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The Plays Of DamiáN Salucio Del Poyo, James J. Jewell

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

It is not uncommon for authors or other artists to attain fame in their lifetimes and then fall into oblivion with the passage of time. In Spain this is especially true of some of the playwrights of the Golden Age, for there was a great proliferation of dramatists during this period. Damián Salucio del Poyo, a Murcian playwright, is one of these forgotten figures. During his lifetime Poyo was highly praised by his contemporaries who regarded him as one of the best dramatists at the beginning of the seventeenth century; however, he was all but forgotten by the end of …

O Tema Da Morte Na Poesia De CecíLia Meireles., Regina Igel

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

Thi1s dissertation attempts to analyze the importance of death in the poetic works of the contemporary Brazilian poetess, Cecília Meireles. This study stresses the literary means she used in order to express her feelings about death and the attitudes she assumed in the face of death. Her poetry shows a deep concern with the end of lite; death is portrayed in her works as 1) a mystery which defies human intelligence, 2) pain experienced by those who have lost thei1:-loved ones, and 3) as a point of disintegration which has to be accepted with serenity.

Le Motif De L'Etoile Dans Les Oeuvres De GéRard De Nerval., Shelley Gregory Crowe

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A study of the star motif in the works of Gérard de Nerval brings out stylistic diversity and stylistic development in the works of the period 1841 through 1854. Before this time the star is hardly mentioned in the work of Nerval.

During the period between 1841 and 1843, Nerval underwent two important experiences. The first such experience is the mental crisis of 1841 during which he was hospitalized for the first time for such an illness. The second experience is the voyage to the Orient, a trip lasting the entire year of 1843. These two events can be seen …

Pascal's Concept Of Christianity., Audrey Vivien Bull

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This thesis explains Pascal's concept of Christian­ity, showing how it developed during the course of his life until it attained the conviction expressed in the Pensees.

It starts with the events of his life, taken from the accounts of two people related closely to him. His style is then analyzed, showing how it was influenced by the quarrel of the Jansenist and Jesuit sects to produce the polemic Lettres Provinciales and the reasons for the change of style before the Pensees. The importance of his style is stressed, because he fixed the French lan­guage and is perhaps the greatest stylist …

The Archetype Of Woman In The Theatre Of Jean Giraudoux., Elisabeth Josephine Price

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I had begun to re-read Giraudoux for pleasure, remembering that when I was first introduced to his works in class, I had been impressed by the quality of the heroines he presented. Upon second reading of his theatre, I was struck by the fact that his heroines did not serve in a complementary role to the hero, as so often is the case, but were presented as entities of their own. Because there is a revolution taking place in our culture over the role of woman, I thought that it would be interesting to investigate Giraudoux's concept of woman. In …

A Critical Edition Of El Jardin De Falerina By Francisco De Rojas Zorilla, Antonio Coello Y Ochoa, And Pedro Calderon De La Barca, With Introduction And Notes., Robert Rudolf Bacalski

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El jardín de Falerina, the producto of a joint effort by Frarncisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Antonio Coello, and Pedro Calderón de la Barca, represents a type of play that a high degree of popularity during the seventeenth century, the comedia de espectáculo y fantasia, derived, in part, from the romances of chivalry, and partly from the Italian epic poems, Orlando Furioso, by Lodovico Ariosto, and Orlando Innamorato, by Mateo Maria Boiardo.

Dated c. 1629, the comedia was privately performed on January 13, 1636 by the company of Tomás Fernández before Phillip IV and his court. There is no indication that …

An Annotated Critical Edition Of TambiéN Tiene El Sol Menguante, By Luis Velez De Guevara And Francisco De Rojas Zorrilla, James Stone Rambo

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Tambien tiene el sol menguante is a refundicion of Mira de Amescua's two-part drama, La prospera y la adversa fortuna de don Bernardo de Ca­brera, concerning the famous fourteenth-century favorite of Pedro IV of Aragon. The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a clear text of the play, along with thorough textual notes.

There are four extant versions of the play in question: 1) a hand­written, censored manuscript whose censures are dated 1655, 2) a printed version from a collection published in 1666, 3) a handwritten manuscript of the eighteenth century (probably dating from before 1735), and 4) …

An Annotated Critical Edition Of También Tiene El Sol Menguante By Luis Vélez De Guevara And Francisco De Rojas Zorrilla, James Stone Rambo

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También tiene el sol menguante is a refundición of Mira de Amescua's two-part drama, La próspera y la adversa fortuna de don Bernardo de Ca­brera, concerning the famous fourteenth-century favorite of Pedro IV of Aragon. The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a clear text of the play, along with thorough textual notes.

