The study of Arabic poetry has been seriously retarded by the paucity of detailed studies of the works of individual poets. Existing editions are primarily concerned with matching passages from the poems to incidents in the poets' biographies and cataloguing the themes they trea…
L'etude de la survivance de l'art oral traditionnel dans le roman negro-africain d'expression francaise, cas de Karim d'Ousmane Soce et des Soleils des independances d'Ahmadou Kourouma, aborde en trois chapitres les differents aspects importants suggeres implicitement par la for…
Seis poemas galegos, Divan del Tamarit and Sonetos del amor oscuro comprise three of Lorca's least-known works. This study compiles and evaluates the existing criticism on these books. It also traces their chronological history, concentrating on disputed points such as the compo…
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide interested scholars with a faithful and sufficiently accurate transcription of the "Juridical Treatise", ms. 4987 of the Biblioteca Nacional of Madrid. The transcription to Romance of this as yet inedited singular extant Aljamiado t…
During the last two decades, Juan Goytisolo has contributed to a newly sprung controversial vision of Islam. Goytisolo elucidates in a number of articles and essays the question of margination and xenophobia suffered by Arabs and Africans in general, and he critically confronts …
This is a study of seven works by major romantic poets in England and France each of whom retell the story of Cain, each presenting him as a sympathetic figure. The works are: (1) Cain: A Mystery by Lord Byron; (2) "The Wanderings of Cain" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; (3) The Gho…
This project studies romanticism's absorption in the late eighteenth-century mythology of the Bible and demonstrates the extent to which poets came to model their work, no longer on the classical canon, but on what they believed to be the more natural and more sublime poetry of …
Evolving beyond the old feudal divisions modern Senegalese society is creating new divisions, principally between the French and Senegalese bourgeoisies on the one hand and the young urban proletariat and the peasantry on the other hand. Irreconcilable class divisions and harsh …
This study presents a survey and analysis of strategies of mediation in several works of medieval literature. My analysis focuses on the paradigm of mediation exemplified by the figure of the go-between. The study proposes to examine how the mediation of erotic and cultural code…
One of the most problematic issues in Arabic literature has been the opposition between tajdìd or innovation, and the two principles which have traditionally governed Arabic literature: turath, or heritage, and asala, roots. Tajdìd has gradually asserted its own as Arabic litera…
The purpose of this study is to explore the extent to which Italian narrative songs share a common tradition with Pan-Hispanic balladry. A number of ballads have enjoyed great popularity, over the centuries, both in the Italian and in the Hispanic traditions. Many of them are of…
Two centuries after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, Golden Age society continued to be obsessed with the Jews and their descendants, the conversos, as evidenced by both the attitudes and the literature of the age. This study examines the portrayal of the Jew and the conver…
The potential strength of Carlism--as well as of any other political ideology--can only be demonstrated by an attempt to show its present and future possibilities through whatever medium or vehicle of expression the artist or the political analyst chooses. Valle-Inclan manifeste…
Alchemy was probably born in Egypt, sometime during Antiquity. It received the influence of the Greek and hermetic doctrines (Chapter II). The Arab civilisation adopted it and brought it into the Western world. Alchemy quickly developed there, until it became widespread througho…