This dissertation proposes a framework for analyzing musical interculturality—the processes through which musicians weave together multiple musical and cultural identities through performance—in twenty-first-century music. By attending to the specific sociopolitical contexts of …
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Leo Brouwer’s Sonata Mitología de las Aguas No. I for flute and guitar , first published in 2017, has taken its place as an important twenty-first-century addition to the flute and guitar duo repertory. I provide a brief historical context for the work, followed by preparation g…
In my thesis, I analyze Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein alongside ghost stories from the late eighteenth, early nineteenth centuries, looking for the ghostly elements. I also contextualize Frankenstein with surrounding Gothic texts to better understand the portrayal of the supernatu…
This thesis uses the typology of coworking and the values associated with it as a lens through which to look at the design of the broader workplace. It examines the ways in which people behave in these new working environments and how these designed spaces are planned, briefed, …
Bu araştırmanın amacı, çocuk edebiyatı alanında önemli iki kadın yazar olarak kabul edilen ve farklı ülkeleri temsil eden Astrid Lindgren ve Cahit Uçuk’un çocuk romanlarının çocuk ve değerler eğitimi bakımından karşılaştırılarak bu iki yazarın çocuk romanlarında çocuk ve değerle…
Poetry is work of art in which poets express their thoughts, feelings and emotions through oral presentation or writing. According to Tsambo (1999: 2), “poetry is the expression of the life experiences; these life experiences are unfolded or expressed in a variety of themes.” Th…
The focus of this thesis is an analysis of post-Holocaust Jewish-American literature with a specific emphasis on texts set in Europe. In particular, I examine how Jewish-American authors who lived in the United States during the Holocaust address issues of trauma and survivor’s …
Focusing on English anthologies of Chinese avant-garde fiction published by UK and US publishers between 1993 and 2003, this thesis studies the translational path of this literary corpus to the Anglophone cultural context in the post-Tiananmen era. Particular attention is given …
Mervyn Peake's most famous work, The Titus Books (also called The Gormenghast Series), has traditionally been read as a coming-of-age gothic fantasy story, laden with excentricities for decoration's sake alone. This thesis aims to argue that the author's refusal to "explain" his…
Bohemond of Taranto has been painted by modern scholars as an opportunistic knight who embarked for the east from Sicily with the Latin armies of the First Crusade in order to acquire a significant lordship for himself. However, the details of his early life and other factors wh…
Why do we like the things that we like? Why do our tastes change over time, and why are we unable to predict these changes in advance? Despite a long tradition of research into these questions, it remains notoriously difficult to predict which previously unpopular and unfashiona…
The S l o w Growth Institute is proposed as a mostly unprogrammed place and will be located among divided spaces. The ‘in-between’ is investigated through two scales: a historical line where buffer zones from South Africa’s history of separation and still evident in our social f…
This dissertation traces the debates concerning the professionalization of medicine in America across the 19th- and well into the 20th-century and explores how the debates concerning professionalization in any given moment affected popular literary forms. Using Fredric Jameson’s…
The genre of the historical novel is a combination of fiction and history, two supposedly contradicting genres. Fiction, however, has realistic elements while history is always an interpretation or a narrative about the past, thus a story that is not entirely factual. The intern…
This dissertation explores Arab American writing and the intersections from which it originates, chronicling the emergence of Arab American literature throughout the twentieth and into the twenty first century, and situating this writing within the context of issues — in particu…
This study examines the writing experiences of U.S. adolescent second language writers and considers how students' identities as ""English Language Learners (ELL)" contributes to their learning, their sense of self, and their academic writing. Within the perspective that writing…
Television and culture have an intricate relationship that is often depicted in transnational literature, yet one generally ignored by scholars. While one must acknowledge the saturation of media in this technological age, and that writing about human experience cannot realistic…
Understanding how the Renaissance rhetorical curriculum taught style as behavior makes it possible to unite the study of women writers' identities with formal criticism. Nancy L. Christiansen shows that early modern humanists built on the Isocratean tradition of teaching rhetori…
This thesis identifies key aspects of the nature of holiness present in the life of seventh-century Saint Aldhelm present in three fifteenth-century Middle English versions of versions of the Legenda aurea. From its first inception in thirteenth-century Genoa the Legenda aurea’s…