On November 7, 1928, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary that her 1931 novel, The Waves, would be an "abstract mystical eyeless book" (Diaries 3; 203). In her personal writings, she also referred to the novel as "an endeavour at something mystic, spiritual; the thing that exists …
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Literary modernism’s “queer” textual forms and erotic meanings were inextricable from the construction of “normal” sexuality as a statistical, racial, and gendered category in the early-twentieth century. However, scholarship on modernist sexualities has tended not to historiciz…
Este estudo tem como principal objectivo explorar o modo como a viagem e a paisagem se apresentam no slow cinema. Inicialmente será efectuada uma caracterização do slow cinema tendo como base alguns momentos importantes da história do cinema. Posteriormente, tentar se á compreen…
What is the role of epic in modernity? Does it still have any value? What shape and structure does it take? This dissertation claims that the epic does indeed continue to inform our experience of the world in modernity, albeit often in unusual ways. Focusing on the period betwee…
In stark contrast to the city, rural spaces are often considered resistant to the novelistic impulse of narrative progress. Lives here are seemingly unchanged by time or human invention. The rural is often overlooked as an immobile reference point of beginning, way station or en…
While the story cycle form has been popular for centuries, as seen in works like The Decameron and One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, it is especially important to modern Anglo-American literature. Twentieth century short story composites by James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, and…
For over 100 years, railroad development has been resisted within Afghanistan even as foreign powers have vied for control. Due to current efforts driven by foreign investment, a seventy-five kilometer section of railroad has recently been completed between Uzbekistan and Afghan…
Environmental Justice Witnessing in the Modernist Poetry of Lola Ridge, Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Elizabeth Bishop analyzes the poetic forms used by four modernist American women poets to trace depictions of social oppression that are tied to specific landscapes. My…
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 …
Elmi Bodari was the first Somali poet to compose poems exclusively about the theme of love. Many Somalis believe that it was his unrequited love that caused his early death. His personal tragedy and poems have earned him a unique place in Somali literature. Most accounts of Elmi…
Foreign Bodies: Military Medicine, Modernism and Melodrama traces how representations of warfare in the modernist novel, girls' romances, nursing memoirs, and war films dramatize the humanitarian disaster of war through the figure of woman. My analysis focuses on the visual and …
In this project, I examine ways in which early twentieth-century British subjects responded to the wastelands of the imperial map. This dissertation considers what was found in the British Empire's most unproductive expanses: expended spice colonies, deserts, glaciers, battlefie…
This study examines the construct of 'Hebrew labor' -as the ideological, philosophical and strategic underpinning of the Nationalist, Zionist, Socialist settlement in Palestine. The thesis proposes that 'Hebrew labor' was manifest in the institutional structures and buildings of…
The Zionist Hotel, built in British Mandate Palestine, was born in an age of burgeoning nationalism, blooming tourism, expansion, and ideological immigration. While mitigated modernism was utilized in interwar Palestine as an agent of cultural and national representation of Jewi…
For many participating in and observing the migration of African Americans from the South to the North in the middle of the twentieth century, it seemed as if the migrants were moving from the past into the future, or at least into the present. It seemed as if they were entering…
This thesis explores the conversion experiences of the Buda, an ethnic Sasak minority in northern Lombok-Indonesia, long primitivized by dominant Sasak Muslim groups for practicing non-religious rituals prior to their formal conversion to Buddhism at the outset of the New Order …
Die Asoke-Gemeinschaft wurde Mitte der 70er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts gegründet und hat sich seitdem zu einem maßgebendem und außergewöhnlichem Bestandteil der thailändischen Religionslandschaft entwickelt. Die Gemeinschaft besteht sowohl aus ordinierten Frauen und Männern, als…
O objetivo do presente projeto artístico foi adquirir um maior conhecimento sobre o Konzert für Oboe und kleines Orchester (1952) de Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918- 1970). Pretende-se também que este estudo possa contribuir para uma maior divulgação do concerto, tornando-o mais ap…
Sebîlürreşâd Dergisi, kültür tarihimizin en önemli ve en uzun soluklu basın-yayın organlarından biridir. İlk olarak Sırât-ı Müstakîm ismiyle 1908 yılında yayın hayatına başlayan dergi, çeşitli sebeplerle bazı dönemlerde kapatılmış olsa da 1966 yılına kadar aralıklı olarak yayını…
This dissertation aims at presenting a critical account of Modern Architecture in Lebanon in the 1950s and 1960s. Its challenge is to uncover sufficient material and insights that would allow further investigations in an insufficiently recorded field. While the intellectual acti…