Dissertations / Theses: 'Modern literature|Romance literature|African literature'

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Jensen, Laura Bea. "Writing Race and Universalism in Contemporary France| Marie NDiaye and Bessora." Thesis, Yale University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10633251.

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My dissertation shows how two women writers, Marie NDiaye and Bessora articulate the experience of being black in France, while, at the same time affirming the French Republican tenet that racial identification does violence to individuals, communities, and the nation itself. Despite their similar backgrounds, despite the fact that they reside in the same country, and that they write about a similar cast of characters in a similar milieu, Bessora and NDiaye are not typically seen as belonging to a shared literary category or tradition. NDiaye is categorized as a "French" author and Bessora as "Francophone." Although their novels might not be found in the same section of a French bookstore, when considered together, their works create a dialogue on race in today's France that cannot be overlooked.

In chapter one I focus on NDiaye's 1999 novella La Naufragée . This work combines art and fiction, featuring paintings by English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner, most notably The Slave Ship (1840). In this chapter, I show how the narrator, a meilnaid, functions as an allegory for racial mixing. Drawing on Walter Benjamin's ideas on allegory, I demonstrate how the novella links the author's own non-white body to the historical bodies of human chattel drowned in the Middle Passage. This novella challenges the notion that France can ever be blind to race, given its history of chattel slavery.

Paradoxically, it is through allegory that NDiaye demonstrates the real violence and pain inflicted on the black body by the ideology of race-blindness. I build on these ideas in chapter two, examining the effects that the particular allegorical significance of the black body has on black subjects. Here I uncover a powerful intertextual thread running through NDiaye's 2012 novel Ladivine. Though NDiaye's understanding of race is undeniably French, she looks to the United States, to the Harlem Rennaissance and the passing novel to articulate the experience of being both black and entirely culturally French. I explore the dissociative effect produced when an individual, who sees herself as "universal," i.e. French like "everyone else," inhabits a nonwhite body. I extended my analysis beyond Ladivine to touch on Rosie Carpe (2001) and Trois Femmes Puissantes (2009). My analysis of these works reveals the ways in which French universalism is, paradoxically, geographically conscripted. The historical realities of slavery and of colonialism continue to impact the ways in which black bodies are seen in the metropole and in Overseas Departments, and profoundly influence the ways in which black subjects conceive of themselves.

In Chapter three I turned to Bessora, analyzing her first two novels, 53 cm (1999) and Les taches d'encre (2000). Bessora wrote both of these while pursuing a doctorate in anthropology. However, current scholarship tends to interpret her literary output as standing in direct conflict with her academic pursuits;that her novels, so rich in satire and pastiche, serve to reject or simply "write back" against the fields she was studying at the time. These analyses assume a necessarily conflictual relationship between black writers and the social sciences. I argue that in the tradition of many French anthropologists and authors before her, Bessora should be seen as both a literary author and a social scientist. By handing the tools of anthropological analysis to characters of color in these novels, Bessora does not invalidate a social scientific way of viewing the world; rather, she universalizes the anthropological gaze. She combines postmodern and anthropological narrative techniques to critique the way that race is constructed in France; she exposes the ways in which Republican values work to reinforce nationalism and white supremacy, and fall short of their universalist ambitions.

Chapter four builds on the ideas established in chapter three by comparing Bessora's dissertation, "Mémories Pétrolières au Gabon," (2002) with her novel Petroleum (2004), on the same subject. As an author of Gabonese descent who was raised and educated primarily in Europe, Bessora offers a complex insider/outsider perspective on her father's country (a country that was also her home for ten years), its history, and its memories of colonization. Reading these two texts side by side reveals both the interdependency between literature and the social sciences in both Bessora's fiction and in the French literary scene more generally. She writes from a vexed position of privilege, for which she has not yet fully accounted. Bessora's own stance towards universalism, her post-national identity which ironically gathers up identitarian labels and categories, obfuscates a more fraught relationship to the national history of Gabon, and to French neo-colonialism there.

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McIntosh, Malachi. ""Home" : emigration, identity and modern Caribbean literature." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/35526/.

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Caribbean writing is an emigrant tradition. The first waves of native-born authors from the region all spent significant portions of their lives abroad and, almost without exception, built their fame upon the desires of metropolitan audiences for knowledge of their colonies. Accordingly, the famous names of Lamming, Naipaul, Selvon, Césaire and Glissant are all stamped with a slightly less famous departure date. While many critics have noted these facts, there has been little sustained analysis of how the unique social positions and preoccupations of emigrants have affected the works of these five writers or their peers. This thesis is an attempt to address this issue. Its argument is that Caribbean emigrant authors spoke from unique social and conceptual loci. Through detailed, comparative readings of these five authors’ first major works, alongside considerations of their self-assessments, critical opinion on their oeuvres, Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of the literary field and Antonio Gramsci’s theory of the organic intellectual, the argument advanced is that although these authors actively positioned themselves, and were positioned by their readers, in such a way that their emigrant status has had its importance elided, that status is present and potent in their post-emigration works. While the concerns of these writers all altered over the course of their careers, their early experiences of emigration shaped some of their most widely read texts and resulted in a harmony between them that transcends the authors’ differing islands of origin and their later thematic and political preoccupations.

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Brunette-Lopez, Danny. "Laughing at the past: Subversive humor in the Spanish picaresque and its cultural context." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280466.

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In picaresque fiction, subversive humor is related to genre, thematic unity, narrator/protagonists' points of view, and it illustrates fictionalized reality that is linked to contemporaneous culture and society. In this dissertation, I employ theories on humor---superiority, incongruity, release, and entropic---to study humorous episodes in Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), Guzman de Alfarache (1599, 1604) and El buscon (1626). Chapter one provides an overview of theories on humor, beginning with Plato and Aristotle and including modern theorists such as Victor Raskin, Marvin Koller and Patrick O'Neill. The superiority theory begins with Plato and Aristotle and acquires popularity in the seventeenth century with the philosophers Thomas Hobbes and Rene Descartes. The incongruity theory, which treats playful humor, originates in the eighteenth century with philosophers such as Francis Hutcheson, James Beattie and Emmanuel Kant. This theory is also associated with black humor that combines violent extremes of horror and humor and causes people to become both horrified and amused. The release theory, which emanates from Freud's ideas on psychoanalysis relates to an individual's release of forbidden thoughts, inhibitions and anxieties. O'Neill's entropic humor theory, which is related to satire, irony and parody, erodes truths and certainty and exposes the disruption of ordered systems. Henri Bergson's study of laughter functions as a social corrective while Mikhail Bakhtin's view of carnivalesque laughter signifies the symbolic destruction of authority and official culture. Chapter two studies the entropic narrator in Lazarillo de Tormes and the ways in which humor reflects a breakdown of traditional perceptions of reality, the crumbling of ordered systems and the erosion of truth and certainty related to sixteenth-century Spain. Chapter three analyzes four types of humor in Guzman de Alfarache that deal with social and moral dishonesty, horror and humor and literary vengeance. Chapter four treats grotesque black humor in the Buscon that relates to death, gallows humor (galgenhumour), cannibalism and the mutilation of a human corpse (reductio ad absurdum). Subversive humor in picaresque fiction conceptualizes reality that is linked to thematic unity, points of view and the poetics of culture and environment of Spanish society during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Carranza, Castelo Ernest. "Una nacion en disputa: La representacion de Cataluña en textos de ficcion y faccionde Vicenc Villatoro, Isabel-Clara Simo, Najat El Hachmi y Felix de Azua (2000-2015)." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu155536546943382.

