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Showing 1 to 20 of 161 for “"Literature, Romance."”.
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Joachim Du Bellay et l'enrichissement du vocabulaire français
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El narrador en las novelas de Torquemada de Benito Pérez, Galdós.
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De l'intertextualité mythique dans Le Corps lesbien de Monique Wittig.
Dans Le Corps lesbien, Monique Wittig tente de degager le personnage de la lesbienne de la penombre textuelle dans laquelle il est progressivement entre apres les vers de Sappho, c'est-a-dire au fur et a mesure que se consolide, en Grece, la culture des envahisseurs patriarcaux (les Acheens et les …
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Edición modernizada y anotada de la comedia No hay burlas con las mujeres, o, Casarse y vengarse, del doctor Antonio Mira de Amescua.
The purpose of this M.A. thesis is to present a modernized and annotated edition of a Spanish Golden Age play, No hay burlas con las mujeres o casarse y vengarse by the Spanish poet and playwright Antonio Mira de Amescua, applying the methodology of textual criticism. This edition is based on the …
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The Unanswered Question: The Ethical Implications and Aesthetic Limitations of the Unsayable
Chapter Three is an exploration of Jabes's massive revaluation of God and the covenant in the Book of Questions. His seven volumes constitute an extended rhapsody on the death of God. Moving through the violent murder of the absolute, speaking God, his volumes provide a reconstruction of God in the …
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Frontier Legacies: The Search for Home in the Twentieth Century
"This dissertation investigates several paradigmatic relationships between the concepts ""home"" and ""the frontier."" It focuses on four writers of the twentieth century from divergent cultural and literary contexts. Each writer depicts the psychic paradox of feeling homeless in one's home. The …
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"""Imagines Mundi"": The Aesthetics of Globality in Jorge Luis Borges, A. R. Ammons, and Jean -Luc Nancy"
The dissertation concludes with a comparative reading of aesthetics and globality in Borges, Ammons and Nancy. It also indicates the relevance of studying the aesthetics of globality for discussions of globalization's impact on the humanities.
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Textual Politics: Women Authors Rewrite the Enlightenment, 1790--1805
… the canon of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature in all three national literary traditions. The latter reason seems to be especially pertinent for understanding the exclusion of texts by women authors who dared retell Voltaire's Mahomet and Goethe's translation thereof, Johnson's …
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National Allegory: Land and Body in Nawal El Saadawi and Assia Djebar
My project examines how Nawal El Saadawi of Egypt and Assia Djebar of Algeria treat the national allegory that makes use of images of nation as woman and land as woman as well as woman as land and woman as nation. My question is what these two women do with this Arab narrative tradition used mainly …
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"Redefining Gender Through the Arena of the Male Body: The Reception of Thomas's Tristan in the Old French ""Le Chevalier De La Charette"" and the Old Icelandic ""Saga Af Tristram Ok Isodd"
This dissertation concentrates on two medieval romances which occupy different places in the medieval canon, Chretien de Troyes' Le Chevalier de la Charette and the Old Icelandic Saga af Tristram ok Isodd. Both of these texts are responses to the Old French Tristan romance and both deny the sexual …
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The Translation From Memory to Postmemory: The Mother-Daughter Dialogue in Post-Holocaust Literature
"All of these texts evoke layers of translation in the communicative process between the generations. The daughters help their mothers unlock and vocalize the past, and in a second step often attempt to adopt and integrate their mother's stories into their own cultural-political framework of …
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Identita Culturale Di Un Progetto Di Liberta Nella Sensualita Corporea Del Linguaggio Poetico Di Dacia Maraini
In the coherent femministically engage poetics of the writer Dacia Maraini's poetry represents a model for freedom of thought, which has allowed her to knowingly renew her poetic voice throughout the years. Expressing herself through verses, the idealism of her strong ideological involvement (which …
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The Search for Transcendence in Poetry: San Juan De La Cruz, Cesar Vallejo, and Jose Angel Valente
Thus, an analysis of the works of Cesar Vallejo and Jose Angel Valente through the prism of San Juan de la Cruz permits the exploration of a trans-ontological spiritual evolution as it relates to the practice of poetry. In as much as poetry is itself the reflections of being, we are also exploring …
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Geografias De Resistencia: Espacio Poetico Y Homosexualidad Masculina en La Poesia Espanola Contemporanea
The first chapter examines the crisis of poetic subjectivity confronting the homo/heterosexual definition in Federico Garcia Lorca. This crisis produces a tropology of the body through death, silence, secrecy, and unproductive sexuality that constitutes a system of knowledge, a metaphysics of …
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Masculinidad Como Espectaculo: Modernidad Y Consumismo en Espana (1898--1931)
Finally, Chapter Three analyzes the explosion of texts around the figure of the Don Juan, another archetypical representative of Spanish masculinity. I study Unamuno's play Nada menos que todo un hombre and Perez de Ayala's novel Tigre Juan as critiques Don Juan as symbol of Spanish virility. In …
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Machado De Assis: Preto De Alma Branca? Questoes Etnico-Raciais No Conto Machadiano
… would not) take part in so-called abolitionist literature; and (3) How the reader, offered this new perspective, can identify his representation, within short narrative, of non-white people of the Brazil of his time."
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Female Bodies Under Surveillance: Gender Fictions and the Discourse of Hygiene (Spain, 1850s--1930s)
… century onwards, the publication of prescriptive literature for and about women increased in Spain and reached its peak by the turn of the century, when manuals, essays, treatises and textbooks for girls experienced an unprecedented boom. This project studies the diachronic trajectory of the …
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Immediate Preverbal Placement: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Spanish in the Basque Country
Based on the results, the study proposes that in Spanish in contact with Basque, immediate preverbal position conveys more pragmatic functions than postverbal position. Additionally, when the same set of functions is expressed in both verbal positions, the contact variety either favors its …
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