Allegorical interpretation is easily misunderstood by evangelical Christians as an evil tool that perverts the plain meaning of the scriptural text. Calvin’s severe accusation of allegory would make Reformed Christians think that he sees all allegorical interpretations as illegi…
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This dissertation explores modernity as a temporalizing form in Spanish American novels written during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. It takes as its point of departure the rise of the novel as a means for making sense of the rapid social and political transformat…
Penance Terminable and Interminable reads Piers Plowman as a penitential poem. The dissertation will argue that Langland’s repeated staging of penitential fantasies, tropes, and structures of feeling helps illuminate the narrative procedures of late medieval allegory, even as it…
This project tells a history of allegory from late modernism into the present. It presents case studies of four sites of allegorical thought and practice in late twentieth-century American cultural production, with a focus on post-WWII art, theory, literature, and material cultu…
This dissertation deals with the study of metaphors, allegories and personifications which appear in great number in the book of Habakkuk. In our opinion these rhetorical figures which are associated with military images, play an important role in the message of the prophet Haba…
The Exultet rolls of southern Italy have long been recognized as beautiful and singular examples of the liturgical culture of the southern Italian region during the Middle Ages. The manuscript rolls contain the illustrated text of the Easter proclamation, the Exultet, sung each …
The doctrine of divine providence was considered fundamental to understanding the nature of reality in medieval Christian orthodoxy. One of our greatest modern impediments to proper understanding of this law are the radically different ontologies that flourished in the Latin Wes…
The following dissertation focuses on six Argentine horror films available in the United States and Argentina and how the films' circulation in two national markets is reflected in multiple sociopolitical allegories concerning both countries. 9/11, the War in Iraq, legacies of A…
Although it is widely assumed that Wolfram's version of the Grail legend belongs in the genre of romance, this study examines Parzival as a synthesis of Hermetic and Muslim alchemy with Christian Eucharistic and Pentecostal imagery in a verse narrative that meets all of our post…
Based on the reading and analysis of two novels, Valentin Yves Mudimbe's Entre les eaux (1973), and Justine Mintsa's Histoire d'Awu (2000), and a film by Ousmane Sembene, Guelwaar (1993), I analyze various depictions and symbolism pertinent to mourning rituals after a father's d…
This dissertation is a critical edition and study of the Penser de royal memoire (1518), the second original work of the translator Guillaume Michel, a.k.a. Michel de Tours. The thesis begins by shedding some light on Michel's mysterious career (his translations of Virgil, Apule…
In this dissertation, I describe social, economic and political relations between Jews and Christians in medieval Europe before presenting the intellectual and religious context of Jewish life in Christian Spain. The purpose of this endeavor is to provide the framework for analy…
El nuevo palacio del Retiro (1634), El cubo de la Almudena (1651), La devoción de la misa (1658), and El santo rey don Fernando (first and second parts, 1671) are works of a religious literary genre unique to Spain: the auto sacramental. Until recently, such plays have suffered …