This dissertation identifies how four contemporary Iberian crime fiction novels similarly construct a paranoid reading. The project’s novels include: Secretos de Arenal by Félix González Mondroño (2014), Els ossos soterrats by Silvestre Vilaplana (2016), Res no és real by David …
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Nesta investigação, debruçámo-nos sobre o trabalho do Grupo de Ação Teatral A Barraca, onde identificámos duas assinaturas distintas no que respeita à direção artística: Maria do Céu Guerra e Hélder Mateus da Costa. Para melhor consolidar uma perspetiva que testemunhe a pluralid…
The Lady and the Unicorn is a six-paneled tapestry commissioned for the family Le Viste in approximately 1500 C.E. with famously elusive origins. This work aims to extend the investigation of the tapestries’ conception into literary criticism via an ecomaterial reading. Despite …
The picaresque genre attempts to represent a subject outside History—in early modern Europe, the newly dispossessed peasant, “dissolute, crooked, thieving and idle”—who will eventually become the modern wage laborer. The genre uses slapstick humor and parody to make for witty st…
This dissertation analyzes contemporary Italian crime fiction’s success, relating it to the penal system’s growing centrality in the Italian (and global) political, social, and cultural scene. Although crime literature’s great popularity is commonly accepted as a fact, literary …
Family destruction and patriarchy are recurring themes in the fiction and testimonies from the period beginning with the military coup of July 1936 until the end of Franco´s dictatorship. In his speeches, the dictator proclaimed himself the greatest defender of the institution o…
This study explores the spiritual discourse of the Moorish author known as Mancebo de Arévalo. The foundation will be the "Capítulos de vocablos oscuros,” analyzing from the "Capítulo del innas y del annas" to "El sueño que soñó al-Jadir," which are in the Breve compendio de nue…
Sixteenth-century Italy is rich in considerations on the frightening power of song and women’s voices. Looking back to classical sources on sirens, enchantresses, and the power of the ancient modes; consolidating ideas about the body and the world in the burgeoning field of natu…
This dissertation examines how two writers, José Rizal and Manuel Zeno Gandía, and two artists, Juan Luna and Francisco Oller, from the peripheral edges (the Philippines and Puerto Rico, respectively) of the late nineteenth-century Spanish empire critically engaged with colonial…
The present study aims to bring into focus the antinomian doctrine of redemption through sin as it appears in Jules Michelet’s La Sorcière. According to Michelet, the witch-cult was both vestigial paganism and an attempt at overthrowing the Christian political order. The witch r…
The literary lecture is a subgenre of the traditional academic lecture that combines literary and metaliterary analysis, artistic self-fashioning, and public performance. This study considers the literary lectures of five writers as a sampling of a major transformation in this g…
This comparative study moves across national, temporal, and linguistic boundaries as it examines the birth of the lyric in southern Europe during the Middle Ages and the significance of its re-appearance and continued existence in modern Brazil. Close readings of assorted songs-…
This dissertation examines the early publication history of Les Temps Modernes (Paris, 1945), Presence Africaine (Paris-Dakar, 1947), and Origenes (Havana, 1944). By surveying the history of each journal and then focusing on specific moments in their respective histories, I docu…
All of the black images which I examine can best be explained in terms of their relationship to Italians' perception of their personal power or their power on a national level, for example I critique the use of Africa and Africans in Fascist films, especially with regard to the …
The anonymous Libro de los engaños e asayamientos de las mugeres (LEM) is a collection of exempla consisting of a frame tale and twenty-three interpolated tales. It forms part of the Seven Sages/Sindibād cycle, shares source material with the Arabic Alf layla wa layla (A Thousan…
For nineteenth-century English and French poets, the Islamic Middle East is an exotic alternative to Europe, supplying poets with images and themes, and serving as a point of reference in their search to define the function and nature of poetry. Recent scholarship on this topic …
This dissertation examines French citizenship and cultural identity in Algeria during the last quarter-century of colonial rule. It seeks to discover whether centralized French institutions such as public schools and the army were powerful enough to assimilate residing populatio…
Count Jan Potocki (1761–1815) is the author of a single quirky and brilliant novel entitled Le Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse , a 650-page gem that is a cross between the Decameron, Don Quixote, the Arabian Nights, and Diderot's Encyclopédie; it is also one of the first novels of …
Alfonso de la Torre's Vision Deleytable, an allegorico-didactic fable and the only extant primer of philosophy in Spanish from the 15th century, offers a complex witness to an important feature in Spanish religious history: the belated impact of Medieval Aristotelianism on the r…