My project proposes a revision of Modernism to account for marginal sexualities, race, and colonization in British, American, and Arabic Francophone literature. In order to make visible the "racial industry" at work in Modernism, I center my discussion on two recurrent figures: …
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Since Senegal's independence, scholars have critically examined each president on how his policies shaped contemporary Senegalese art and its promotion at home and abroad. The presidential patronage of the arts garners an international authority based on cultural supremacy. This…
This study bridges modernist and postcolonial studies to examine the relationship between decadence and empire across the long twentieth century. From Britain and Ireland to the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia, I argue that decadent aestheticism and fin-de-siècle radicalism co…
This dissertation documents and analyzes the work of Alfred Neumann in Israel between 1949 and 1968. Neumann’s approach to architecture reflected a paradigm shift from the notion of ‘building as object’ to ‘building as pattern,’ and served as a critique of Israel's overarching a…
The purpose of this study is to investigate binary discourses of self and other constructed by Canadian media in the representation of Saudi women. One of the modest aims of this research is to expound on the status of centralized media coverage in Canada. Drawing on Hegel's mod…
This study investigates the nature of literary Modernism and social modernity through three modernist novels that represent analogous historical ruptures and conditions in early twentieth-century Vienna, Berlin, and Istanbul. Focusing on Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (1930, 1932, …
This dissertation argues that modernists like Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and Alain Resnais construct literary and filmic works that rely on interruptions and elliptical narration to gesture towards an aesthetics of modernity that counters the interest in monoliths concurrently…
This study combines an historical, diachronic analysis of Louis Kahn's ideas on public architecture in his transitional years with a synchronic reconstruction of the discourse through which he shaped his ideas. Exploring this interaction of artistic intention with intellectual f…
Modernism is not typically thought of as a genre that engages with the gothic, in any mode other than dismissal. And yet the gothic abounds in modernist literature, and in particular, modernist literature is filled with ghosts. In this dissertation, I offer readings of James Joy…
This dissertation analyzes the coexistence of realist and modernist prose in early and mid-twentieth century Hebrew fictional texts. The first chapter focuses on Y. Ch. Brenner's 1911 novel, Mi-kan u-mi-kan (From Here and There). On the one hand, this novel engages the specific,…
This dissertation examines James Joyce, H.D., and John Berryman, three writers whose Modernisms revise masculinity. Joyce decides that freedom from patriarchal paralysis can be found only within a plural subject. An epiphany, instead of being a moment of objective enlightenment,…
Settler Modernism traces how Stieglitz’s iconic photograph, The Steerage (1907) came to be known as the first modernist American photograph and how, at each stage of its trajectory into the modernist canon, it was interpreted through settler colonial narratives that served to na…
The responses of historical readers and their engagement in print culture remains a mystery in literary study. By recovering readers’ letters to the editor in magazine culture, my dissertation recovers readers’ efforts to evaluate and critique art, and thereby participate in the…
Taking Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans (1925) as my central example, I show how modernism is imagined as an intervention into the public sphere. This novel's professed aim of reaching readers, coupled with its conception as a text that “makes” America, demonstrates the …
The Adoption of the Maqāṣid al-Sharī`ah, (Purposive Objective of the Law) a principle orientated approach to Islamic law, is increasing being presented as a panacea to relieve the tension arising from the intersection of classic Islamic law, derived in a historical context of cl…
This article seeks to account for the different relationships between the central government and Berber populations in Morocco and Algeria—The first case being largely integrative and the other frequently conflictual. Through a comparative historical analysis, it highlights the …
Bu tez, Türkiye'deki sanatçıların toplumsal cinsiyet disiplini alanında erkeklik konusunda ürettikleri sanat eserlerinin, erkeklere psikoloji, akıl sağlığı ve toplumsal sorunlar bağlamında destek olabilme konusunda eksiklik oldukları veya içerik bakımından zayıf kaldıklarını gös…
Bu çalışma Yunan yönetmen Theodoros Angelopoulos'un filmlerinde kolektif bellek biçimlerini çözümlemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Kolektif bellek, bireyin hatırlama ve unutma dinamiklerinin dâhil olduğu gruplarla ilişkili olarak şekillendiğini belirtmektedir. Sinema kolektif bellek çerçev…
Constructing Jewish Texts in Russian Literature: The Cases of Mandelshtam, Brodsky, and Slutsky examines the problem of Jewish literature and the Jewish artist in the 20th century. It asks: what happens when Jewishness enters the Russian literary tradition? And how does Jewishne…