EL IMPACTO DEL MUNDO ANGLOSAJON EN LA OBRA DE RAMIRO DE MAEZTU. (SPANISH TEXT).
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Title
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EL IMPACTO DEL MUNDO ANGLOSAJON EN LA OBRA DE RAMIRO DE MAEZTU. (SPANISH TEXT).
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Identifier
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AAI8409394
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identifier
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8409394
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Creator
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GUTIERREZ, ELISA SIERRA.
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Contributor
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Martin Nozick
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Date
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1984
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Romance
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Abstract
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Ramiro de Maeztu and his writings have suffered from the facile interpretation that views his first book, Hacia otra Espana (1899) as the cry of a young revolutionary and his last book, Defensa de la hispanidad (1934) as a reactionary cry of a fascist. Those studies that acknowledge that Maeztu never underwent a sudden turnabout, but rather an ideological evolution fail to recognize the pivotal role that England and the United States played in the metamorphosis of his personal philosophy.;The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate in depth the fifteen years that Maeztu lived in England, where the language posed no problem, because he was completely bilingual. He does not undergo radical changes while in London, but rather he further develops ideas that were in their embryonic stage in Haci otra Espana: the importance and value of money, work, patriotism, the press, personal courage, as well as the willingness to fight for one's country. It is in the British capital that he has the opportunity to learn and to grow. At first he is attracted to the Fabian Socialism of Beatrice and Sidney Webb. However, he later becomes the foremost spokesperson of Guild Socialism, founded in 1912. He publishes his first article in the Guild Socialist newspaper, The New Age, in 1913. He subsequently publishes the Guild "Bible," Authority, Liberty and Function in the Light of the War, in 1916, from articles he had previously published, in English, in The New Age.;In order to appreciate truly Maeztu's role in England's political and ideological scene of the first two decades of this century, it is necessary to realize that he was at its center. He was a highly respected member of several intellectual groups. He included among his good friends the leaders of these groups: Alfred Richard Orage, Thomas Ernest Hulme, and Baron Von Hugel. It is because of Hulme that Maeztu places so much importance on Original Sin and the innate evil that is in every human being. Life, according to these two friends, is a constant and never ending battle, a war against the evil that is in all of us. It has not been pointed out before that Maeztu was not on the fringes of the British political intelligentsia, but rather occupied an influential place in its center.;In 1925, Maeztu travels to the United States to spend a summer lecturing as a visiting professor at Middlebury College, Vermont. The two months that he spends in this country are the second impact of the Anglo-Saxon world on his philosophy. On this trip he finally finds the answer to his question as to why the Anglo-Saxon world was richer and more successful than Spain. . . . (Author's abstract exceeds stipulated maximum length. Discontinued here with permission of author.) UMI.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Spanish
