L'étude des isotopies animales qui se rapportent à la “Vénus noire” et à la “Vénus blanche” se fonde sur la théorie de l'isotopie, un concept que la sémantique structurale doit à Algirdas Greimas. Notre étude se veut avant tout une description sémantique des divers aspects des a…
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In this dissertation, I argue that the flaunting of "fantasticality" as an intentional stylistic device or marker of unique identity rather than as a failure of discursive or social propriety marks a crucial point of transformation in Elizabethan poetic culture (i.e., a culture …
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…
The literary works of the Guinean author, Laye Camara, are born out of the author's internal and mental landscape composed of layers of cultural sediment. They celebrate the glorious heritage which for over a thousand years adorned the region of the Upper Niger, (the vast ancien…
My concept of poetic abstraction combines Sijo (a distinctive Korean poem format), the Korean traditional color schemes of Oh Bang Saeg and Oh Gan Saeg, and the concept of Han (the Korean interpretation of a historically particular, innate bittersweet sorrow emotion). To better …
This study compares two poetic visions from two different literatures, cultures, and traditions, Salih Al-'Alawi's (1902-1976) and Robert Frost's (1874-1963). Al-'Alawi is an Arab modern poet whose vision is romantic mystical. Frost is a modern American poet whose work is inform…
The continuous tension between poetic creativity, social norms, and literary traditions that set the rules for textual production and interpretation has shaped the Yemeni history of poetic production. Acting as a "unitary language," literary traditions tend to unify poetic pract…