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This thesis analyses ethnographic data gathered during participant observation within two vernacular town carnivals in East Devon and Dorset during 2012 and within the professional Cartwheelin’ and Battle for the Winds street performances which were staged as part of the Maritim…

This thesis examines Shrovetide, the significant yet understudied pre-Lenten Carnival of medieval and early modern Britain. Filling scholarly lacunae in Carnival studies and British festive studies, it also develops a novel approach to premodern festive culture which emphasizes …

From Trinidad to Boston: Women’s musical contributions which led to Diasporic Cross-Cultural Exchange.. The thesis focuses on the history and development of four incredibly talented female calypsonians and their contributions to calypso music and to the steelpan, the national in…

The goal of this thesis was to explore the complex interplay of meaning within Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov through a formalist critical lens. Specifically, I examined the way that Dostoevsky’s text presented sexuality as the prerequisite for spirituality in the ch…