This project focuses on the impact that Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt had on François-Réné de Chateaubriand's Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem. Napoleon's campaign in Egypt set forth an unprecedented imperial ideology that sought to know and thus conquer the Middle East …
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El presente estudio explora el símbolo del perro a lo largo de toda la obra cervantina: desde "el galgo" del autor Cide Hamete Benengeli, presunto cronista del Quijote, pasando por los perros del Coloquio, que dialogan en la novela corta que lleva su nombre, hasta los lobos del …
When this true crime story began, the curiosity of the Toubous of the small town of Largeau was provoked by an unusual competition held between Ysbo Kadi and Ahmed Wagandou. This competition was held to win the hand of a young and beautiful Goran girl. For that reason, struggle,…
This dissertation is a literary and historical analysis of the concepts of Blackness and racial otherness as they are represented in Spanish literature from the Middle Ages through the Golden Age. While the presence of Muslims and Jews is well-known, and therefore, widely studie…
En la preparación de la presente edición se usaron fuentes primarias y los episodios más importantes (justificados por los críticos) han sido presentados en una forma clara y concisa. El estilo colorido y las oraciones largas típicas del periodo se han tratado de mantener debido…
French writers of Maghrebi Arab and Berber heritage have published a significant body of fiction over the last fifteen years. Although this fiction shares the same language with, not to mention many of the themes and concerns of, Francophone North African and mainstream French l…
This study includes four sections: (1) an introduction to the literary, historical, and autobiographical aspects of Lope de Vega's narrative poem La hermosura de Angélica, written between 1588 and 1602, when it was published for the first time; (2) an edition of the text based o…
A close Jungian study of Le Roman de Jaufre reveals a multi-layered text, consisting of three distinct but intertwined levels: (1) the individual growth process of the hero in the process of individuation; (2) the universal myth of the hero's journey, which brings renewal to the…
This dissertation is a study of French literature and cinema produced during the Algerian War (1954-62). First, I argue that French society's apathetic response to its Army's crimes in Algeria should be interpreted as a crisis of witnessing, or a pervasive denial. Then, I sugges…
An analysis of the songs composed by some Occitan poets and some Andalusian poets showed a striking similarity. The forms, genres and melodies adopted by the Occitan poets in the Middle Ages were relatively similar to the songs composed earlier by Andalusian poets. On the other …
Voices in the Medieval Poetic Encyclopedia seeks to track down the multiple textual echoes of the poetic voices in the medieval encyclopedia as it is being articulated on the fringes of Al-Andalus in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries. This is a decisive period in…
Esta tese propõe um estudo comparatista dos romances Madame Bovary , de Gustave Flaubert, Dom Casmurro , de Machado de Assis e O Primo Basílio, de Eça de Queirós, sobre os quais, como questão de base para o nosso trabalho, desenvolveremos uma análise crítica à interpretação que …
My dissertation analyzes the Spanish Nobel Laureate poet’s transatlantic path and his relationship to Spain, the United States and Puerto Rico as expressed in his archival practices from 1916 (his first trip to the U.S.) until his death in 1958. Jiménez went into permanent exile…
El propósito principal de este estudio es explicar tres trilogías de las escritoras Josefina R. Aldecoa, Esther Tusquets, y Ana María Matute. La primera, Trilogía de memoria, de Josefina R. Aldecoa, Historia de una maestra (1990), Mujeres de negro (1994), La fuerza del destino (…
O propósito último deste trabalho consiste na análise da figura do basilisco, enquanto serpente, em quatro bestiários ingleses — Bestiário de Aberdeen, Bestiário de Cambridge, MS. Ashmole 1511, e MS. Bodley 764 , todos estes do século XIII — e na obra portuguesa Orto do Esposo, …
Chapter one provides a multifaceted panorama of the Genoese community in medieval Seville that helps to link Francisco Imperial, an early 15th century poet, to a group of foreigners and naturalized Castilian subjects who, despite their marginality, contributed greatly to the kin…
Accounts of French medieval verse have always supposed that there was no readily identifiable general theory of poetry in the Middle Ages. At most, it is accepted that there were arts of versification (the Latin Poetrie of the XII/XIII centuries, the French Arts de Seconde Rheto…
Puerta del cielo, the major work of Abraham Cohen Herrera (ca. 1580-1635), has long been recognized to have unique importance to the history of both cabala and European philosophy. Drawing largely from Marsilio Ficino's Neoplatonic theology, from scholasticism and the Hermetic t…