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La rhetorique du desir dans la "Delie" de Maurice Sceve. (French text);
(1989)
This dissertation examines the relation between a rhetoric of desire and the context in which it was produced. Unlike previous work mainly focused on form, this study shows that the subjectivity of the Delie and its ...
Melancholic Nation: The Affective Culture of Spanish Nationalism.
(2010)
This work analyzes the reproduction and cultural figurations of modern Spanish Nationalism, from a cultural perspective, in order understand the embedded connections between the concept of the nation, politics and culture ...
The Writing of Oral History: Studs Terkel's "Working" and "Hard Times".
(1987)
Terkel's books have informed the conceptions of a wide audience about the nature of real talk in written form. This study looks at the written representation of speech events in these books and the process that produced ...
Framed: The Interior Woman Artist-Observer in Modernity.
(2009)
Beginning in fin-de-siécle London and closing with the aged modernism of New York in the 1930s, my project examines the spatial and social possibilities engendered through modernist versions of a pervasive figure in Western ...
Linguistic Analysis of Latvian Death and Burial Folk Songs.
(1981)
This dissertation is a descriptive analysis of Latvian folk song text-building strategies in general, and those of Latvian death and burial folk songs in particular. The chapter begins with an overall review of the creation, ...
Kairos: A Cultural History of Time in the Greek Polis.
(2009)
The history of Greek timekeeping, although it has often been viewed as an aspect of the history of science, has strong social aspects. This dissertation seeks to elucidate the social functions of timekeeping as conducted ...
The Lyrical Subject in the Poetry of Peter Huchel.
(1980)
Peter Huchel's poetry has been ignored in the DDR and overshadowed in the West by interest in other East German poets. Although his poems have been dealt with in a number of shorter articles, there are few extensive studies ...