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Huot, Martine. "Un amour de papier ou les pouvoirs déréalisants de la lettre." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26930.

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La relation épistolaire entre Jean-Jacques Rousseau et la comtesse d'Houdetot a ceci de particulier qu'elle se transforme en échange mortifère. Cette correspondance met en évidence la potentialité démiurgique de l'écriture épistolaire et sa dimension solipsiste. La lettre confère à l'épistolier des pouvoirs déréalisants qui lui permettent de transformer l'autre et la réalité à l'image de ses désirs. Cependant, les créations générées par l'écriture s'avèrent plus satisfaisantes. L'épistolier en vient donc à préférer l'écriture à la vie, la fiction à la réalité. L'échange fait disparaître le destinataire au profit de son double d'ancre et de papier, ce qui revient à dire que le scripteur dialogue avec lui-même par le détour d'un être fantasme. Au terme de cette double métamorphose, celle de l'autre et celle de la réalité, il ne reste plus au moi que lui-même comme partenaire et, croyant à la maîtrise parfaite de l'autre et du monde, il se suffit à lui-même comme Dieu.

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Leonard, Bradley. "How the apes saved civilization: Antropofagia, paradox and the colonization of "La Planete des singes"." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28414.

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The 1968 Hollywood film Planet of the Apes is an adaptation of the 1963 French novel La Planet des singes and the strategy used to transform the book into an American film reveals some contradictory tendencies. On one hand, the film effaces any evidence of the story's French roots, thus suggesting colonialist objectives. On the other hand, its subversive message, a reflection of the tumultuous political and social climate of the U.S. in the 1960s, seems to support the theory of antropofagia, a radical Brazilian approach based on the metaphor of cannibalism developed to counteract economic and cultural colonialism in Brazil. The inclusion of certain aspects of each of these two translation strategies creates a paradox that says a great deal about American hegemony, Hollywood's treatment of foreign works and marginalization.

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Brault, Gilles. "La construction du passé dans le roman "L'enfant de Bruges" de Gilbert Sinoué." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27113.

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Le foisonnement des oeuvres historiques dans le panorama littéraire témoigne d'une véritable "vogue du roman historique". Or l'analyse des formes plus contemporaines du genre met au jour une modification des paramètres traditionnels de construction de l'Histoire. C'est ce postulat qui nous a incité à consacrer notre étude au roman L'enfant de Bruges (1999) de Gilbert Sinoué. Quelle place et quelle fonction le roman assigne-t-il aux personnages attestés et fictifs? Quelle est la nature des procédés de représentation du personnel et de la société du roman et quelles sont leurs répercussions sur la construction de l'Histoire? Quel est l'impact de l'importation des techniques propres au genre policier sur le mode de composition? Quelle est la validité d'une telle approche sur le plan historique? Notre réflexion s'attardera à dégager les composantes narratologiques et discursives qui président à la construction du passé dans le roman de Gilbert Sinoué.

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Poirier, Jacques. "Fragments d'autobiographies, suive de, Poétique de l'intranquillité Écrire en compagnie de Pessoa." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27166.

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Cette thèse en création littéraire comprend deux parties. La première partie propose un recueil de poèmes, Fragments d'autobiographies, dont certains "empruntent" des vers au poète portugais Fernando Pessoa et à ses hétéronymes. Sa présence se manifeste de trois façons: des emprunts tels quels, des emprunts parfois modifiés et des allusions. Cette intertextualité explicite et implicite m'a permis d'agrandir la perspective de mon écriture poétique. Après trois recueils de poèmes publiés, il m'a semblé qu'une thèse en création littéraire était le lieu le plus propice à ce type de création expérimentale. La deuxième partie offre une réflexion sur l'influence protéiforme de l'emprunt dans le processus de création littéraire. Dans le premier chapitre, je mets en relief les théories d'Annick Bouillaguet sur l'emprunt et d'Yzabelle Martineau sur le plagiat, ainsi que les expériences d'Oulipo (l'Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) au sujet de l'écriture sous contraintes. Suit un chapitre où je présente Fernando Pessoa et ses trois principaux hétéronymes: Alvaro de Campos, Alberto Caiero et Ricardo Reis, tout en précisant pourquoi je me suis intéressé à ce poète portugais. Dans le dernier chapitre, j'analyse les différents types d'emprunts que j'ai utilisés pour mieux comprendre comment l'intertextualité a influencé mon processus d'écriture. Je conclus en indiquant comment ce travail sur la poésie---celle de Pessoa et la mienne---m'a amené à changer mes habitudes de lecture ainsi que ma façon de concevoir l'écriture.

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Rochon, Sara-Lise. "De la soumission à l'émancipation?: La quête d'agentivité des héroïnes de "La dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil" et de "Piège pour Cendrillon" de Sébastien Japrisot." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27786.

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Le mouvement féministe des années quatre-vingt a fourni de nouvelles approches analytiques aux littéraires: études des rôles sexuels, des relations hommes/femmes, etc. La littérature policière s'est alors vue, elle aussi, investie par des auteures femmes et des protagonistes féminins qui ont fait entrer la femme dans une littérature qui l'avait jusqu'alors sous-représentée. Pourtant, de telles avancées ne se produisent pas subitement et nous pouvons en déduire que des oeuvres précurseurs existent, oeuvres dans lesquelles l'auteur alloue au personnage féminin un espace narratif dans lequel il peut évoluer et grandir. Sébastien Japrisot, nous le croyons, fait partie de ces auteurs. Les héroïnes de La dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil et de Piège pour Cendrillon sont certes des victimes, mais à qui l'auteur a donné certains outils pour s'affirmer et dénoncer. En nous appuyant sur les études féministes en policier ainsi que sur les théories de l'agentivité, nous souhaitons montrer la quête d'agentivité des protagonistes, c'est-à-dire comment ces femmes parviennent à passer d'un état passif à un état agent, et ce malgré leur rôle de victime. Par conséquent, nous pourrons montrer de quelle façon ces deux romans de Japrisot ont participé à ouvrir certaines possibilités dans la représentation d'un nouveau féminin dans la littérature policière.

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Simard, Marie-Claire. "Les enjeux de la représentation de la transgression chez Gabrielle Wittkop." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28025.

