This dissertation investigates the literary style of four modernists—Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Mae West—in terms of camp. As Susan Sontag suggests in her essay about camp, the concept is useful in reexamining the interrelationship between form an…
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This dissertation explores the dual nature of Richard A.W. Hughes as a marginalized Gothicist and modernist. This duality facilitated the development of the author’s reparative vision for a 20th-century world traumatized by planetary war. The present study utilizes close reading…
Yeni Türk Sineması dönemi, Türk Sineması dönemleştirmelerinde Yeşilçam Dönemi’nden sonra geldiği kabul edilen, Yeşilçam’ın içinden doğan ve bu anlamıyla hem Yeşilçam anlatısının izlerini taşıyan hem de Yeşilçam anlatısına zıt bir anlatıyla temellenen bir sinema anlayışına sahipt…
Türk şiirinin modemleşme çabası uzun yıllara yayılan arayışlann sancılanyla doludur. Buna rağmen tarihsel akış içinde yenilik iddiasıyla ortaya çıkan hareketlerin ya da bireysel kalkışmalann etki alanı sınırlıdır. Şiire yönelik takınılan tavır, şairane duyuş, ortak bir dünyanın …
Though they lived a century apart and wrote in starkly disparate historical, cultural, and literary contexts, Russian poets Aleksandr Pushkin and Vladimir Mayakovsky were both victims of the posthumous processes of bureaucratization and monumentalization at the hands of the Sovi…
The thesis explores methods for integration of structural analysis, design and production in a digital design environment. The somewhat ambiguous title implies the ambition to make such integration in relation to the explorative phase of the design process which is described by …
Underwhich Editions was a publishing collective and music imprint u nder which a group of Canadian writers, sound poets, and electronic sound explorers released books, chapbooks, postcards, broadsides, one-folds, leaflets, handmade editions, cassettes, microfiche, floppy disks, …
The aim of this dissertation is to conceptualize the aesthetics of the 1920's in relation to their role amid the art and society of the time. It also strives to describe the concise artistic environment that was born in Paris during the period motivated by several historical fac…
This dissertation connects the aesthetic commitment to the ordinary world in twentieth-century women’s literature to the invention and consolidation of modern sexuality. Owing largely to a political antipathy between “the ordinary” and “the queer,” scholars have not addressed th…
My dissertation titled “The Figure of the Child in Holocaust Representations” focuses on the child as a narrative construct and its function in Holocaust literature, film, and museums. Before my work, the figure of the child in the context of Holocaust representation had not bee…
This historical research looks at the National Defence Cinema (NDC) ( guofang dianying ) made in Hong Kong between 1937 and 1941, to study the correlation between community, modern society and cultural modernity. It delineates the term ‘patriotism’ ( aiguo ) – heavily laden with…
How did cinema influence the many writers who also constituted the first generation of moviegoers? In Spectatrices , I argue that early moviegoing was a rich imaginative reservoir for anglophone writers on both sides of the Atlantic. Coming to cinema from the vantage of the audi…
This dissertation explores the viability of multiple modernisms in mid-twentieth-century Iraq by examining the practice of the artist Hafidh Druby (1914-1991). Modern art’s paradigm of originality combined with local ancient forms was used by many Iraqi artists to overcome colon…
My dissertation studies the connections between music and exile in three sets of literary works by Thomas Mann, Eugenio Montale, and Czesław Miłosz. Although rarely compared together, these three writers approach the theme of exile similarly. They share a polyphonic style that j…
The 1990’s in India were a time of incredible transformation, both in economic and social terms. With the liberalization of the Indian economy in 1991, state-led developmentalism increasingly ceded ground to private investment, and social relations underwent a concomitantly rapi…
This thesis analyses two different TRT series to reveal when and how Turkishness is reproduced on television. These two series are Sevda Kuşun Kanadında and Seksenler. The thesis makes use of an interpretative approach in which the components of themes, music, contexts, characte…
The politics of memory is a highly significant part of contemporary Russian politics. Reinterpreting history is a critical duty of the recent Russian administration to overcome the identity crisis that has emerged after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Historical films emerg…
This dissertation examines English musical modernism through the lens of Benjamin Britten’s engagement with the sacred, focussing on his affinity for sacred and liturgical imagery both on and off the stage, and inside and outside of the church. Although Britten’s oeuvre is shot …