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This study is a close replication of Kanwit and Geeslin (2014), an investigation of the interpretation of verbal moods in adverbial clauses in Spanish. Whereas the first language of the second-language participants in the original study was English, we explore whether Kanwit and Geeslin’s results extend to other first-language populations—Swedish and French learners of Spanish. Participants in the
Jorge Ibargüengoitia is one of the most prominent writers in 20th-century Mexican literature. This study provides an analysis of his narrative in the work Dos Crímenes. The primary objective is to elucidate how the author constructs his narrative threads through the use of irony, which becomes a recurrent tool in his style. To accomplish this, it is proposed that Ibargüengoitia employs different t
The poetry of Hanni Ossott (1946-2002) is hardly known beyond Venezuelan frontiers, and so is any domestic or foreign research, almost non-existent, about her published works, an exception being El reino donde la noche se abre (1987). Such a scenario, unfortunately, continues to be so regarding her other works, especially the ones published thereafter. For this reason, this article will focus on o
This paper investigates the lexical immigration of “arabismos” (Arabic loanwords) in the Spanish language. It compares the differences between old arabismos (integrated during the Middle Ages) and modern arabismos (integrated in contemporary time) in terms of their adaptation to the Spanish norms of spelling, phonetics, semantics and morphosyntactic. It also analyses the use of the arabismos and t
A study about the positive and negative effects of bilingualism in bilingual adults.
Patricio Guzman’s 1997 documentary film La memoria obstinada contains highly interesting narrative elements. These performative devices, also called re-enactments, are remarkably effective in historiographical, psychological, and cultural terms. These stylistic devices present in the Chilean director's cinematographic work manage to materialize memory within the sociocultural context to which
The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to contribute to a postcolonial re-reading of Julio Cortázar’s work titled “La noche boca arriba” (translated as “The Night Face Up”). The interest arises because the fantastic aspects of the story has been the main focus of many literary analyses, overshadowing the dichotomous narrative. Therefore, the objective of this thesis is to analyse the Eurocentric s
This thesis examines the literary space of Macondo and its transformation due to external national influences in One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez. A case study is conducted of three key episodes in Macondo’s increasing contact with the state. The objective of the study is to analyze their respective spatial logics as a basis of the production and transformation of Mac
This study has as its theme the role of food in literature and more specifically to investigate it in three works: the novel Like Water for Chocolate (1989) by Laura Esquivel, the short-story “Lección de cocina” (1971) by Rosario Castellanos and the short-story “El corazón de la alcachofa” (2003) by Elena Poniatowska. With the support of previous studies on the subject, starting from Antiquity wit
ABSTRACT One of the major aims of fantastic literature is to fight against common forms of representation. A clear example of that are the short stories of Mexican Francisco Tario. The present study examines the literary resources of estrangement and personification in relation to four stories included in the author’s first publication, La noche: “La noche del féretro”, “La noche de la gallina”, “