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Gabrielle Wittkop (1920-2002) est l'auteur d'une oeuvre qui n'est ni belle, ni bonne, mais radicalement transgressive et demeurée marginale dans la mesure ou les idéologies et valeurs qui y sont véhiculées refusent de se plier aux exigences de la masse. Son discours, inspire à plusieurs égards par la parole de Sade, ose représenter ouvertement les plus violents des fantasmes à l'abri des clichés et stéréotypes qui entourent habituellement leur représentation. Afin de saisir la portée transgressive des fictions de cet auteur, il est impératif d'exposer les différents mécanismes de remise en question de la doxa qui sous-tendent, selon nous, son oeuvre. À travers l'analyse de trois textes représentatifs, Le sommeil de la raison (2003), La marchande d'enfants (2001) et Le nécrophile (1972), cette thèse vise à dégager, au niveau de la représentation, les enjeux principaux du discours littéraire de Wittkop. Elle mettra en valeur, par le biais d'une étude de la thématique, de l'esthétique et des formes discursives, le rôle de la transgression littéraire comme subversion de la norme. D'un point de vue critique, elle montrera que le discours social se dégageant des fictions de cet auteur révèle l'ensemble des valeurs et idéologèmes inhérents à la société bourgeoise comme signes d'un refoulement pathologique de nos désirs.

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Lagarde, Philippe. "La représentation de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme dans "Les Rougon-Macquart" d'Émile Zola." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28387.

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L'oeuvre d'Émile Zola, Les Rougon-Macquart, offre au lecteur une vaste critique du Second Empire et des réalisations effectuées sous l'empereur Napoléon III. Son proche collaborateur, le Baron Haussmann, est par extension une cible. Les transformations de Paris permettent l'émergence d'une nouvelle classe de bourgeois enrichis par les spéculations tandis qu'elles ébranlent le monde politique et refaçonnent la société parisienne. Zola, tout en rêvant à un monde meilleur, trouve de nombreux arguments qu'il met en avant pour dénoncer les irrégularités d'une ville qui n'a plus de place pour tous. Bien qu'une large part de l'entreprise romanesque soit consacrée à dénoncer les failles du régime napoléonien, une lecture attentive permet de mettre en évidence certains aspects des réalisations architecturales et urbanistiques appréciés par l'auteur. Trois romans attestent particulièrement ce phénomene: La Curée, Le Ventre de Paris et Au Bonheur des Dames. Cette thèse permettra de préciser la conception zolienne de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme du Second Empire.

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Bogic, Anna. "Rehabilitating Howard M Parshley: A socio-historical study of the English translation of Beauvoir's "Le deuxieme sexe", with Latour and Bourdieu." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28391.

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This study documents the problematic translator-publisher relationship in the case of the English translation of Simone de Beauvoir's Le deuxieme sexe. The socio-historical investigation of the case study demonstrates that the 1953 translation was complicated by several factors: the translator's lack of philosophical knowledge, the editor's demands to cut and simplify the text, the publisher's intention to emphasize the book's scientific cachet, and Beauvoir's lack of cooperation. The investigation focuses on two aspects: the translator's subservience and the involvement of multiple actors. Primarily concerned with the interaction between the translator and other actors, this study seeks answers that require investigation into historical documents and the work of other scholars critical of The Second Sex . In this enquiry, more than one hundred letters between the translator, H. M. Parshley, and the publisher, Knopf, are thoroughly analyzed. The study combines Bruno Latour's and Pierre Bourdieu's sociological concepts in order to provide a more detailed and encompassing examination within the context of Translation Studies. The letter correspondence is the primary evidence on which the study's conclusions are based.

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Villamandos-Ferreira, Alberto. "De la subversion a la nostalgia: El intelectual de la Gauche divine en su literatura." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29376.

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This dissertation studies the Gauche divine, a progressive upper class elite from Barcelona during the 1960's, and its reflection in five novels by leading contemporary Spanish authors. The Gauche divine performed their ideological agenda through a cosmopolitan, ironic stance defying the Franco regime and its traditional morality. Moreover, these intellectuals and professionals---architects, publishers, movie directors, designers, writers, poets---connected to the newest trends in critical thinking, arts and literature in Europe and updated Spanish culture. On the other hand, this intellectual group offered an alternative discourse to orthodox Marxism. In order to frame this intelligentsia in its historical and social context, we review the concept of the committed intellectual, according to the texts of Antonio Gramsci and Jean-Paul Sartre. However, in the 1960's---with arising counter-cultural movements, along with the sexual revolution---the committed intellectual becomes spectacular, in a cultural milieu ruled by mass media. Since their cultural production in literature and visual arts shows a narcissistic attitude, the Gauche divine cannot only be considered spectacular, but specular as well. Once the group dissapeared, their narcissism turned into a self indulgent nostalgia, as we can see in the remarkable number of their autobiographies up to date. However, we can find a critical counterpart in fiction by authors in the margins of the group. Our analysis of Ultimas tardes con Teresa (1966), by Juan Marse, and Los alegres muchachos de Atzavara (1987), by Manuel Vazquez Montalban focuses on the frustrated relationship between the committed intellectual and the Southern immigrant in Catalonia or charnego, whose body is seen as a political and a sexual fetish. Therefore, we propose a poscolonial approach to the representation of the charnego, as a racialized character. Luis Goytisolo's Recuento (1973) illustrates the process of political commitment of the middle-upper class intellectual in Franco's Spain, from ideological conversion to disenchantment. Through Michel Foucault's discourse analysis, we discuss the position of the critical intellectual within the Communist Party. Finally, we explore historical memory, nostalgia and the conflict between ethics and aesthetics in Felix de Azua's Historia de un idiota contada por el mismo (1986) and Momentos decisivos (2000).

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Gelinas-Lemaire, Vincent. "La représentation de l'espace dans le récit." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:23845474.

