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Infancias Imaginadas: Creciendo En España En El Siglo Xx Con Elena Fortún Y Miguel Delibes, Maria Del Carmen Toro Gonzalez-Green
Infancias Imaginadas: Creciendo En España En El Siglo Xx Con Elena Fortún Y Miguel Delibes, Maria Del Carmen Toro Gonzalez-Green
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From the 1920s to the 1990s, a large number of works featuring children as main characters were produced and published in Spain. Children live in constant confrontation between what they are and what is expected of them: because of this, in a new literary paradigm, childhood became a symbol for the confrontations, tensions, and contradictions that characterize 20th century Spain. Also, the preponderant temporal dimension for these children characters is the present, which is a significant choice in a historical period in constant tension between letting go of the past and clinging to it. This project explores how different imagined …
Network Poetics: Studies In Early Modern Literary Collaboration, John Ladd
Network Poetics: Studies In Early Modern Literary Collaboration, John Ladd
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Literature scholars often consider the seventeenth century to be the period in which the role of the individual author as we know it today was consolidated, strengthened, or even invented. Scholars of collaboration, most notably Jeffrey Masten in his book Textual Intercourse, tend to treat the phenomenon of joint literary work as limited to coauthorship and either to specific genres (usually drama) or specific periods in time (usually 1590 to 1620). In this model, collaborative environments give way to authorial ones, particularly in Restoration England as the position of the professional author was strengthened by changes in publishing practices. However …
Great Mirror Of Motherly Love: Maternal Fantasy, Mystic Mothers, And Reflected Selves In Modern And Contemporary Japanese Fiction, Jessica E. Legare
Great Mirror Of Motherly Love: Maternal Fantasy, Mystic Mothers, And Reflected Selves In Modern And Contemporary Japanese Fiction, Jessica E. Legare
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Fantasy and mysticism often serve as key elements in escapist literature—constructing stories that move protagonists beyond the furthest reaches of the real, the familiar and the human. Yet, the otherworldly can also bring the protagonist within reach of the familiar if we consider the representations of mothering in the following Japanese narratives: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s “Longing for Mother” (1919), Izumi Kyōka’s “The Holy Man of Mount Kōya” (1900), Takahashi Takako’s “Doll Love” (1976), and Ono Masatsugu’s “Prayers from Nine Years Ago” (2014). Through their depictions based on supernatural and spiritual tropes, mystical-mother figures become metaphorical mirrors meant to reflect the protagonists’ …
Representations Of Elite Masculinity In Medieval Castilian Narrative, Megan Elizabeth Havard
Representations Of Elite Masculinity In Medieval Castilian Narrative, Megan Elizabeth Havard
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My dissertation the first book-length project to address long-held notions about elite masculinity in medieval Iberia. I contend that the study of masculinity must transcend our understanding of the male subject as a fixed point of reference; rather, he is to be understood as a mobile and multivalent construct in constant negotiation with cultural artifacts. I understand masculinity to be the set of socially constructed meanings and values imposed upon biologically male persons. The social norms associated with masculinity exist in relation to a given historical and cultural context, and are subject to change. Even within a particular moment in …
Narrative At Risk: Accident And Teleology In American Culture, 1963-2013, Dustin R. Iler
Narrative At Risk: Accident And Teleology In American Culture, 1963-2013, Dustin R. Iler
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Accident in fiction is always inevitable. When a character in a novel suffers a car accident, for example, the accident is the effect of the author's intentions, and therefore it is not accidental. The words and images that constitute the meanings and events of the text do not change. The accidents in the narrative always happen the same way, reading after rereading. Drawing from this observation, the question that Narrative at Risk attempts to answer is, in its simplest iteration: how can narrative accurately represent accident when its textual representation is not subject to the effects of accident? I ask …
From Myth To Meth: Viewing The American Small Town Through The Lens Of Psychoanalytica Fantasy, Christopher Boehm
From Myth To Meth: Viewing The American Small Town Through The Lens Of Psychoanalytica Fantasy, Christopher Boehm
