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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 ...
Residual Visions: Rubbish, Refuse and Marginalia in Italian Cinema from Neorealism to the Present
(2014-02-25)
While the themes of garbage and refuse pervade many of the most important works of Italian cinema from the era of Neorealism to the present, thus far no scholarly attempts have been made to examine the commonalities germane ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Reír o no reír: (meta)humorismo y violencia en la literatura contemporánea de Colombia y México
(2014-06-06)
Humor can be underestimated, but to laugh or not to laugh is as transcendental as the decision to be or not to be. That is the question of this dissertation: the productive encounter of challenging instances of humor in ...
Sea-ing Words: An Exploration of the Maritime in Contemporary Caribbean and Latino/a Literature
(2014-06-06)
My dissertation Sea-ing Words: An Exploration of the Maritime in Contemporary Caribbean and Latino/a Literature analyzes how writers from the Spanish-speaking islands and their diaspora have moved past the ever elusive ...
Redirecting Neorealism: Italian Auteur-Actress Collaborations of the 1950s and 1960s
(2014-06-06)
The aftermath of Italy's cinematic movement neorealism left several directors searching for a new cinematic practice and a new directorial identity. Many of the most artistically intrepid directors of the era turned to ...
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 ...
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 ...