"In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialis…
"In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialis…
"In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialis…
"In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialis…
Through a study of the interwar and post-World War II Russian communities in San Francisco, this dissertation examines the processes of acculturation to American society of “White Russian” émigrés in the face of both nativist and political hostility beginning in the period follo…
H.D. and Denise Levertov, two visionary poets of the twentieth century, represent both female poets’ awakening of political and historical consciousness and their engagement with the poetics of vulnerability and survival. H.D. and Levertov offer lyrical visions that dismantle th…
This dissertation examines English musical modernism through the lens of Benjamin Britten’s engagement with the sacred, focussing on his affinity for sacred and liturgical imagery both on and off the stage, and inside and outside of the church. Although Britten’s oeuvre is shot …
This dissertation examines how several genres of American comedy represented issues relating to the women’s and gay liberation movements during the 1970s and 1980s. Television comedy writers, cartoonists, and stand-up performers responded to feminism, changing gender roles, and …
This dissertation explores a peculiarly French case of the ideological thaw in the Sixties, when the belated disenchantment with USSR prompted Parisian intellectuals to recast their interests: out of Europe, via tiers-mondisme, or out of history, via structuralism. Towering figu…
This study will look at the representation and manifestation of physical and emotional connections between people and how they reflect the need to belong through three texts which suggest the creation of modern Britain. They include D.H. Lawrence's short story "Daughters of the …
This study attempts to look at the legacy of the Khilafat movement in India early this century. The study shows that the abolition of the institution of the Caliphate in Turkey, and the reasons given by the Turkish ulama for its abolition, provided food for thought to the Muslim…
European colonial interest in the Arab lands is generally assumed to have begun with Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798. Bonaparte's expedition marked the beginning of the progressive subjection by the major European colonial powers of the time, France and Britain, o…
This study compares the spiritual expressions of various Queer authors from Medieval Islamic Spain to twentieth century HIV positive writers and audiovisual directors from Cuba and Spain. This Transatlantic Study compares the spiritual expressions that manifested themselves from…
Dance is a vital part of critical inquiry in the humanities and provides an ideal template for analyzing social power relations and the exclusion of women and the body from western epistemology. This dissertation conducts a comparative feminist analysis of representations of dan…
In this project, I examine ways in which early twentieth-century British subjects responded to the wastelands of the imperial map. This dissertation considers what was found in the British Empire's most unproductive expanses: expended spice colonies, deserts, glaciers, battlefie…
Throughout the twentieth-century, many composers of both Jewish and non-Jewish descent found inspiration in the heritage of the Jewish people. The rise of nationalism and increased study of folk melodies and rhythms led to the exploration of the riches of Jewish music. The music…
This dissertation proposes that between World War I and World War II, the relationship between war, politics, and language can be best understood through a political-theological prism. One strain of twentieth-century political philosophy considers sovereignty to be a matter of a…
My dissertation, " 'The Common Commercial Flesh of Women': Prostitution in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature," analyzes the way early twentieth-century authors use fictional depictions of the prostitute to negotiate the disorienting and often violent changes that character…
This study sets out to explore the etiology of genocide as a form of conflict. Based on comparison of ten cases (Aché of Paraguay, Ottoman Armenians, Burundi, Bosnia, Cambodia, Herero, Indonesia, Maya, Nazi, and Rwanda), a conflict theory of genocide in the 20th century is devel…
