Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive Theses and Dissertations 2011-12-07 Thawing the Frozen Heart: Turning to Antonio Machado to Overcome the Silence in El corazón helado by Almudena Grandes Richard A. Henricksen Brigham Young University - Provo Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd Part of the Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature Commons BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Henricksen, Richard A., "Thawing the Frozen Heart: Turning to Antonio Machado to Overcome the Silence in El corazón helado by Almudena Grandes" (2011). Theses and Dissertations. 2849. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2849 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. Thawing the Frozen Heart: Turning to Antonio Machado to Overcome the Silence in El corazón helado by Almudena Grandes Richard A. Henricksen A thesis submitted to the faculty of Brigham Young University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Gregory C. Stallings, Chair John R. Rosenberg Alvin F. Sherman Jr. Department of Spanish and Portuguese Brigham Young University December 2011 Copyright © 2011 Richard A. Henricksen All Rights Reserved ABSTRACT Thawing the Frozen Heart: Turning to Antonio Machado to Overcome the Silence in El corazón helado by Almudena Grandes Richard A. Henricksen Department of Spanish and Portuguese, BYU Master of Arts In an attempt to demonstrate Spain´s obligation to recover its ignored historic memory, Almudena Grandes evokes the poetry of a man whose past itself has been manipulated, misused and partially forgotten: the great poet Antonio Machado.