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"Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe is widely regarded as the most important of the numerous African novelists who gained global attention in the second half of the 20th century. Achebe is certainly the African writer best known in the West, and his first novel, Things Fall Apart, is…
This dissertation explains and expresses biblical preaching’s theological convictions, specifically the preaching event, using the linguistic theory, Speech Act Theory (SAT). Chapter 1 introduces and supports preaching as a priority of Christianity by providing theological convi…
This thesis focuses on the representation of children and education through both the melodramatic themes of the texts and the melodramatic vision of the illustrations.
Historians of Russian monarchy have avoided the concept of sovereignty, choosing instead to describe how monarchs sought power, authority, or legitimacy. This dissertation, which centers on Catherine the Great, the empress of Russia between 1762 and 1796, takes on the concept of…
This dissertation, “Forma, lo performativo, acción poética: Poetic Art’s Critiques of—and Alternatives to—an Americas of Conquest,” takes a comparative approach to the long history of poetic-artistic form in the Americas, together with an analysis rooted in traditions of Frankfu…
This thesis project examines the music of Yiddish-speaking Jewish partisans and ghetto resisters, as sung for a modern audience by the Boston Worker’s Circle community chorus, A Besere Velt (‘A Better World’). I draw from a combination of original interviews with current members…
This dissertation project reassesses Russian literature after the Revolution through the lens of media history. It poses that the post-1917 reorientation of print toward a semi-literate audience produced the unique aesthetic of early Soviet modernist literature. I consider the w…
Mario Francesco Canella was an Italian scientist active primarily before and during the Italian fascist period and the second world war. His writing is notable for an early period dedicated to a firm defense of Lamarckism and opposition to Darwinism, followed by an abrupt shift …
This dissertation examines the metrical experiments of the Romantic poets, William Blake, Charlotte Smith, and John Clare, arguing that these poets saw meter and rhythm not merely as poetic operations but as agents of revelation, markers of linguistic evolution, and confirmation…
This dissertation examines how early modern Lutherans experienced, narrated and interpreted their dreams. Confessional controversies, political struggles, wars, and plagues left traces in Lutherans' dream images. Besides contemporary events, religion played central role in shapi…
This thesis examines the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s theories on the self, nature, and the sublime in Ernest Hemingway’s first and most important novel, The Sun Also Rises. Jake Barnes, Hemingway’s literary alter-ego (Latin for ‘other-self’) struggles with self-knowledge,…
This dissertation is an historical cultural analysis of the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF). Founded in 1997, this exhibition culture is the world’s longest-running documented trans film festival. Although content made by trans filmmakers or films with trans them…
Dacia Maraini’s novels Colomba and La bambina e il sogntaore contest false notions of essential divisions between individuals and cultures by reconsidering division as coming from within the individual and looking to the dispositions that a person holds, especially in relation t…