Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by FAS Department "Romance Languages and Literatures"
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Footnotes to Empire: Imaginary Borders and Colonial Ambivalence
(2017-09-08)While other regions colonized by Spain achieved independence in the first half of the 19th century, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines remained under Spanish imperial rule until 1898. Nearly all research about Latin ... -
Frameworks: The Limits of Perception and Representation in Spanish Narrative and Painting, 1880-1920
(2014-06-06)Realism is a mode of representation that purports to depict contemporary society objectively and in its entirety. By contrast, modernist artists are often regarded as having turned away from external reality to represent ... -
The Historic Avant-Garde, the Neo-Avant-Garde and the Digital Age: Experimental Visual-Textual Forms in the Luso-Hispanic World
(2013-02-15)My dissertation examines the experimental poetry of three periods, the historical avant-garde of the 1920s, the neo-avant-gardes of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, and the digital avant-garde (from the 1990s until the present), ... -
Impossible Voices: Phenomenologies of Sound in Beckett
(2014-06-06)"Impossible Voices: Phenomenologies of Sound in Beckett" is the first sustained exploration of sound in the prose and drama of Samuel Beckett. Bringing the field of sound studies to bear on Beckett's works, this dissertation ... -
"Impresas ansias": poéticas de la escritura en Villamediana, Sor Juana y Melo
(2016-05-16)This dissertation analyzes the depictions of writing that appear in the poetry of Juan de Tassis, Count of Villamediana (1582-1622), Francisco Manuel de Melo (1608-1666), and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695). The ... -
Indiscriminate Bodies: The Old French Fabliaux in Relation to Thirteenth-Century Medical and Religious Cultures
(2013-02-25)This dissertation examines representations of the body in the Old French fabliaux in order to elucidate these stories’ philosophy (or philosophies) of language and their relationship to religious, medical, and dietetic ... -
The Italian Graphic Novel: Reading Ourselves, Reading History
(2013-08-12)This study seeks to unravel the intricate connection between a selection of graphic novels, the moments in which they were created, and the process of weaving an Italian cultural history. It analyzes graphic novels and ... -
Knowledge and Representation through Baroque Eyes: Literature and Optics in France and Italy ca. 1600-1640
(2016-05-16)The scientific discoveries and inventions of the early seventeenth century, which include Johannes Kepler’s inverted retinal image, the refinement of lenses, and the invention of the telescope, transformed the status of ... -
L'Imaginaire de la Peste dans la Littérature Française de la Renaissance
(2013-03-19)This thesis explores the theme of the plague in sixteenth-century French literature, beginning with works from Antiquity and the Middle Ages in 16th-century French translation: Claude de Seyssel’s LHistoire de Thucydide ... -
L'invenzione Della Montagna. Significati E Valori Dello Spazio Nel Fascismo E Nella Resistenza
(2015-05-15)Questa tesi discute il ruolo, la funzione e i significati attribuiti alla montagna in due periodi capitali della storia del Novecento: il fascismo e la Resistenza. Nella prima sezione di questa ricerca ripercorro alcune ... -
La représentation de l'espace dans le récit
(2015-09-09)FRENCH VERSION (LANGUAGE OF THE DISSERTATION) Cette thèse doctorale vise à définir les aspects sous lesquels le récit peut saisir un espace afin de le représenter aux lecteurs. Pour ce faire, nous avons choisi une approche ... -
La Trasgressione nella Letteratura Femminile Contemporanea Italiana
(2012-10-29)In the last twenty years, Italian female literature has been characterized by a tendency to resort to a transgressive code for creating its fictional discourse. The transgression consists of desecrating those themes that ... -
Love Interest: Figures and Fictions of Venture Capital and the Law in Conquista
(2014-06-06)Inspired by the visual allegory ("Conquista, embarcáronse a las Indias" fol. 73 of the Nueva corónica), Legnani contends that the development of the laws of peoples (jus gentium) by 16th century Spanish jurists should be ... -
Makers and Creators: Human and Divine Artistry in Calderón
(2013-10-17)My dissertation examines concepts of creative agency in early modern thought and baroque poetics, with an emphasis on the theater of Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681). Calderón and his contemporaries inherited from ... -
Malos Tiempos Para La Lírica: Poesía Y Cancelación Del Espacio Público
(2015-05-17)This dissertation studies the sociopolitical place of poetry in Transatlantic Hispanic culture within different crises of the public realm in the wake of the Spanish Civil War. It locates a tradition of authors who question ... -
Mapping Prostitution: Sex, Space, Taxonomy in the Fin-de-Siècle French Novel
(2013-08-09)This dissertation examines representations of prostitution in male-authored French novels from the later nineteenth century. It proposes that prostitution has a map, and that realist and naturalist authors appropriate ... -
Mapping the Amazon: Territory, Identity, and Modernity in the Literatures of Peru and Brazil (1900-1930)
(2014-06-06)My dissertation proposes a comprehensive study of the politics of representing the Amazonian territory in literature and culture. Using the context of the Amazonian rubber boom (1879-1912) and its aftermaths in Peru and ... -
Moving Sensibility: Sex Work and Economies of Desire in Latin American Literature and Visual Cultures
(2016-01-28)This dissertation surveys diverse contexts in which sex and migratory labor are sold and conceptualized in, on, and across border zones since the 1990s. It examines texts by Pedro Lemebel, Fernando Vallejo, and Roberto ... -
Mujeres de Papel: Figuras de la "Lesbiana" en la Literatura y Cultura Españolas, 1868-1936
(2013-03-08)Mujeres de papel examines the representation of female same-sex desire in Spanish literature and culture between 1868 and 1936, drawing on novels, popular sex manuals, sexological treatises, postcards, and illustrations. ... -
(Ne) Habeas corpus: The Body and the Body Politic in the Figures of the Ambassador and the Courtesan in Renaissance Italy
(2014-06-06)This dissertation offers a comparative study of two key figures of the Italian Renaissance, the ambassador and the courtesan, and the place of their bodies in relation to the Renaissance body politic. In studying myriad ...