This dissertation explores the corpus of Spanish and Portuguese song contained in the eight principal manuscript sources of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Its purpose is to treat songs as cultural products which reflect, react to, or comment upon the culture o…
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Camus' philosophical and literary works share an intrinsically common ground relative to consciousness and revolt. However, with little exception, past and present scholarship has tended to corral its investigation of these two key issues at the expense of one genre or the other…
The goal of this work is to cause its readers to question post-colonial criticism of Camus. Initially, attention will be directed to the work of Conor Cruise O'Brien, who first presented Camus within the post-colonial frame. Embarrassingly uncomplimentary, Albert Camus of Europe…
For over two hundred years, a community of Louisianans has spoken a dialect derived from the language known as Louisiana Cajun French (LCF). LCF refers to French spoken by southern Louisiana inhabitants as adapted from the expulsion of French-speaking Acadians from the area know…
I examine the political function of short narratives during the period of nation formation in Latin America (1830-1920). I focus on Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba as case studies to show that the genre was a prominent platform for counter-hegemonic discourse. I define counter-hegem…
Assia Djebar has benefited from a rare set of circumstances in her native Algeria to gain access to a position of discursive freedom practically unknown to the vast majority of her sister citizens. However, her French-speaking narratives are not limited to a personal search for …
In Spain, science, history and law began to be written in Romance in the 13th century. At this time, and corresponding to a new interest in the dissemination of the medieval sciences, a need arose to transmit a way of understanding man and creation that integrated practical wisd…
This dissertation will investigate the nature and meaning of the quest for the female self in Simone de Beauvoir's Les Belles Images, Toni Morrison's Sula and Nawal el Saadawi's Two Women in One. The main goal is to delineate a common experience intensely communicated by women w…
The Fall of Constantinople to the knights of the Fourth Crusade in 1204 would lead to the establishment of Frankish states in the former Byzantine Empire. A unique crusader state was the Villehardouin principality in the Morea--the Greek Peloponnese--where, as the Chronicles of …
This dissertation analyzes the uses of illness in Spanish women's literary and non-literary writings from 1880–1920. Two opposing trends were at work during this period. On the one hand, cultural esthetics privileged sickly, pale, and inactive women. On the other hand, the hygie…
This thesis studies two of Albert Camus' works: Noces and Le Premier Homme written, respectively, at the beginning and the end of his literary career. Noces is one of his early publications, while Le Premier Homme is, in fact, a posthumous book, published in the 1990's, long aft…
The medieval understanding of Cain, fratricide and "vagabond on the earth," and Nimrod, tyrannical giant and architect of the Tower of Babel, prompted the figuration of movement as an erotic act and the corollary figuration of sexuality as movement, a process I term "the erotics…
This dissertation attempts to establish a tradition of Spanish Lay Women Writers from the early literature to the Seventeenth Century. Chapter I is divided in two sections that analyzes Feminist Criticism from a male and female perspective. Chapter II explores the origins of wom…
The present study analyzes the development of pre-fascist discourse in the narrative experience of three writers who participated in Spain's colonial venture in North Africa during the early part of this century. The works in question are Diario de una bandera by Francisco Franc…
The evolue(e) novelists of French expression, products of the colonial educational system, used the ideas and concepts learned there to "decolonize", first their own minds and then those of Algeria's indigenous peoples. Via the medium of the French novel and the agency of their …
The purpose of this study is to formulate a poetics of the literary voyage. The dissertation relates basic structures of the voyage--departure, displacement, and return--to rhetorical structures and strategies in Gide's major works of fiction. An introductory chapter examines th…
This doctoral dissertation probes Dante's understanding of the potentially explosive clash between theology and history by focusing on the violent act of sacrifice. The introduction surveys the appearance of the word "sacrifice" in all of Dante's works. The rare term is found to…
This dissertation examines the conscious rewriting of literary models by French travelers to the Near East in the sixteenth century. It focuses on the writings of seven authors (Belon, Chesneau, Gassot, Gilles, Nicolay, and Thevet) who visited the Ottoman Empire ca. 1550 under t…
Albert Camus's novels provide insight into the worldview of the pieds-noirs, Algerian-born descendants of European settlers facing ever-increasing pressure to abandon what they saw as their homeland as decolonization accelerated after the Second World War, when Camus was writing…