Browsing by Subject "Literature, Comparative."
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The aesthetics of metamorphosis: Ovidian poetics in the works of Maria Luisa Bombal and Elena Garro.
(2004)The study begins with an analysis of the Ovidian concept of metamorphosis and its effects on the body, identity, and the corpus of the text. Chapter Two addresses the notion of "literary myth, " and contextualizes Bombal's ... -
D√♭pages utopiques :
(2001)Afin de creer cet espace neutre dans lequel chacun des deux auteurs s'adressera au probleme designe, More et Montaigne entament un processus dialectique que j'appelle dans le troisieme chapitre "speculation utopique." Une ... -
Early English novels imitating Don Quijote /
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Gumbo Banaha Stories: Louisiana Indigeneities and the Transnational South
(2014-05-09)Abstract Post devastation of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Louisiana has again become a popular exoticized presence in the American entertainment machine. As a result, scholarly studies have renewed interest in the historic ... -
The Holy Land in transit: Colonialism and the quest for Canaan.
(2003)Through a comparative analysis of colonialism in the New World and Holy Land with attention to how politics influence literary production, I examine the process by which settler societies transform theological narratives ... -
Holy terror: The vampire as numinous experience in British and American literature.
(2000)This dissertation investigates the experience of the numinous in a specific category of Gothic literature, which employs a vampire as the primary focus of its action, regardless of whether that figure is literal or metaphoric. ... -
The ironic vision in the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and William Faulkner /
(1983)Similarly, these authors debunk the myth of the brave new future. In a fallen, "irremediably flawed" world there is a disjunction between past and present which prevents continuity of culture, ethics, traditions, and family ... -
Language and Bodily Autonomy in Chicano Movement Periodicals, 1967-1973
(2019-12-13)Periodicals were a primary organizing tool of Chicano Movement activists from 1967-1973, serving as spaces for multilingual representation and dialogue in Mexican American communities. This thesis argues that by publishing ... -
The literary mark: Linguistic oppositions and literary analysis.
(2000)This study uses the linguistic concept of markedness as a method for analyzing literature. Because markedness is rarely used when examining literature, I spend the first part of the work explaining the concept and how it ... -
Literary transculturation in Latino United States of America: An analysis of language in the works of Tato Laviera and Robert G. Fernandez.
(2006)This dissertation studies the theory of transculturation and its application to the study of U.S. Latino literature. Specifically, I analyze Spanglish as a form of linguistic transculturation in the poetry of Tato Laviera ...