Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of French & Italian Studies, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 12, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4699. Adviser: Massimo Scalabrini.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2005. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0201. Adviser: Maryellen Bieder. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Nov. 30, 2006)."

"Translating Spanishness: Courtiers, Pícaros, and Gypsies at the Crossroads of Spain and Italy ca 1528-1622” examines the role of printing and translation in the formation and transformation of early modern Spanish national identities and two of its principal literary forms: the early Comedia and the inchoate Picaresque. The Spanish cortegiano’s uniformed costuming is crucial to the construction of national identities, the shape shifting pícaro undermines projected national and class hierarchies, and the Gypsy, by definition, is always transforming and translating. Within this Spanishness, the texts examined suggest a steady progress from the vision of the Spanish cortegiano to the pícaro and the Gypsy. Each in its own way is a kind of “limit case,” a test case for the project of fashioning coherent national identities. / Romance Languages and Literatures

This dissertation analyzes the depictions of writing that appear in the poetry of Juan de Tassis, Count of Villamediana (1582-1622), Francisco Manuel de Melo (1608-1666), and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695). The questions it seeks to answer are the following: Why are images allusive to writing frequently incorporated in texts belonging to specific verse modalities such as love, panegyric, epistolary and philosophical poetry? What are the thematic and social implications of a series of self-referential gestures included in verses that feature an enunciating subject who expresses individual emotion? How do these scriptural images relate to issues concerning poetic vocation and the distribution of literary material? In order to assess the fundamental importance of this motif, I investigate Melo's volume of self-edited poetry Obras Métricas, Villamediana's sonnets and his Fábula de Faetón, as well as Sor Juana's romances, the Enigmas, and the Epinicio gratulatorio. The results of my enquiry show that to write about writing in poetry foregrounds issues concerning creative autonomy, social relationships between writers, adherence to and self-perpetuation in an established literary canon in the Early Modern Iberian Peninsula, and the preservation of art. Despite having been produced in different times and locations, Villamediana's, Melo's and Sor Juana's works are indebted to Luis de Góngora y Argote's groundbreaking explorations of poetic language and display a constant meditation whose linguistic and thematic features define the burgeoning genre of lyric poetry. / Romance Languages and Literatures

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Luis Landero's Juegos de la edad tardia was published in 1989, at a time when Spain was passing through a rapid process to reach a complete democracy. After more than forty years of dictatorship, the country was taking part in Postmodernism (e.g., the cultural hedonism of the "Movida" and the creation of a new economic liberalism), having scarcely passed by the project of Modernism. The purpose of this work is to study Juegos de la edad tardia as a paradigm of its age. Located in Madrid in the mid-sixties, the novel presents the story of Gregorio Olias, who tries to accomplish his "afan" to become a poet, a man of action, a cosmopolitan adventurer. With the help of Gil, a salesman desirous of a modern hero to admire, the main character will be reborn into Faroni. After introducing the concept of intertextuality and its evolution over time, this study will emphasize the importance of the concept as the basis for the textual identity of Gregorio/Faroni. By mixing high and low culture (e.g., movies, canonical education and cultural stereotypes), Gregorio/Faroni creates a textual universe from which he can get his textual identity. By opposing this strategy of identity formation to the alienated world of Franco's Spain that surrounds him, Gregorio finally will be able to reach his "afan". Written in an age when Modernism and Postmodernism were in tension, this novel can be considered as a paradigm of the decade of the 80's. By taking Cervantes' Don Quixote as its hypotext, however, it manages to provide a certain amount of hope that the modern project against human alienation will be achieved.

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