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- Satire of the cuckold in the work of Francisco de Quevedo.
- Creator
- Averhoff, Ida Ibis, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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The "cuckold" is the prototype of the consenting husband in Quevedo's time. He represents the hypocrisy, the vanity, and, most of all, the moral decadence of Spanish society in the 17th Century. Quevedo expresses his great disillusion with the amoral behavior of his people and, through his satire, attempts to give a lesson on morality. Quevedo was able to transfer onto his work Spanish ideas and realities, giving them a serious character as that of an ascetic or a politician, with the...
Show moreThe "cuckold" is the prototype of the consenting husband in Quevedo's time. He represents the hypocrisy, the vanity, and, most of all, the moral decadence of Spanish society in the 17th Century. Quevedo expresses his great disillusion with the amoral behavior of his people and, through his satire, attempts to give a lesson on morality. Quevedo was able to transfer onto his work Spanish ideas and realities, giving them a serious character as that of an ascetic or a politician, with the pessimistic and sarcastic tone typical of his satire. Two important and influencing factors on his work and his way of looking at life were the family and cultural environment he was exposed to and the effect of his physical defects, which he succeeded in compensating due to his energetic personality. Quevedo used conceptism as his literary style, applying his genius to the creation of metaphors, taking the Spanish language to its maximum expression as no one else had done before him.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1992
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14805
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Romance
- Format
- 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.
Show less - Date Issued
- 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
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Black woman as an erotic being in Spanish-Caribbean narrative.
- Creator
- Henry, Marlyn Fay., Florida Atlantic University, Erro-Peralta, Nora
- Abstract/Description
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Characterization of Black women as erotic beings in Spanish-Caribbean narrative has shifted significantly from 1880 to 1990. Their representation as totally submissive and erotic beings has evolved into that of socially conscious and self accepting Black women. In Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes (1882), Cecilia and Maria de la Regla are depicted as objects of male sexual desires. Diaz's Pascua in Cumboto (1948) and Asturias' Mulata de tal (1963), although eroticized, insinuate an underlying...
Show moreCharacterization of Black women as erotic beings in Spanish-Caribbean narrative has shifted significantly from 1880 to 1990. Their representation as totally submissive and erotic beings has evolved into that of socially conscious and self accepting Black women. In Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes (1882), Cecilia and Maria de la Regla are depicted as objects of male sexual desires. Diaz's Pascua in Cumboto (1948) and Asturias' Mulata de tal (1963), although eroticized, insinuate an underlying androgynous nature which makes them more assertive in their use of sexuality. However, it is contemporary women writers who dismantle the erotic stereotype: Ferre's "Cuando las mujeres quieren a los hombres" (1974) portrays a Black prostitute who, advances socially and economically. Cabrera's Nana in "La tesorera del diablo" (1971) is the bearer of ancestral knowledge and moral values, and Cartagena Portalatin's Aurora, in "La llamaban Aurora," (1978) speaks forcefully on social issues and fully accepts herself as a Black woman.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15115
- Subject Headings
- Latin American literature--History and criticism, Caribbean literature (Spanish), African American women in literature, Sex symbolism, Sex role in literature
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La dualite et la bipartition dans "Le Chevalier au Lion" et "Le Bel Inconnu".
- Creator
- Henderson, Camille., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
- Abstract/Description
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Well anchored in the romance tradition, the binary nature of the medieval text seems to lend itself to a bipartite structure. Chretien de Troyes is a master of duality. The reader has no sooner established a premise than suddenly Chretien implies its opposite. Likewise, Renaut de Beaujeu gives to his text a perpetually changing dual perspective. In both texts the hero's quest is embodied in two female characters who appear to be each other's counterpart. Like all the other characters, they...
Show moreWell anchored in the romance tradition, the binary nature of the medieval text seems to lend itself to a bipartite structure. Chretien de Troyes is a master of duality. The reader has no sooner established a premise than suddenly Chretien implies its opposite. Likewise, Renaut de Beaujeu gives to his text a perpetually changing dual perspective. In both texts the hero's quest is embodied in two female characters who appear to be each other's counterpart. Like all the other characters, they participate in the overall pattern or play of opposites in the two romances. Like the structure of the text, they can be seen as their own mirrored reflections. In these two works, the duality that characterizes the medieval text leads not only to bipartition but to the reversibility of characters and narrative plot.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1995
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15193
- Subject Headings
- Chrétien,--de Troyes,--active 12th century--Criticism and interpretation, Chrétien,--de Troyes,--active 12th century--Chevalier au lyon, Renaud,--de Beaujeu,--active 12th/13th century--Criticism and interpretation, Renaud,--de Beaujeu,--active 12th/13th century--Bel inconnu, Arthurian romances
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La transformacion de la historia y del lenguaje por Ana Lydia Vega: Representacion del puertorriqueno en sus cuentos.
