This thesis explores the construction of homelands through space, movement, and time in Kim Lefèvre’s Retour à la saison des pluies (1990) and René Philoctète’s Le Peuple des terres mêlées (1989). Retour à la saison des ...

Published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, Don Quijote is perhaps one of the most heavily studied, reviewed, and interpreted novels of all time. This thesis attempts a unique study, however, by interpreting the novel through ...

In this thesis, I argue that a post-9/11 Hollywood blockbuster--John Favreau's Iron Man (2008)--and a series of 1988 television spots advocating the reelection of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet engage in parallel ...

The traumatic experience itself resists any logical and regular characterization. As such, the representation of these traumatic events through film, literature, or photography threatens their authenticity and objectivity. ...

In this thesis, I examine how three literary texts—Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quijote (1615), Miguel de Unamuno’s Niebla [Mist] (1914), and Jorge Luis Borges’s “El Zahir” (1949)—problematize the possibility of a stable, ...

The Sirens first appear in Book XII of Homer's Odyssey, and from this episode has emerged a tradition of the dangerously seductive and powerful feminine singing voice. In this essay, I argue that the Sirenic tradition can ...