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In Jewish Studies in general and Jewish literary studies in particular, the autobiography has taken on renewed significance in the twenty-first century. A recent wave of Hebrew autobiographical writing has reinvigorated long-standing debates about the connections between family …

Poem prayers in the book of Jeremiah use strong, sometimes accusatory, language, in the first person, in speaking to God. They stand out from the rest of the book, with little or no connection to preceding and following sections. The traditional list includes Jeremiah 11:18-20, …

My dissertation offers an analysis of childhood writing in Moroccan literature. It explores narratives entirely or partially dedicated to childhood written by both male and female writers and published during the second half of the twentieth century. This includes early works su…

An analysis of transcripts from three very different sets of public confessions—the Moscow Show Trials, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Amnesty Hearings, and Iraq Veterans Against the War's Winter Soldier—identifies the common characteristics of public conf…

This dissertation contends that by commissioning vernacular works of religious instruction, or pastoralia, English ecclesiastical leaders of the later Middle Ages unwittingly diminished clerics' preeminence over lay people. Although recent years have brought a surge of scholarly…