- Creator
- Santiago, Aida E., Florida Atlantic University, Gosser Esquilin, Mary Ann
- Abstract/Description
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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.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1998
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15564
- Subject Headings
- Vega, Ana Lydia,--1946---Criticism and interpretation, Puerto Rican fiction--History and criticism
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La relation enigmatique du texte et des images dans "Nadja".
- Creator
- 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
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La aventura del heroe: Una aproximacion critica a "Lituma en los Andes" de Mario Vargas Llosa.
- Creator
- Barrero, Gabriela Ovando, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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Lituma en los Andes tackles the universal substance of myths, its atavistic stock of culture, prejudice and superstitions, which applied to the complex Peru uncovers taboos and reveals a political statement, whose non-fictional counterpart can be found in La utopia arcaica: Jose Maria Arguedas y las ficciones del indigenismo, by the same author. This thesis uses a mythological and archetypal approach to prove that the narration--whose underlying element are Andean myths--is structured as the...
Show moreLituma en los Andes tackles the universal substance of myths, its atavistic stock of culture, prejudice and superstitions, which applied to the complex Peru uncovers taboos and reveals a political statement, whose non-fictional counterpart can be found in La utopia arcaica: Jose Maria Arguedas y las ficciones del indigenismo, by the same author. This thesis uses a mythological and archetypal approach to prove that the narration--whose underlying element are Andean myths--is structured as the mythological adventure of a hero who must comply with the archetypal rites of passage: separation, initiation, and return. Lituma's trials lead him to a social and spiritual maturity and to discover the mysterious ancestral Peru, disdained by the more westernized Peruvians of the coast. The Andeans' fear of foreigners is represented by the myth of the pishtaco or throat-cutter, counterpart of the classical Minotaur. The encounter of the two scissioned worlds is only possible through love and friendship, in the framework of a pluralistic society, which is suggested by the novel's resolution.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15667
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Latin American
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- De la conception de l'Europe dans "La Condition Humaine" d'Andre Malraux.
- Creator
- Giner, Raymond., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
- Abstract/Description
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Although China provides the stage for most of the action of La Condition Humaine, the presence of Europe is felt throughout the text. In this ostensibly historical novel, Malraux dramatizes the tragic events that took place in Shanghai in March and April 1927: a failed coup attempt by marxist revolutionaries and the bloody scission between general Tchang-Kai-Shek's Kuomintang and the communist party. Europe is thus present in the very premises of the story, through marxism. The influence of...
Show moreAlthough China provides the stage for most of the action of La Condition Humaine, the presence of Europe is felt throughout the text. In this ostensibly historical novel, Malraux dramatizes the tragic events that took place in Shanghai in March and April 1927: a failed coup attempt by marxist revolutionaries and the bloody scission between general Tchang-Kai-Shek's Kuomintang and the communist party. Europe is thus present in the very premises of the story, through marxism. The influence of the Old Continent permeates all the characters in one way or another, even those from Asia, mainly China, who display this influence in their political, social, religious and artistic outlook or behavior. Malraux uses the characters of the story to deliver a subtle though scathing critique of Europe, in sharp contrast to the traditional, pre-World War One depiction of the continent as the center and provider of culture for the whole world. Europe was the center of the universe, the source of all solutions and explanations in all fields of endeavor, solidly established on the concepts developed since the Renaissance: rationalism, materialism, and individualism. These concepts, which also gave birth to capitalism, were all present in the European colonial system imposed on the new territories and are the object of Malraux's critique.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15729
- Subject Headings
- Malraux, André,--1901-1976--Criticism and interpretation., Malraux, André,--1901-1976.--Condition humaine., Europe--In literature.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La representacion de la aniquilacion de la creatividad artistica femenina en obras seleccionadas de Elena Poniatowska.
- Creator
- Adriazola-Rodriguez, Ana, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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The annihilation of women's artistic creativity in selected works by the Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska is a result of societal conditioning. Two short stories from Lilus Kikus and the short novel Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela portray the process of deterioration and demeaning obliteration of women's creative faculties, as they are conditioned to accept the conventional roles of wife and mother. Poniatowska's texts posit that, upon assuming these roles, the exercise of the creative artist...
