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Bridging Heaven and Spain: The Virgin of Mercy from the Late Medieval Period to the Age of Exploration

Kugler, Katrena (University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)

The Virgin of Mercy is a Marian devotional image type recognizable by its portrayal of Mary protecting the faithful with her cloak. This thesis situates the iconography of painted panels within their historical and cultural ...
Dear Comrades: Analyzing Letters to La Pirenaica as Migrant Narrative

Barton, Brenna (University of Oregon, 2021)

Francisco Franco’s regime and the aftermath of World War II marked a period of political repression and economic instability in Spain, causing thousands of Spaniards to migrate in search of freedom and work. Throughout the ...
Dear Comrades: Analyzing Letters to La Pirenaica as Migrant Narrative

Barton, Brenna (University of Oregon, 2021)

This thesis evaluates a collection of 25 letters written in the 1960s by Spanish emigrants to France for Radio España Independiente (La Pirenaica) developing the writers’ firsthand accounts of their experiences as Migrant ...
Forty Years from Fascism: Democratic Constitutionalism and the Spanish Model of National Transformation

Christiansen, Eric C. (University of Oregon School of Law, 2019-02-14)

This Article seeks to understand and evaluate core elements of the past promise and present reality of Spain’s transformation from Francoist dictatorship to modern European democracy. It does this by investigating the role ...
Goya's Religious Paintings and Their Role in Constructing an Artistic Identity

Carlson, Jeffrey (University of Oregon, 2012)

My thesis examines four major religious commissions from distinct points within Goya's artistic development. Each piece serves as a touchstone for a discussion of its particular moment, provoking analyses of iconography, ...
Islands of Castile: Artistic, Literary, and Legal Perception of the Sea in Castile-Leon, 1248-1450

Furtado, Michael Anthony, 1958- (University of Oregon, 2011-09)

Before Spain encountered the Americas, it first encountered the sea. This dissertation explores the roots of that encounter by examining perceptions of the sea in late medieval Castile-Leon reflected in art, literature, ...
Jorge Semprun, le roman de l'histoire

Bargel, Antoine, 1983- (University of Oregon, 2010-09)

Jorge Semprun, survivor of Buchenwald, intends to "make testimony a space of creation". The formal inventiveness of the novel allows him to express the truth of his experience by creating a reflexive textual space in which ...
The Poetics of Modern Masculinity in Sixteenth-Century Spain

Middlebrook, Leah (Center for Renaissance and Reformation Studies U Toronto, 2010)

For many writers, politicians and courtiers in early modern Spain, to raise the topic of poetry was to raise the topic of masculinity. In Spain, the sixteenth century marks a particular threshold – we might consider it the ...
The Regulation of the South-North Transfer of Reproductive Labor: Filipino Women in Spain and the United States

Ezquerra, Sandra, 1976- (University of Oregon, 2008-09)

This dissertation examines the experiences of Filipina migrant domestic and care workers and the role of the state in the Global South-Global North transfer of reproductive labor. On the one hand, Western countries currently ...