Johann Sebastian Bach’s Ciaconna from the Partita No. 2 in D minor (BWV 1004) was originally written for solo violin without bass as part of a collection of six sonatas and partitas. The Ciaconna has unique demands on a flutist: embouchure flexibility, breathing technique, tone …
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My dissertation examines Kant's and Rawls's theories of the moral development of individuals within structured political communities. I reconstruct Kant's under-studied account of the emergence of reason I show how this account fits with his broader view of humankind's rational …
Since the turn of the twenty-first century there has been a small but significant number of operas written by Thai composers or those who identify as being Thai. Most of these Thai operas are based on Thai mythology or histories. The majority of the librettos are in English, wit…
Taylor, Amanda A., Transatlantic Triangulations: Genre and Traumatic Memory in the Novels of Alejandro Zambra and Esmeralda Santiago. Master of Arts (MA), May, 2021, 53 pp., 50 references.
In the wake of an ever-expanding global network, attention is often focused on cultural intersections and juxtapositions set in motion by financial or technological interests. Relying on frameworks that place people and societies into binary (e.g., oppressed and oppressor, influ…
Prison Forms: Genre and Excarceral Politics in Victorian Literature focuses on popular nineteenth-century literature that engages with criminal justice topics that were timely in their era and continue unresolved in the twenty-first century. I read literary and periodical texts …
Located at the intersection of literary, journalistic, and socio-historical discourses, “Writing Scenes and Telling Time” looks at diaristic texts in Post-War German Literature through the lens of news reporting and mass media. Since the 1970s, diaristic texts in German emerged …
Genres exist to organize and homogenize musical works into definable categories. With a knowledge of genre, musicians, audiences, and general listeners develop an understanding of musical concepts based on the similarities and differences between categorized works. This provides…
Composing music for worship in the twenty-first century is intriguing in that there are so many traditions, styles, genres and forms to draw on for inspiration. Even modern idioms (such as Contemporary Christian Music) have a history and tradition that one may study and emulate.…
“On Occasion: American Poetry at the Margins of the Wage, 1865-1973” shows how poets writing in the U.S. from the mid-nineteenth century to today have reimagined the poetic occasion—the real or imagined event that sanctions the poet to write a poem and that sets the parameters f…
George Elliott Clarke’s ongoing, multi-volume epic, Canticles I, engages canonical and minority racial narratives in order to create a discursive space for (re)presentations of voice. As an epic, Canticles I utilizes many of its traditional structural markers; however, it largel…
This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of the lesbian fiction of Sarah Waters and it will demonstrate through a series of theoretical trajectories how her work creates new historical and cultural spaces for the representation of working-‐ class female same-‐sex desire. Wate…
My dissertation focuses on one of the most prominent genres of historical writing in imperial China (221 BCE -1912 CE): biography. The life stories of figures from different social strata were compiled into the largest section of many Chinese dynastic histories: the “Arrayed Tra…
This dissertation examines the genre of the author-published familiar letter to consider the ways in which people come to understand themselves as part of a public, and as actors who might affect the shape of that public. Chapter 1, on Alexander Pope’s Mr. Pope’s Literary Corres…
This thesis consists of a manuscript of original Creative Nonfiction essays and a critical forward that makes a case for the use of Zines in secondary language arts pedagogy. The foreword situates Zines as self-published, counter-culture magazines that utilize materiality in ord…
In January 1770, the Académie Royale de Musique—more colloquially known as the Paris Opéra—inaugurated its theatre, having lost its original home to a fire in 1762. This new theatre, the first in Paris built specifically for operatic productions, would also meet a fiery end just…
The Crisis of Scale in Contemporary Fiction studies how globalization has transformed our relationship with scale and creates a problem of representation in fiction. After the Second World War, new geopolitical, economic, cultural, and technological developments radically change…
Since the new millennium, major Anglophone authors, including Colson Whitehead, Max Brooks, Sandra Newman, Lionel Shriver, Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Chris Beckett, Omar El Akkad and Christopher Brown have popularised post-apocalyptic genre fiction. This popularity appea…
Mass suburbanization efforts in the United States after 1945 fundamentally changed the spaces in which Americans lived, as well as the popular genre novels they read. In order to manage the anxieties created by suburbia’s emergent regimes of space, genre fiction imagined worlds …
