"The secular, pluralist culture of the West encourages a subjective approach to spiritual truth where stimulating emotional experiences, such as those provided by film, can contribute to personal conceptions of the sacred. Examining Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)…
This thesis studies how Paraguayan literature about the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870), written in the 1920s, addresses both historical trauma and revisionism by reacting to the prevailing liberal historiography of the war. The thesis analyzes war narratives by three dif…
Shortly before his death in 2001, W.G. Sebald made what amounts to a mission statement for his literary endeavors under the title "Ein Versuch der Restitution. (An Attempt at Restitution). In this brief address, Sebald maintains that his work can be seen as an attempt to make am…
Cellular telephone technology was adopted in the so-called developing countries more quickly and passionately than in developed countries. This was true in a developing Turkey. Cellular telephony in contemporary Turkey defines a social practice, collective attachment and even an…
This thesis traces the re-conceptualisation of melancholia as a biomedical mental disease in Victorian medicine, with an emphasis on the uptake of physiology into British psychological medicine. Language appropriated from experimental physiology allowed physicians to speak about…
Conceptualizations of depression, this dissertation will demonstrate, are invariably structured by ontological presuppositions that constitute and define boundaries between individual and social, internal and external, body and mind, selfness and exterior, normal and pathologica…
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by Tacchi, Mary Jane, Scott, Jan, Witkowska, Joanna, Bielawska-Batorowicz, Eleonora