This thesis examines the symbolic use of space in the trilogy of Giorgio Bassani: Gli occhiali d'oro, Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini and Dietro la porta. / All written in the first person, the novels are part of a continuum since in each one the same narrator remembers a different event from his past. All three novels recreate events which took place prior to the Second World War; two make direct reference to the grueling period of antisemitism under the Fascist regime. / Through the spatial element we analyze the moral and psychological states of the various characters, in particular of the young Jewish protagonist who is suddenly a social outcast due to the racial persecutions. Furthermore, space in these novels reflects the emotional state of the most important character of the trilogy, the narrator, who still, after many years shows signs of unresolved issues.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 308-319). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

The following study investigates the fictional works of an early twentieth century Czechoslovakian writer named Franz Kafka. "The space of Kafka" is explored primarily through the "identity" of his characteristic monster figures and the temporally disjunctive narratives through which they travel. Monstrosity is qualified here as a principal mode of translation through which Kafka engaged the very terms of "identity" which an "individual" faces in the appearance of any "work". The intimations of a monstrous self are probed through Kafka's work in relation to human experience, intentionality, alterity and a "present" which is en-acted specifically as one form of the past. Through Kafka's paradigmatic "monster", "double" and "bachelor" figures, we find not "alternative" orientations of the "self" which contemporary literature and architecture may choose to undertake, but intrinsic re-presentations of the very relation which any self, any author, already is in the appearance of a "work".

A study of the symbolism of love and melancholy in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, an architectural treatise of the Italian Renaissance written as a dream, in which an alchemical narrative structures the shaping of an adept through the education of his cognitive faculties. This author has speculated on the representational strategies of this satyrical and literary architecture and translated into English several key passages from the hero's rhythmythical journey through a musaic architectural wonderland.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of English, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Apr. 16, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-206). Also issued in print.

Habilitationsschrift--Freie Universität, Berlin. / Bibliography: p. [242]-250.

Habilitationsschrift--Freie Universität, Berlin. / Bibliography: p. [242]-250.

Orientador: Sidney Barbosa / Banca: Renata Soares Junqueira / Banca: Márcia Zamboni Gobbi / Banca: Sandra Regina Mota Silva / Banca: Ozíris Borges Filho / Resumo: Em seus romances, Eça de Queiroz, com peculiar predileção, dirigiu seu olhar e sua atenção à capital de seu país, que lhe serviu de campo e assunto para muitas narrativas. Lisboa foi a sua preocupação de crítico, o seu mundo de escritor. Assim, o texto queiroziano trabalha notadamente a questão do espaço e, por extensão, está imerso em uma atmosfera cosmopolita, impregnada de urbanidade. Como corpus de análise foram selecionados três romances tributários ao projeto ideológico das Cenas Portuguesas: A tragédia da Rua das Flores, A Capital! (começos duma carreira) e O primo Basílio, todos escritos ao longo da década de 1870. O trabalho pretende desenvolver e explorar as possibilidades interpretativas do espaço urbano presente no texto literário, buscando relacionar os variados espaços e suas representações dentro de um contexto urbano e histórico. Esta reflexão mostra-se ainda mais interessante quando é percebida a relevância que adquirem os ambientes em que se movem as personagens queirozianas. Os lugares que frequentam, os prédios onde vivem, os objetos de que se rodeiam são extremamente significativos dentro da arquitetura narrativa. Ao mesmo tempo, as referências feitas aos nomes de ruas e às especificações de endereços brincam, a todo instante, com os limites entre realidade e ficção. Tecer as relações entre a cidade oitocentista de Lisboa, vivenciada e observada pelo escritor, e "as Lisboas literárias" de Eça, vivenciadas e observadas por suas personagens são os objetivos deste trabalho / Abstract: In his novels, Eça de Queiroz, with singular predilection, focused his view and attention over the capital of his country, which served him as field and subject to many of his narratives. Lisbon was his concern as a critic and also his writer's world. Besides his text develops remarkably the notion of space, hence, it is immerse in a cosmopolitan atmosphere, full of urbanity. Three novels were selected as corpus of analysis, all of them have in common the ideological project of Cenas Portugesas [Portuguese Scenes]: A tragédia da Rua das Flores, A Capital! (começos duma carreira) and O primo Basílio, all of them written during the decade of 1870. This work intends to develop and exploit the interpretative possibilities of the urban space present in the literary text, trying to relate different spaces and their representations within a urban and historical context. This reflection becomes even more interesting when one realizes how relevant the environments in which Eça de Queiroz's characters move are. The places they go to, the buildings they live, the objects surrounding them are extremely meaningful inside the architecture of the narrative. At the same time, the references to names of streets and the specifications of addresses play all the time within the boundaries between fiction and reality. Framing the relations between the 1800s city of Lisbon, experienced and observed by the writer, and the "literary Lisbons" of Eça, experienced and observed by his characters is the goal of this work