Fourteenth- and fifteenth-century recovery romances create a convergent set of fantasies that reflect desires both for the reclamation of the Holy Land and for the protection and ascendance of Christianity. The disunity of Europe and the emergence of the Ottoman Empire produced …
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This dissertation examines the way that three romances have been adapted from their source texts in non-Jewish European languages to suit their target Jewish audiences. It begins with a summary of the issues at stake in the study of such romances: namely, what does it mean to Ju…
The stylized, romantic song sequence — or the form(ula) of "song-dance-romance" — has remained the most visible, audible, and mobile aspect of Hindi popular cinema. Studies of Hindi film songs have taken the shape of either extended ethnographies of production practices or edite…
The mating behavior of Western women tourists visiting Greece, Indonesia, East Africa, Jerusalem, Jamaica, Ecuador, Barbados, Hawaii and Belize poses a problem for scientific and intuitive models of human sexual psychology. Many of these women enter into sexual relationships wit…
The tale of Floire and Blancheflor was well-known in Europe throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The intercultural love story, imbued with the spirit of the Crusades, is set during the Spanish Reconquest. This dissertation explores the construction of frontier in three di…
My dissertation focuses on the two best-known works by Clara Reeve, the novel The Old English Baron (1777) and the critical treatise The Progress of Romance (1785), reading The Progress of Romance as Reeve's effort to outline a feminine, Christianized narrative tradition to serv…
Two distinct conditional paradigms are available to speakers of Italian, derived from the Latin periphrases cantare habui/cantare habebam. The aim of this thesis is to describe and explain their patterns of attestation in the earliest northern Italian and Tuscan texts, which dat…
My dissertation analyzes how eighteenth-century novels were still invested in the continuation of the romance and need to be read in the historical context of English interactions with other cultures, in particular those of the Ottoman Empire. Chapter One sets up the racial mode…
This dissertation explores how medieval French romances of the twelfth through fourteenth centuries construct representations of Byzantium. I claim that the culture of contact that existed during the Crusades offers a unique context for understanding how Byzantium comes to signi…
This project examines the Middle English Charlemagne Romances, a scattered group of nine metrical romances from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in the sociocultural context of late medieval England's growing perception of nationhood. I argue that these romances employ the…
The subject of this dissertation is the life achievement of Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998). The study follows two tracks, one literary focused on the poetry and biography of the poet, and one historical focused on the concurrent political and social developments in the Ar…
The doctrine of divine providence was considered fundamental to understanding the nature of reality in medieval Christian orthodoxy. One of our greatest modern impediments to proper understanding of this law are the radically different ontologies that flourished in the Latin Wes…
Relics and the Eucharist, powerful physical links between the divine and the human, sit at the heart of narratives about twelfth-century English religious conflicts. These conflicts centered around internal strife between Jews and Christians, prior to the Jews' expulsion from En…
This study of alienation is centered on the process of exchange between power and knowledge primarily within the context of South African fiction as represented by Alan Paton, Andre Brink, Nadine Gordimer and Ezekiel Mphahlele. Through a brief discussion of romance, it is establ…
The aim of my thesis is to contribute a greater understanding to the psychosocial study of emotion, by specifically developing a psychosocial approach to love and intimacy. I provide examples of how to define Psychosocial Studies and I discuss the intellectual challenges that th…
This dissertation explores the development of a vigorous and diverse subgenre in nineteenth-century American travel writing, that of the Holy Land travel narrative. I seek to delineate the contours of American discourse about the Holy Land during the nineteenth century by examin…
This dissertation performs an archeology of the reductio ad absurdum in theology and romance texts of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. Intervening in the fields of romance, logic, and rhetoric, this dissertation asserts the value of this rhetorical structure as an anchoring …
This thesis investigates the description of sensation in the scenes immediately before, during, and following the death of Tristan in variations in the Tristan cycle from the 12th through the 15th centuries. Using a sensory studies approach, the project considers these scenes as…
Hispanists have largely focused on the loss of Arabisms (i.e., Arabic loanwords) in Castilian while largely neglecting the reasons for their maintenance and incorporation in the language. With maintenance and incorporation of Arabisms in mind, the present study will address the …