The prose of the Deuteronomistic History (DH) is fundamentally dialogic, rather than straightforwardly monologic, when it speaks specifically to the questions of the identity, location, and future of David and the Davidic kingship in 1 and 2 Samuel. My reading investigates the p…
The field of language learning motivation has traditionally been a 'self'-centred one, characterising the individual learner as subject to influence by, but essentially separate from, the sociocultural environment. Models of language learning motivation have been concerned with …
Post-structuralist IR has often treated foreign policy/security discourses and their effects on policy through a “representational model”, i.e. how one dominant representation makes possible particular policy outcomes. However, in a longitudinal analysis, where the concern with …
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…
This dissertation offers a narrative reading of Dante’s use of the poetic form of the tenzone. I frame Dante’s tenzoni within the history of the form’s use in the Italian vernacular tradition, beginning with Giacomo da Lentini and the scuola siciliana. The practice of writing te…
This is a qualitative study, regarding women with the chronic pain condition endometriosis, utilizing in-depth interviews. Endometriosis is a chronic pain condition in which the tissue of the uterus is found outside the uterine cavern. This tissue leads to many symptoms that can…