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FRENCH VERSION (LANGUAGE OF THE DISSERTATION) Cette thèse doctorale vise à définir les aspects sous lesquels le récit peut saisir un espace afin de le représenter aux lecteurs. Pour ce faire, nous avons choisi une approche poétique, laquelle est soutenue par des études théoriques et critiques contemporaines tirées, notamment, des champs de la phénoménologie, de l’anthropologie, de la géographie, de la géocritique et de la théorie théâtrale. Notre recherche nous aura permis de dresser une typologie générale composée de cinq modes de représentation : les aspects géométrique (qui aborde un espace selon ses mesures, formes et proportions), localisé (qui capte son passage vers les caractéristiques stables du lieu), allégorique (consacré à son développement parallèle à un autre objet), dynamique (d’un espace qui entre en relation directe avec un personnage) et technique (où il est médié par un savoir spécialisé). Chaque chapitre s’ouvre sur un état présent des recherches essentielles à l’établissement de notre aspect, offre une définition détaillée de celui-ci, puis explore les facettes de notre définition au moyen d’études de cas. Ces études sont basées sur un corpus littéraire ouvert, ce qui nous a permis d’offrir des démonstrations précises et claires de la variété de manifestations de nos aspects. La majorité de ces textes appartient à la littérature de langue française du vingtième siècle. Au moyen de cette thèse, nous cherchons à offrir des supports fondamentaux pour l’étude de l’espace dans tout récit, qu’il soit littéraire ou non, ainsi qu’à créer un vocabulaire qui pourra être utilisé par les divers champs d’étude de l’espace narratif. Nous voulons ainsi faciliter les échanges entre ces domaines et l’inclusion de leurs recherches dans la critique générale des textes, permettant d’y souligner la pleine densité poétique de l’espace et de ses rôles dans le développement du récit. ENGLISH TRANSLATION This doctoral dissertation aims to define the aspects under which narratives can grasp a space in order to represent it to the reader. To achieve that aim, we have chosen a poetic approach, which is supported by contemporary theoretical and critical studies from fields including phenomenology, anthropology, geography, geocriticism, and the theory of theater. Our research has allowed us to design a general typology comprising five modes of representation: a geometrical aspect (that grasps a space through its measurements, shapes, and proportions), a localized aspect (that focuses on its translation towards the stable characteristics of a place), an allegorical aspect (in which space unfolds in parallel to the representation of another object), a dynamical aspect (of a space that gets into direct contact with a character), and a technical aspect (in which it is mediated by specialized knowledge). Each chapter begins by a survey of the fields necessary to our aspect, then proceeds to its detailed definition, and then explores the facets of that definition through case studies. These case studies are based on an open literary corpus, which has allowed us to offer clear and precise demonstrations of various manifestations of our aspects. A majority of these texts come from French language literature of the twentieth century. With this dissertation, we aim to offer fundamental tools for the study of space in any narrative, literary or otherwise, and to create a vocabulary that can be manipulated by the various fields of study devoted to narrative space. Thus, we want to facilitate exchanges between such domains and the inclusion of their research in the general criticism of texts, in order to underline the full density of the poetics of space and its roles in the unfolding of a narrative.
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Lamoureux, Désirée. "La construction de l'espace dans les romans concentrationnaires de Jorge Semprun, d'Elie Wiesel et de Primo Levi." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28613.

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La mise par écrit de " l'univers concentrationnaire " par des survivants des camps de concentration participé d'un devoir collectif de mémoire et d'un besoin de redonner la voix à ceux qu'on a fait taire. Nous proposons donc une analyse de trois livres, soit Si c'est un homme de Primo Levi, La nuit d'Elie Wiesel et Le mort qu'il faut de Jorge Semprun, qui saura mettre en lumière les façons dont ces auteurs représentent le camp de concentration. Ces auteurs arriveront-ils à transmettre leur expérience à travers les espaces romanesques qu'ils construisent? Ce n'est qu'en considérant les différents éléments pertinents à la spatialisation romanesque que nous pourrons évaluer la possibilité de représentation qu'offrent les espaces. En même temps, nous verrons que la représentation du camp est inextricablement liée à l'expérience individuelle du détenu, qu'il soit juif, comme Primo Levi et Elie Wiesel, ou prisonnier politique, comme Jorge Semprun.

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Hamilton, Joshua Bridgwater. "Resituating Desire, Rewriting Reading| Spanish Neo-Avant Garde Visual Poetry and the Critique of Mass Media and Consumer Capitalism." Thesis, Indiana University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3587659.

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This dissertation examines the Spanish visual poetry of the 1960s and 1970s, which appeared during the later period of the Franco regime and responded to the rise of mass media and consumer capitalism. It draws on the theoretical work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to examine how this poetry created an oppositional practice that destabilized the conventional use of codes in media, art, and literature. It brings to light what I will explore as the "schizoid" character of their work and how it redefines the roles of reader, writer, and text in order to create an awareness that is critical and resistant to what the visual poets position as authoritative discourses, such as capitalism, consumerism, and the authoritarianism of the dictatorship. They see these discourses as subjugating the individual's thought through codes of language and image, and they go about subverting such discourses by destabilizing the language and image itself on which those discourses are built.

This study focuses on the representative works of three different writers, Quizás Brigitte Bardot venga a tomar una copa esta noche by Alfonso López Gradolí, La caída del avión en el terreno baldío by José Luis Castillejo, and Textos y antitextos by Fernando Millán. López Gradolí's book restructures the notion of desire as it is represented in capitalist narratives of lack, ultimately schizophrenizing desire as a displaced logic of lack and creating new, interpersonal codes that redefine desire as immanent connection. Castillejo's work deconstructs representation through open-ended texts that multiply possible reading strategies, thus grounding desire in the process of building new codes. Millán's book deconstructs representation into a figural narrative that redefines the reader's role from that of a passive consumer to that of an active schizoanalyst that co-creates poetic codes and schizophrenizes transcendental structures that govern language and image.

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Morgado, M. Nuria. "Las nociones kantianas de intuicion y concepto en la obra de Antonio Machado." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280371.

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El proposito de este trabajo es el de estudiar de una forma sistematica la influencia de la metafisica kantiana en el pensamiento filosofico de Antonio Machado reflejado en su obra. La mayoria de los estudios criticos destacan la influencia de Henri Bergson sobre Machado, pero poco se ha escrito sobre el papel que juega Immanuel Kant. Entre los pocos criticos que se han referido a tal influencia se encuentran Jose Maria Valverde en su edicion de Nuevas canciones, 1971, y Juan de Mairena, 1972; Gustavo Correa en "Magica y poetica de Antonio Machado," 1975; Philip G. Johnston, 1995 y Kevin Krogh, 2001. Todos ellos mencionan el interes de Antonio Machado en la metafisica de Inmanuel Kant y como su pensamiento filosofico y su preocupacion sobre el problema del conocimiento contiene marcadas conexiones kantianas. Sin embargo, no se ha hecho todavia un estudio que profundice en el tema e ilustre de forma sistematica tal correspondencia. La tarea que se plantea esta disertacion es la de resaltar esta influencia de la metafisica kantiana en la obra de Antonio Machado, haciendo hincapie en las nociones de "intuicion" y "concepto," elementos clave del conocimiento segun expone Inmanuel Kant en su Critica de la razon pura, cubriendo asi un campo que no ha sido estudiado de forma sistematica por la critica. Por otra parte, teniendo en cuenta la influencia de la metafisica kantiana en Antonio Machado, esta tesis demuestra un nuevo acercamiento critico a su obra lirica y su filosofia, ampliando asi la forma de percibir o entender la naturaleza de la poesia y pensamiento del poeta sevillano.

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Oswald, Kalen R. "Eduardo Mendoza's Barcelona." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290668.

