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- Un negro para la nacion: Raza e identidad nacional en las obras de Alejo Carpentier y Jacques Roumain.
- Creator
- Tucker, Walteria C., Florida Atlantic University, Duno-Gottberg, Luis
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This study questions the representation of the "black subject" in Alejo Carpentier's ¡Ecue Yamba O! (1933) and Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosee (1944), in order to discuss the mechanisms of inclusion and/or "cooptation" employed by the liberal-marxist elite in their nationalist/anticolonial efforts. During the time period in which these two works were written, the ideological, economic and political interventionism of the United States inspired various movements or artistic...
Show moreThis study questions the representation of the "black subject" in Alejo Carpentier's ¡Ecue Yamba O! (1933) and Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosee (1944), in order to discuss the mechanisms of inclusion and/or "cooptation" employed by the liberal-marxist elite in their nationalist/anticolonial efforts. During the time period in which these two works were written, the ideological, economic and political interventionism of the United States inspired various movements or artistic resistence against "yankee" power in the Caribbean. My study shows how Carpentier and Roumain incorporate the "black subject" in their narratives tin order to generate a national identity to be used as an weapon against U.S. influence in their countries. I also analyze how the characterizations of these "black subjects" in ¡Ecue Yamba O! and Gouverneurs de la rosee, function within the Cuban and Haitian nationalist ideologies of the time period.
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- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13404
- Subject Headings
- Roumain, Jacques,--1907-1944--Criticism and interpretation, Carpentier, Alejo,--1904-1980--Criticism and interpretation, Blacks in literature, Race awareness in literature, Blacks--Haiti--Race identity, Blacks--Cuba--Race identity, Negritude (Literary movement)
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- Document (PDF)
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- Miradas transatlanticas del rebelde: Una reinterpretacion de Lope de Aguirre a traves de las cronicas y de Ia novela del exilio de Ramon J. Sender.
- Creator
- Tellez Espiga, Enrique, Horswell, Michael J., Florida Atlantic University
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The chroniclers who accompanied Lope de Aguirre on his expedition to find "EI Dorado," accuse him of being a "crazy" tyrant, responsible for the rebellion to emancipate the conquerors from the Spanish crown. Aguirre was made a scapegoat, in Girard ian terms, not only for that reason but due to his critique of what Angel Rama defined as the "Lettered City," a rebuke voiced in the infamous letter he wrote to the Spanish king denouncing imperial institutions in the Americas. 20th century,...
Show moreThe chroniclers who accompanied Lope de Aguirre on his expedition to find "EI Dorado," accuse him of being a "crazy" tyrant, responsible for the rebellion to emancipate the conquerors from the Spanish crown. Aguirre was made a scapegoat, in Girard ian terms, not only for that reason but due to his critique of what Angel Rama defined as the "Lettered City," a rebuke voiced in the infamous letter he wrote to the Spanish king denouncing imperial institutions in the Americas. 20th century, Spanish writer Ramon J. Sender's novel, La aventura equinoccial de Lope de Aguirre (1964), reverses the historical discourse in order to use Aguirre's attack on the "Lettered City," to criticize the intellectuals who supported Franco's regime in Spain, as well as the Catholic Church. This thesis's critical reading of the source chronicles on which Sender based his novel leads to a more profound understanding of both the early modem imperial and the modem fascist violence unleashed, not only by supposed "tyrants-scapegoats" the likes of Aguirre, but by power itself: that of monarchies and dictators.
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- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000969
- Subject Headings
- Aguirre, Lope de,--d 1651--History and criticism, Sender, Ramón José,--1901-1982--Criticism and interpretation, Sender, Ramón José,--1901-1982--Aventura equinoccial de Lope de Aguirre--Criticism and interpretation, Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939, Violence--Religious aspects--Christianity
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- Title
- La relation enigmatique du texte et des images dans "Nadja".
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- Sutton, Anne Claude., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
- Abstract/Description
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The reading of Nadja may seem effortless at first, given that the novel's two hundred pages include fifty pages of illustrations. These pictures are of two kinds, photographs and drawings. Breton's different expressive modes, verbal and graphic, combine two opposite worlds, the written reference to the real Parisian places and the surreal sphere depicted in the avant-garde portraits and drawings. One of the primary surrealist technique is to mix different elements, such as illusion, the...
