This thesis offers a fresh perspective about the benefits of stories on the human experience when they are written, structured, and told effectively. To examine how stories inform us, Derek Walcott’s epic poem Omeros is deconstructed through the theoretical framework of narratol…
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How can a story like Maqtal (account of martyrdom) of Imam Husayn be told be in Virtual Reality (VR)? The reason why this is a meaningful question is that the notion of telepresence, by which VR is theoretically defined, does not seem to bode well with narrative. Telepresence is…
Given the availability of music videos past and present and the move away from album-oriented-rock to singles and visual albums—e.g., Beyoncé’s Beyoncé (2013) and Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer (2018)—popular music is continuously being presented as a multimedia product. Althoug…
This thesis analyzes the narrative structure and tropes of the De liberatione civitatum orientis by Caffaro di Rustico da Caschifellone. The goal of this project is threefold: first, to provide a closer reading of Caffaro's text than has previously been offered; second, to criti…
This project examined the often competing perspectives of ludology and narratology in the field of video game studies, and attempts to incorporate both into a model of game narrative engagement based on the laws of thermodynamics. Further, this project sought to demonstrate that…
This project is a narratological study of the border between fiction and reality, and the traversing thereof. I postulate that the permeability of this border is the consequence of textual acts: Cataloged Fabulations, Second-tier Fictionals, and Rhizomatic Fabrications. These ar…
In my dissertation, I examine terrorist literature: contemporary American and British writings that incorporate representations of Muslim terrorists and that evoke the events of September 11, 2001. In these texts, the fictional Muslim terrorist arguably occupies a place of belon…
Empire has traditionally been viewed as a masculine endeavor. Only in the past few decades, along with the rise of gender history, have scholars to a meaningful extent taken up the study of women and gender in the context of empire. This thesis examines the complexity of French …
Jezebel is well remembered by readers of 1 and 2 Kings. Although she is memorable in part because of her grisly death, a rhetorical reading of the redactional layers containing Jezebel reveals a glaring disjuncture in her characterization. This may be why Jezebel looms so large …
This study offers a narratological and intertextual reading of Jeremiah 37:1–40:6. This text features the interaction of and relationship between the prophet Jeremiah and King Zedekiah just before and immediately following the fall of Jerusalem. The stories are narrated in a liv…
This study applies the methodology of Robert Funk's Poetics of Biblical Narrative to the examination of the Exodus plague narratives with two ends in view: (1) to assess the adaptability of that methodology for the study of Hebrew literature. (2) to generate a surface structure …
This dissertation attempts to combine studies in narratology and Islamic history in a sustained study of a small section of Abu Ja`far Muh[dotbelow]ammad b. Jarir al-T[dotbelow]abari's Tarikh al-Rusul wa al-Muluk.
Long description: Second-person storytelling is a continually present and diverse technique in the history of literature that appears only once in the oeuvre of an author. Based on key narratives of the post-war period, Evgenia Iliopoulou approaches the phenomenon in an inductiv…
Second-person storytelling is a continually present and diverse technique in the history of literature that appears only once in the oeuvre of an author. Based on key narratives of the post-war period, Evgenia Iliopoulou approaches the phenomenon in an inductive way, starting ou…
Second-person storytelling is a continually present and diverse technique in the history of literature that appears only once in the oeuvre of an author. Based on key narratives of the post-war period, Evgenia Iliopoulou approaches the phenomenon in an inductive way, starting ou…