Mira de Amescua (1867), drama escrito en tres actos y en verso, original de José de Velilla y Rodríguez, tiene por protagonista al distinguido poeta homónimo: un soltero maduro y marcado por el amor hacia una condesa, de la que fue paje durante su juventud, y por la que, debido a su inferior condición social, había sido menospreciado. Así, el drama de Velilla demuestra la penumbra en la que permaneció, durante más de dos siglos, la figura de uno de los principales ingenios del siglo XVII. Celebrado en vida por las principales figuras de su tiempo –como lo fueron Lope, Cervantes y Calderón– Antonio Mira de Amescua llegó al siglo XX convertido en un poeta menor y relegado (adscrito, a veces, como satélite del prolífico Lope; otras, como del fulgurante Calderón) para conseguir, a finales de dicho siglo, la rehabilitación que tanto urgía a su figura y obra, gracias a los esfuerzos de estudiosos de distintas partes del mundo. Quizá el mismo don Antonio hubiese entendido la arbitrariedad de estos reveses, pues la fortuna voltaria fue uno de los temas recurrentes de sus comedias. Asimismo, si la conjetura sobre el retrato (un clérigo de unos treinta años, amante de los libros y preocupado por el paso del tiempo), guardado en la Hispanic Society of America en Nueva York, se llegase a comprobar, contaríamos ya con una viva imagen de este genio. A pesar de esto, nuestro conocimiento de su obra no se acerca al nivel del que gozan, actualmente, varios de sus contemporáneos, incluso dejando de lado a los más relevantes de ellos (Lope, Tirso y Calderón).

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La presencia del gracioso es muy acostumbrada en las comedias hagiográficas del Siglo de Oro. No obstante, si bien esta figura pertenece a una tradición dramática, constituiría un grave error generalizar sus características y roles. El propósito de esta investigación es estudiar a Bodigo, el gracioso de Santa Rosa del Perú (1671), mostrar sus límites y explicar por qué fracasa en el camino espiritual. El método de nuestra investigación es de tipo descriptivo. Por una parte, hemos buscado examinar y contrastar el comportamiento de Bodigo con el de la santa; y, por otra, pretendemos demostrar que si nuestro personaje no alcanza la santidad es por su falta de vida cristocéntrica y por sus rasgos mundanos. Para nuestro estudio, hemos recurrido a la edición comentada de Miguel Zugasti, que ofrece amplia información de la obra desde una perspectiva filológica, y a otras fuentes históricas, teológicas y literarias. Los resultados muestran que la participación de Bodigo en la comedia es significativa, pues mediante él se le advierte al espectador de la importancia de cultivar su fe con rigurosidad.

Tableau d'honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2007-2008. / The present thesis seeks to define the role played by the Metaphysical conceit in the formulation of John Donne's vision of a unified cosmos. The conceit is here regarded as an element of style that probes into the nature of relationships, as well as a unifying element in Donne's works that enables him to translate into verse the intangible ties that bind a man to other human beings and to the Divine so as to render an abstract reality more apprehensible to the mind. To him, the individual self is indeed defined almost exclusively in terms of the manner in which it relates to other human beings, to the divine, or to the political and religious institutions that regulate his society. In most of the works scrutinized in the present thesis, Donne is in fact concerned with the representation of an ideal of communion that involves the dissolution of the individual self into a greater whole. In the works analyzed in the present thesis, Donne almost invariably formulates this ideal in terms of the relationship that unites body and soul in an individual, which he conceives as a reflection of the way in which the material and the spiritual interact in the universe. In his exploration of the ties that bind human beings together and to the Divine, the Metaphysical conceit is vital to the expression of his ideal of interrelatedness. This thesis therefore focuses on the way in which the conceit, as a literary device that compares relationships, reinforces his vision of a unified cosmos. / Ce mémoire a pour but d'explorer l'utilisation que le poète anglais John Donne fait d'une figure de style appelée « Metaphysical conceit » dans sa description des relations entre individus ainsi qu'entre l'homme et le divin. L'intention de ce mémoire est de faire émerger le caractère unificateur de la «Metaphysical conceit» dans l'œuvre de Donne. En effet, cette figure de style permet à cet auteur de traduire en langage poétique les liens intangibles qui unissent les êtres humains les uns aux autres ainsi qu'à Dieu dans le but précis de rendre plus tangible une réalité abstraite. Pour Donne, l'être humain se définit presque exclusivement à travers les rapports qui l'unissent à ses semblables, à Dieu, ou aux institutions politiques et religieuses qui gouvernent la société au sein de laquelle il évolue. Dans la plupart des oeuvres analysés dans ce mémoire, Donne tente d'exprimer sa vision d'un idéal qui implique la dissolution de l'être dans un tout beaucoup plus vaste. Il illustre cet idéal à travers la formulation d'une image, celle de la relation qui unit le corps à l'âme chez l'homme, qui reflète en soi l'interaction qui allie le matériel au divin dans l'univers. L'étude des œuvres de prose et de poésie de Donne révèle le rôle prépondérant joué par la « Metaphysical conceit » dans la formulation de son idéal de communion. Par conséquent, l'objet de ce mémoire est l'étude de la manière dont la « Metaphysical conceit » renforce la vision qu'avait Donne de l'univers comme d'un tout uni.