Show moreThe reading of Nadja may seem effortless at first, given that the novel's two hundred pages include fifty pages of illustrations. These pictures are of two kinds, photographs and drawings. Breton's different expressive modes, verbal and graphic, combine two opposite worlds, the written reference to the real Parisian places and the surreal sphere depicted in the avant-garde portraits and drawings. One of the primary surrealist technique is to mix different elements, such as illusion, the fantastic, and the dream in order to create a new world, free of any banal reality or logic to transport the reader out of mundane time-space. Therefore, the readers' problem is to determine whether these pictures are a graphic enhancement supplementing the verbal text, or on the contrary, a disjunctive element added to disturb the reader and to confuse the understanding of the verbal text with graphic enigmas.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1998
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15604
- Subject Headings
- Breton, André,--1896-1966--Nadja--Illustrations, Breton, André,--1896-1966--Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
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- Courtisanes et modeles: Representations de la femme juive dans la litterature francaise du dix-neuvieme siecle.
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- Silverstein, David., Florida Atlantic University, Munson, Marcella L.
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The realist authors of nineteenth-century France consistently represent the Jewish woman as the epitome of beauty and intelligence. While glorifying her image, this representation betrays a complex system of social and gender bias. By examining selected works of Balzac, the freres Goncourt, and Maupassant, a nuanced transformation can be traced in the representation of the Jewish woman. As a literary figure negotiating a social system that emphasizes her religious identity, she is celebrated,...
Show moreThe realist authors of nineteenth-century France consistently represent the Jewish woman as the epitome of beauty and intelligence. While glorifying her image, this representation betrays a complex system of social and gender bias. By examining selected works of Balzac, the freres Goncourt, and Maupassant, a nuanced transformation can be traced in the representation of the Jewish woman. As a literary figure negotiating a social system that emphasizes her religious identity, she is celebrated, vilified, and ultimately transformed into a heroine by virtue of her courage rather than her physical attributes.
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- 2004
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13157
- Subject Headings
- Jewish women--France--History--19th century, France--Ethnic relations, French literature--19th century--History and criticism, Jewish women in literature, Antisemitism--France--19th century, Artists' models in literature
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- Document (PDF)
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- UNA EXPLICACION LITERARIA DE DOS POSTURAS POLITICAS CONTRADICTORIAS EN LA OBRA DE RAMON DEL VALLE-INCLAN. (SPANISH TEXT).
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- SERRANO, ELIVIO O., Florida Atlantic University, Rangel, Vicente H.
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The main force that directed the course of Valle-Inclan's literary work was his spiritualism. This spiritualism, the essence of Valle-Inclan's Carlism, led to a desire on his part to transcend the senses and chronological time, and found expression in his art, guiding the evolution of his aesthetics from the Sonatas to the Esperpento, permeating his traditionalism as well as his radicalism, and manifesting itself in the mystical-aesthetic perspective expounded in La lampara maravillosa. Valle...
Show moreThe main force that directed the course of Valle-Inclan's literary work was his spiritualism. This spiritualism, the essence of Valle-Inclan's Carlism, led to a desire on his part to transcend the senses and chronological time, and found expression in his art, guiding the evolution of his aesthetics from the Sonatas to the Esperpento, permeating his traditionalism as well as his radicalism, and manifesting itself in the mystical-aesthetic perspective expounded in La lampara maravillosa. Valle-Inclan parallels the process of spiritual life substituting the divine intervention that characterizes the mystical phenomenon with artificial means, namely, the use of marihuana. The perspective that he obtains through this process offers a grotesque, radical vision of Spanish reality; to better reflect this bitter reality, Valle-Inclan created the technique of the Esperpento. This approach seeks to clarify the confusion among critics dealing with this writer's contradictory political postures.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1977
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13847
- Subject Headings
- Valle-Inclán, Ramón del,--1866-1936--Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
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- La transformacion de la historia y del lenguaje por Ana Lydia Vega: Representacion del puertorriqueno en sus cuentos.
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- Santiago, Aida E., Florida Atlantic University, Gosser Esquilin, Mary Ann
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Through careful selection of historical events and linguistic transformations, Ana Lydia Vega, born in 1946, tries to capture the essence of a diverse array of Puerto Rican figures. She bases her fiction on historical facts, cultural aspects, and linguistic peculiarities. Her writing blends these three aspects; however, the use of the unique Puerto Rican verbal expression is the foremost tool of her conceptualization. Because of the attention to detail, her work has become focal in...
