Classicizing Christian poetry has largely been neglected by literary scholars, but has recently been receiving growing attention, especially the poetry written in Latin. One of the objectives of this volume is to redress the balance by allowing more space to discussions of Greek…
That the idea of Dickens and the adjective 'Dickensian' continue to have a cultural resonance which extends beyond the book-buying public almost two centuries after Dickens's birth is testimony to his sense of himself as a mass cultural artist. Juliet John contends that Dickens'…
The Ben-Hur films were some of the most popular, controversial, and financially successful films of the 20th century. As a result, Hollywood mindset and practices were heavily influenced by the marketing strategies and discourse surrounding these films, as many studios and filmm…
This project addresses the motives behind and interpretative outcomes of Christological sculptures of St. John the Baptist’s severed head in fifteenth-century England. These sculptures depart from the iconography of John’s death in Scripture and instead align with an English euc…
In 2019 in Kansas and Nebraska, 113 predominately white United Methodist churches were served by 84 foreign-born pastors, an increase of 223% since 2013. This is a new phenomenon in the region as the Great Plains Annual Conference has trained, vetted and deployed foreign-born pa…
This dissertation studies the reception of John Cage and his music in Japan from the end of World War II to the present. Although English-speaking Cage scholars have discussed extensively the way that Cage drew inspiration from Japanese Zen, most famously from his teacher D. T. …
The pianist-composer Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) was one of the most famous musicians of his day. Despite his notoriety and fame, however, and the large number of compositions published in his lifetime, Dussek and his music were largely forgotten after his death. While schol…
This thesis focuses on the reading of fiction written by contemporary French women authors, namely Julia Kristeva, Marie Darrieussecq and Monique Wittig, establishing the reader as an active and engaged actor in meaning creation. The reader enters into dialogue with the text, th…
Scholarship on 1950s American science fiction cinema has tended to explore the relationship between these films and their domestic contexts of production and reception. They are often characterised as reflections of US anxieties about communism and nuclear technology. However, m…
Arguing that fundamental aesthetic elements of Noh are deeply imbued with ethical qualities, the thesis describes how, throughout the different socio-economic scenarios that marked the transition of Japan and the West to new phases of modernity, Noh became part of an internation…
Few studies have been undertaken which examine the correlation between design of the receptionl/waiting areas of the outpatients' departments and the implications for Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and non-PFI hospitals, in particular the interior environment with reference to…
In 15 Beitrgen unterschiedlicher Fachrichtungen, die von internationalen Experten verfasst wurden, wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie die Consolatio Philosophiae des Boethius (ca. 480-524 n. Chr.) im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit durch verschiedene bersetzungen und Komment…
To investigate the reception of Classical motifs within the early medieval world, as well as show the multicultural connectivity between peoples, this work of creative fiction explores the tradition of Neoptolemus in the Ninth Century CE. Rather than telling the story from a sin…
This project uses the rhetorical concept of strategic ambiguity to analyze how U.S. war films from 2006 through 2011 framed the politics of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. I argue that, rather than presenting partisan propaganda or apolitical drama, these films purposeful…
Our first intention in this work will be to establish a repertory of translations into Spanish of the Goncourt brothers' works (Edmond, 1822–1896 and Jules, 1830–1870), which will enabled us to establish a catalogue of the Spanish editions of these authors' production which rang…
Building on G. K. Beale's work in Isaiah and based on the citations of Isa 53:1 and 6:10 in John's Gospel (John 12:37–43), Johannine soteriology is identified as rescue from idolatry. The salvation wrought by John's Christ is a restorative accommodation to humanity's obdurate id…
This thesis examines the reception and translation relationships between Hebrew and Spanish in the sixteenth century. It focuses on Zarfati's reception of La Celestina, the fragment of Guevara's Relox de príncipes translated in Shevet Yehudah and Yoseph Ha-Kohen's translation of…
As a contemporary Franco-Algerian writer, Leïla Sebbar has been sensitive to the changing cultural and political landscapes of France and Algeria over the course of the eighties and nineties. This dissertation underscores the interconnected shiftings of socio-historic context, t…
