Browsing by FAS Department "Romance Languages and Literatures"
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The 1824 Confederation of the Equator and Cultural Production in Brazil
(2015-05-17)During the 1824 Confederation of the Equator revolt in northeastern Brazil, a middle-class junta rose to power and waged a war against the monarchy in Rio, journalists participating in creating pedagogical ideological ... -
The Aesthetics of Discovery: Text, Image, and the Performance of Knowledge in the Early-Modern Book
(2015-05-21)How does the book-object in early modernity participate in the representation of scientific knowledge? How was the reader meant to approach the book and to comprehend its contents? This project starts from the contention ... -
Affecting Lives: The Politics of Biography in Modern Italy, 1850-1881
(2013-08-09)This study examines the spread of in-life biographies (biographies written and published while their subjects were still alive) in Italy during the later years of the Risorgimento and the early years of Unification. These ... -
Afterword: Human Rights and Responsibilities
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Alien/nation, Liberation, and the Postcolonial Underground
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Almost the Same but Not Quite - the Prosthetic Condition in Latin American Artistic Practices
(2018-09-25)My dissertation studies works of art that simultaneously feature literary and visual components, and that were produced in Latin America after 1980. To approach them, I propose the notion of the prosthetic condition: a way ... -
Art and Craft in Proust’s Life and Work
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The Author as Scribe. Materiality and Textuality in the Trecento
(2015-05-12)In my dissertation, I explore the relationship between the material aspects of an editorial artifact and their literary implications for the texts it contains. I show how the interpretation of a text needs to be accompanied ... -
Bad Habits: Gender Made and Remade in Guillén de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre
(2013-10-18)Guillén de Castro's play La fuerza de la costumbre (1625) depicts the process of re-teaching gender to Hipólita and Félix, a sister and brother who have grown up performing the gender opposite to their physical sex. This ... -
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 ... -
Bi-Musical Moves In Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and Little Joe Hernández
(University of Arizona, Department of German Studies, 2012)Meditating on works of fiction such as Crosthwaite’s El gran preténder (1992) and Laviera’s AmeRican (1985), this article proposes bi-musicality (Hood 1960) as both a link between sociolinguistics and literary aesthetics ... -
Blood Wedding, Yerma, and The House of Bernarda Alba. Garcia Lorca's Tragic Trilogy
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Bodies of Books: Literary Illustration in Twentieth Century Brazil
(2017-01-26)This dissertation explores the nature and role of literary illustrations twentieth century Brazil, not just in relation to their companion texts, but also in what ways they reflect defining characteristics of Brazilian ... -
Buñuel, Lorca, Dalí: El Enigma Sin Fin (Book Review)
(El Colegio de Mexico, A.C., 1989-01-01)Un tema de completa vigencia, un premio de prestigio y una amenidad poco frecuente han conseguido para este libro reseñas innumerables y justamente elogiosas. La mayoría, sin embargo, se limita a describirlo como un minucioso ... -
César Vallejo: Dos Poemas Elegíacos
(El Colegio de Mexico, A.C., 1976-07-01)Los trabajos críticos sobre César Vallejo coinciden, en general, al es- tudiar el tema de la muerte en su poesía como uno de los temas capita- les y quizá el más constante entre los que se mantienen desde los He- raldos ... -
Chiara di Montefalco, il Cantico dei Cantici e Dante
(Olschki, 2011) -
Ciacco, Brunetto, and the Voice of God
(Olschki, 2013) -
Cineastas y Escritores Europeos en Latinoamérica: Un Estudio del Contexto de Producción
(2012-10-31)This dissertation examines transnational flows and identities in the work of four European filmmakers and writers that have done extensive work in Latin America around the mid-twentieth century. Not renouncing to the ... -
Come Back Aesthetics
(2015-09-11)