Show moreThrough careful selection of historical events and linguistic transformations, Ana Lydia Vega, born in 1946, tries to capture the essence of a diverse array of Puerto Rican figures. She bases her fiction on historical facts, cultural aspects, and linguistic peculiarities. Her writing blends these three aspects; however, the use of the unique Puerto Rican verbal expression is the foremost tool of her conceptualization. Because of the attention to detail, her work has become focal in contemporary Puerto Rican studies. Her work is marked by the constant use of humor even though the daily lives of her characters are marked by the tragedy of Puerto Rican historical search for identity. This study examines four of her stories "Letra para salsa y tres soneos por encargo," "Puerto Rican Syndrome o cosas extranas veredes," "Sobre tumbas y heroes (folletin de caballeria boricua)" y "El regreso del heroe." Her transformation of history, with its political connotations, and of culture through the fine articulation of colloquial Puerto Rican Spanish constitute the focus of this study.
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- 1998
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15564
- Subject Headings
- Vega, Ana Lydia,--1946---Criticism and interpretation, Puerto Rican fiction--History and criticism
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- Document (PDF)
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- El estado, el bandido y La Violencia en Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazabal.
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- Rojas, Maria Eugenia., Florida Atlantic University, Duno-Gottberg, Luis
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The period of Colombian history known as La Violencia (The Violence 1948-1963) was characterized by widespread terror and crime. Liberals and Conservatives faced off in a battle to win control over the state, more specifically, to achieve hegemony. Peasants and urban dwellers were in the middle of such confrontation. And eventually, were co-opted by the rhetoric of each fraction, thereby becoming murderers, victims, or both. Colombian writer Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazabal recreated this time in...
Show moreThe period of Colombian history known as La Violencia (The Violence 1948-1963) was characterized by widespread terror and crime. Liberals and Conservatives faced off in a battle to win control over the state, more specifically, to achieve hegemony. Peasants and urban dwellers were in the middle of such confrontation. And eventually, were co-opted by the rhetoric of each fraction, thereby becoming murderers, victims, or both. Colombian writer Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazabal recreated this time in two of his novels, Condores no entierran todos los dias y El ultimo gamonal. His historical narrative accounts the events and succeeds in recreating the languages and practices of La Violencia. This study will address these themes and explain how Gardeazabal portrays the role of the conservative State and its connections with criminal practices.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13403
- Subject Headings
- Álvarez Gardeazábal, Gustavo--Criticism and interpretation, Colombia--Politics and government--1946-1974, Violence--Colombia--History--20th century
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Estudio Semantico de los Neologismos Introducidos en la Lengua Castellana por el Rey Alfonso X en la Cuarta y Quinta Partida de su Libro Las Siete Partidas.
- Creator
- Revilla, Maria G., Arango, D., Florida Atlantic University
- Date Issued
- 1970
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000955
- Subject Headings
- Alfonso--X,--King of Castile and Leon,--1221-1284, Siete partidas (Spanish law code), Spanish language--To 1500, Spanish language--Semantics, Historical
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- Document (PDF)
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- ?Una nacion afro-ecuatoriana? Un estudio de "Juyungo" y "El ultimo rio" de Adalberto Ortiz y Nelson Estupinan Bass.
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- Ramirez, Cyntia A., Florida Atlantic University, Horswell, Michael J.
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Ecuador is characterized by its variety of ethnic groups, including mestizos, Indians and African descendents that have formed a rich heritage of multiple cultures. Whereas much attention has been given to indigenous and indigenista literature, there is a large gap in Ecuador's literary criticism on its afro-Ecuadorian literature. This thesis examines two afro-Ecuadorian novels, Juyungo (1942) and El ultimo rio (1966). I explore the social and economic environment in which afro-Ecuadorians...
Show moreEcuador is characterized by its variety of ethnic groups, including mestizos, Indians and African descendents that have formed a rich heritage of multiple cultures. Whereas much attention has been given to indigenous and indigenista literature, there is a large gap in Ecuador's literary criticism on its afro-Ecuadorian literature. This thesis examines two afro-Ecuadorian novels, Juyungo (1942) and El ultimo rio (1966). I explore the social and economic environment in which afro-Ecuadorians had to live during the beginning of the 20 th century. Whereas Ecuador's contemporary racial ideology and the social construction of the individual dates from the colonial times, the authors of these afro-Ecuadorian novels contest that discrimination and racism and propose a radically different conception of the nation, one more inclusive of its diverse cultures.
