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This thesis consists of a critical portion which traces the relationship of music and poetry throughout history, analyzes the songs of 1960s musicians under the lenses of poetry movements (Jim Morrison as meditative poetry, Leonard Cohen as confessional poetry, and Townes Van Za…

“Lunar Love and Asynchronous Aestheticism: Vasily Rozanov’s People of the Moonlight and Dmitry Frolov’s Experimental Films in post-Soviet Russia” examines the ways in which the Silver Age influences the depiction of homosexuality in the post-Soviet cinema and literature. It focu…

This dissertation is intended as a correction to the almost universal contemporary assumption that beauty is either nonexistent or a tool of oppression, and that the arts should be judged less by their aesthetic value than their social, political, or moral dimensions. This disse…