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Simultaneously a symbol for benevolent hospitality and hostile insularity, the American small town and its surrounding rural areas have assumed many faces and forms in both filmic and literary representations over the last hundred years. Whereas the metropolis carries with it a specific history and culture that is known, at least in part, by an audience, the small-town, with all its stereotypical associations, lacks an analogous geographical and historical specificity. As a result of this relative anonymity, the small town often becomes a blank canvas onto which a number of conflicting representations can be painted. Despite significant differences in historical, …
Piers Plowman, Legal Authority And The Law Of Subject Status., Victoria Thomas
Piers Plowman, Legal Authority And The Law Of Subject Status., Victoria Thomas
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This project examines the legal discourses surrounding Langland's Piers Plowman to show that the language of the law courts, and the dilemmas faced there on a daily basis about the authority of the law, are mirrored in the way in which Langland presents Christ's harrowing of hell at one of the narrative climaxes of the poem. The state of English law inflects the literature, even when the issue presented appears to be covenantal theology, because the questions over the basis of legal authority being asked in the courtroom were so enmeshed in the language of the courtroom being used in …
Faust: Ein Bildungsdrama, Florian Breitkopf
Faust: Ein Bildungsdrama, Florian Breitkopf
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Wind, Wave, And Generative Metaphor In Greek, Hans Bork
Wind, Wave, And Generative Metaphor In Greek, Hans Bork
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A diachronic analysis of the so-called 'Ship of State' metaphor, with the premise that the more sophisticated trope of Archaic lyric poetry is an elaboration of a larger cognitive metaphor that appears in the earliest Greek texts.
Der Geblendete Staat. Platons "Politeia" In Elias Canettis "Blendung", Krischan Fiedler
Der Geblendete Staat. Platons "Politeia" In Elias Canettis "Blendung", Krischan Fiedler
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Joachim Du Bellay's Occasional Poetry: The Poetics Of Female Patronage, Elizabeth Landers
Joachim Du Bellay's Occasional Poetry: The Poetics Of Female Patronage, Elizabeth Landers
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This study seeks to demonstrate that female patrons at the Valois court--particularly Marguerite de France, and, to a lesser extent Diane de Poitiers--had a defining influence on both the career and the aesthetic choices of the sixteenth-century French poet Joachim Du Bellay. Although it has often been acknowledged that Du Bellay and Marguerite enjoyed a special relationship, the current study reveals the extent to which Marguerite served as an organizing principal for Du Bellay's entire writing life. As an admired patron, she provided moral support and networking opportunities that encouraged and rewarded Du Bellay's poetic production; her erudition and literary …
Cultural Transmission In The Age Of Modernism: Mentorship In The Novel, 1890--1960, Dalia Oppenheimer
Cultural Transmission In The Age Of Modernism: Mentorship In The Novel, 1890--1960, Dalia Oppenheimer
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Cultural Transmission in the Age of Modernism: Mentorship in the Novel, 1890-1960 considers how education reform impacted modernist questions about the transmissibility of culture. Beginning with the institutionalization of universal education in the late nineteenth century and ending with the nationalization of education in the immediately postwar period, this dissertation considers specifically the relationship between educational policy and the possibility of institutional cultural transmission. Focusing on the novelists Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and Muriel Spark, I suggest that modernist-era writers were concerned as to whether or not Oxbridge could: or should) preserve and transmit the version of liberal-humane …
Spenser's "Inward Ey": Poetics, Lexicography, And The Motivations For Edmund Spenser's Linguistic Idealism, Lawrence Revard
Spenser's "Inward Ey": Poetics, Lexicography, And The Motivations For Edmund Spenser's Linguistic Idealism, Lawrence Revard
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Edmund Spenser's concepts of language have been seen as "anti-linguistic" to the extent that his idealism extols the power of thought while depicting speech as a corrupting monster--most notably the Blatant Beast of The Legend of Courtesy, Book 6 of The Faerie Queene. My thesis re-examines Spenser's antipathies for language, telling the story of his definition of the poet both in terms of his understandings of language and his part in the struggle to legitimize English vernacular. I first focus on Spenser's imagery of naming, tongues, writing, and identity in his later work, particularly the Platonic ideas in The Fowre …
