The thesis explores the diversity and experimentalism that typifies the narrative writings of the Scapigliatura. It offers a reading of key-texts by Rovani, Tarchetti and Dossi which focusses on the narrative techniques and structures which are used in the construction of meanin…
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The aim of this study is to examine the life and work of Filippo de'Nerli and to see what this reveals about the politics society and historiography of his time. The first part of the study is biographical, tracing Nerli's involvement with politics and administration at various …
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…
This thesis examines the attitudes to wealth as depicted in two contrasting literary genres: didactic verse sermons and courtly verse romances. A preliminary chapter briefly outlines the historical background, its relationship with contemporary literature and with the prominence…
This dissertation focuses on the use of the al-Andalus myth and its articulation of Spanish identity via the so-called textos africanistas, which are a series of chronicles and literary works written in response to the 1859 Spanish invasion of Morocco. In the 19th and 20th centu…
This study shows how Leone de' Sommi (1527-1592), impresario at the court of Mantua, confronts Hebrew tradition with Latin and Italian traditions, both in his literary works and in his theory on theatre, in order to express his understanding of relations between the court and th…
Moriscos do not represent a unique case of a minority group in the history of the Iberian peninsula; but they are the only converted group to be sentenced to expulsion from Iberian lands between 1609 and 1614. The reasons behind their struggle are numerous, and they are based on…
This study examines how the sun and the sea in the works of Albert Camus articulate spaces that are both fictional and political. The analysis places the production of the Algerian and Mediterranean space in the larger frame of postcolonial debates. Chapter one, "La Mer et le so…
This dissertation investigates the ways in which three francophone Algerian women authors, Taos Amrouche, Hélène Cixous, and Assia Djebar, approach their respective religions and portray them in their works. Through textual evidence from their fictional works, I show how the pro…
This dissertation aims to study a case of contradiction between Foucault's social practice in his articles on the Iranian revolution and his theories of the "subject", of the "pluralism of centers of power of resistance," and of the notion of "the author". The disparity between …
One of the questions at stake in contemporary theoretical debates over the legacy of the Enlightenment is whether the political violence that has been carried out over the last two centuries is inextricably linked to the rationalist values promoted by the Enlightenment. This cri…
This dissertation examines the novel Consolaçam às Tribulaçõens de Israel, written by Samuel Usque and published in Ferrara, Italy in 1553. The book---simultaneously written as a historical account, a rabbinical response and a pastoral novel---emerges from the context of the exp…
In the 15th and 16th centuries a number of works were written not only to exalt and codify some of the Romance languages, but also to support their literary cultivation in order to improve and dignify them. This goal of literary improvement represents the will to control and to …
While the history of the Inquisition and that of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain during the fifteenth century has been portrayed in several different literary and cultural spheres, rarely has it been depicted in contemporary French fiction. Le chemin de l’exil, written by D…
The object of study in this dissertation is the story of Muhammad's night journey and ascension to heaven, commonly known as the mi` raj , as it circulated in Aljamiado (Spanish in Arabic script) amongst the Moriscos of sixteenth-century Spain. The origins and development of the…
This dissertation explores literary and visual representations of shame with a particular focus on the 14th to 16th centuries. Through a survey of prose literary works and Early Modern visual culture, this project argues for an understanding of shame as a social construction of …
This dissertation examines the early interactions between the Portuguese and the Chinese in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with special emphasis on the central roles respective ideas of time and space played in the creation and development of the perception of the othe…
This thesis examines the social impact of horses on French elites between 1150 and 1300. Using courtly literature, a veterinary treatise, manuscript illuminations, archeological studies, material artefacts, and account books, it explores the place of horses in elite society—prac…
Rather than being a pure product of Metropolitan France, as most of Camus's critics generally maintain, Camus is the product of his native colonial Algeria, a European-Algerian culture which has distinctive features significantly different from that of Metropolitan France. The p…