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The criticism on Eduardo Mendoza that focuses on the role of Barcelona in his works mostly considers the city solely as an important backdrop for the action of the novels or in some cases a protagonist in a given work. There is not any comprehensive analysis of Mendoza's vision of the Barcelona throughout the trajectory of his novels, and the studies that do focus on the city in one or two of his works generally lack a viable urban theoretical basis. The object of my study is to reassess Mendoza's work by focusing on how it emerges from the process of the urbanization of consciousness described by the geographer and urbanist David Harvey, and how its role relates to the politics of space and place in late 20th-century Barcelona. Not only does this approach facilitate a greater understanding of the texts, but also examining the novels in this light provides a greater understanding of Barcelona. Chapter I elaborates on the urban theories of Harvey, Henri Lefebvre and others that detail the urbanization of capital, the urbanization of consciousness and the role of space and place in the urban process under capitalism. In the second chapter I look at Barcelona as a concrete example of the urban process and place construction from the implementation of the Plan Cerda to the post-Olympic era. Chapter III looks at La verdad sobre el caso Savolta (1975) and La ciudad de los prodigios (1989) as examples of an urbanized consciousness anticipating significant transformations; La verdad facing the end of the Francoist dictatorship, and La ciudad preparing for the 1992 Olympics. The fourth Chapter treats Mendoza's second and third works, El misterio de la cripta embrujada (1979) and El laberinto de las aceitunas (1982), comic detective novels written during and about the crucial era of the transition to democracy. Chapter V analyzes Mendoza's narrative perspective regarding Barcelona of the 1990s in Sin noticias de Gurb (1990) and Una comedia ligera (1996).

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Moquin, Luc. "Boris Vian à la scene: Au théâtre comme au cabaret." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27158.

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La critique s'est peu intéressée à l'oeuvre dramaturgique de Vian, sans doute en raison de son insuccès. Si notre analyse a privilégié la dimension comique de cette production, c'est qu'elle permettait de comparer les sketchs que Vian écrivit pour le cabaret aux pièces plus élaborées et ainsi de mesurer les conditions de réception de l'oeuvre. Il nous est apparu que le comique scénique reposait sur une série de clichés et de jeux de langage qui, plus que la fable ou la structure scénique, constituent la manière d'un auteur dont la matière première est l'actualité. Ayant mis au jour le rapport qui lie étroitement l'oeuvre à son contexte, nous avons voulu montrer comment, dans cette dramaturgie, l'action cède le pas au commentaire implicite d'un auteur, qui s'érige ainsi lui-même en personnage pour occuper une position discursive qui favorise l'adresse directe au spectateur. Des sketchs aux pièces, une même facture s'impose mais impose aussi à l'oeuvre les limites d'une existence.

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Crosson, Amélie. "Adaptation théâtrale de "La Chatte" de Colette: Fidélité et trahison." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27573.

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Dans l'élaboration de cette thèse, mon objectif était d'entreprendre une adaptation théâtrale et, ce faisant, de mieux comprendre les enjeux du processus de création d'une oeuvre à partir d'une oeuvre existante, en l'occurrence, La Chatte, un roman que Colette a écrit en 1933. Les théories sur l'adaptation théâtrale étant rares, j'ai entrepris une étude de deux des adaptations que Colette a écrites en collaboration avec Leopold Marchand, les pièces La Vagabonde et Chéri qui m'ont servi d'exemples et aussi de contre-modèles pour résoudre les questions de concentration du récit et de transposition scénique. En outre la mise en scène du roman devait relever un défi de taille, l'omniprésence de la chatte, personnage éponyme du roman où elle est traitée de l'extérieur par un narrateur omniscient. De plus l'oeuvre de Colette s'inscrit dans une époque et un milieu social qui trouve peu d'échos dans le public contemporain. Le processus d'adaptation se devait de prendre en compte la réception et d'inclure des éléments, tant scéniques que thématiques, pour rapprocher l'oeuvre originale du spectateur potentiel. L'adaptation a ainsi tirer parti de techniques audio-visuelles et de la familiarité du public avec des traitements modernes sur les plans de la structure, du temps et de l'espace pour créer une pièce qui soit contemporaine tout en rendant justice au roman et à son auteure.

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Breuer, Heidi Jo. "Crafting the witch: Gendering magic in medieval and early modern England." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280400.

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This project documents and analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures occurring in Arthurian romance in England from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. In the earlier texts, magic is predominantly a masculine pursuit, garnering its user prestige and power, but in the later texts, magic becomes a primarily feminine activity, one that marks its user as wicked and heretical. The prophet becomes the wicked witch. This dissertation explores both the literary and the social motivations for this transformation. Chapter Two surveys representations of magic in the texts of four authors within the Arthurian canon: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, and Layamon. These writers gender magic similarly (representing prophecy and certain forms of transformative magic as masculine and healing as feminine) and use gendered figures to mitigate the threat of masculine power posed by the feudal patriarchy present in England and France in the twelfth century. Chapter Three explores representations of two magical characters who appear in a group of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century romances associated with Gawain: the churlish knight and the loathly lady. The authors of these romances privilege gender conventions radically different from those in earlier models and conjure a figure neglected by the earlier writers, the wicked witch. In particular, representations of the witch as a wicked step-mother reflect the anxiety created by expanding space for women (especially mothers) in previously exclusively male arenas of English society. In Chapter Four, I follow the romance tradition into early modern England, studying the work of Malory, Spenser, and Shakespeare. For these authors, the wicked witch (alternately represented as temptress or crone) is connected specifically to maternity; the severe anxiety about maternity in these texts is representative of widespread concern about mothers and motherhood in sixteenth-century England. Chapter Five traces the legislative policy governing prosecution of witches in England and offers suggestions about the relationship between legal climates and literary representations of magic. Though prosecution of witchcraft is now extremely rare in the U.S., filmmakers still rely on medieval and Renaissance models to inform their representations of witches. Once she arrived, the witch never left.

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Dominguez-Castellano, Julia. "Cartografias imaginarias: La creacion de espacios utopicos en el "Lazarillo de Tormes", el "Quijote" y la "Relacion" de Cabeza de Vaca." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280692.

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The thesis combines Fredric Jameson's ideas on cognitive mapping with Henri Lefebvre's theories on the production of space and Tom Conley's concept of "cartographic writings" to illustrate how the narrators of Lazarillo de Tormes, the Captive's tale in the Quijote and Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion establish a relationship to the circumstances around them by means of cognitive maps. The created discursive spaces hide an ideology that is not explicit in the text and therefore the decoding of cognitive maps in symbols is the only way to have access to the multiple spaces through which the narrators' journeys take place, and to know the link that narrators have with their present space. The narrations of the picaro Lazaro de Tormes, the soldier Ruy Perez de Viedma and the Conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca are all examples of the accumulation of lived experiences and the superposition of their own cognitive maps in order to later manipulate and enrich their own story. There is, then, a causal relationship between each narration and the space in which the actions play out that is eventually subverted and manipulated for personal gain.

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Schoenherr, Julie. "Aprobacion y desaprobacion del honor a la luz de la narratologia: Estudio comparativo de "El alcalde de Zalamea" de Calderon y "Cronica de una muerte anunciada" de Garcia Marquez." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26555.

