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A study of the mix between reality and fantasy in five important litterary works in the genre generally known as the Cronicles of the Indies.

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)

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

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This thesis was motivated by contradictory results from previous studies on reading describing foreign language learners in upper secondary school. Methods based upon ideas by Palinscar & Brown, Cooper, Beck et al, and Krashen were tested on approximately 200 students studying Spanish in the first two years of upper secondary school in Sweden. The methods used are called reciprocal reading, k

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

This thesis is an exploratory, descriptive and comparative study of teachers’ focus and teaching methods in Spanish as a third language (L3) in Sweden. The curriculum of Modern Languages emphasizes communicative competence and the purpose of the study is to examine how this is applied in the teaching of the course Spanish 4 and how the students progress during the course. Five teachers at four Sen

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This article aims to analyze the pursuit of happiness in the characters of three novels published every twenty years or so since 1963. The purpose is to show the real motivations of each character in the pursuit of happiness in each novel. Another objective is to show that Vargas Llosa's characters strive to find happiness despite the more diverse and adverse circumstances in which the author has

Este trabajo se ciñe exclusivamente al testamento literario que los Nobel de Literatura nos han regalado a modo de discurso. El objetivo ha sido desgranar dichos discursos para ver similitudes o diferencias y extraer las pertinentes reflexiones gracias a un material lleno de talento y altamente cualificado por quienes han dedicado sus vidas al servicio de la literatura. El método ha sido analizar

Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) is one of the most distinguished writers in Latin American literature and numerous studies have delved into his literary works. However, very little is known about his private life and family background apart from the facts that he chose to reveal about himself. Indeed, several of these “facts” have turned out to be false. This thesis sets out to examine whether a hidd