This thesis will focus on the relationship between different shapes of furniture and space and the furniture design and manufacturing process. In the minimalist interior design, the structure and geometry of the indoor space depend on the furniture. I am interested in how stylis…
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This dissertation argues for a reevaluation of the significance of Ahad Ha’am (Asher Ginsberg) in the development of modern Hebrew literature on the basis of his work as an editor of periodicals. Critics commonly portray Ahad Ha’am as rigid and didactic, enforcing his own litera…
The purpose of this project is to highlight the piano compositions of the extraordinarily diverse period in Russian music between the emergence of pre-Revolutionary modernism in the early twentieth century and the publication of the “Muddle Instead of Music” article in 1936, the…
Scottish composer James MacMillan, born in 1959, composed choral music throughout his life but initially rose to prominence as a composer of instrumental works in the early 1990s. In the first decade of the 2000s primarily with The Strathclyde Motets MacMillan solidified his pos…
A pianist and pedagogue whose career spanned much of the twentieth century, the name of Marion Rous has until now only gained the occasional cursory mention in an index or appendix. In particular, previous scholarship has all but completely overlooked the contributions of Rous a…
Though not obscure as a figure in American intellectual history, Randolph Bourne has largely been overlooked by American culture studies. My main argument is that Bourne’s cultural writings show a distinctly American approach to the complications of modernity that show the early…
In this dissertation, I explore the interaction between religious and artistic expressions as manifest in the religious quests of the early Russian modernists in the first decade of the twentieth century. Artists and thinkers of the era grappled with this tension as they sought …
The Exodus is most commonly associated with the black experience in America because its narratives of freedom and movement resonate with both Emancipation and the Great Migration. The use of the Exodus narrative to understand historical and political changes reverses Noah’s curs…
This paper serves as the first comprehensive overview of the House of Babani, an important but largely overlooked design firm based in Paris during the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. The names Fortuny and Gallenga are well-known within the history of fashion; howe…
Bach’s Chaconne in D minor for solo violin is one of the most famous pieces in the violin repertoire. Although Max Reger also wrote three important Chaconnes, these pieces are less familiar to musicians. Reger’s three Chaconnes—op. 42/4, op. 91/7 and op. 117/4—were composed duri…
This thesis examines the collage works of modernist artist Romare Bearden and contemporary, postmodern artist Wangechi Mutu in order to examine a historical shift occurring between the mid-1960s and the early 2000s-2010s. Both artists are concerned with recontextualizing represe…
This thesis examines Finnegans Wake (1939) by the Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941). By first tracing the familial, spiritual, and financial relationships Joyce had with his brother Stanislaus (1884-1955) and identifying early references to Stanislaus in Joyce's writings, thi…
Was Georgia O’Keeffe a nature mystic? The Flowers and Bones of Georgia O’Keeffe examines mystical philosophies prevalent during O’Keeffe’s development as an artist and their influence on her. The influence of mysticism is sought through the examination of selected flower and bon…
This submission is comprised of two parts: a creative thesis titled Viaduct and a critical thesis titled 'Trauma and Representation in Three Irish Novels'. While each is designed to stand independent of the other, over the past four years of writing and research there has natura…
This thesis studies the First World War diary of Alethea Winifred Norris Seymour in the context of women’s war writing and wartime diary writing. It argues for the importance of Seymour’s diary as a literary artifact that represents the First World War through various tropes, ae…
This paper argues that Édouard Manet employed several tactics to reject an empathic viewing experience of his large canvas and Salon-submitted paintings in order to re-define the purpose of painting. It includes an examination of Manet’s use of awkward poses, ambiguous facial ex…
Ero-guro-nansensu, from the English words ero for “eroticism,” guro for “grotesque,” and nansensu for “nonsense” was a Japanese mass culture movement that encompassed literature, popular magazines, cinema, and criticism. It responded to feelings of alienation and anxiety that ar…
This dissertation traces the relationship between auditory technology and models of listening in literature and film during the early-twentieth century. It considers a historical moment during which a vivid array of unprecedented sounds arose, such as the roar of the automobile,…
This dissertation provides the first critical account of modernism as a constitutional culture. I explore how key Anglophone modernists responded to the emergence of federal governance as a national norm and international ideal, with particular focus on the movement for British …