This doctoral thesis is a psychoanalytic interpretation of the novels of the Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, and it explores these novels from three different perspectives, here called readings. The first perspective focuses on the literary techniques and the importance these may have for the interpretation of the content of the novels. This first reading includes a summary of the reception of

The indigenista novel is a realistic novel with a strongly ideological character that was developed primarily in the Andean countries (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador) during the first half of the 20th century with the purpose of making the reader aware of the living conditions of the indigenous Native American population. The overall aim of this study was to investigate the female characters in five of th

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 article focuses on the roles played by the female characters in three of the most influential indigenista novels, Raza de bronce (1918) by the Bolivian author Alcides Arguedas, Huasipungo (1934) by Jorge Icaza, from Ecuador, and El mundo es ancho y ajeno (1941) by the Peruvian writer Ciro Alegría. The roles of the female characters are studied from the perspective of Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion

This dissertation is an empirical investigation of mitigation strategies in spoken Spanish between L1 speakers and advanced Swedish L2 learners. The first aim of our study is a pragmalinguistic analysis and description of the mitigating functions of a number of linguistic elements in our corpus. The second aim comprehends a study of three contrasts, namely, the use of mitigation strategies in (a)

in Spanish literature. Different theoretical perspectives of a number of literary researchers studies of the narrator in second person are illustrated and based on these researches two Spanish literary works are analyzed. It is concluded that the second person narrator causes rhetorical power; The purpose of this study is to create an understanding about the use of the narrator in the second perso

Tomas Eloy Martínez´ Santa Evita displays a profusion of ekphrastic sequencies through which the photographic representations become a recurring theme. This study examines these descriptions of photographies with the purpose of studying what the inclusion of this visual collage responds to and what place this occupies in the temporal development and in the general imaginary economy of the work. To