Emilie Mayer (1812-1883) was a prolific composer whose musical works, which encompassed eight symphonies, four overtures, an opera, dozens of sonatas, eight string quartets, solo piano works, and nearly 130 songs for solo voice or vocal quartet, were performed in the foremost co…
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"Confident and authoritative, Well-Written and balanced, provocative and controversial: this is an excellent book, a call to arms and action, that all shapers and readers of literary canons should study with care."--David T. Gies University of Virginia" "What is canon and why do…
In this dissertation, I explore the unique musical interests of Victor Herbert’s Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 30 (1894) with the intent to promote the piece from its ‘fringe’ repertory status. The research presented synthesizes historical information, traditional analysis, and mate…
In the nearly 60 years since Doctor Who first aired in 1963, fandom and fan practices have not only evolved, but moved into the mainstream culture. Collecting and preserving information, and creating melodramatic fanfiction that explores the emotions of the characters, are now c…
This dissertation focuses on reactions to the French canon in four Francophone novels. The study examines the use of allusions to, quotations from, and parallels with French canonical works in an effort to determine how these canonical works are mobilized in the creation of a ne…
This dissertation asserts that within the canonical shape of the Psalter are footprints of the postexilic Israelite community which shaped it into its final form. Using James Sanders's method of canonical criticism, I explore the process by which the community selected, appropri…
The Petition to `Umar (commonly, the Covenant of `Umar) is a legal code that in classic Islamic texts frequently serves as a model for treatment of non-Muslim subjects (dhimmis ). Western scholars have focused on the text as the paradigm of medieval dhimmi law. A. S. Tritton and…