Loss - The Politics of Mourning
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This dissertation is part history, part analysis. It surveys prima facie historical antecedents to our current clinical concept of depression—a chapter each on acedia, tristitia, noche oscura, melancholia, and Tungsindighed. The analytic portion compares and contrasts each histo…
In this dissertation, I trace the processes through which contemporary Turkish classical music is heard as a genre of melancholy, analyzing how the hearing of melancholic music naturalizes social identities. I approach Turkish classical music texts, contexts, and practices as cr…
This thesis aims to shed light on the cultural and aesthetic implications of the relationship between Italy and India on and off the screens of Italy, following the expansion of Bollywood in Europe during the 90s. Bollywood's propagation abroad affected the identity of the South…
In this book, I aim to take a fresh look from a sociological perspective at both earlier assumptions and current issues about death and dying. Specifically, the major source of my theoretical perspective is symbolic interactionism. By examining the thoughts, feelings, and action…
"In this book, I aim to take a fresh look from a sociological perspective at both earlier assumptions and current issues about death and dying. Specifically, the major source of my theoretical perspective is symbolic interactionism. By examining the thoughts, feelings, and actio…
The first publication of a major new voice of the American Theatre.
Wim Wenders creates films that make a virtue of cinema`s encounter with reality, insisting that cinema`s referential quality imbues it with a unique relationship to our encounter with the world over and against other art forms. This idea frequently serves as a point of departure…
This study considers a group of distinctly modernist philosophers for whom aesthetic and reflective practices represented a way out of the paralysis of a culture dominated by narrowly conceived philosophical values. These modernist philosophers, I argue, helped to give birth to …
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…
This dissertation explores the use of amazement as a transformative experience capable of reframing traumatic memory in the romances of Cervantes and Shakespeare. Romance offers a structure to moblilize emotion and fantasy to deal with traumatic events. Focusing on the experienc…
This thesis examines Orhan Pamuk's use of melancholy as a political concept. While the Nobel committee argues Pamuk's work is an example of clashing civilizations, this thesis argues Pamuk's novels examine how collective melancholy is the cause of, rather than a symptom of, poli…
This dissertation examines the trajectory of the Urdu lyric (the ghazal) in its enfoldment with the"Indo-Muslim" through a series of historical and literary-critical constellations. It begins with the critique of the ghazal in the wake of the Great Rebellion of 1857 by colonial …
