My dissertation argues that lyric is best defined as an indirection of voice rather than the subjective experience of a persona. Following Paul de Man, …
This dissertation explores the ways in which three modernist poets—William Butler Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Wallace Stevens—used elements of poetic form, such as rhythm, …
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 …
Questioning the idea of Origin in Brazilian literary history, this essay proposes a substitutive historiographical methodology, based on Nietzsche's and Foucault's, genealogy. The notion of …
This article analyzes the modern ‘crónica’ as a register of everyday social interactions in Rio de Janeiro. It considers the cróníca's relationship with contemporary history …
This dissertation retraces the early history and features of what the Byzantines, in hagiographical contexts, called metaphrasis. Literally translated as paraphrase, metaphrasis is a form …
This project provides a new way to describe and compare Paul's letters to facilitate nuanced comparison with texts and authors not typically used as comparanda. …
This article argues that Raduan Nassar, in the text ‘Um copo de cólera,’ mixes the vestiges of values previously reserved for Brazilian regional literature (land, …
To use Fausto’s metaphors, the absence of any “forma” grounded in, or grounding, the intrinsic nature of things entails a situation in which all—mind, matter, …
My work examines the ways in which modernist lyric poems activate specific ways of thinking through their formal and thematic engagements with time. One particularly …
This dissertation addresses a conceptual form of negativity in the literature, film, and criticism of the United States during the period just following World War …
