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Development of the Catalan periphrastic past tense construction

This essay was written in the Fall 2012 semester as part of the Spanish Indo-European Syntax course at New York University, which was then numbered LING-UA 36. In the Catalan language, there are three important periphrastic constructions that can be formed with the auxiliary verb anar (“to go”). One is

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Lo grotesco en El día de la bestia

This short essay was written in the Spring 2012 semester as part of the Spanish Culture Through Cinema course at New York University, which is now numbered SPAN-UA 9994. Según Mijail Bajtín, lo que más define lo grotesco es “la degradación, o sea la transferencia al plano material y corporal

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Writing the Essay: Beethoven

This essay was written in the Spring 2011 semester as part of the Writing The Essay: The World Through Art course at New York University, which is now numbered ASPP-UT 2. “We are going to try to perform for you today a curious and rather difficult experiment, “ says Leonard Bernstein

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Writing the Essay: The Unbelievable Truth

This essay was written in the Fall 2010 semester as part of the Writing The Essay: Art in the World course at New York University, which is now numbered EXPOS-UA 5. As far as raw documentary material goes, it is hard not to feel that Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe

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Writing the Essay: Fabled Histories

This essay was written in the Fall 2010 semester as part of the Writing The Essay: Art in the World course at New York University, which is now numbered EXPOS-UA 5. “The way in which [Columbus] wanted to know these things was not in the way of satisfying curiosity, or

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Writing the Essay: Art is a Wild Animal

This essay was written in the Fall 2010 semester as part of the Writing The Essay: Art in the World course at New York University, which is now numbered EXPOS-UA 5. Reading the yellowed pages under dim lighting on a bumpy bus ride was difficult enough, but what made it