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- 2004
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13149
- Subject Headings
- Ecuadorian literature--Criticism and interpretation, Ecuador--20th century--Social aspects, Ecuador--20th century--Economic aspects, Spanish American literature--Black authors, Ortiz, Adalberto--Juynungo, Estupiñán Bass, Nelson--El ultimo río, Multiculturalism--Ecuador
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- Document (PDF)
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- The role of the writers in the Ballets Russes.
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- Pionzio, Martine Francoise., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
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In histories of European Modernism, it is almost axiomatic that the first performance of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris in 1910 was an aesthetic watershed, culminating earlier experiments by Symbolists and Cubists and forecasting later Modernists' radical syntheses of French arts and literature. Yet the role of French writers in the productions of the Ballets Russes has been neglected by literary critics and historians. Nijinski's choreography of L'Apres-midi d'un Faune stands as...
Show moreIn histories of European Modernism, it is almost axiomatic that the first performance of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris in 1910 was an aesthetic watershed, culminating earlier experiments by Symbolists and Cubists and forecasting later Modernists' radical syntheses of French arts and literature. Yet the role of French writers in the productions of the Ballets Russes has been neglected by literary critics and historians. Nijinski's choreography of L'Apres-midi d'un Faune stands as the theatrical culmination of Mallarme's poetic. The ballets Sheherazade and The Rite of Spring find a counterpart in the literary work of their admirer Proust, and Cocteau's achievement with the Ballets Russes in Parade serves as apprenticeship for his own later literary work while pointing the way to Surrealism and other avant-garde movements in France.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2000
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12722
- Subject Headings
- Ballets russes--History, French literature--20th century
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- L' Epouse adultere dans les "Lais" de Marie de France.
- Creator
- Piguet, Therese E., Florida Atlantic University, Durling, Nancy Vine
- Abstract/Description
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L'analyse du comportement de la femme adultere et l'etude des consequences de sa conduite permettent une interpretation en coherence avec les idees du prologue general de l'oeuvre. La dame, dans les poemes, appartient bien au monde reel de la societe aristocratique du XIIe siecle. Malgre la presence de signes de compassion pour les epouses "mal mariees," Marie condamne l'adultere feminin, la conduite deraisonnable de l'epouse et son manque de "mesure." Elle signale les dangers de certains...
Show moreL'analyse du comportement de la femme adultere et l'etude des consequences de sa conduite permettent une interpretation en coherence avec les idees du prologue general de l'oeuvre. La dame, dans les poemes, appartient bien au monde reel de la societe aristocratique du XIIe siecle. Malgre la presence de signes de compassion pour les epouses "mal mariees," Marie condamne l'adultere feminin, la conduite deraisonnable de l'epouse et son manque de "mesure." Elle signale les dangers de certains usages de la fin'amors et rappelle discretement aux epouses infideles les risques de peine de mort qu'elles encourent. La poetesse reste fidele a une ethique religieuse vis-a-vis du mariage, de la fin'amors et de l'adultere. Elle idealise l'epouse du XIIe siecle en la personne de Guideluec, qu'elle presente a bon escient dans le lai final de son oeuvre.
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- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15005
- Subject Headings
- Marie,--de France,--12th cent--Lais, Lays--History and criticism, Courtly love in literature, Marie,--de France,--12th cent--Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La representation narrative des classes subalternes chez Zola et Dickens.
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- Philome, Dieufene R., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
- Abstract/Description
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Although both Zola and Dickens represent the precarious situation of the lower classes of society (workers, miners, and peasants), and that representation is similarly constructed at the level of both characters and narrative, Zola's characters engage in an active endeavor to change their social conditions while those of Dickens are more resigned to their circumstances, and are rather oriented toward individual moral accomplishment. The tones of the discourse of the characters, closely...
Show moreAlthough both Zola and Dickens represent the precarious situation of the lower classes of society (workers, miners, and peasants), and that representation is similarly constructed at the level of both characters and narrative, Zola's characters engage in an active endeavor to change their social conditions while those of Dickens are more resigned to their circumstances, and are rather oriented toward individual moral accomplishment. The tones of the discourse of the characters, closely reflects the implicit political posture of the narrators, in Zola's Germinal and La Terre, and in Dickens's Hard Times and Our Mutual Friend . Both writers oppose social injustice, while leaving the reader toward differential solutions, politico-economic in Zola and socio-moralistic in Dickens.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2003
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13009
- Subject Headings
- Zola, Emile,--1840-1902--Criticism and interpretation, Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation, Social classes in literature
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La transformacion de Ia bruja en las obras de Maria de Zayas.
