This dissertation studies the philosophical implications and formal repercussions of melancholy in Spanish poetry at the turn of the seventeenth century, along with the constructions …
This dissertation analyzes the relationship between fathers and daughters in seventeenth-century Spanish theater. While scholarship has examined female characters in their role as daughters in …
“Foundational Futures” is a comparative study of nationhood as conceived by Indigenous nations and Latinx communities. It follows storytelling traditions among Latinx and Indigenous authors …
My dissertation explores intersections between literary practice and alchemical discourse in the frame of economic crisis in seventeenth-century Spain. Spaniards in the period wielded alchemy …
Artists were among the many cultural and political pilgrims who traveled or expatriated from the United States to Mexico after its Revolution (c. 1910-1920) in …
The poem “Grandeza mexicana” (1604) by Bernardo de Balbuena (c. 1562-1627) is one of the main components of the pantheon of cultural artifacts that defines …
While scholars have examined at length the critical problems of humor and violence in Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, rarely have they considered the workings …
In sacramental confession, writes Michel Foucault in "The History of Sexuality", “one confesses, or one is forced to confess. When it is not spontaneous or …
My dissertation examines the representation of paranoia in the work of several writers active in Argentina in the first half of the twentieth century. I …
