Browsing by Subject "European studies"
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A Republic of the Arts: Constructing Nineteenth-Century Art History at the Musée national du Luxembourg, 1871-1914
(2014)Before the rise of the ubiquitous MOCA (museum of contemporary) there was the Musée national du Luxembourg that since its foundation in 1818, served as the first museum anywhere dedicated to contemporary art. Yet the ... -
Georges Sorel, Autonomy and Violence in the Third Republic
(2012)How did Georges Sorel's philosophy of violence emerge from the moderate, reformist, and liberal philosophy of the French Third Republic? This dissertation answers the question through a contextual intellectual history of ... -
Jose Rizal and the Spanish Novel
(2013)This dissertation is a preliminary attempt to define and theorize Spanish literature of the late nineteenth century from the perspective of the colonized. I take as my starting point the novels of the Filipino writer José ... -
La République réinventée: littératures transculturelles dans la France contemporaine
(2012)This dissertation theorizes the complex contemporary phenomenon of literature produced in French by writers of allophone origins, which is to say, writers born in non-Francophone countries. Vassilis Alexakis, Gao Xingjian, ... -
Rewriting Dante: The Creation of an Author from the Middle Ages to Modernity
(2018)Rewriting Dante explores Dante’s reception and the construction of his figure as an author in early lyric anthologies and modern editions. While Dante’s reception and his transformation into a cultural authority ... -
Waste Not: Criminalizing Wastefulness in Early Modern Germany
(2017)This dissertation analyzes the development of legal strategies to restrict “wastefulness” or “prodigality” during the economic crises of the long sixteenth century in Southwest Germany, as the state, community and small ... -
"Would You Write Something in my Album?" Social Customs and their Literary Depiction in Nineteenth-Century France and Spain
(2014)AbstractThe album phenomenon developed in France and Spain and lasted throughout the entire nineteenth century. Albums were books with blank pages in which the owner collected contributions in the form of poetry, drawings, ...