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- Petersen, Elizabeth Marie, Gamboa, Yolanda, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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In my thesis, I argue that the 1 ih -century Spanish writer, Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor, in a unique form of 'mimesis,' uses elements of magic to transform the popular concept of the Spanish witch. Drawing on theories from Jacques Lacan's mirror phase, Homi Bhabha and Barbara Fuchs's notion of mimesis, and Judith Butler's idea of gender performitivity, I demonstrate how Zayas frees the witch from the subjugated language constructed by the Catholic Church and society of her time. I examine six...
Show moreIn my thesis, I argue that the 1 ih -century Spanish writer, Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor, in a unique form of 'mimesis,' uses elements of magic to transform the popular concept of the Spanish witch. Drawing on theories from Jacques Lacan's mirror phase, Homi Bhabha and Barbara Fuchs's notion of mimesis, and Judith Butler's idea of gender performitivity, I demonstrate how Zayas frees the witch from the subjugated language constructed by the Catholic Church and society of her time. I examine six of the short stories in her two novels to show how the author alters the role of the witch associated with the devil, transforming her to a saint associated with "lo magico de los cielos, " assigning the diabolical role to the man.
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- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000948
- Subject Headings
- Zayas y Sotomayor, María de,--1590-1650--Criticism and interpretation, Mimesis in literature, Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--Criticism and interpretation, Postmodernism (LIterature), Witches--Fiction
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- Document (PDF)
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- LES TRIPEDES DE LA TRILOGIE: ETUDE DE L'HOMME AU BATON CHEZ BECKETT. (FRENCH TEXT).
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- PERRU, JEAN-PHILIPPE., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
- Abstract/Description
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Critics of Beckett's trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) have long puzzled over the profusion of bilabials in the characters' names: Molloy, Moran, Malone, Macmann. They all share a common initial. "Les Tripedes de la Trilogie" attempts to offer yet another interpretation: with its three bases, the letter M suggests in the context of the trilogy a man and his stick, reminiscent to Beckett of the three-legged "animal" in the riddle of the Sphinx. The omnipresent stick, in both its...
Show moreCritics of Beckett's trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) have long puzzled over the profusion of bilabials in the characters' names: Molloy, Moran, Malone, Macmann. They all share a common initial. "Les Tripedes de la Trilogie" attempts to offer yet another interpretation: with its three bases, the letter M suggests in the context of the trilogy a man and his stick, reminiscent to Beckett of the three-legged "animal" in the riddle of the Sphinx. The omnipresent stick, in both its physical and symbolic functions, is shown to be the crucial instrument keeping the unstable Beckettian creatures briefly upright in their "struggle for life." As an extension of the body, it allows them to fight and to survive. As a cylindrical rod, it acquires metaphysical associations with divine or supernatural power.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1986
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14293
- Subject Headings
- Beckett, Samuel,--1906---Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Le moi et l'autre dans Robinson Crusoe de Daniel Defoe et Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique de Michel Tournier.
- Creator
- Peric, Milica., Florida Atlantic University, Munson, Marcella L.
- Abstract/Description
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Daniel Defoe's seminal novel Robinson Crusoe reflects major philosophical currents of the Enlightenment and brings them to bear on diverse issues: scientific advances, new economic models, British colonialization, the relation of the Other to the self. But if Robinson Crusoe presents Friday as Other who fulfills a crucial role by helping Robinson as narrating subject successfully complete the journey of self-knowledge, Michel Tournier's postmodern revision, Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique...