There are four extant versions of the play in question: 1) a hand­written, censored manuscript whose censures are dated 1655, 2) a printed version from a collection published in 1666, 3) a handwritten manuscript of the eighteenth century (probably dating from before 1735), and 4) …

Julio Cortazar, Clarice Lispector E A Nova Narrativa Latino-Americana, Teresinha Alves Pereira Martins

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This study 1s divided into three parts. The first is over the ne Latin American narrative, which involves identifying magic realism as a vanguard movement, using as examples the works of two authors who present characteris­tics of magic realism, Julio Cortázar from Argentina and Clarice Lispector from Brazil.

The second part considers the expression "magic realism" as the denomination of a new literary movement, the historical conceptualization of the term and its use by the critics to characterize the works of the two authors studied.

The third part offers an analysis of the works of Clarice Lispector and Julio Cortázar, …

"Realia" Dans Le Perceval De Chretien De Troyes, Claude Jean Fouillade

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La compréhension de la littérature médiéveale est incomplète lorsqu'on la sépare du contexte vivant dans lequel elle a été écrite. A travers le Perceval nous avons essayé de reconstruire la vie quotidienne aux alentours de l'année 1180. Nous avons étudié les différentes classes sociales présentées; c'est-à-dire, la noblesse, le clergé, les citadins et les paysans, dans les domaines suivants: gens, habitat, vêtements, nourriture, instruments, corps. Nous avons signalé et expliqué la prépondérance accordée à la noblesse et nous essayons de montrer que par delà l'intérêt littéraire que l'peuvre de Chrétien de Troyes présente, c'est le renseignement brut, quelle que soit …

BúSqueda De La Identidad En La ExpresióN LíRica De Los PaíSes De Habla EspañOla, María Esther Serra Carossino

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This essay is based on the premise that there exists a general orderly pattern of innermost values constantly present throughout time and events.

The atomic world had the same architectural structure as the Universe, but the molecular interactions form the different substances which have properties characteristic of their own. Under a similar pattern, the writer found a universal harmony in the Spanish lyrical expression, which shows itself in valid and fruitful relationships. She searched for similarities in the poetic world by analyzing what other writers have taken from tradition and then developed into an entirely new production, resulting from the …

Compositional Modes Of Eduardo Barrios' Los Hombres Del Hombre With An Appended Bibliography Of His Uncollected Prose., Joel Casey Hancock

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

Eduardo Barrios experimented at various stages in his career with the diary form as a basis of his fictions. This narrative frame, utilizing the language of speech, provided him with a form within which he could explore the aspects of human experience and personality that most interested him. The theme of jealousy, which had occurred in earlier works, comes to be the central theme of the novel Los hombres del hombre and, through the inherent intimacy of the diary form, generates the self-scrutiny of the protagonist. The confessional form also allows Barrios ample range to explore his hero--through the device …

L'Art De La Description Et Du Portrait Chez Manette Salomon Des FrèRes Goncourt., Barbara Joan Goodman

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The death of Honoré de Balzac in 1850 left a void in the production of masterpieces of the French novel. During the next decade, the lack of a dominant literary school, with precise rules, afforded to a great variety of authors a period of experimentation toward the establishment of a new direction for the novel.

The cooperative creation of Jules and Edmond de Goncourt emerged from this indecisive period. Throughout the ten years, the two brothers dabbled in various media of expression--painting, history, art criticism, drama-but their primary importance resides in their innovations in the novel. Manette Salomon, published in …

Fictional Manifestations Of Multiple Personality In Selected Works Of Miguel De Unamuno, Jerry L. Benbow

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This study, which grew out of an interest in the recurrent theme of multiple personality in the prose of Miguel de Unamuno, first attempts to define multiple personality in the scientific fields of psychology and psychiatry, subsequently examines depictions of multiple personality in world literature, and finally studies in depth the manifestations of the phenomenon in selected works of Unamuno. Multiple personality in psychology and psychiatry is defined beginning with an examination of the behavioristic, mechanistic-adjustive, and holistic-dynamic approaches to personality theory. Attention is then given to the contributions of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Alfred Adler to personality theory. …

Le Monde De Madame De Girardin Vu A Travers Les Lettres Parisiennes., Janina M. Cikotas

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Between 1836 and 1848 there appeared in La Presse, one of the most important French newspapers, a series of weekly articles entitled Le Courrier de Paris. They were signed by the Vicomte de Launay, a pseudonym for Madame de Girardin, the wife of Emile de Girardin, the owner of this influential publication. These articles generally enjoyed great success.

