The evolution of Classical reception studies in recent decades has encouraged a corresponding growth of interest in assessing instances of Herodotean reception from antiquity to the present era. This thesis joins the conversation by exploring how Herodotus’ Historie s has been u…
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In the landscape of writing instruction in higher education, there has been a longstanding critique of the efficacy of Generalized Writing Skills Instruction (GWSI) for preparing students to write in the genres of their majors, disciplines and workplaces (Petraglia, et al 1995).…
L’objectif de cette mini-thèse est d’étudier la vie de la femme dans Assèze l’Africaine de Calixthe Beyala. Dans ce roman, Beyala présente le tableau africain d’après les indépendances à travers les peines, les illusions et l’espoir de différents personnages féminins. Le lecteur…
What is the role of epic in modernity? Does it still have any value? What shape and structure does it take? This dissertation claims that the epic does indeed continue to inform our experience of the world in modernity, albeit often in unusual ways. Focusing on the period betwee…
This thesis explores the locust imagery in the book of Joel to suggest a more helpful way to classify the text. Scholars classify Joel as either prophetic, proto-apocalyptic, or apocalyptic literature based on different approaches to the text. This thesis will argue that Joel sh…
The myriad music styles performed in the Republic of Turkey are a complex amalgam of contemporary and historical elements. Using a mixture of archival and ethnographic methodologies, I examine the process by which Turkish performers domesticated Rock and Roll genre cues in the m…
This dissertation explores how Anglo-Saxon hagiographers negotiate between didactic prohibitions of sorrow and the generic conventions which encourage the representation of mourning men. I examine cases where an author exploits these conventions to emphasize and thus defend his …
The topic of this dissertation is the intersection of three categories: the structural category “report,” the content category “material concerning birth,” and the Sitz im Literatur category “Hebrew Bible.” We catalogued all the birth reports, established the typical structure, …
To fully understand any text, it is necessary to understand the genre of that text. The genre of the prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible, however, is very unclear, even at the most basic level. Most interpreters assume that prophecy is a type of rhetoric, but they also speak of …
The Apocalypse of Paul is an elaboration on Paul's journey to the heavens in 2 Corinthians 12:2–4. Originally composed in Greek, it is extant in more than a dozen languages and over 300 manuscripts. This dissertation uses the apocalyptic geography of the Apocalypse of Paul to ex…
The dissertation examines Berber cultural identity in Algeria and France through the vehicle of a new world music genre, called New Kabyle Song or la nouvelle chanson kabyle, which blends the harmonies, instruments, performance modalities, and technologies associated with Wester…
Ecclesiastes has been the object of much debate in the history of interpretation, in part because of its challenging and apparently conflicting message. Such debate has often included discussion regarding its genre. In the interpretation of Ecclesiastes, relatively little attent…
Genocide Genres investigates the transnational circulation of atrocity testimony, writing which describes the most spectacularly failed of human encounters. In particular, my project compares the production and reception of atrocity narratives across three distinct, post-WWII di…
Improvisation has often been viewed and valued in terms of its service and resemblance to scripted traditions of theatre. Such a stance seriously undermines the significance and impact of this global performance modality, and has resulted in improvisatory modes being largely ign…
This dissertation analyzes the use of discourses of religious conversion in twelfth and thirteenth century Old French and Old Provencal romance fiction. The discourses of religious conversion are here defined to include narrative conventions of Christian scripture, hagiography, …
This thesis investigates a corpus of films identifiable as Hollywood political thrillers during the Cold War spanning a period of seventeen years, between 1945 and 1962. It aims to dispel the assertion by critics and scholars that the political thriller originates with the relea…
The West has long been conceived in American culture as the site of an elusive ideal of authenticity. This thesis aims to define the concept of American Authenticity as a political philosophy, affective current, and 'structure of feeling' which finds expression within the Hollyw…
Autofiction has been the subject of much critical investigation in France, yet little of this theory extends to contemporary texts. Furthermore, autofictional theory has, until now, neglected the study of ludic performance – an important feature within the genre –, and this thes…
From the dynamic landscape of contemporary South Korean cinema, one trend that stands out is the palpable revival of the historical drama (known as the ‘sageuk’ in Korean). Since the early 2000s, expensive, visually striking, and successful costumed pieces have been showcased to…
Situated along centuries-old global trade routes, North Sumatra has long been a place of global confluence. My dissertation examines the ways in which musical performance among the Toba Batak people, a group living in the island's interior and in its large cities, reflects this …