Show moreDaniel Defoe's seminal novel Robinson Crusoe reflects major philosophical currents of the Enlightenment and brings them to bear on diverse issues: scientific advances, new economic models, British colonialization, the relation of the Other to the self. But if Robinson Crusoe presents Friday as Other who fulfills a crucial role by helping Robinson as narrating subject successfully complete the journey of self-knowledge, Michel Tournier's postmodern revision, Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique , has a quite different teleological aim. Through constantly shifting narrative and theoretical perspectives Vendredi undertakes a forceful critique of key aspects of the Western tradition which Robinson Crusoe confidently hailed: Lockean and Cartesian reasoning, traditional framing dichotomies central to the Western tradition (Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel), modern conceptions of the thinking subject. Vendredi ultimately suggests the inability of the postmodern subject to know itself while simultaneously critiquing those Western traditions whose perspectives are founded on hegemonic globalization.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2003
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13097
- Subject Headings
- Defoe, Daniel,--1661?-1731--Robinson Crusoe, Tournier, Michel--Vendredi, ou, Les limbes du Pacifique, Self (Philosophy) in literature
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La Satire Comme Critique Sociale Chez Balzac.
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- Paramonova, Galina, Hokenson, Jan W., Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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As one of the founders of the realist novel, Balzac is praised for having invented returning characters and interwoven chronologies that serve to challenge the decadent social mores of his time, but critical discussions of Balzacs's work continue to neglect his use of satire in social criticism. Different modes of satire occure in his LePere Goriot (1835), Le Bat de Sceaux (1829), Gobseck (1830), La Maison Nucingen (1837), Le Depute dArcis (1847), and La Femme abandonnee (1822), which...
Show moreAs one of the founders of the realist novel, Balzac is praised for having invented returning characters and interwoven chronologies that serve to challenge the decadent social mores of his time, but critical discussions of Balzacs's work continue to neglect his use of satire in social criticism. Different modes of satire occure in his LePere Goriot (1835), Le Bat de Sceaux (1829), Gobseck (1830), La Maison Nucingen (1837), Le Depute dArcis (1847), and La Femme abandonnee (1822), which together attest that Balzac achieves his ambition to become both the Rabelais and the Moliere of his era.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000947
- Subject Headings
- Balzac, Honoré de,--1799-1850--Criticism and interpretation, Social history in literature, Satire, French--History and criticism, Criticism--France--19th century
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- Document (PDF)
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- Tejidos arquitectonicos: exploraciones de la dimimica entre el individuo y la ciudad en "Walking Around" de Pablo Neruda y Aura de Carlos Fuentes.
- Creator
- Palacio Paret, Alfredo, Erro-Peralta, Nora, Florida Atlantic University
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Silas Weir Mitchell in 1872 defined as "phantom limb" the sensation and feelings of anxiety, confusion and even pain the amputee receives from an absent body part. By extending this concept and applying it to the architectural imagery within literature, it is possible to observe the dynamics between the characters and their structural environment. This thesis explores the relation between spatial structure and identity in two Latin American works: "Walking Around" (1933) by Pablo Neruda and...
Show moreSilas Weir Mitchell in 1872 defined as "phantom limb" the sensation and feelings of anxiety, confusion and even pain the amputee receives from an absent body part. By extending this concept and applying it to the architectural imagery within literature, it is possible to observe the dynamics between the characters and their structural environment. This thesis explores the relation between spatial structure and identity in two Latin American works: "Walking Around" (1933) by Pablo Neruda and Aura (1962) by Carlos Fuentes. Both authors introduce architecture as an intrinsic element in the construction of their narrative; Neruda's poetic voice wanders around a seemingly living city, while Fuentes's characters abandon the city to become part of a house. The architectural imagery of both texts leads the reader to explore the construction of its literary subjects and to see the physical space as their "phantom limbs." This reading will elucidate the importance of architecture within Latin American literature as well as reveal the maneuvering of the structural representations in the construction of the Latin America identity.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000946
- Subject Headings
- Fuentes, Carlos--Aura--Criticism and interpretation, Neruda, Pablo,--1904-1973--Walking around--Criticism and interpretation, Architecture--Human factors, Symbolism in literature, Postmodernism (Literature), Imagery (Psychology) in literature
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- MANIFESTACIONES AMBIENTALES Y LITERARIAS DEL EROTISM EN "CIEN ANOS DE SOLEDAD." (SPANISH TEXT) (GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, COLOMBIA).
- Creator
- OSSORIO, BIANCA., Florida Atlantic University, Rangel, Vicente H.
- Abstract/Description
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Esta tesis es el estudio del amor en la novela Cien anos de soledad del autor Gabriel Garcia Marquez, estudio compuesto de los siguientes capltulos: I) El autor y su obra; II) Incidencias de la realidad socioeconomica, III) Particularidades del tropico y de las costas latinoamericanas; IV) El erotismo a la luz del psicoanalisis; V) Influencia surrealista; VI) Las multiples caras del amor, y los personajes; VII) La soledad y el amor. Siguiendo la biografia del escritor en el primer capltulo,...