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This thesis examines honour as a central theme in narrative passages of El alcalde de Zalamea (circa 1642), a seventeenth-century play by Spain's Pedro Calderon de la Barca, and in Cronica de una muerte anunciada (1981), a short novel by Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez. By means of a comparative study, and using narratology as the primary theoretical and methodological frame, this theme is explored through the analysis of both works at three different "levels"---that of the characters, the narrators, and the implied authors---with the intention of revealing the distinct contrast between the ideology expressed at all levels and, ultimately, at the level of the respective implied authors as the embodiment of the works' ideologies, in regards to honour as a socially-regulated code of conduct. An important portion of this analysis is dedicated to discussing the relationship between the fictional components of these works and their symbolic meaning in the external or "real"/non-fictional world in connection with said ideology.

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Jakubiak, Katarzyna Dykstra Kristin. "Performing translation the transnational call-and-response of African diaspora literature /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1276391711&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1200674412&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.
Title from title page screen, viewed on January 18, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Kristin Dykstra (chair), Christopher Breu, Christopher DeSantis. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 220-237) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Marquis, Rebecca. "Daughters of Saint Teresa authority and rhetoric in the confessional narratives of three twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American women writers /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3240037.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2006.
"Title from dissertation home page (viewed July 16, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-10, Section: A, page: 3815. Adviser: Kathleen A. Myers.

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Ghadie, Heba Alah. "Rachid Boudjedra autotraducteur." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27763.

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La carrière littéraire de Rachid Boudjedra a débuté en français dans la deuxième moitié des années 1960. Lorsqu'il décide de s'exprimer directement en arabe, au début des années 1980, il avait déja à son actif plusieurs romans publiés à Paris. Depuis, non seulement il traduit ces romans en arabe, mais il prépare également une version de ses romans arabes pour le public francophone, seul ou avec l'aide d'un traducteur. Nous examinons dans cette thèse le phénomène de l'autotraduction chez Boudjedra à travers deux romans, L'Insolation, paru en français en 1972 et traduit en arabe en 1984 sous le titre Al-Raane, et Timimoun, paru en arabe en 1994 et traduit en français la meme année et sous le même titre. Nous situons dans un premier temps la pratique de l'autotraduction dans l'histoire et la distinguons de la traduction dite "allographe". Nous faisons un survol des principaux travaux qui ont été faits à ce sujet, tout en distinguant les différents types d'autotraduction. Dans un deuxième temps, nous présentons le contexte maghrebin dans lequel s'inscrit l'écriture politisée de Boudjedra. Nous exposons la complexité de la situation linguistique en Algérie et au Maghreb de manière générale, et nous étudions le statut des langues et les choix linguistiques de l'écrivain maghrebin. Nous donnons également un aperçu biographique et bibliographique de Boudjedra, tout en essayant de justifier son recours à l'autotraduction. Dans un troisième temps, nous confrontons les versions arabe et française de L'Insolation et de Timimoun et évaluons l'importance des écarts et des rapprochements entre l'original et sa traduction. Nous comparons aussi les deux autotraductions, différée dans un cas et simultanée dans l'autre, afin de voir si la pratique de Boudjedra a évolue au fil du temps, surtout qu'un écart de vingt-deux ans sépare les deux romans. L'objectif de cette étude est donc de parvenir à une caractérisation de l'autotraduction chez Rachid Boudjedra en établissant, d'une part, son profil d'autotraducteur et en identifiant, d'autre part, le(s) mode(s) et la (les) stratégie(s) d'autotraduction qu'il adopte.

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Owomoyela, Oyekan, Rita Böttcher-Wöbcke, Marion Pape, Cornelia Uschtrin, Stanislaw Pilazcewicz, Shaban Mayanja, Ezenwa Ohaeto, and Joseph A. McIntyre. "Levels of perception and reproduction of reality in modern African literature." Universität Leipzig, 1997. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A32902.

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The ensuing manifestations of reality represent our cultural memory, saved from oblivion in literature. If we accept this as one possible definition of literature, every culture – oral or written – has its cultural memory, in as many facts as there are participants in the cultural progress.

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Leanos, Jaime. "El Papa y la Princesa: Eneas Silvio Piccolomini e Isabel La Catolica en la evolucion de la literatura sentimental espanola durante el siglo XV." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280193.

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La intencion de esta disertacion titulada, "El Papa y la Princesa: Eneas Silvio Piccolomini e Isabel La Catolica en la evolucion de la literatura sentimental espanola durante el siglo XV," es ofrecer una nueva interpretacion en cuanto al genesis del genero sentimental. Varios eruditos han tratado de redefinir el genero pero han fallado en poner enfasis en la importancia que tuvo la obra de Piccolomini, Historia de duobus amantibus (1444), para el desarrollo del novel genero en Espana que comienza con la obra de Juan Rodriguez del Padron, Siervo libre de amor, composicion que segun mis investigaciones fue compuesta hacia 1444, es decir, posterior a la obra de Piccolomini. Dado que Piccolomini es de suma importancia para el desarrollo del genero sentimental, he reservado el primer capitulo de mi disertacion para un estudio biografico de este hombre renacentista. En el transcurso de esta exploracion de su vida, puntualizo en el capitulo segundo las importantes huellas clasicas que se encuentran en su Historia de duobus amantibus. El tercer capitulo esta consagrado al estudio de diez premisas paralelas que encontramos en la Historia de duobus amantibus y las siguientes siete obras sentimentales: (1) Siervo libre de amor, (2) Triste deleytacion , (3) Arnalte y Lucenda, (4) Carcel de amor, (5) Grisel y Mirabella, (6) Grimalte y Gradisa, (7) Coronacion de la senora Gracisla. El cuarto y ultimo capitulo, abarca los acontecimientos historicos durante el siglo XV que ocasionan la aparicion del genero sentimental: (1) el debil reinado de Juan II (1406-1454); (2) el surgimiento de una nueva clase docta con una percepcion mas benigna de la mujer; (3) tres reinas que abogaron por los derechos de las mujeres, Maria de Aragon (1419-1445), Isabel de Portugal (1447-1454), e Isabel de Castilla (1474-1504); (4) la publicacion del Corvacho (1438) por el Arcipreste de Talavera, provocando la ira de la reina Maria y una decisiva reaccion literaria de parte de sus defensores; (5) la enorme popularidad de la Historia de duobus amantibus, obra que serviria de modelo para la primera novela sentimental espanola.

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Namaste, Nina Bosch. "From the national to the individual forging identities through the use of culinary imagery in representative twentieth-century Hispanic dramas /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3167280.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2005.
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Reed, Kristin. "The rhetoric of grief Seamus Heaney, Joseph Brodsky, Yves Bonnefoy, and the modern elegy /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3386713.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Comparative Literature, 2009.
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Muller, David G. "Regarding Racine the scenography of tragedie classique in the modern French theatre /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3232566.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Theatre and Drama, 2006.
"Title from dissertation home page (viewed July 9, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 2820. Adviser: Roger W. Herzel.

