or t

The aim of this study is to analyse the relationship between the historical and literary stereotype of the mad and locked up woman, with the sick and isolated women in the novels: "Pájaros en la boca" (A mouthful of birds), "Papá Noel duerme en casa" (Santa Claus sleeps at our house), "La respiración cavernaria" (Breath from the Depths) and "Cuarenta centímetros

Rename or Reproduce – A Descriptive Study of the Translation of the Professional Titles and the Traditional Dalecarlian Names with a Referential Meaning in Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf This study investigates the translation of professional titles and the traditional names from the region of Dalecarlia, proper names that often contains referential meanings. It is a descriptive study that examines

This thesis focuses on the presence and significance of silence in the poetic work The Psalms of Struggle and Liberation (1964), by the Nicaraguan liberation theologian Ernesto Cardenal, in which the biblical psaltery constitutes the base for a contextual interpretation. This study aims to prove the hypothesis that the white spaces in the psalms, created by the application of free verse, are possi

This study parts from comparing two different kinds of readings of two short stories publicized under the literary gender fantastic feminism, and written by one of the most well-known authors in this genre, the Puerto-Rican Rosario Ferré. The stories analyzed are “El hombre dormido” (1976) (Man asleep, mi traducción) and “El sueño y su eco” (1976) (Sleep and its echo, mi traducción) given the simi

In this thesis, the main male characters in three of the plays written by Federico García Lorca are analysed with the aim of seeing the role they play in the frustration of desire. After two chapters dedicated to a review of published critical studies on Lorca and to certain theoretical considerations, Chapter Three examines desire drawing on Ubersfeld's actancial model and observes that these mal

This study examines magic idealism as well as the representation and function of music in the novel El penúltimo sueño by the Colombian author Ángela Becerra. The assumption is made that there is a connection between music and magic idealism in the novel. In the analysis several recurring trends of magical idealism and music are identified. Music is represented as a companion in times of joy and s

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate and clarify the usage of the verbal forms present perfect subjunctive (haya cantado) and imperfect subjunctive (cantara/cantase) in the construction “no creo que…” in peninsular Spanish. It will analyse which the factors that encourage the use of the one form or the other are and highlight the factors that allow the usage of the form that diverges from