Renaissance and Baroque drama offers a view into gender dynamics of the time. What is seen is a development in the allowed expression and manifestation of desire by females, beginning from a point of near silence, and arriving at points of verbal statement and even physical violence. Specifically, in La Mandragola by Niccolò Machiavelli, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega, there appears a chronological progression, whereby using desire and its expression as a metric in conjunction with modern concepts of gender and sexuality to measure a shift in relation to what is and is not allowed to be expressed by women. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

[Truncated abstract] In this thesis I examine the poetics of Thomas Traherne’s often over-looked Christology through a reading of The Kingdom of God. This work, probably written in the early 1670s, was not discovered until 1997, and not published until 2005. To date, no extended studies of the work have been published. It is my argument that Traherne develops an expansive and energetic poetic expressive of the theme of the ‘Cosmic Christ’ in which Christ is understood to be the source, the sustaining life, cohesive bond, and redemptive goal, of the universe, and his body to encompass all things. While the term ‘Cosmic Christ’ is largely of 20th century origin, its application to Traherne is defended on the grounds that it describes not so much a modern theology, as an ancient theology rediscovered in the context of an expanding cosmology. Cosmic Christology lies, according to Joseph Sittler,“tightly enfolded in the Church’s innermost heart and memory,” and its unfolding in Traherne’s Kingdom of God is accomplished through the knitting together of an essentially Patristic and Pauline Christology with the discoveries and speculations of seventeenth century science: from the infinity of the universe to the workings of atoms. … The thesis concludes with a distillation of Traherne’s Christic poetic The Word Incarnate. The terms put forward by Cosmic Christology are used to explicate Traherne’s intrepid poetic. In his most remarkable passages, Traherne employs language not only as a rhetorical tool at the service of theological reasoning, but to directly body forth his sense of Christ at the centre of world and self. He promises to “rend the Vail” and to reveal “the secrets of the most holy place.” Scorning more “Timorous Spirits,” he undertakes to communicate and “consider it all.”

This dissertation examines the role of "acceptable" feminine violence in Restoration and eighteenth-century drama and fiction. Scenes such as Lady Davers's physical assault on Pamela in Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) have understandably troubled recent scholars of gender and literature. But critics, for the most part, have been more inclined to discuss women as victims of violence than as agents of violence. I argue that women in the Restoration and eighteenth century often used violence in order to maintain social boundaries, particularly sexual and economic ones, and that writers of the period drew upon this tradition of acceptable feminine violence in order to create the figure of the violent woman as a necessary agent of social control. One such figure is Violenta, the heroine of Delarivier Manley's novella The Wife's Resentment (1720), who murders and dismembers her bigamous husband. At her trial, Violenta is condemned to death "notwithstanding the Pity of the People" and "the Intercession of the Ladies," who believe that although the "unexampled Cruelty [Violenta] committed afterwards on the dead Body" was excessive, the murder itself is not inexcusable given her husband's bigamy. My research draws upon diverse archival materials, such as conduct manuals, criminal biographies, and legal records, in order to provide a contextual grounding for the interpretation of literary works by women. Moving between contemporary accounts of feminine violence and discussions of pertinent literary works by Eliza Haywood, Susanna Centlivre, Delarivier Manley, Aphra Behn, Mary Pix, and Jane Wiseman, the dissertation examines issues of interpersonal violence and communal violence committed by women.

