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UC Irvine UC Irvine Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Death and Decay: The Religious, Aesthetic, and Philosophical Underpinnings of Ramón del Valle-Inclán's esperpentos Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/69x5n27h Author White, Jared S. Publication Date 2015 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 4.0 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE Death and Decay: The Religious, Aesthetic, and Philosophical Underpinnings of Ramón del Valle-Inclán’s esperpentos DISSERTATION submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Spanish by Jared Spencer White Dissertation Committee: Professor Gonzalo Navajas, Chair Professor Juan Villegas Assistant Professor Santiago Morales-Rivera 2015 © 2015 Jared Spencer White DEDICATION To Max, Sean, and Dylan, my three boisterous and beloved boys, so full of life and love; Emily, my patient, beautiful, and inspirational wife, for always seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, even when I couldn’t; friends, mentors, and colleagues, too numerous to count. I couldn’t have done this without you. “Le miroir brisé, il ne reste rien qui puisse nous servir pour répondre aux questions du siècle.” Albert Camus L’Homme révolté “The contemporary theatre is an eruption, a vile sickness of the cities. We need to expel that sickness, sweep it away with a broom.” Anton Chekhov, “Letter to I.L. Leontiev-Shcheglov” dated November 7, 1888 “¡Es pesada como una tesis doctoral!” El Bravo, puppet primer galán in Valle-Inclán’s La cabeza del dragón, while hoisting the titular cabeza ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...............................................................................................................v CURRICULUM VITAE ...............................................................................................................
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