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This study examines the possibility of managing the tension between formalism and flexibility in Uganda's commercial adjudication. Using content analysis of the country's commercial 'hard cases', the study reveals the tension as a reality in Uganda; its foundations, and how to m…

Much scholarship is dedicated to Melville’s religious themes, and other scholarship carefully analyzes the innovative formal techniques used by Melville, such as biblical allusion, digressive essays, and philosophical musings imbedded in fiction. However, religious analysis ofte…

This dissertation argues that written form is essential, not accessory, to philosophical content, with particular focus on Plato and Zhuangzi. In the case of these two thinkers, the written forms they have left us are what I call poetic: full of metaphor, imagery, narrative, etc…

This paper argues that Édouard Manet employed several tactics to reject an empathic viewing experience of his large canvas and Salon-submitted paintings in order to re-define the purpose of painting. It includes an examination of Manet’s use of awkward poses, ambiguous facial ex…

This dissertation reevaluates the poetry of Richard Wilbur by examining the relationship between nature and poetic convention within his poetry. Since the late fifties, critics and critical histories have often limited Wilbur according to his use of poetic convention: they use i…

This dissertation examines the influence of a new form of statistical thinking on American fiction written between 1950 and 1964, elucidating in particular a tendency by novelists seeking a departure from previous novelistic forms to incorporate mathematical improbability into l…

Studying Dostoevsky’s poetics according to the principles of Orthodox Personalism—a school of thought that utilizes Anthropological and Ontological discourse to analyze contemporary philosophical and theological questions—frames a well-traversed area of scholarly interest within…

Black Women’s writing is ultimately a study in intersectionality and, as such, formalism provides a productive ontology for parsing the intersections of various forms. Using formal theorists Anna Kornbluh and Caroline Levine’s works as a starting point, this thesis examines the …

Formal criticism of comics has often focused on the importance of sequence and the filling of gutters with causative logics. Practitioner-theorists like Will Eisner and Scott McCloud have focused on “sequentiality” and “closure” to conceive of how readers connect the disparate p…