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Munoz, Victoria Marie. "A Tempestuous Romance: Chivalry, Literature, and Anglo-Spanish Politics, 1578-1624." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1479905568694913.

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Grubbs, Anthony John. "Defending innovation : dramatic theory in practice in early modern Spain /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3162287.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2005.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 11, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0194. Chair: Catherine Larson.

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Fache, Caroline. "Tissage du metissage construction et creation des personnages et textes metisses dans la litterature contemporaine francophone /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3278211.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of French and Italian, 2007.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 3880. Adviser: Michael L. Berkvam. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 7, 2008).

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Fulton, Joseph Michael. "Counter-Reformation politics and the Inquisition in the works of Fray Luis de Leon." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/283926.

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Fray Luis de Leon was incarcerated for nearly five years by the Spanish Inquisition, on the basis of charges brought against him by antagonistic colleagues who disagreed with his scholarly approach. Through a systematic consideration of his writings in light of the sociohistorical climate that gave rise to disputes between him and his detractors, it is evident that a number of themes run through Fray Luis' prose production which can be related directly to his experience as an inmate in the Inquisition's cells. These topoi, found throughout the Salmantine friar's prose, are present also in his poetry. Therefore, by analyzing those prose passages that have a direct bearing on his trial before the Inquisition and by relating those passages to his poetry, we shall gain access to unique avenues of interpretation. The results will offer new insights into Fray Luis' poetry that are not readily apparent through other methods of analysis. This study will afford us an opportunity to see Fray Luis and his works in great detail from a perspective that has not yet been explored.

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Ayo, Alvaro A. "Ramon Perez de Ayala: Autor humoristico." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288944.

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En esta disertacion mostramos que Ramon Perez de Ayala es un autor humoristico, es decir, un autor que se aproxima al mundo tanto criticamente como de modo tolerante y afectivo. El impetu critico lo impulsa a escudrinar su entorno y a desvelar lo que se halla tras lo aparente. Su postura tolerante lo ayuda a comprender las contradicciones que percibe y a preconizar que todo y todos tienen algo que aportar al mundo, donde el observa la armonia caudalosa, concepto que explica la presencia de todas las ideas y las personalidades, infinitamente enfrentadas entre si. Su arte constituye un intento de recrear este estado de "armonia desarmonica", como se aprecia en la riqueza de personajes conflictivos, incongruentes e imprevisibles que crea. Para explicar la manera en que Ayala se aproxima al mundo y al arte, en base a sus ideas y a las que Luigi Pirandello vierte en L'umorismo , configuramos la nocion de acercamiento humoristico . Esta se apuntala en la distincion entre dos conceptos: lo comico, que se refiere a las discrepancias que se revelan a raiz del escudrinamiento critico del mundo y el humorismo, que es la tolerancia de las discrepancias, nacida de la observacion critica. Nuestra nocion consta de dos fases. En la primera, dominada por lo comico, se escudrina a las personas. Surge la risa. El humorismo predomina en la segunda fase, en que se llega a comprender el origen de las contradicciones que se percibe. La risa da paso a una sonrisa cervantina--confortadora y comprensiva. Mediante el estudio del acercamiento humoristico intentamos ofrecer una imagen de Perez de Ayala diferente a la del rigido moralizador que predomina en la critica.

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Alzoubi, Mamoun. "Richard Wright's Trans-Nationalism: New Dimensions to to Modern American Expatriate Literature." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1466409579.

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Walker, James E. Jr. "OTHERING, MIRRORING, AND IDENTITY IN JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN’S BROTHERS AND KEEPERS." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1371582844.

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Nwosu, Maik. "The reinvention of meaning cultural imaginaries and the life of the sign /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Huerta, Marisa. "Re-reading the New World romance : British colonization and the construction of "race" in the early modern period /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3174621.

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Korta, Jeremie Charles. "The Aesthetics of Discovery: Text, Image, and the Performance of Knowledge in the Early-Modern Book." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467521.

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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 that scientific knowledge is not a product simply to be deposited into unmarked containers and transmitted unproblematically. On the contrary, the book, whether literary or scientific, actively shapes and invents objects of scientific knowledge. Sensory, affective and cognitive ways in which the reader is expected to approach the book and its contents are implicit in its formatting of text and image, not to mention margins, presentational material and indices. This project draws from literary and natural scientific traditions of the French and Italian Renaissance in order to study how the early-modern book forms and performs scientific knowledge in various ways. Compelling the reader to interrupt his or her reading and to explore the book’s text and images as if they were objects in their own right, the book-object strives to imitate the experience and method of scientific discovery for the early-modern reader. To this end, touch, appetition, and bodily awareness become as important as sight and critical reasoning in a procedural approach and apprehension of knowledge in and of the book-object. An “aesthetics of discovery”, formed by the book and performed by the reader, is implicit in the book’s careful articulations of text and image.
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Mordoch, Gabriel. "New Christian Discourse and Early Modern Portuguese Oceanic Expansion: The Cases of Garcia da Orta, Fernao Mendes Pinto, Ambrosio Fernandes Brandao and Pedro de Leon Portocarrero." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu150231925234443.

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Bryant, Cheney Matt. "Modern Charity: Morality, Politics, and Mid-Twentieth Century US Writing." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/101.

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Scholars over the past two decades (Denning, Szalay, Edmunds, Robbins) have theorized the different ways literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century reflects the dawn of the liberal US welfare state. While these studies elaborate on the effect rapidly expanding public aid had on literary production of the period, many have tended to undervalue the lingering influence on midcentury storytelling of private charity and philanthropy, those traditional aid institutions fundamentally challenged by the Great Depression and historically championed by conservatives. If the welfare state had an indelible impact on US literatures, so did the moral complexity of the systems of charity and philanthropy it purportedly replaced. In my dissertation, I theorize modern charity as a cultural narrative that found expression in a number of different writers from the start of the Great Depression and into the early 1960s, including Harold Gray, Ralph Ellison, W.E.B. Du Bois, Flannery O'Connor, and Dorothy Day.

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Beard, Caroline E. "Generacion salida| Arquetipos narrativos de la fuga de jovenes cerebros espa?oles." Thesis, The University of Alabama, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10162589.

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In less than a decade since the onset of the global economic crisis, more than 2 million people have left Spain in search of work and the possibility of a livable existence. Many of these economic exiles are young and highly qualified, leading some to classify this exodus as a brain drain. Lingering labor market instability and growing mistrust in Spain’s political system portend a challenging future for members of the so-called “lost generation,” both at home and abroad. Meanwhile, many questions remain about the lasting effects and repercussions of the crisis and massive departure of young Spaniards.

