A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral-and personal-form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its qualities of subjectivity, volatil…
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A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral-and personal-form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its qualities of subjectivity, volatil…
The project examines how German- and English-speaking translators of selected Maigret novels by the Belgian crime writer Georges Simenon have dealt with cultural and linguistic specificity, with a view to shedding light on how culture and language translate. Following a survey o…
This thesis provides the first extensive queer reading of a 'Golden Age' British detective fiction writer. The aim of this thesis is to assess queer potential in texts published by Agatha Christie between 1920 and 1952. Human identity can be read as self-consciously constructed …
The police have a literary history. By the Book canvasses a broad range American novels that depicted many of the organizational developments and institutional operations of municipal law enforcement in United States cities from the late-nineteenth through the early-twentieth ce…
After extensive study of the Ottoman Empire, one notes that the historiography focuses on events from the perspective of the sultan and/or the elites. This should come as no surprise as this has historically been the case. However, I felt an urge to know more about the lives and…
This study draws on a historical perspective on the evolution of a certain form that I call the "Istanbul canon," in which the city has always been associated with loss. Tracing the genealogy of loss in the literary representations of Istanbul by both western and local writers i…
The birth of the detective genre in the early nineteenth century was propitiated by the modern discourses of classification, empiricism and order; the new sciences of sociology, psychology and forensic medicine; and industrial capitalism. The defining element of the Hispanic det…