Dietmar Daths "Die Abschaffung Der Arten": Zwischen Politischer Science Fiction, Popkultur Und Poetik, Bernhard Landkammer
Dietmar Daths "Die Abschaffung Der Arten": Zwischen Politischer Science Fiction, Popkultur Und Poetik, Bernhard Landkammer
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Erst War Es Immer, Und Dann War Es Nicht. Speed And The Poetics Of Movement In Rainer Maria Rilke's Neue Gedichte, Erika Kontulainen
Erst War Es Immer, Und Dann War Es Nicht. Speed And The Poetics Of Movement In Rainer Maria Rilke's Neue Gedichte, Erika Kontulainen
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Dramaturgical Crossroads And Aesthetic Transformations: Modern And Contemporary Adaptations Of Classical Japanese Nō Drama, Robert Neblett
Dramaturgical Crossroads And Aesthetic Transformations: Modern And Contemporary Adaptations Of Classical Japanese Nō Drama, Robert Neblett
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This study explores the various dramaturgical strategies at work within the twentieth and twenty-first-century theatrical adaptation of the Japanese Nō drama. At its core are questions regarding the methodology utilized in the updating of an innately supernatural and spiritual aesthetic into the increasingly secularized world of the present, and how those supernatural elements are often transformed into metaphorical constructs. Ultimately, I examine how the transformative aesthetic that has given the Nō its literary power over the past 700 years is the very aspect that permits it to facilitate, resist, and assimilate the strategies of dramatic adaptation. My primary categories for …
La Obra De Arte Frente Al (Super)Mercado: Ética, Éstética, Política Y Consumo En El Cono Sur, Cesar Barros Arteaga
La Obra De Arte Frente Al (Super)Mercado: Ética, Éstética, Política Y Consumo En El Cono Sur, Cesar Barros Arteaga
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Over the last three decades, Southern Cone societies have been transformed dramatically by the global and local determinations of late capitalism. Consumption mechanisms of interpellation and representation have had a central role in these changes. As many contemporary scholars have pointed out, consumption is not just an economic practice of acquisition and exchange, but also, a powerful mechanism of identity formation, designed to foster the reproduction of capitalist division of labor. In Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay these mechanisms are entangled with an array of official political and historical discourses that erase memory and economical, gender, and race inequalities in order …
La Vanguardia Y Sus Retornos: Confabulaciones Del Presente En Cuatro Escritores Latinoamericanos, Maria De Los Angeles Donoso Macaya
La Vanguardia Y Sus Retornos: Confabulaciones Del Presente En Cuatro Escritores Latinoamericanos, Maria De Los Angeles Donoso Macaya
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La vanguardia y sus retornos: confabulaciones del presente en cuatro escritores latinoamericanos [The Avant-garde and its Returns: Confabulating the Present in Four Latin American Writers] When reading contemporary Latin American writers from different countries and distinct cultural backgrounds, the relevance of the avant-garde in their work becomes apparent. By placing close readings of texts by C├⌐sar Aira, Mario Bellatin, Roberto Bola├▒o, and Diamela Eltit, in dialogue with theoretical and philosophical works by Bergson, Nietzsche, Spinoza, and Deleuze, I argue that it is possible to recognize an unexpected and engaging return to the avant-garde in a present which has been commonly …
Humores Nacionales: Sátira, Costumbrismo Y Disparate En La Literatura Comica De Mexico (1960-2010), Jose Galindo
Humores Nacionales: Sátira, Costumbrismo Y Disparate En La Literatura Comica De Mexico (1960-2010), Jose Galindo
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This work looks into humor in Mexican Literature from 1960 through 2010. The first chapter analyzes how humorists have responded to symbols and narratives of Mexican nationalism. The second chapter focuses on how humor has dealt with customs--religious practices, gender relations and family dynamics. The third chapter studies humor vis a vis the world of books and authors, that is, writers making fun of their own guild--the ambitions, betrayals, expectations and posturing common in the literary life. The fourth and final chapter focuses on gallows humor and scatological humor. Narrative, theater, chronic and essays are the genres studied throughout the …
Hermann Hesse As Ambivalent Modernist, Theodore Jackson
Hermann Hesse As Ambivalent Modernist, Theodore Jackson
