The mother-daughter dyad as it is explored in the narrative of three contemporary women writers, Mariama Ba's Une si longue lettre, Francesca Sanvitale's Madre e figlia, and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, is here reexamined in the light of the slow emergence of maternal speech fro…
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This thesis is devoted to the study of the interactions between scriptural and pictural elements in French painter Eugène Delacroix's diary. Called by Baudelaire a «poet-painter», Delacroix finds the sources of his paintings in literature, and his diary bears testimony to his wi…
From its very inception, Spanish literature has recognized a commingly of the literary and the popular in a relationship that could be defined as symbiotic. From earliest times, this bonding was evident in the muwassahas or stanzas written in classical Arabic that were integrate…
This dissertation explores the significance of alterity in the works of Albert Camus and Assia Djebar. Using the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas as a theoretical foundation, I argue that both authors seek to establish a paradigm for the relationship with the other which preserves…
This study of Abdelkebir Khatibi's autobiography, La Mémoire tatouée, addresses two specific questions with respect to autobiography: What does this autobiography tell us about autobiography in general and about its own status as autobiography? What is the relationship between K…
By applying the theories of the French narratologist Gerard Genette to all twelve of the Novelas ejemplares, general and anomalous aspects of Cervantes's narrative technique are exposed. At a temporal level, the use of summary is associated with the rhetorical device of brevitas…
Lionardo Frescobaldi and Simone Sigoli were two noble Florentines who made a trip together through Egypt and Palestine in the years 1384-85. After returning to their homeland, each wrote an account of their travels. This thesis analyzes their accounts and compares them with the …
Critical studies of Zola's Rougon-Macquart novels, while explicating in detail the characterological functions of the women characters, including Gervaise in L'Assommoir and la Maheude in Germinal, have neglected the thematic functions of matriarchy in those texts as in the cycl…
The purpose of this dissertation was to re-examine the question of Islamic influences on Dante's Divina Commedia, (which has been argued ever since the publication in 1919 of La Escatologia musulmana en la Divina Comedia, by Miguel Asin Palacios) through a comparative intertextu…
Mediante la poesia de Jose Luis Nunez (Espartinas, Sevilla 1943-1980), podemos acercarnos a la matizacion de una tragedia andaluza. Las matizaciones de la tragedia andaluza que manan de sus versos indagan en los fundamentos ideologicos que crean las fronteras sociales, politicas…
The Orient in Proust's Recherche appears as a pervasive and dynamic network of images and references. It operates not so much as the static topos, the figure demonstrated by Said to predominate in the Orientalism of nineteenth-century European literature, but as the more dynamic…
The central goal of this study is to present a literary interpretation of three rare Judeo-Maghrebi collections of poetry and thereby assess their aesthetic worth and importance to French, Jewish, and cultural studies. The chosen texts are a paradigm of a diverse culture which p…
This dissertation is a study of the Inquisitor events in the Order of Saint Jerome at the end of the fifteenth century. In the year 1485 the first of a series of Inquisitions was established in the Jeronimite chapter of Guadalupe, in Caceres Spain. The names of thirty friars wer…
Starting from the basis that identity, individual or communal, is a narrative construct, the following study attempts to uncover the ways in which Jewish, Beur, and Antillean narrative is informing French national identity. Identity construction involves the positioning of bound…
Exile is a prominent subject in many recent texts by Jewish women writers in several languages. Comparative analysis of the role of exile in two such texts, the Mexican Sabina Berman's La bobe (1990) in Spanish and the Tunisian Chochana Boukhobza's Un ete a Jerusalem (1986) in F…
Claude Ollier's "Nouveau Roman" La Mise en scene stages a confrontation between Occidental law (French colonisers, Occidental reader) and Koranic law (set in Morocco) in extreme circumstances: the discovery of two murders of passion. The main character Lassalle is of European or…
This dissertation focuses on the implications and significance of the emergence and evolution, throughout the 80s and the 90s, of what has been termed "beur literature." This literature consists of about thirty texts written by authors born of immigrants from the former French c…
This dissertation foregrounds discursive strategies of empowerment with regard to language, colonization and female subjugation. I analyze two contemporary, post-colonial fictional responses to French colonialism in Algeria in order to reformulate the relationship between violen…
An important theme in medieval intellectual history was the attempt by exegetes from the 12th century onward to reconcile and integrate the new information coming from Greek authors, whose writings were translated and sometimes interpreted by the Arabs, with the body of culture …