"Classical works have for us become covered with the glassy armor of familiarity," wrote Victor Shklovsky in 1914. Here Kristin Thompson "defamiliarizes" the reader with eleven different films. Developing the technique formulated in her Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible (Princeton,…
With a novel quality theory of consumption which treats opulence and self-restraint in consumption styles symmetrically, Ernst Mohr shows how social distance and proximity are communicated by consumption and produced by communication. He positions fringe styles with those of the…
Beyond aesthetic preference, compositional approaches reflect a music composer’s interior and exterior environment, personality, social habits, philosophy, and religion. Presupposing this premise, specific correlations between stylistic-technical choices and personal values are …
Composer Maurice Ravel was deeply affected by his experience as a truck-driving soldier in World War I (WWI). For the rest of his life, he never fully came out of the shadow of losing his friends in combat and his beloved mother during the same years. This study examines the imp…
The purpose of the dissertation was to answer the following research question: To what extent do the selected sermons of John A. Broadus reflect Alexandre Vinet’s theory on homiletical style? The thesis statement of this dissertation is that Broadus’s sermons would reflect Alexa…
My dissertation, entitled “Prosaic Times: Time as Subject in Wordsworth, Richardson, Flaubert, and Melville,” examines literary works of realism—the artistic claim to represent life as it is—that do not necessarily depend upon the plotline of the story they tell but on the sense…