Browsing by Subject "Romance literature"
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Baudelaire's Responses to Death: (In)articulation, Mourning and Suicide
(2012)Although Charles Baudelaire's poetry was censored in part for his graphic representations of death, for Baudelaire himself, death was the ultimate censorship. He grappled with its limitations of the possibility of articulation ... -
Beautiful Annoyance: Reading the Subject
(2011)This dissertation examines the pair subject-subjectivity embedded in the problematic of the end of art, as it is figured in exemplary fashion by film and literature. The analysis examines critically the problem of the subject ... -
Food, Eating, and the Anxiety of Belonging in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature and Art
(2012)In my dissertation I propose that the detailed representation of food and eating in seventeenth-century Spanish art and literature has a double purpose: to reaffirm a state of well-being in Spain, and to show a critical ... -
Intermedial Sutatenza: Media[ted] Narratives of Community-Making in Rural Colombia
(2019)In mid-twentieth century, Colombia’s illiteracy rate was 40% with numbers close to 80% in the rural areas. These areas lacked access to formal education and were isolated from the urban centers due to poor road infrastructure. ... -
Judaism and Catholicism in Italy during the Belle Époque: A Comparative Approach
(2015)This dissertation compares the responses of Italian Jewish and Catholic intellectuals to the process of secularization and modernization triggered by Italian national unification (1861-1870). Arguing that, in the case of ... -
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, ... -
Narrative Experience and Social Conflict. Italy, France, 1943-1977
(2019)This dissertation investigates the relation between narrative forms, in both literature and cinema, and historical moments of deep crises of the social order: the interregnum between Fascism and First Republic in Italy; ... -
Placing Islam: Alternative Visions of the Morisco Expulsion and Spanish Muslim-Christian Relations in the Sixteenth Century
(2013)This thesis explores attitudes of Christians toward Islam and Muslims in Spain in the sixteenth century and intends to destabilize Islam's traditional place as adversary in Early-Modern Spanish history. My research aligns ... -
Questioning the Writing Cure: Contemporary Sub-Saharan African Trauma Fiction
(2012)This dissertation examines a series of novels by Aminata Zaaria, Ken Bugul, Gaston-Paul Effa, Boubacar Boris Diop and Yolande Mukagasana. At the heart of my study is a problem that haunts much literary production and literary ... -
Reimagining the Baroque in Italian Modernism. From the fin-de-siècle to Lucio Fontana
(2016)While Italian art of the twentieth century is usually associated with either the avant-garde practices of Futurism or the classicism of Fascist visual culture, the Italian modernists' complex engagement with concepts of ... -
Représentations coloniales de Lahontan à Camus
(2012)In my dissertation, I connect the role of literature and its interpretations with France's current occultation of its colonial and imperial past and present. The dissertation puts forth a re-consideration of an excluded ... -
Sentimental Manipulations: Duty and Desire in the Novels of Sophie Cottin
(2013)"Sentimental Manipulations: Duty and Desire in the Novels of Sophie Cottin" examines four novels by Sophie Cottin, from 1798 until 1806. A forgotten but once-popular novelist, Cottin used the theme of motherhood to develop ... -
Subjects of History: Identity and Memory in the First Person Narratives of Patrick Modiano, Assia Djebar, and Hervé Guibert
(2012)In the wake of a twentieth century marked by the Occupation, the Algerian War, the AIDS crisis, and the aftermath of these events, the debates surrounding French identity have acquired particular urgency. French novelists, ... -
The Making and Unmaking of Colette: Myth, Celebrity, Profession
(2011)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. This ... -
The Sound and the Flurry of 1970s French and Italian Cinema
(2023)Filmmakers shared in the social and political struggles that took place globally around the year 1968, by registering the movements and forging new approaches to filmmaking. Focusing on the cases of France and Italy, this ... -
Urban Borderlands: African Writers in Precarious Spain, 1985-2008
(2021)This dissertation, “Urban Borderlands: African Writers in Precarious Spain, 1985-2008,” analyzes the literature of four African-born authors who publish for a Spanish audience: the Beninese writer Agnès Agboton; Najat El ... -
Wanderers in Contradiction. The Italian Road to Modernism (1903-1922)
(2015)My dissertation, Wanderers in Contradiction. The Italian Road to Modernism (1903-1922), analyzes how a generation of intellectuals approach the cultural revolution brought by Modernism. In Chapter One, dedicated to Pirandello’s ... -
"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, ...
