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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

This paper investigates the use and function of metaphors in the Cuban journalistic discourse today through a comparative study between, on one hand, the official Cuban press and, on the other, the unofficial. With a theoretical framework based on cognitive linguistics’ principles of conceptual metaphors, influenced by critical metaphor analysis, the study aims to understand how metaphors are used

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

The present study investigates the intersection of temporal, modal, and aspectual values conveyed through the etymological use of the imperfect subjunctive’s -ra form in the Spanish language. This usage can be seen in journalistic, literary, or essayistic texts, and is expressed through forms such as: “He who was a minister for three years has indicated that...”. The study analyzes this usage in a

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 paper focuses on the use of the Compound Past (CP) found in a set of epistolary letters from the 18th and 19th centuries' Uruguay. It is claimed that the CP already at this time encodes situations that are conceptualized within a temporal frame of indeterminacy. All the cases of CP in 66 letters are analyzed according to its contexts – with or without temporal determinants; in colocational en

This study presents an empirical approach to the use of imperfect and preterite Spanish past tenses, with state and achievement verbs by Swedish students of Spanish as a foreign language in the levels A2, B1 and B2. The main objective is to establish to what extent the participants link the use of the imperfect and the preterite in relation to state and achievement verbs. The study compares the re

The following study investigates the female main character in the novel The Bad Girl (2006), written by the Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa. In addition, it examines how she relates to the Marianismo, the Latin-American ideology that proposes that the woman's spiritual and moral capacity is superior to the man's, and favours the woman's sexual passivity and purity. The essay is base

The present study investigates the importance of the male characters in four short stories written by women. Said stories are: “La culpa es de los Tlaxcaltecas” by Elena Garro, “Lección de cocina” and “Cabecita blanca” by Rosario Castellanos and “La muñeca menor” de Rosario Ferré. The aim of the study is to break the prevailing trend of analyzing this type of literature from a perspective where fo