Romance Languages and Literatures

Sous le titre sibyllin de Fiducia 2, cet ensemble d’articles portant sur les « pratiques et modèles de la confiance en littérature » a été réuni par Alison James et Emman [...]

Da sempre si è proposto che Joanot Martorell, l’autore di Tirant lo Blanc, abbia scelto la località di Adrianopoli per stabilire una somiglianza con Roger de Flor. Tut [...]

This chapter, written by Frederick A. de Armas, on Don Quixote turns to specific futurities, such as the way in which Cervantes’s visions of censorship and practice of se [...]

La España del siglo XVI suele ser vinculada con la exploración de tierras lejanas y la expansión política y militar. En las primeras décadas del siglo XVII, las auto [...]

Satire can be redefined as the comic misrepresentation of another discourse, through the misappropriation of genre. Satirical works can undermine different discourses eng [...]

This dissertation explores how four major intellectuals used fieldwork to study Brazil’s countryside and register it in writing, between the late 19th and the mid-20th [...]

This dissertation examines the cultural dimensions of contagion in the early modern Spanish empire. Drawing on printed and archival sources from sixteenth- and sevente [...]

In this dissertation, I investigate how belief embeds itself in physical experience and penetrates the rational mind, thereby distorting senses of reality. My analyses [...]

Evidence from Canada suggests that accent bias can be moderated by speakers’ demonstrated job-relevant performance and the prestige level of their occupation (Teló et [...]

In Going the Distance: The Coherence of Tradition from Petrarch to Leopardi, I examine the reception and revitalization of the Renaissance and early modern legacy during [...]

In 1997 Mexico City held its first democratic mayoral election. From the outset, the victorious left-wing administration championed the idea that the capital was now a [...]

This is a critical bibliographical survey of academic studies published in 2020, 2021, and 2022 in the area of Italian Studies.

The complex monuments associated with both historical and fictional medieval tombs are particularly notable for their ability to create an architectural place as well as [...]

In seventeenth-century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit-designed multise [...]

A pesar de su abarcadora influencia, La ciudad letrada de Ángel Rama (1984) ha sido sometida en los últimos años a una intensa crítica que ha cuestionado la relaci [...]

Landscapes of Exile examines the phenomenon of exile in Renaissance Italy using an integrated approach that analyzes the spatial practices and their effects on the litera [...]

This dissertation examines the narrative strategies that Argentine and Brazilian authors, filmmakers, and artists have used to respond to twentieth-century dictatorships. [...]

This investigation focuses on how the concept of failure works as a writing system in three cases of Latin American literary journals. Conceiving failure as a productive [...]

We analyzed the production, acceptability and online comprehension of Spanish differential object marking (DOM) by two groups of bilingual speakers living in the U.S.: he [...]

As fiction, as a work of the imagination, science fiction brings into consciousness objects, figures, and scenarios that do not yet exist. It builds whole, entire worlds [...]

This dissertation examines themes of alterity, empathy, strangeness, and neutral cruelty in four works by Marie NDiaye: Un pas de chat sauvage (2019), La Naufragée (1999 [...]

The dissertation examines the relations between literary creation and national systems of education in Spanish America, from the last decades of the 19th-century to the 1 [...]

This dissertation examines the figure of the cook and their role in the shaping of Spanish and Latin American discourses of food preparation. Drawing on Iberian and Latin [...]

This dissertation examines the ways in which slave owners sought to depict and manage the inner life of the enslaved in the two most lucrative coffee- and sugar-producing [...]

In the present study, I argue that contemporary Latin American writers have responded to the various catastrophes and apocalyptic events of the twenty-first century not o [...]