An opposition on two-way basis replied to General Primo de Rivera's Dictatorship: the peaceful one and the violent one. The first one manifested its disagreement through ways controlled by the new regime; the second one, on the contrary, appealed to different methods and tactics…
The dissertation explores the relationship between political history and literary subjectivity in Jean de Joinville's Vie de saint Louis, a fourteenth century eye-witness account of Louis IXs reign and first crusade. Although the title of the work suggests a history of the canon…
Mother Utters: Struggle and Subversion in the works of Gwendolyn Brooks explores how Brooks uses women's speech and traditional classical poetic forms to struggle with and subvert the predominant social, moral, and political systems which impede class mobility and impress Africa…
This study explores the construction of Mizrahi (Oriental-Jewish) ethnic identity in contemporary Israeli films and its inscription by power imbalances and by the positionality of the Mizrahi in Israeli society. Against the widespread dismissal of ethnic divisions informed by th…
This study examines the function of generic hybridity and intertextuality in the Spanish picaresque novel and the picaresque's Arabic counterpart, the maqama. Generic hybridity as a feature of the Spanish picaresque is analyzed in the proto-picaresque Lozana andaluza, the Guzman…