Pleasant T. Rowland designed The American Girls Collection with the goal of providing a line of toys and books to "enrich the lives of American girls by fostering pride in traditions of growing up female in America and celebrating the lifestyle of girls today." However, American…
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Bu çalışma Yunan yönetmen Theodoros Angelopoulos'un filmlerinde kolektif bellek biçimlerini çözümlemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Kolektif bellek, bireyin hatırlama ve unutma dinamiklerinin dâhil olduğu gruplarla ilişkili olarak şekillendiğini belirtmektedir. Sinema kolektif bellek çerçev…
This dissertation examines gift books in the context of the social, literary, and print landscape of the antebellum United States, contending that the books are key sites for examining the intersection of commercial, political, and sentimental interests. While gift books frequen…
Works belonging to a specific astronomical genre of the pre-modern Islamic world called hayʾa often include a section called hayʾat al-arḍ. This section discusses the physical and geographical characteristics of the Earth as a physical, spherical body located at the center of th…
With special focus on the Arabic figures Zulima and Ginnistan in Henry d'Ofterdingen (Hd'O 1802), who reveal the path of the Golden Age, the following study investigates the Islamic Orient in Novalis's writing and its relation to his utopian project of founding a new poetic and …
Araştırmanın amacı işletme yönetim yaklaşımlarının yarattığı bireysel, toplumsal ve kurumsal değişim ve kavramların 20. Yüzyıl Amerikan tiyatro metinlerindeki etkisini gözlemleyerek bu metinler üzerinden işletme ile ilgili temalar çerçevesinde tarihsel bir perspektif sunmaktır. …
Klinik kütüphanecilik kavramı her ne kadar 1970'li yıllara uzansa da kanıta dayalı tıp kütüphaneciliği 90 yıllarda ortaya çıkmıştır. Kanıta dayalı tıp kütüphaneciliği kanıta dayalı tıbbın gereksinimi olarak günümüzde halen araştırma konusudur. Bu çalışmanın temel amacı, kanıta d…
Bu tez içerisinde genel olarak popüler sinemadaki cinsel şiddet uygulamalarında kadının duyduğu zevkin anlamı açıklanmıştır. Bu varsayımın gerçekliğini göstermek için feminist ve psikolojik film kuramları kullanılmıştır. Tez içerisinde kadının cinsel saldırı esnasındaki duyduğu …
The Ethiopian tradition of manuscript production, despite being the longest-lived in the Christian world, is one of the most understudied. This dissertation, based in part upon a series of field reviews conducted with scribes and manuscript craftsmen in the Ethiopian highlands b…
This project combines political history, social history and memory to convey a perspective of the war through the eyes of the people of Central Vietnam who participated in the urban movement of the Vietnamese Revolution. It is intended to address conspicuous gaps within the hist…
My interdisciplinary dissertation seeks to reevaluate the ethics that are implicit in the way that wenarrate, or rather fail to narrate, experiences of mass or systemic violence, and the effect that such a failure wields on literature and contemporary political and social discou…
A massive transition of land ownership is currently underway in the U.S. as an increasing proportion of farmers near retirement age with no successor in place. The question of who will replace them has come to the fore as policy makers and food justice activists alike contemplat…
My dissertation studies the connections between music and exile in three sets of literary works by Thomas Mann, Eugenio Montale, and Czesław Miłosz. Although rarely compared together, these three writers approach the theme of exile similarly. They share a polyphonic style that j…
Effective preaching is at the core of what many congregations expect from pastoral leadership and, for many pastors, a defining part of their calling and identity. Despite the critical nature of preaching to pastoral ministry and pastoral identity, however, many pastors do not f…
La presente investigación tiene como objetivo vincular con el desarrollo histórico de la etología contemporánea los debates anticartesianos que se llevaron a cabo en Francia los primeros cincuenta años del siglo XVIII. Dicha vinculación se hará por medio del estudio histórico de…
The San Francisco Gold Rush yielded an unusually intense and fast-moving convergence, within a relatively small geographical space, of an immensely diverse population. Each new arrival brought new social, cultural, political, religious, and musical influences, which in turn yiel…
When Danish composer Per Nørgård discovered the visually arresting sketches of the schizophrenic Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli in 1979, he felt as though his vision of an “ideal world” had been challenged and thus became completely engrossed in the life and works of Wölfli. Nørgård’…
This thesis will examine nineteenth-century women and their primary role in the cultural formation of frontier sentimentalism. White, middle class women primarily moved west with their husbands and families, initially to the Midwest in the early nineteenth century, and were cont…
My artwork provides opportunities for the viewer to think about and engage with representations of scales of space and time that are beyond what we typically consider useful in everyday life. The understanding of these scales, however, is essential in comprehending the vast hist…