Inspired by a desire to foreground under-researched women Romantics of the German tradition, I perform careful close readings of a constellation of authors (Bettine von …
This dissertation investigates the relationship between learning how to speak and learning how to die, between the discovery of eloquence and the experience of death. …
Morris Karp Leopardi and the Symbol of the Renaissance: Poetry beyond Measurement Dissertation Abstract Chapter 1 The Conversation on the Renaissance at the Gabinetto Vieusseux …
This dissertation proposes the concept of a 'maternal education' as counterpart to both the established genre of the 'Bildungsroman' and the Freudian narrative of a …
Photo-Poetics brings together the study of photography and poetry that works in and theorizes the documentary mode. It intervenes in the genre of documentary poetry, …
The purpose of this dissertation is to reevaluate the relationship between the aesthetics we call Romantic and the abstracting scientific procedures that have been underappreciated …
This dissertation offers a reevaluation of the Synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) and a hypothetical document thought to be common to Matthew and Luke, …
My dissertation re-examines the role of literature in the nation building process of Brazil and Argentina via contemporary debates on the relationship between aesthetics and …
This dissertation examines the post-Enlightenment concept of aesthetic universalism as it figures in British art and literature of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. During the …