Show moreThe annihilation of women's artistic creativity in selected works by the Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska is a result of societal conditioning. Two short stories from Lilus Kikus and the short novel Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela portray the process of deterioration and demeaning obliteration of women's creative faculties, as they are conditioned to accept the conventional roles of wife and mother. Poniatowska's texts posit that, upon assuming these roles, the exercise of the creative artist's use of her imagination is postponed or detrimentally transformed forever. In the selected texts, women's artistic creativity is chronicled first at its best while the characters are girls or adolescents. The neglect, procrastination, and attention to domestic and repetitive tasks as opposed to the pursuit of their creative vein is observed in the adult women characters. Poignantly portrayed is Quiela, Diego Rivera's common-law wife of ten years, who destroys her life and creative power by trying to be the perfect wife. These literary works speak forcefully to the social issues and institutions that place women artists in a bind; are the roles of artist, mother/wife incompatible?
Show less - Date Issued
- 2000
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15786
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Latin American, Women's Studies
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Le naturalisme fantastique chez Maupassant: Stylistique du "Horla".
- Creator
- Fois Assuied, Veronique C., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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Like most nineteenth-century French realists, Maupassant's interest in positivistic models of the human being, from Darwinian evolution to the new psychologies, led him to scientific readings, detailed documentations of "milieu," and contemporary subjects which he then treated with literary techniques drawn from both the realist Flaubert and the naturalist Zola. It is in extending these techniques to the fantastic, however, that Maupassant achieves an original and highly effective amalgam...
Show moreLike most nineteenth-century French realists, Maupassant's interest in positivistic models of the human being, from Darwinian evolution to the new psychologies, led him to scientific readings, detailed documentations of "milieu," and contemporary subjects which he then treated with literary techniques drawn from both the realist Flaubert and the naturalist Zola. It is in extending these techniques to the fantastic, however, that Maupassant achieves an original and highly effective amalgam best characterized as "Le Naturalisme fantastique."
Show less - Date Issued
- 2001
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12743
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Romance
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Jazz Rats October 2007.
- Creator
- Walters, Tim (Director), Jazz Rats Quintett, FAU Department of Music
- Date Issued
- 2007-10
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU344452
- Subject Headings
- Jazz Quintett, Jazz
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- FAU Symphony Orchestra - October 2007.
- Creator
- Joella, Laura, FAU Symphony Orchestra, FAU Department of Music
- Date Issued
- 2008-11
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU345731
- Subject Headings
- Symphonies
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- FAU Wind Ensemble and FAU Marching Band - October 2007.
- Creator
- Prescott, Kyle (Conductor), FAU Wind Ensemble, FAU Marching Band, FAU Department of Music
- Date Issued
- 2008-10
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU345869
- Subject Headings
- Wind ensembles, Marching bands
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- FAU Piano Faculty - October 2007.
- Creator
- FAU Department of Music, Coltman, Heather (Piano), Kofman, Irena (Piano), Kover, Krisztina (Piano), Louise-Turgeon, Anne (Piano), Treer, Leonid (Piano), Turgeon, Edward (Piano)
- Date Issued
- 2007-10
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU345917
- Subject Headings
- Piano music
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- "Rosas de Pulp... Rosas de Cal", The Music of Valdo Sciammarella - October 2007.
- Creator
- Coltman, Heather (Piano), McNaron, Diane (Soprano), FAU Department of Music
- Date Issued
- 2007-10
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU352244
- Subject Headings
- Piano, Voice
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- Jazz Rats Big Band - November 2007.
- Creator
- Walters, Tim (Director), Jazz Rats Big Band, FAU Department of Music
- Date Issued
- 2007-11
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU355752
- Subject Headings
- Jazz, Big band music
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- Recital by Alison Weiner (Piano) - November 2007.
- Creator
- Weiner, Alison (Piano), FAU Department of Music
- Date Issued
- 2007-11
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU356314
- Subject Headings
- Piano music, Jazz ensembles
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- Recital by Idil Ogut (Violin) with Amy Lim (Piano) – November 2007.
- Creator
- Ogut, Idil (Violin), Lim, Amy (Piano), FAU Department of Music
- Date Issued
- 2007-11
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU358141
- Subject Headings
- Violin music, Piano music
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- Florida Woodwind Quintet and the Azure String Quartet - November 2007.
- Creator
- Florida Woodwind Quintet, Azure String Quartet, FAU Department of Music, Prescott, Kyle (Conductor)
- Date Issued
- 2007-11
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU358157
- Subject Headings
- Woodwind quintets, String quartets
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- FAU Jazz Band - November 2007.
- Creator
- Bonsanti, Neil (Director), FAU Jazz Combo, FAU Jazz Band, FAU Department of Music
- Date Issued
- 2007-11
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU358404
- Subject Headings
- Jazz Band, Jazz Combo
- Format
- Set of related objects