This study examines the juxtaposition of multiple religious and mythological traditions in James Joyce's final novel, Finnegans Wake . Joyce frequently pairs Biblical narratives with elements from Islam, Egyptology, Celtic paganism, Greek or Norse mythologies, and other religiou…
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This dissertation analyzes the language policy in Turkey and the political behavior of the proponents of the language reform, Kemalist modernists, as well as political behavior of the opposing groups, Turko-Islamic traditionalists. It also explores the causes of the language pol…
This dissertation traces the image of what is now called "the Turkish House" as it emerged from Ottoman obscurity into the consciousness of the new Turkish Republic, between the closing decades of the 19th century and the end of the 1930s. Using visual representations, the disco…
Shi`r al-`Ammiyya , 'Colloquial Egyptian poetry', is a movement that originated in Egypt in the 1950's. Its beginnings were in the works of the poets Fu'ad H[dotbelow]addad (1927-85) and S[dotbelow]alah[dotbelow] Jahin (1930-86). Although these poets were not the first literate …
This thesis investigates the Islamic response to modernization and its common dilemma as seen through the eyes of Nurcholish Madjid, one of the most influential and prominent Muslim thinkers in Indonesia today. He and his followers represent the most radical development in Indon…
This dissertation reevaluates the literary history of modernism in Urdu poetry through a study of the controversial poet N. M. Rashed (1910-75). Best known as the first poet of free verse in Urdu, Rashed's position in the formal history of Urdu modernism is assured. Yet critics,…
This dissertation examines the poetry and fiction of Kahlil Gibran and his Arab-American colleagues and explores how their writings contribute to a more inclusive understanding of American modernism. These immigrants left the Middle East around the turn of the century. In Americ…
Adorno's modernism: art, experience, and catastrophe
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"Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetics has dominated discussions about art and aesthetic modernism since the Second World War, and continues to inform contemporary theorizing. Situating Adorno's aesthetic theory in the context of post-Kantian European philosophy, Espen Hammer explores …