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This dissertation asserts that the Hermann Hesse approaches the themes and techniques of literary Modernism with ambivalence. The first chapter outlines the role of philosophical and literary walking in Hesse's work in general as well as how these depictions differ from those produced by his predecessors. The second chapter takes Hesse's reinterpretation of Nietzsche and Rousseau and applies it to three of Hesse's early novels, Unterm Rad, Peter Camenzind, and Knulp. The third chapter examines Der Steppenwolf as an ambivalently Modernist autobiography, using Eugene Stelzig's notion of Seelenbiographie. The last chapter examines Hesse's two final novels, Die Morgenlandfahrt and Das …
Thomas Hoccleve And The Poetics Of Reading, Elon Lang
Thomas Hoccleve And The Poetics Of Reading, Elon Lang
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Thomas Hoccleve, the early fifteenth-century London poet who first promoted the notion that Chaucer was the father of English literature, demonstrates an acute awareness that readers would change the form of his own texts over time. Although many scholars consider Hoccleve's style to be derivative of his English predecessors, I argue that his awareness of readers contributed to an innovative style that casts writing and reading as mutually dependent acts of performance. Thus, in depictions of manuscript production and circulation processes, Hoccleve treats his audiences as his creative collaborators. The rich surviving manuscript history for Hoccleve reveals how his texts …
Bodies Of Parchment: Representing The Passion And Reading Manuscripts In Late Medieval England, Sarah Noonan
Bodies Of Parchment: Representing The Passion And Reading Manuscripts In Late Medieval England, Sarah Noonan
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In a diverse range of late-fourteenth- and fifteenth-century devotional literature, Christ's body is metaphorically related to a book or a document at the moment of his crucifixion. His skin transforms into parchment, whips and scourges become pens, and a steady flow of blood, of ink, covers his body and the written page. And each word written onto his parchment body welcomes sustained study, acting as a potential meditative focal point for the devout reader. Through this metaphor and the accompanying materiality of the texts that include it, medieval authors and audiences could imagine intimately interacting with Christ's body during the …
Accounting For Mysteries: Narratives Of Intuition And Empiricism In The Victorian Novel, Brooke Taylor
Accounting For Mysteries: Narratives Of Intuition And Empiricism In The Victorian Novel, Brooke Taylor
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This dissertation explores the tensions between an empirical epistemology and an intuitive method of knowing the world as depicted in popular Victorian novels. These narratives attempt to assimilate alternate modes of understanding; however, the uneasiness of the relationship between empiricism and intuition speaks to larger cultural tensions about the possibility of reconciling fact and feeling in the mid- to late-nineteenth century. I argue that intuitive and imaginative modes of cognition are continually privileged in novels that explicitly claim to adhere to empirical forms of knowledge. As I examine the work of Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and George …
Impossible Whiteness: Race, Gender, And American Identity In Early Twentieth-Century American Literature, Tarah Demant
Impossible Whiteness: Race, Gender, And American Identity In Early Twentieth-Century American Literature, Tarah Demant
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In Impossible Whiteness, I reveal whiteness--though oftentimes still an implicit critical assumption of normalcy--as a complex, shifting category in the literature of early twentieth-century America, and show how gender, particularly, disrupts American whiteness. I deconstruct the various ways in which whiteness is defined legally, culturally, and in the marketplace, and demonstrate how Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, and F. Scott Fitzgerald trace these standards of whiteness and the inevitable failure of such racial: and implicitly gendered) refinement. Though critical literature has been slow to consider the role of race for these authors, I reveal them as actively participating in contemporary dialogues …
El Arte De La Resistencia: Música, Literatura Y Tradición Oral En La Región Andina Desde El Período Pre Moderno Hasta El Siglo Xvii, Catalina Andrango-Walker
El Arte De La Resistencia: Música, Literatura Y Tradición Oral En La Región Andina Desde El Período Pre Moderno Hasta El Siglo Xvii, Catalina Andrango-Walker
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This dissertation addresses the construction of Andean subjectivity through the use of musical depictions in 16th and 17th century texts in which European chroniclers characterize the natives based on aspects of sonority, on rudimentary instruments or on musical practices that they considered as paganistic. Music classified as diabolical does not pass out of the category of noise in order to express savagery and disorder. In the grip of a fervent desire for the evangelization of the Andeans the Spaniards translated many sermons into native languages, and adapted the indigenous melodies dedicated to local deities by changing the lyrics so as …
