Browsing by FAS Department "Romance Languages and Literatures"

Ciacco, Brunetto, and the Voice of God

Pertile, Lino (Olschki, 2013)

Cineastas y Escritores Europeos en Latinoamérica: Un Estudio del Contexto de Producción

de Taboada Amat y León, Javier (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 ...

Come Back Aesthetics

Sommer, Doris (2015-09-11)

Contes cruels: le romanesque edifiant et sadique dans le Tristan en prose du manuscrit francais 112 de la BnF (1470).

Greene, Virginie (Pessac, 2009)

Contrapunteo: The Question of "National" Theater in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina and Mexico

Politte, Paul Edwin (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 ...

Corporeal Visions and Apparitions: The Narrative Strategies of an Indecent Theologian

Rivera Rivera, Mayra de Lourdes (SCM Press, 2010)

Counterfeiting Women: Economies of Gender and Genre in Cervantes’ Romance Novellas

Lagresa-Gonzalez, Elizabeth S. (2017-08-24)

Employing an interdisciplinary frame, my dissertation seeks to explore the relationship between purse and person within Cervantes’ "Novelas ejemplares," in particular his engagement with romance as understood through ...

Cucurto's Cardboard Coloring Book: Argentine Independence and Other Stories to Recycle

Sommer, Doris (2010)

This article tries to prove how present historical and literary discourses are recyclable materials, as the framework of Argentina’s Bicentennial Independence official celebrations shows. The work done by Washington Cucurto ...

Cultural Memory in Contemporary Narrative: Andrea Camilleri's Montalbano Series

Eckert, Elgin (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)

Cottini, Luca (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, ...

Da Capo: Accumulations and Explosions

McDonald, Christie (Legenda, 2009)

The Death of Maternity? Simone de Beauvoir's A Very Easy Death

Mcdonald, Christie (Berghahn Books, 2010-01-01)

Declining (the) Subject: Immunity and the Crisis of Masculine Selfhood in Modern France (1870-2000)

Wolfe, Loren Katherine (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

Rose, Kathryn Germaine (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 ...

Disobedient Women: Sexual Transgression and the Search for Female Autonomy in the Writings of Renée Vivien, Judith Teixeira and Sibilla Aleramo

Chokova, Mariya (2020-05-04)

At the beginning of the 20th-century, women writers, for the first time in literary history, wrote and published works that openly addressed the illicit dimensions of female sexuality. 19th-century male authors had already ...