The goal of this thesis is to demonstrate the need for a modified methodology for determining chiastic structures in biblical Hebrew texts. A brief survey of critical studies that investigate the presence of chiastic structures in various biblical passages shows both the lack of…
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Atlantis Corbijn is a novel intended for an eleven to fourteen-year-old audience. It begins when twelve-year-old Atlantis's parents join a fanatical cult in northern Georgia in order to escape financial difficulties. Atlantis resists the rigid conformity, sexism, and strange bel…
Communication plays an important role in the nation-building practices of developing nations. This dissertation argues that public relations, as a tool to build relationships between previously unrelated social systems or as a tool to modify existing relationships between organi…
“Pax Christi: Romans as Protrepsis to Live as Kings” is an interdisciplinary study of Paul's Letter to the Romans that reads the whole anew as a [special characters omitted]. For over a century, protrepsis has been defined almost univocally as a philosophic exhortation to take u…
This textual analysis of the film Not Without My Daughter examines the discourse of empire contained within this movie. Specifically, I analyze representations of Islam, Arab people, and blackness within the context of the traditional literary elements of narration as presented …
The text unfolds in a series of episodes, chapters, narratives, as the narrator/persona confronts the various narratives in which he/she is embedded and searches for meaning between or above a world of contradiction--the desperation of the search invites incoherence and a failur…
Identite et difference: deux principes ontologiques dont la confrontation interdiscursive, qualitative et quantitative, hante presque tous les etres topologiques de la litterature marocaine d'ecriture francaise. Au coeur meme de cette matrice discursive et poetique s'inscrit la …
When seen in all of its richness and complexity, the women's petition campaign to end slavery from 1831 to 1866 emerges as one of the great political and rhetorical crusades in American history. The hundreds of thousands of signatures on petitions sent by women played a crucial …
A shortcoming of the study of Hebrew laments in today's biblical scholarship is the common neglect of emotional elements conveyed in those laments. Emotional elements are crucial because they are the primary driving forces that cause one to lament. The neglect of these emotional…
Chaim Perelman's rhetorical theory, as outlined in his major works, The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation and The Realm of Rhetoric, is grounded in his conception of argumentation as a “non-formal” or “practical” discourse that correlates to Aristotle's concept of dialec…
This project works to disassemble a tragedy into its parts, both in terms of stagecraft & composition by staging the biography of The Dowager Empress Cixi as an exhibition. This is a text written in lieu of a physical exhibition that could not happen, in preparation for one that…
The creative submission for my dissertation includes two of my documentary works: They Will Take My Island, a thirty-minute multimedia collaboration with filmmaker Atom Egoyan for amplified string octet, electronic track, and film, commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art;…
The objective of this portfolio is to develop a system of notation and compose neoliturgical music featuring the handpan. Until this point, no means of written communication has been in place to express advanced handpan techniques in printed sheet music. My process in researchin…
This treatise is about the Filipino composer Col. Antonino Buenaventura and his 1969 Viola Sonata. It discusses the Sonata’s importance in the Philippines’ search for a distinctive national identity. It also offers information on how to perform the Viola Sonata and suggested bow…
Book of Birds is a composition for flute and electronics inspired by birds. Throughout human history, artists have developed stories and music about the natural world around them. In this piece, Book of Birds, I am adding to this vast repertoire of folk stories with some of my o…
Issues of motivation remain a perennial topic among teachers of English Language Arts and first-year college composition courses. While modern evidence-based research in educational psychology has yielded fruitful avenues for harnessing motivation in writing instruction, in rece…
The technique of partimento developed in eighteenth-century Italy with the purpose of instructing students in improvisation, composition and general musical knowledge. Partimenti took the notational form of a single staff wherein a variety of clef changes could be employed. With…
Nibiru is an eight-minute piece for chamber orchestra, scored for flute (piccolo), oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, harp, percussion, two violins, two violas, two celli and double bass. It is a sonic portrayal of a hypothetically existing
The Doctoral Performance and Research submitted by Mary Mixter, under the direction of Laura Schwendinger at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Musical Arts consists of the following: I. Written Project“Southwest …