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 …
The dissertation examines the representations of catastrophe that emerge in Mexico City following the devastating 1985 earthquake and the upheaval of the nineties. The study …
George Ticknor (1791-1871) was an instrumental figure in establishing a scholarly reputation for the United States in the early to mid nineteenth century. His writings …
The exchanges between literature and the visual arts are a growing topic of interest in the panorama of contemporary Latin American literature. This thesis examines …
RESUMEN: Cuando Sabrina, una estudiante americana de una universidad prestigiosa, se empareja para trabajar con Javi, un guapo bombero madrileño afectado por un TOC homosexual, …
Latin American historiographic metafiction is presently enjoying prominence as the object of unprecedented market success and renewed critical attention. Much has been made in recent …
Jorge Luis Borges' participation in the Spanish literary vanguard of the 1920s constitutes a formative and prolific segment of his career, largely underappreciated within the …
“Codes of Silence” studies contemporary literature and film that responds to the internal armed conflict between guerrilla groups, paramilitaries, and the state in Colombia throughout …
Taking Peru’s Internal Armed Conflict (~1980-2000) and its many “struggles of voice” (Lucero 2008) as case study, the present dissertation looks to examine the literary …
While scholars have examined at length the so-called "Celestina Cycle," or works inspired by La Celestina, they have not compared the parallel reception of this …
El lacayo fingido (1599-1603) is a highly entertaining comedia palatina cómica, that is, a comedy of noble and royal protagonists situated at a geographic or …
The dissertation explores how the disaster and its representations are closely linked to figures of madness and deviant sexuality in contemporary Chilean texts. I argue …
This thesis examines the language of six poets from the Southern Cone and Peru, in the context of a post-dictatorial predicament characterized by the unresolved …
The Return of the Contemporary seeks to frame debates about the semantics of our present through a hemispheric analysis of Latin American and Caribbean literature …
I examine Javier Marías's later novels' temporal structures and narrative techniques, relating them to Henri Bergson's and Martin Heidegger's thought. This interdisciplinary approach aims to …
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 …
This dissertation examines the representation of migrant subjects in the United States by a group of contemporary Latin American novelists: Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia, b. …
Este ensayo presenta una lectura espacial de la posición tanto física como social conferida al “Otro” norteafricano en cinco películas españolas, cuyos años de estreno …
My dissertation explores how historical narrative has become central to contemporary Peruvian literature, analyzing its function and significance in political, cultural, and literary debates on …
