מחקר זה יעסוק בהתרחשות ההיסטורית הייחודית של מחנה ההשמדה סוביבור. סוביבור הוקם במסגרת מבצע ריינהרד לחיסול יהודי הגנרלגוברנמן, נבנה בתחילת שנת 1942 על מנת לבצע את הפתרון הסופי ליהודי מחוז לובלין של הגנרלגוברנמן )כשם שבלז'ץ הוקם לטיפול ביהודי מחוזות גליציה המזרחית וקרקוב וטרבלינקה…
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Bakhtin theorizes that literary allusions create a heteroglossic text, a text that is enlivened through the dialogic interaction of the writer and the text quoted. My study of autobiographies written by Jewish survivors of the Holocaust asserts that certain works engage in such …
The last thirty years have been a time of considerable change in both Canadian religious life and in Canadian women's lives, as well as in the interrelationships between the two. While Canadian society has undergone a process of increasing secularization, Canadian women have bee…
This dissertation examines the way in which four female writers negotiate between “I” and “we” within their autobiographical writing. Recent scholarship on women's autobiography has suggested that women do not write “I” as a purely individual, unitary concept. Critics such as Fr…
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…
In 1519, after the death of Emperor Maximilian, the citizens of Vienna revolted against the emperor’s regency government and seized control of the city. This uprising soon expanded to the aristocratic estates, who joined forces with the urban rebels to challenge the authority of…
In 1932 C. G. Jung (1875–1961) wrote a controversial essay on the famed Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). Jung’s essay refers to the first ever museum retrospective of Picasso’s work, which was held at the Kunsthaus in Zurich. Jung’s essay appeared in print, on what was …
At the highest level, this dissertation investigates marine systems from a geochemical and sedimentological perspective through the undertaking of six distinct and only somewhat tenuously interrelated contributions. Nonetheless, the work detailed herein might be thought of as fi…
In February 1942, the Canadian government exiled all Japanese Canadians from the Pacific coast, including 76 students attending the University of British Columbia. While other Canadian universities enrolled some Japanese Canadian students recommended by the British Columbia Secu…
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…
Built upon work addressing the “poet-critic” in modernism (Kindley, 2017) and guided by work associated with the New Formalism, this thesis explores the development of critical exchanges in verse within modernist communities, theorizing how Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, and Marianne M…
H. Rider Haggard's imperial gothic novel, She, A History of Adventure (1887), is a narrative of ruins that speak of a vanished past and presage ends: of empire, of history, of culture. Haggard's novel follows two British adventurers as they travel to Africa in search of a myster…