<p>This dissertation takes the paradoxical role of Colette in the canon of French and women's writing, from her earliest works to present, as an entry into a radically new interpretation of her life and literary oeuvre. ...

<p>In this dissertation I argue that the movement of panoramic literature under the July Monarchy (1830-1848) and its influence on the nineteenth-century urban novel must be re-imagined in the context of the proto-sociological ...

<p>This thesis explores the confluence and clashes between local and global cultural flows in Latin America through the multiple literary movements and tendencies for which the Colombian author, Fernando Vallejo, acts as ...

<p>Realism, Race and Citizenship: Four Moments in the Making of the Black Body, Colombia and Brazil, 1853 - 1907 investigates the visual and literary mechanisms used to refurbish racial and social hierarchies in Brazil and ...

<p>"Representaciones temporales en la construcción del espacio y el sujeto atlántico en el</p><p>siglo XVII" is a study of the different representations of time, temporality and space in</p><p>literary and historical texts ...

Nonostante le tante storie incredibili e i personaggi notevoli che Dante avrebbe potuto scegliere di salvare dall’Eneide, come ad esempio Enea, Dante sceglie Rifeo, un uomo apparentemente irrilevante. Tutto che Dante sapeva ...

<p>What does it mean in Spain to talk about national cuisine? This dissertation examines how three of Spain's most prominent intellectuals of the early twentieth century&mdash;Emilia Pardo Bazán, Carmen de Burgos, and ...

This dissertation examines the ways in which non-urban spaces were approached as objects of knowledge in Argentine and Brazilian essays, chronicles, and films in the 1960s. It is comprised of three case-studies. The first ...

<p>This dissertation explores the themes of race and resistance in nineteenth-century Haitian writings and highlights their impact on French-speaking nineteenth- and twentieth-century African and Caribbean literature. This ...

<p>My dissertation, <&ldquo;>Transcending Borders: The Transnational Construction of Mexicanness, 1920-1935,<&rdquo;> examines the conflicting attitudes towards "Mexicanness" or <italic>mexicanidad</italic> both in Mexico ...