The author, a young woman of 32, was already well known for her precocious and remarkable poetic talent. Not only had she already been acclaimed for her poems, but she had also manifested her literary talent in some very successful novels and …

El Surrealismo Y Cuatro Poetas De La GeneracióN De 1927, Carlos Marcial De Onís

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El surrealismo en la poesía española contemporánea nunca ha sido estudiado con rigor. La palabra "surrealismo" se emplea para encasillar a una obra o a un autor, pero no se explica casi nunca la razón de dicho encasillamiento, que adolece así de vaguedad. Se parte por la crítica de la asunción (que no es válida) de que todo el mundo está familiarizado con la significación de dicho vocablo cuando se aplica a un género literario específico, como es la poesía. Porque el surrealismo no es un movimiento literario, ni siquiera artístico, sino una empresa espiritual que trataba de afectar a …

Simone Weil's Search For Unity Through The Union Of Contradictories., Barbara J. Brim

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

There is a good deal of modern literature particularly that of the post­ World War II period, which might be best described as “distorted” author deliberately focuses on some negative aspect of life, usually the sordid, and exaggerates it to an unbelievable nightmare. The author makes his point all too well. In fact, some of these works are masterpieces of human understanding. However, when one book after another presents the same negative theme, treated in the same way for a kind of shock effect, we begin to feel as though literature has as its sole aim a kind of psychological …

Stendhal Et La Musique, Rafael Valdés Camín

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

A l’âge de vingt ans, en 1807 si l’on en juge par le portrait que fit Queneday, Beyle paraissait un dandy. Une boucle de cheveux lui cachait le front et son regard inquisitif et franc semblait se perdre à l’horizon. Dans le portrait de 1835, par Dedreux, dans celui de 1839 par Dorcy, celui de 1840, par Sodemark, ainsi que dans son dernier portrait par Ducis le dandy de 1807 à complètament disparu. La boucle de cheveux n’est plus évidente…le front est visible et le visage ride nous montre la pensee incessante. Le regard ne se fixe plus à l’horizon. …

Mathieu Bidar's Hippolyte: A Critical Edition, Evyenia L. Triandafilidis

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The Hippolyte of Mathieu Bidar has nos been reprinted since the original edition of 1675, nor has there been a modern critical edition. The desire to do a critical edition of this tragedy was prompted by the prevalence of the theme of Phaedra and Hippolytus, which has been presented repeatedly on the French stage, and because of the editor’s interest in the role that the Greek tradition played in the French classicalism of the seventeenth century. Copies of Bidar’s Hippolyte are rare, since only three are known to be extant. The manuscript used is a copy of the original edition, …

Pierpont Morgan Manuscript 324: Le Roman De La Rose; A Study In Social Transition, Louise A. Miller

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

Art and literature, significant forms of human expression, serve as two valuable cultural sources for the understanding of a given civilization. The philosophical rationalism of Voltaire and the mythological paintings of Boucher, as contrasted to the concern with self of Chateaubriand and the tragically realistic paintings of Gericault, provide an important expressive background to the understanding of society before and after the French Revolution. These sources provide a broader insight into the societies of the time, their influences upon and their reactions to the immediate historical event. Similarly, the starkness of the paintings of Buffet and the preoccupation with the …

The Doctor In Marcel Proust's A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu., Michael L. Rowland

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

This study undertakes an examination of the doctors and illnesses in Marcel Proust’s life and of the doctors and illnesses in A La Recherche du Temps perdu. The first chapter reviews Prout’s relationship with doctors, especially with his father, who was a practicing physician. Illness, in addition to being an inconvenience, was for Proust a source of many important privileges, upon which he never ceased to draw. In this respect, the question is raised to what degree Proust’s illnesses were genuine. The doctors that appear in A La Recherche du Temps perdu comprise the next topic of discussion. An effort …

The Poetry Of Jorge Luis Borges, 1923-1963., Cleon Wade Capsas

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

Nineteen hundred and sixty one was a year of signal importance in the career of Jorge Luis Borges. On May 1, 1961 he was awarded, jointly with Samuel Beckett, the Prix International des Editeurs. Later that same year he published Antología personal, a forty-nine piece selection of his own work dictated by personal preference, which by the fact of selection is important for an appreciation of his work. Finally in the autumn of 1961 he traveled abroad (if we except a few short trips to Uruguay) for the first time in 38 years. He was a Visiting Professor at the …

Humor In George Duhamel's Chroniques Des Pasquier, William Henry Adamson

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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the nature and extent of the humor in Georges Duhamel's ten-volume saga, "Chroniques des Pasquier," and to offer a suggested classification of it. There is no intent to make detailed comparisons with other works, or to attempt to fit the present analysis into any aesthetic or philosophical system other than the relatively simple classification into which the subject seemed rather naturally to divide itself, the writer disclaiming any pretension to the technical knowledge necessary to any of numerous other modes of inquiry. It was thought best to limit the study to this …

A Critical Study Of Alfred Jarry Based On An Analysis And Translation Of Ubu-Roi, Clyde B. Mackenzie

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

The works of Alfred Jarry are not only unknown in America, but they are unavailable other than through private importation. It is the purpose of this study to analyse and present the literary and moral essence of this author through an analytical and critical examination of his works.

Bourget And Bazin: Two Leaders Of The Catholic Renaissance, Sister M. Eulalia Aure

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