Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by FAS Department "Romance Languages and Literatures"
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The 1824 Confederation of the Equator and Cultural Production in Brazil
(2015-05-17)During the 1824 Confederation of the Equator revolt in northeastern Brazil, a middle-class junta rose to power and waged a war against the monarchy in Rio, journalists participating in creating pedagogical ideological ... -
The Aesthetics of Discovery: Text, Image, and the Performance of Knowledge in the Early-Modern Book
(2015-05-21)How does the book-object in early modernity participate in the representation of scientific knowledge? How was the reader meant to approach the book and to comprehend its contents? This project starts from the contention ... -
Affecting Lives: The Politics of Biography in Modern Italy, 1850-1881
(2013-08-09)This study examines the spread of in-life biographies (biographies written and published while their subjects were still alive) in Italy during the later years of the Risorgimento and the early years of Unification. These ... -
Almost the Same but Not Quite - the Prosthetic Condition in Latin American Artistic Practices
(2018-09-25)My dissertation studies works of art that simultaneously feature literary and visual components, and that were produced in Latin America after 1980. To approach them, I propose the notion of the prosthetic condition: a way ... -
The Author as Scribe. Materiality and Textuality in the Trecento
(2015-05-12)In my dissertation, I explore the relationship between the material aspects of an editorial artifact and their literary implications for the texts it contains. I show how the interpretation of a text needs to be accompanied ... -
Bad Habits: Gender Made and Remade in Guillén de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre
(2013-10-18)Guillén de Castro's play La fuerza de la costumbre (1625) depicts the process of re-teaching gender to Hipólita and Félix, a sister and brother who have grown up performing the gender opposite to their physical sex. This ... -
Banlieue Stories: Mapping the Paris Suburbs On Screen, 1958-2012
(2014-02-25)The substantive la banlieue does not simply describe a geographical territory, but rather names a particular articulation of images and narratives that constitute the ‘banlieue question’. This dissertation ... -
Bodies of Books: Literary Illustration in Twentieth Century Brazil
(2017-01-26)This dissertation explores the nature and role of literary illustrations twentieth century Brazil, not just in relation to their companion texts, but also in what ways they reflect defining characteristics of Brazilian ... -
Cineastas y Escritores Europeos en Latinoamérica: Un Estudio del Contexto de Producción
(2012-10-31)This dissertation examines transnational flows and identities in the work of four European filmmakers and writers that have done extensive work in Latin America around the mid-twentieth century. Not renouncing to the ... -
Contrapunteo: The Question of "National" Theater in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina and Mexico
(2013-10-18)This project explores the phenomenon of National Theater in both Argentina and Mexico, specifically reevaluating the former's exemplarity and the latter's "failure." I propose that Fernando Ortiz's notion of contrapunteo ... -
Cultural Memory in Contemporary Narrative: Andrea Camilleri's Montalbano Series
(2013-02-21)This dissertation discusses Italy’s bestselling author Andrea Camilleri’s series of Montalbano crime novels. It poses the question of what makes Camilleri’s series so successful in the contemporary literary marketplace and ... -
A Culture of Objects: Italy's Quest for Modernity (1878-1922)
(2013-02-21)This study focuses on Italy's transition to industrial modernity (in the years from the end of the Risorgimento to the rise of Fascism) from the perspective of some of its iconic objects: wristwatches, bicycles, cigarettes, ... -
Declining (the) Subject: Immunity and the Crisis of Masculine Selfhood in Modern France (1870-2000)
(2013-08-21)I locate my dissertation at the critical intersection of philosophy, medical discourse and literature, and anchor it around five intertwining concepts: modernity, subjectivity, masculinity, immunity and Frenchness. I ... -
Digesting Modernism: Representations of Food and Incorporation in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century French Fiction
(2013-10-18)This dissertation examines the link between food and writing about food in French modernist texts in nineteenth and twentieth-century French novels, tracing the central role of food in realist fiction as an encoder of ... -
Disorientations. Latin American Fictions of East Asia
(2014-06-06)This dissertation explores the relationship between fiction, knowledge and "knowing" in Latin American discourses of China and Japan. By scrutinizing Brazilian and Hispanic American travel journals, novels, short stories ... -
Echoes of the Child in Latin American Literature and Film
(2015-05-04)This dissertation explores the rhetoric of childhood to comprehend how Latin American literature and film signify childhood. It furthermore analyzes the figure of the child as a rhetorical device in the construction of ... -
El centro del Centro: Ficción e ilusión en el Zócalo de la Ciudad de México
(2017-05-13)This study analyzes artistic and cultural productions that have contributed to the construction of Mexican national identity through references to the central national space with the official name of the Plaza of the ... -
Epifanía, trance, arrebato y otras iluminaciones: manifestaciones extáticas en la cultura Ibero-Americana contemporánea.
(2015-05-21)What do Salvador Dalí, Federico García Lorca, Val del Omar, Alejandro Jodorowski, Néstor Perlongher, Clarice Lispector, and Octavio Paz have in common? To the naked eye, they seem to feature more differences than similarities: ... -
Epistemología Criolla, Práctica Poética y Soberanía Simbólica en la Nueva Granada: El Desierto Prodigioso y Prodigio del Desierto de Pedro de Solís y Valenzuela
(2014-06-06)This work seeks to relocate El desierto prodigioso y prodigio del desierto (1650 ca.) within the discursive net of 17th Century Spanish Empire, and to make visible its agendas within the context of the New Kingdom of ... -
Fashioning Sovereignty in Latin American Narrative
(2013-02-22)With the arrival of the Europeans, the dressed body became a discursive forum upon which to negotiate the possession of land and the legitimate right to govern in Latin America. In conquest chronicles, the Aristotelian ...