In response, the recession and ensuing surge in emigration have been popular themes of economic, demographic and sociological research in recent years; however, the cultural productions representative of this group remain relatively unstudied. The current investigation focuses on a selection of documentary films and fictional literature that portray the experiences of these highly qualified migrants. Through close analysis of these works, narrative patterns and trends appeared. These literary and audiovisual texts manifest the dialectical tensions of exile literature theorized by Sophia McClennen as well as the complex nostalgias of Svetlana Boym. They also reject and redefine the generational terms imposed upon them, express diasporic solidarity and call for political involvement and collective action. The rhetorical undercurrents at work in these constructions of individual and group identity suggest the emergence of an archetypal narrative of the new Spanish migrant. The cultural negotiations implicit in this narrative seem to confirm that sweeping but gradual societal changes are taking effect, even beyond Spain's borders.

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Bezerra, Viviane Santos [UNESP]. "Uma leitura de La disubbidienza de Alberto Moravia como romance de formação." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/150436.

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Próximo de completar setenta anos de sua publicação, La disubbidienza, sexto romance dos mais de trinta livros publicados ao longo da carreira do escritor italiano Alberto Moravia, continua a ser uma obra um tanto ofuscada pelo sucesso de outros livros consagrados do autor: Gli Indifferenti (1929) obteve reconhecimento e repercussão sem precedentes; La romana (1947), Il conformista (1951), Il disprezzo (1954), La ciociara (1957), La noia (1960), entre outros, são incansavelmente citados como obras representativas e que despertam interesse da pesquisa acadêmica. Entretanto, buscaremos aqui instaurar uma reflexão sobre a importância do romance de 1948, uma vez que o próprio Moravia, em uma entrevista concedida a Alain Elkann, que compõe a biografia La vita di Moravia, declara que, como crítico de si mesmo, considerava La disubbidienza uma de suas melhores obras (ELKANN, 1990, p. 176). Dito isto, buscaremos contextualizar esse romance, além de oferecer uma leitura interpretativa do mesmo, a partir da análise de suas veredas, principalmente destacando as características que inserem a obra no gênero literário Romance de Formação, o Bildungsroman.
Close to the seventy-year anniversary of its publication, La Disubbidienza, the sixth novel out of more than thirty books published throughout his career, Italian writer Alberto Moravia, remains somewhat overshadowed by the success of other successful books: Gli Indifferenti (1929) obtained unprecedented recognition and repercussion; La romana (1947), Il conformista (1951), Il disprezzo (1954), La ciociara (1957), La noia (1960), among others, are tirelessly cited as representative works that raise interest in academic research. However, we will try to do some thinking about the importance of the 1948 novel, since Moravia himself, on an interview with Alain Elkann, who writes the biography La vita di Moravia, states that, as a critic of himself, considered La Disubbidienza one of his best works (ELKANN, 1990, p.176). Thus, we will attempt to contextualize this novel, besides offering a comprehensive reading analyzing its paths, mainly highlighting features that place this work in the literary genre Novel of Formation, the Bildungsroman.

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Montgomery, Kaylor Layne. "A Woman Trapped: Representations of Female Sexual Agency in Early Modern Literature." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1523228037122741.

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Armstrong, Jeanne Marie. "Uncivilized women and erotic strategies of border zones or demythologizing the romance of conquest." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187509.

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The contact of two different cultures in the colonization process produces a zone of cultural mingling that resembles Victor Turner's concept of "liminality" referring to states or persons that elude classification. This study considers the repercussions of colonization on the lives of women characters in novels about four different "post-colonial" contexts--Native American, Jamaican, Irish and Mexican American. These novels reflect both the unique historical circumstances of each context and common themes that occur due to colonization and transcend the specific cultures such as the mourning of personal and collective loss, liminal states of consciousness and mingling of cultures. The introductory chapter examines the particular historical contexts of each novel and the theories of Abdul JanMohamed and Frantz Fanon on colonization. This study also applies the work of Victor Turner, Mary Douglas, Julia Kristeva, Gloria Anzaldua, Homi Bhaba and others to an examination of the subversive cultural formations that evolve through the boundary dissolution of colonization. Chapter two considers Louise Erdrich's novel Tracks in which the decimation of the Anishinabe people is the context for the three primary characters who have experienced personal and collective loss and respond by resisting or adapting to colonization. Chapter three examines Erna Brodber's Myal and the impact of the manichean colonial ideology on a Jamaican woman who is literally half-black and half-white. Chapter four addresses Julia O'Faolain's No Country for Young Men, a novel about two women, one who lived through the early twentieth century movement for Irish independence and the other who is her great niece, that have both been silenced and sexually controlled by colonialism and Irish Catholicism. The fifth and final chapter examines Lucha Corpi's Delia's Song about a young Chicana activist who has suffered losses on several levels and recovers by writing an autobiographical novel that weaves the personal and political issues of her life. All four novels are concerned with the liminal states of consciousness in these women characters and their efforts to both find love and tell their stories, thus counteracting the colonizer's version of history.

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Young, Heather Lyn. "PERFUMING POSTERITY: SMELL AS IDENTIFIER AND PRESERVER OF EARLY MODERN SPANISH CULTURE." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/170841.

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This doctoral dissertation examines the presence and function of the sense of smell in Early Modern Spanish literature. It studies the use of the olfactory in key works of the period and analyzes how each one reflects a certain contemporary aspect of Spanish culture and society. Though its role in literature has not been considered as widely as that of the other senses, smell's indubitable presence in the works and its unique qualities allow for a singular approach to the texts in question as they serve to preserve the beliefs, themes and trends of Renaissance and Golden Age Spain. This work analyzes four texts, one from the late Middle Ages and three from the Early Modern period: Fermoso cuento de una santa enperatrís que ovo en Roma & de su castidat (14th century); La Celestina, Fernando de Rojas (1499); Don Quijote, Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra (1605 and 1615); "La inocencia castigada," María de Zayas (in Desengaños amorosos - 1647). These selected works permit an analysis of the function of smell within a variety of themes and across the span of the period. Serving to orient us in our search for literary scent, Chapter 1 presents considerations for the study of the olfactory in literature - how the senses have been perceived over time, how smell differs from the other senses and how smells are represented verbally. Chapter 2 deals with Fermoso cuento de una santa enperatrís que ovo en Roma & de su castidat and the way that the medieval saint-sinner dichotomy is reflected in pleasant and foul smells, respectively. Chapter 3 reviews the historical, cultural and social changes that took place in Iberia from the end of the Middle Ages into the Early Modern period to better understand changing perceptions and how they appear in literature during this time. Chapter 4 studies La Celestina and the title character's sensorial (olfactory) manipulation of others in the work. Chapter 5 looks at the role of smell, contrasted with the other senses, in Don Quijote's creation of Dulcinea. Chapter 6 analyzes the martyrdom of women in marriage as presented through smell in "La inocencia castigada." The epilogue briefly considers the role of smell in Lazarillo de Tormes and its implications for further study of the olfactory in literature.
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Brown, Timothy A. "Secret religion : surrealism in the new era of religion." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available, full text:, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Soric, Kristina Maria. "Empires of Fiction: Coloniality in the Literatures of the Nineteenth-Century Iberian Empires after the Age of Atlantic Revolutions." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1502913220147523.

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