Bu çalışmada Jean-Paul Sartre'ın mutlak özgürlük düşüncesi onun tanrı tanımaz varlık görüşü zemininde incelenecektir. İlk bölümde özgürlük kavramının tarihsel gelişimine doğru bir yolculuk yapılacak, çalışılan filozofların özgürlük düşünceleriyle Jean-Paul Sartre'ın özgürlük düş…
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This dissertation catalogues and examines Albert Camus’s thematic repetitiveness as seen in his fiction and in how this repetitiveness relates to the world view presented in the so-called guillotine passage in his novel The Plague: that the world consists of scourges, victims, a…
There has been a (re)emergence of participatory modes of audience engagement in contemporary western European theatre and performance since the mid-2000s. The concern at the root of contemporary participatory performance practice is the authenticity or inauthenticity with which …
Until recently, research into dreaming followed the reductionist paradigm within a Freudian framework. This line of enquiry has failed to date to provide a meaningful relationship between neuropsychology and dreaming. As a result, theory development has halted, original therapeu…
First paragraph: "Why Mcllvanney?" This is a question which has constantly recurred during the writing of this thesis. Of all the major contemporary Scottish novelists, Mcllvanney is the one subjected to the least serious critical analysis: added to that, I can think of no other…
There has been to date no attempt at a detailed examination of Aleksandr Grin’s philosophical views interpreted on the basis of his literary work. Whilst some critics have noted interesting links between the writer’s oeuvre and a few popular philosophers, this has usually been d…
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the highly moral ethic of social duty and responsibility which animates the work of Alejo Carpentier. In order to examine this theme, I have studied, in particular, the following six novels: ‘El reino de este mundo', Los pasos perdidos', …
In the decade from 1939 to 1949, French society underwent extreme social and political upheaval. My project looks at this particular decade in which questions pertaining to fathers and fatherhood arose as a product of the war and the occupation, and argues that national anxiety …
In this dissertation I explain the transition from modernism to postmodernism through the study of the French existentialist novel. I follow theories that demonstrate that the latter owes its success to historiographic metafiction. By setting off the aporias that deeply penetrat…
This study is an initial examination of the dichotomy of the sacred and the profane in early country music, during the years 1921–1957. These years represent the formational years of country music when the genre was first recorded, until the beginning of the modern period of cou…
Several schools of psychology draw from Buddhist thought and use meditation and mindfulness practices. However, meditation for stress reduction differs from meditation embedded in a project like enlightenment. These evidences led to the hypothesis that Buddhism and psychotherapy…
Between 1949 and 1958, the photographer Dora Kallmus (Austrian, 1882–1963) known under the alias Madame d’Ora, undertook a photography project in the slaughterhouses of Paris. Of the series, nearly two hundred photographs were printed and have until recently been considered only…
Childhood trauma may negatively impact an individual’s growth and development. People who experience childhood trauma may experience developmental setbacks such as alterations in brain structure and function, diminished and maladaptive cognitive functioning, maladaptive emotiona…
The goal of this dissertation is to offer a systematic phenomenology of the conversion experience based primarily on the transcendental method of Husserl. Conversion is an empirical phenomenon that, when phenomenologically analyzed, is revealed to have several eidetic or essenti…
Contemporary criticism of William Butler Yeats overwhelmingly takes ethical or historicist approaches. This thesis turns instead to an existential-psychodynamic approach based on the framework of Terror Management Theory, a social psychology research paradigm closely associated …
The writings of Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa are greatly influential in Chicanx and Southwest Studies, with her work being recognized for its value in feminist and queer theory; art, culture, and literary criticism; and the portrayal of a uniquely and unapologetically Mexican-Amer…
Western theatre has reflected millennia of our evolving awareness of humanity’s place in the universe, and the more we learn, the smaller—and less significant—we appear. Two case studies illustrate this interplay between theatrical expression and scientific inquiry through close…