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This doctoral thesis uses a meta-critical method with an epistemological approach. The corpus consists of the doctoral theses presented in the United States about the novels of the Peruvian-Spanish writer and Nobel Prize winner in 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most outstanding Spanish-speaking authors, with an extensive literary production. The study covers the 56 doctoral theses presented b

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

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

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

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”, “

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