This thesis examines the function of humour and parody in the work of five women: Ada Leverson (1862-1933), Beatrice Hastings (1879-1943), Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), Cornelia Barns (1888- 1941), and Margaret Anderson (1886-1973). Its intention is to provide an insight into…
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The East German Stasi stood among the most effective secret police forces in modern history, creating a surveillance apparatus that invaded all levels of society and affected many thousands of people, from ordinary citizens to the highest levels of the West German government. Ar…
Postkolonyal Uluslararası İlişkiler teorisi kolonyalizmi siyasi, askeri ekonomik, kültürel, kimliksel ve zihinsel bir baskı süreci olarak kabul eder. Postkolonyal Uluslararası İlişkiler teorisi her ne kadar 1980'li yıllarda ortaya çıkmış ve 1990'lı yıllarda gelişmeye başlamış gi…
This thesis answers the call by the International Organization for Migration for researchers to listen to migrants. Based on the assumption that contemporary and historical migrants have similar experiences, this study takes as its subject 915 letters written by 218 immigrants i…
This thesis asks what transcriptions of old-time fiddle tunes might tell us about their underlying purposes and the nature of transcription. How could differing approaches to transcription reflect the intentions of the author, and what are those intentions? What does this sugges…
This thesis argues that American rock music and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the carnivalesque and grotesque real can be usefully brought to bear upon one another to enhance and interrogate our understanding of how each functions as a means of expression and a mode of understandi…
Averaging Americans: Literature, Statistics, and Inequality was sparked by a computational discovery I made in a corpus of more than 18,000 works of US fiction: statistical words such as average, normal, and typical distinguish postbellum fiction from its antecedents quantitativ…
Analyzing Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and linking trends of the Byronic hero that have merged into a variety of genres reveal that the hero is a mode of subversive gender expression, which has evolved within the Gothic through feminine desire. Delving into Bram Stoker’s Dra…
This dissertation examines the dynamic relationship between written language and literary fiction in modern and contemporary Japanese-language literature. I analyze how script and narration come together to function as a site of expression, and how they connect to questions of v…
This thesis reports on the Researching Corporeality in Education (RCiE) project, a qualitative investigation into knowledge production in Gender and Education (G&E) research on boys and masculinities in schools in the UK, primarily, Australia and North America, within the field …
This dissertation explores the cabaret works of Erik Satie, Frederick Hollander, and Femme Lunatique Productions and discusses how the genre cultivates community. Cabaret shows function unlike any other styles of performance. The historically small venues, the absence of a “four…
In the era of the global epidemic, with the trend of virtual work and learning, people's expectations and requirements for indoor space are gradually increasing and constantly changing. By seeing it as an inspiration to look back at the relationship between people and space, we …
Author: Jeffrey Peter KesselmanTitle: Virtual Dungeons: Performance and Performative Play in Role-playing GamesInstitution: Florida Atlantic UniversityThesis Advisor: Christopher MaraffiDegree: Master of Fine ArtsYear: 2021
Analysing a wide range of pre-modern women’s non-fictional life-writing – letters, memoirs, wills – from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, this thesis assesses the authors’ appropriation of mercantile discourse and practice to portray and vindicate various areas of their l…
Land, Labor, Literature: Ecospheric Critique from the Margins of the Progressive Era focuses on Progressive-Era writers whose work represents three modes of relating to the land through direct fieldwork—agrarian, indigenous, and diasporic—and who articulate, through that fieldwo…
Movies considered both high-brow and low-brow often feature similar concerns in their subject matter, but also in their formal techniques. Furthermore, champions of both types of films employ the similar reading strategies to oppose the signifying practices of the Hollywood midd…
This dissertation discusses the importance of Alem, Alsanea, and al-Sharif in the elevation of Saudi Arabian national literature to the level of world literature: can these three Saudi Arabian female writers be labeled as world writers? By discussing Alem’s My Thousand and One N…
This thesis explores love, nothingness, the body, the moment, and God. The human bodily experience is one of mystery. In writing toward this mystery, I try reclaim my own body and connect with God. My experience with God is an experience of language, but it is also entirely unre…
Long acknowledged as a committed poet of place, this thesis examines tones of outsiderness and alienation that characterize George Scarbrough’s poetry. Scarbrough draws on familiarity with his childhood in southeast Tennessee, and from an outsider’s outlook, a perspective verita…