This portfolio follows the development, from conception to completion, of the original stage play The Disguise of Honor. The script subtly explores several questions including: What is honor? What is shame? Who is God? What is the core conflict between Islam and Christianity? Wh…
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This doctoral portfolio is a collection of papers and pieces of creative writing arising out of therapeutic, supervisory and training conversations and in relation to a wide range of texts. I have wanted to find ways of writing ethically so as to avoid objectifying people and ap…
Bilgi Çağında çalışma ortamında aranan nitelikler ve günümüzde önem kazanan paylaşım ekonomisi çalışma mekânlarının dönüşümünde etkili olmaktadır. Bu kapsamda alternatif çalışma yöntemleri ve ofis mekân çözümleri denenmektedir. Hızla gelişmekte olan alternatif ofis mekân çözümle…
The Starsplitters, a historical and literary fiction, highlights cultural prejudice, gender inequality, and a struggle for autonomy, absolution, and forgiveness in northern New England. A mysterious letter summons Helen Starbird and her granddaughter Laramie to a dying mill town…
This project represents a historical investigation into the political and cultural origins of America’s first and only Goddess, Columbia. The mythical figure was invented by Franklin, Jefferson, Maddison, and Washington among others and was a consideration during the founding of…
The following creative thesis contains the first 100 pages of the historical fiction novel on the life of Lady Mary Wroth, the first woman in the Early Modern Era to publish a prose poetry novel. The thesis begins and ends in the year 1651. It is here that the text delves into t…
A Nemesis on Negro Mountain takes place in 1999 in the panhandle of western Maryland. This work of fiction follows the perspective of Jay, a thirteen-year-old boy who is forcibly moved from his home in Baltimore to the fictional Crossland County, Maryland by his mother Tamika, i…
H.D. and Denise Levertov, two visionary poets of the twentieth century, represent both female poets’ awakening of political and historical consciousness and their engagement with the poetics of vulnerability and survival. H.D. and Levertov offer lyrical visions that dismantle th…
This practice-based PhD submission comprises a 100,000-word novel, Take This Message to the Infants' Ward , plus a 20,000 word exegesis, Inside Avonhurst , reflecting on the genesis, research process, and narrative shaping of the novel. Take This Message to the Infants' Ward exp…
This dissertation examined the relationships between teachers, students, and “teaching artists” (Graham, 2009) who use poetry as a vehicle for literacy learning. One popular practice is the use of “spoken word,” (Somers-Willett, 2009) a fiery brand of performative poetry popular…
The overarching theme of my thesis combines elements of magical realism with historical people, events, indigenous (Taino/Borike’n) spirituality, and folktales of Puerto Rico. Specifically, I researched, learned, wrote about, and explored the island’s dense history, political st…
Kissing Frogs in a Fallen World is a creative nonfiction memoir of my life growing up Southern Baptist. It is a themed memoir in that it is not the traditional biographical memoir, nor is it written in a linear time frame. It mixes the present with the past and ponders habituall…
My thesis is a collection of nonfiction narrative essays that explore my relationship with fear: where it comes from, how it affects me, and how to move forward in life despite its sometimes crippling effects. My thesis also takes into consideration the ramifications of inherite…
Türk edebiyatında sanatın ve estetik anlayışın tarih içinde gelişim ve değişimini gösteren önemli kaynaklardan biri olan mecmualar, genellikle mürettiplerinin şahsî zevklerine göre muhtelif şair/yazarların farklı nazım şekilleriyle kaleme aldıkları manzum-mensur metinlerin derle…
II. Abdülhamid devrine kadar İslamcılık politikası çok fazla kullanılmasa da var olduğu inkâr edilemez. Bunun en bariz örneği olarak 1774 Küçük Kaynarca Antlaşmasında Kırım’daki Müslümanların hakları konusunda görülmektedir. Balkanlarda yaşanan isyanların sonucunda İslamcılık po…
Bu çalışma, 16. yüzyıl hükümdarı, Muhibbî mahlaslı Kanuni Sultan Süleyman’ın Divan’ının 2000-2500. gazellerinin bağlamlı dizin ve işlevsel sözlük çalışmasıdır.
Bedruddîn b. Mâlik, köklü devletlerin yıkılıp yeni devletlerin kurulduğu çalkantılı bir dönemde hayatını sürdürmüştür. Bununla beraber huzur ve istikrarından dolayı ikametgahı Dımaşk, belâgat başta olmak üzere ulemâ için çekim merkezi haline gelmiştir. Kadim medeniyetlerden de e…