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Living Landscape: Attitudes Toward the Environment in French Medieval Literature
This dissertation demonstrates the material grounding of twelfth and thirteenth century French texts by using environmental history and archaeology in conjunction with close readings. The title, “Living Landscape,” attempts to capture the physical and symbolic imbrication of humans, animals, plants, topographies, and objects ...
The Jewish Capital of Europe: Literary Representation from Balzac to Proust of the Societal Place and Architectural Space of Jews in Paris from the July Monarchy to the Belle Époque
Nineteenth-century France experienced a literary phenomenon of Jewish characters. Represented in greater proportion than their actual population, they were situated within the modernizing city, sometimes as agents of modernity. Creating a palimpsest of literature, history, society, and architecture, this dissertation analyzes ...
Magia oculta, cuerpo celeste: Representaciones de lo sobrenatural en Los desengaños amorosos de María de Zayas
In early modern Spain, when María de Zayas published Parte segunda del sarao y entretenimineto honesto, more commonly known as Los desengaños amorosos (1649), the existence of magical and supernatural forces was considered fact. It is therefore unsurprising that Zayas employs supernatural elements throughout her stories, with ...
Alguien dice tu nombre, por Luis García Montero: Fidelidad a la voz del poeta en una traducción de su prosa
Alguien dice tu nombre, por Luis García Montero Someone Speaks Your Name, by Luis García Montero Translated by Katherine M. King Fidelidad a la voz del poeta en una traducción de su prosa Katherine M. King Chair of Supervisory Committee: Prof. Anthony Geist Luis García Montero destaca como uno de los más importantes y populares ...
El pícaro Alonso o la voz de un solo amo: el viaje introspectivo de El Donado Hablador hacia un gitano imaginado en el Siglo de Oro español
La necesidad de silenciar a la comunidad romaní responde a un patrón conductual intrínseco a la herencia cultural de una España obsesionada con promocionar una imagen de homogeneidad nacional. Sin embargo, la defensa ciega de este credo utópico en un contexto multifacético como el español no deja de exhibir una profunda crisis ...
Enrique Grau en su pequeño viaje (y otros espejismos)
In 1977, the Colombian painter Enrique Grau published a book titled <italic>El Pequeño Viaje del Barón Von Humboldt</italic>, which can be considered the first example of an "artist's book" in the country's publishing history; however, as very few copies of the text survive to this day, its contents have not been properly ...
Dentro de la "tierra del Hombre Nuevo": la Federación de mujeres y el discurso de la Nueva Mujer en la revista cubana Mujeres
(2006)
The dissertation analyses the construction of the discourse of the New Cuban Woman after 1959 within the changing language used by both the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), its leadership and its official voice, the magazine Mujeres, following as the leading thread the way in which the ideology of the New Man put forward by ...
Santa Teresa's ecstasies: pain and pleasure in Counter-Reformation Spain
(1997)
In this dissertation I analyze the presence of the body and desire in the writings of the Spanish mystic, Santa Teresa de Avila. Such presence is perplexing if we consider that the author experiences and writes about her intensely physical encounters with the divine in the midst of the Spanish Counter-Reformation, a period ...
Rafael Alcides o la poética de un hombre común
La obra poética de Rafael Alcides es una especie de cronología del proceso político y social que ha vivido Cuba durante las últimas cinco décadas. Este trabajo establece una relación entre esta obra y ciertos acontecimientos ocurridos desde el triunfo de la revolución cubana hasta el presente. Este texto sitúa al escritor, ...
The Last Generation of Native Ladino Speakers? Judeo-Spanish and the Sephardic Community in Seattle
The Sephardic community in Seattle, Washington is unique not only in its relative size, but also in its cohesiveness. The community boasts two Sephardic synagogues, various religious and cultural organizations that meet regularly, and a group that convenes weekly to read texts in Ladino and discuss their experiences growing ...