Show moreEsta tesis es el estudio del amor en la novela Cien anos de soledad del autor Gabriel Garcia Marquez, estudio compuesto de los siguientes capltulos: I) El autor y su obra; II) Incidencias de la realidad socioeconomica, III) Particularidades del tropico y de las costas latinoamericanas; IV) El erotismo a la luz del psicoanalisis; V) Influencia surrealista; VI) Las multiples caras del amor, y los personajes; VII) La soledad y el amor. Siguiendo la biografia del escritor en el primer capltulo, el segundo y tercero enfatizan los factores ambientales que influencian el amor. El cuarto y quinto analizan el amor de acuerdo con las teorias psicoanaliticas y la modalidad literaria del surrealismo. El sexto y septimo complementan el tema y conducen a La conclusion de que el despliegue de erotismo que revela la obra, es--contrario a lo que parece--un mensaje moralizador de su autor.
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- 1971
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13461
- Subject Headings
- García Márquez, Gabriel,--1927-2014--Cien años de soledad, Love in literature
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- Document (PDF)
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- Exotisme et alterite dans les oeuvres de Pierre Loti et de Victor Segalen.
- Creator
- Montonen, Jane M., Florida Atlantic University, Munson, Marcella L.
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At the turn of the twentieth century when French imperialism is on the rise, the writers and naval officers Pierre Loti and Victor Segalen represent otherness in their literary work in different and even antagonistic ways. Loti, who became famous early in his lifetime, depicts exotic lands and his vision of the Other in an impressionist, sentimentalist, and sometimes-ethnocentric way while Segalen proposes to redefine exoticism polluted by colonial discourse. Segalen recognizes the uniqueness...
Show moreAt the turn of the twentieth century when French imperialism is on the rise, the writers and naval officers Pierre Loti and Victor Segalen represent otherness in their literary work in different and even antagonistic ways. Loti, who became famous early in his lifetime, depicts exotic lands and his vision of the Other in an impressionist, sentimentalist, and sometimes-ethnocentric way while Segalen proposes to redefine exoticism polluted by colonial discourse. Segalen recognizes the uniqueness of foreign cultures and innovate in giving a voice to the Other. In spite of the differences between the two authors, it has not been emphasized enough their mutual attraction for the past and imaginary civilizations, their opposition to the assimilation of foreign cultures into European culture, and their blindness toward colonial ideology.
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- 2005
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13295
- Subject Headings
- Exoticism in literature., Difference (Psychology) in literature., Loti, Pierre,--1850-1923--Criticism and interpretation., Segalen, Victor,--1878-1919--Criticism and interpretation.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The representation of the courtesan in Balzac's "La Cousine Bette", Flaubert's "L'education Sentimentale" and Zola's "Nana".
- Creator
- Monawar, Christelle M., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
- Abstract/Description
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Unlike the courtesan of romantic fiction, depicted as a sentimental and pitiful victim of social mores, the courtesan of French realism is rendered through the eyes of the nineteenth-century male bourgeois as a commodity to be consumed. Her body is objectified and fetishized, just as is her milieu of pleasure designed as legitimate compensation for the social delimitation of sexuality to reproduction. Through different direct and indirect narrative modes, Balzac as well as Flaubert and Zola...
Show moreUnlike the courtesan of romantic fiction, depicted as a sentimental and pitiful victim of social mores, the courtesan of French realism is rendered through the eyes of the nineteenth-century male bourgeois as a commodity to be consumed. Her body is objectified and fetishized, just as is her milieu of pleasure designed as legitimate compensation for the social delimitation of sexuality to reproduction. Through different direct and indirect narrative modes, Balzac as well as Flaubert and Zola often dehumanize, even demonize the courtesan for her power over male senses, overtly rendering her a scapegoat for society's decaying values and an open threat to patriarchal control over financial patrimony, the family, and the church.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2003
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12984
- Subject Headings
- Balzac, Honoré de,--1799-1850--Cousine Bette, Flaubert, Gustave,--1821-1880--Education sentimentale, Zola, Emile,--1840-1902--Nana, Courtesans in literature
- Format
- Document (PDF)