The reception of the Huguenot poet Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas' Semaines (1578, 1584 et seq.) is an important episode in early modern literary history for understanding relations between Scottish, English and French literature, interactions between contemporary reading and writing practices, and developments in divine poetry. This thesis surveys translations (Part I), allusions and quotations in prose (Part II) and verse imitations (Part III) from the period when English translations of the Semaines were being printed in order to identify historical trends in how readers absorbed and adapted the poems. Early translations show that the Semaines quickly acquired political and diplomatic affiliations, particularly at the Jacobean Scottish Court, which persisted in subsequent decades (Chapter 1). William Scott's treatise The Model of Poesy (c. 1599) and translations indicate how attractive the Semaines' combination of humanist learning and sacred rhetoric was, but the poems' potential appeal was only realized once Josuah Sylvester's Devine Weeks (1605 et seq.) finally made the complete work available in English (Chapter 2). Different communities of readers developed in early modern England and Scotland once this edition became available (Chapter 3), and we can observe how individuals marked, copied out, quoted and appropriated passages from their copies of the poems in ways dependent on textual and authorial circumstances (Chapter 4). The Semaines, both in French and in Sylvester's translation, were used as a stylistic model in late-Elizabethan playtexts and Zachary Boyd's Zions Flowers (Chapter 5), and inspired Jacobean poems that help us to assess Du Bartas' influence on early modern poetry (Chapter 6). The great variety of responses to the Semaines demonstrates new ways that intertextuality was a constituent feature of vernacular religious literature that was being read and written in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain.

Tesis para optar al grado de Mag?ster en Ling??stica menci?n Lengua Espa?ola / La tesis que a continuaci?n expongo ofrece un establecimiento cr?tico de la lectura de la Cr?nica de Jer?nimo de Vivar, ling??sticamente anotada y prologada. En ella doy cuenta de una visi?n descriptiva y anal?tica, no exhaustiva, de sus principales rasgos fon?ticos, morfol?gicos y sint?cticos. El estudio filol?gico-ling??stico se realiza sobre la base de una completa transcripci?n paleogr?fica de la obra, con el prop?sito de obtener un documento lo m?s fiel al original. Para ello, se contrastaron dos transcripciones de la misma: una de Leopoldo S?ez-Godoy (Coloquium Verlag, Berl?n, 1979) y otra realizada por el profesor Manuel Contreras Seitz. El estudio filol?gico, que se efectu? con la Cr?nica de Vivar, tuvo como modelos las ediciones cr?ticas realizadas por los profesores Ferreccio y Kordic en sus descripciones ling??sticas, dejando de lado la moderaci?n fonografem?tica y los aspectos literarios y referenciales por lo extenso que resultar?a un trabajo de este tipo. Para el estudio netamente ling??stico, realic? la revisi?n de la Historia del Espa?ol de Am?rica de Juan Antonio Frago, la Historia de la Lengua Espa?ola de Rafael Lapesa y la Gram?tica Hist?rica Espa?ola de Vicente Garc?a de Diego, con el fin de identificar los principales rasgos idiom?ticos meridionales presentes en la obra de Vivar; y, establec?, por contraste, los rasgos caracter?sticos del centro norte espa?ol (Burgos, lugar hipot?tico de nacimiento del autor) presentes en la Cr?nica, tomando como base fuentes sobre el espa?ol peninsular como las obras ya citadas de Lapesa y Garc?a de Diego.

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