Chinese Spirit, Russian Soul, And American Materialism: Images Of America In Twentieth-Century Chinese And Russian Travelogues, Rumyana Cholakova
Chinese Spirit, Russian Soul, And American Materialism: Images Of America In Twentieth-Century Chinese And Russian Travelogues, Rumyana Cholakova
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Chinese Spirit, Russian Soul, and American Materialism: Images of America in Twentieth-Century Chinese and Russian Travelogues This study is concerned with the process of understanding and representation of the Other in travel narratives and the role of the traveler's cultural tradition and ideological beliefs in this process. I explore the images of the United States in some of the most influential twentieth-century Chinese and Russian travelogues. There are deep cultural differences between China and Russia, yet their relationships with the West show certain similarities. The first important parallel is that the contacts with the West was a catalyst in the …
Representaciones E Imaginarios Sobre La Pobreza: Villa Miseria Y Subjetividad En La Literatura Argentina Del Siglo Xx Y Xxi, Maria Forcadell
Representaciones E Imaginarios Sobre La Pobreza: Villa Miseria Y Subjetividad En La Literatura Argentina Del Siglo Xx Y Xxi, Maria Forcadell
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This dissertation studies the representation of shantytowns in Argentine narrative of the 20th and 21st century. The intellectual assumes the role of mediator and strengthens and or defies the social imagery about the poor and the space s/he inhabits. I argue that the socio-economic crisis of December 2001 affects the way in which writers imagine the subaltern and his/her urban spaces. As the narratives of progress and modernity enter in crisis, the villa miseria and poverty are reconfigured in new tales. This project is concentrated mainly in the post crisis fiction and on the emergency of social actors such piqueteros, …
Getting Out Of Wonderland: Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, And Anne Sexton, Jessica Mccort
Getting Out Of Wonderland: Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, And Anne Sexton, Jessica Mccort
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This project examines the appropriation of children's literature, particularly Grimm's and Andersen's fairy tales and Lewis Carroll's Alice books, by Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and Anne Sexton. Influenced by the cultural fixation on the child and the increasing popularity of Freudian discourse in American culture, the rise of confessional poetry, and second-wave feminist interest in female socialization, Bishop, Plath, Rich, and Sexton pursued in their poetry and prose an investigation of self and social formation that was simultaneously rooted in the public exhumation of the personal past and the personalized exploration of the dominant narratives of girlhood purveyed …
Mandeville's Intolerance: The Contest For Souls And Sacred Sites In The Travels Of Sir John Mandeville, Robert Patterson
Mandeville's Intolerance: The Contest For Souls And Sacred Sites In The Travels Of Sir John Mandeville, Robert Patterson
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As the first medieval text to combine the matter of the East with the matter of the Holy Land, The Travels circulated widely in over 300 manuscripts, making it an important text when studying medieval Christian attitudes toward non-Christians. Although many scholars point to The Travels as a tolerant text ahead of its time, a historicized approach reveals that Mandeville's project is better understood in terms of his intolerant universalism. I argue that in casting non-Christians as proto-Christians who stand as evidence of Christianity's global spiritual hegemony, the author appropriates and consumes them in service of his universalist agenda. I …
El Empalme De Fronteras Y Los Procesos De Identificación Como Métodos Para La Articulación De Subjetividades Fronterizas, Leticia Mcdoniel
El Empalme De Fronteras Y Los Procesos De Identificación Como Métodos Para La Articulación De Subjetividades Fronterizas, Leticia Mcdoniel
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2 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION El empalme de fronteras y los procesos de identificaci├│n como m├⌐todos para la articulaci├│n de subjetividades fronterizas by Leticia Trevi├▒o McDoniel Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Languages and Literatures Washington University in Saint Louis, 2009 Professor John F. Garganigo, Chairperson This dissertation studies the representation of the US-Mexican borderland as represented in five novels written on either side of the border in different moments of the 20th Century. The three major components of the bordered space that emerge in these novels are: first, its geography -- both, the 2000 miles that divide the border and …