Thesis--Zürich. / Curriculum vitae. "Abkürzungen und benutzte werke": p. [vii]-xii.

Thèse--Upsala. / "Bibliographie": p. 277-294.

Thèse--Paris. / "Liste des ouvrages linguistiques": p. [3]-13.

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)."

This thesis argues that seventeenth-century English prose romances are motivated by anxieties over truth-telling and the ethical practice of deception. From the title of MacKenzie's 'Aretina: A Serious Romance' (1660), I take the collocation 'serious romance' to refer to the philosophically and politically engaged prose romances of the seventeenth century. Following Amelia Zurcher's work on the concept of 'interest' in 'serious romance', this thesis examines a separate but related aspect of the genre's moral philosophical engagement: its investigation of the ethics of dissimulation. By dissimulation, I mean the art of lying by concealment. Dissimulating techniques include controversial rhetorical tools such as equivocation and mental reservation, but dissimulation is also implicated in laudable virtues such as prudence and discretion. The thesis traces arguments about the ethical practice of dissimulation and other types of lie through English prose romances from Sidney's 'Arcadia' (1590) to Orrery's 'Parthenissa' (1651-69) to suggest that seventeenth-century romances increasingly espoused theories of 'honest dissimulation' and came to champion the theory of the 'right to lie'. The thesis examines a range of works which have hitherto received scant critical attention, notably Roger Boyle's 'Parthenissa' (1651-69), Percy Herbert's 'The Princess Cloria' (1652-61), the anonymous 'Theophania' (1655) and 'Eliana' (1661) and John Bulteel's 'Birinthea' (1664), alongside better studied romances such as Sidney's 'Arcadia' (1590), Wroth's 'Urania' (1621) and Barclay's 'Argenis' (1621). It situates readings of these original English romances within the context of the French romances of D'Urfé, Scudéry and La Calprenède, as well as within the context of contemporary moral philosophy.

"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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