National and international cinemas occupy two different territories in critical reception and criticism with an overlapping realm and unbridged gaps in between. The study of cross-cultural adaptations in a national cinema demands an understanding of the cultural, social, and pol…
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Sanatsal korkunun çeşitli formlarında canavar unsuruna ve canavar anlatılarına rastlanmaktadır. Seyircilerin sinemada korkuyu deneyimlemeleri noktasında işlevsel rolü olan canavar, Hollywood sineması için de verimli kaynaklar sağlamıştır. Bu canavarlardan ve canavar anlatılarınd…
This dissertation describes the development of tools needed to research how to locate passages with matching meaning in documents written in some ancient language but each later translated into a native tongue. Described are how such endeavors were done in the past as the texts …
In narrating his 28-chapter story Matthew employs thirteen formula-quotations. Seven—more than half—are crowded into the first four chapters. While great attention has been paid to the evangelist's use of the Old Testament as a means of discovering his sources and their text-for…
In 1 Peter 2:9-12 the apostle Peter presents what can rightly be called a biblical theology of the mission of God's people in the world, using texts from various eras of salvation history as a basis for his missional exhortation of the church in his day. Peter quotes or alludes …
The present study explores the impact of Isaiah's vineyard story (Isa 5:1-7; 27:2-6) on the language, imagery, and theology of John 15:1-17. The study seeks to provide an exercise in biblical theology by way of a case study text, John 15:1-17. In so doing, the study seeks to con…
The dissertation examines Berber cultural identity in Algeria and France through the vehicle of a new world music genre, called New Kabyle Song or la nouvelle chanson kabyle, which blends the harmonies, instruments, performance modalities, and technologies associated with Wester…
This work endeavors to redefine the theoretical assumptions by which Maghrebian francophone literature is perceived and analyzed. It demonstrates the limits of readings that fail to implement multicultural perspectives. Based on a close reading of the novels and essays of the Al…
An intertextual analysis of the Apostle Paul's Torah theology in the light of other early Jewish Torah theologies. The thesis is that when Paul wrote negatively about Torah (Jewish Law) he was not addressing Torah per se, but rather a particular mode of envisioning Torah that is…
This study offers a narratological and intertextual reading of Jeremiah 37:1–40:6. This text features the interaction of and relationship between the prophet Jeremiah and King Zedekiah just before and immediately following the fall of Jerusalem. The stories are narrated in a liv…
This dissertation draws on the specific case-study of post-war Lebanese political rhetoric in order to take a close look at the ways in which a complex amalgam of distinct and varying histories is articulated linguistically under one national rubric. Research was conducted large…
This dissertation is an intertextual study of the book of Job in general and the first cycle of poetic speeches (chapters 3–14) in particular. It addresses the dialogical character exhibited by the speeches of the book of Job, a subject that past Joban scholarship has failed to …
This dissertation is a literary examination of the Israelite request for kingship in 1 Samuel 8 with satire in view as its genre. Chapter 1 begins by introducing the problem and shows how scholars have interpreted 1 Samuel 8 and the initiation of Israelite kingship through time.…
Isaiah 24–27, the mislabeled ‘Isaiah apocalypse,’ forms one of the latest literary layers in the Book of Isaiah. An integral part of its literary strategy is the reuse and evocation of earlier texts from the Hebrew Bible. This dissertation examines those literary connections und…
The dissertation seeks to refine current methods of intertextual comparison and analysis of biblical texts. The introduction acknowledges a vast range of approaches to biblical intertextuality, recognizing the absence of uniform guidelines. Individual studies apply inconsistent …
This thesis closely examines the utilisation of dramatic characters’ comments on matters of literary and theatrical criticism. This phenomenon shaped a trend in European theatre during the first half of the twentieth century, and Egyptian theatre in the second half of the centur…
This thesis focuses on the reading of fiction written by contemporary French women authors, namely Julia Kristeva, Marie Darrieussecq and Monique Wittig, establishing the reader as an active and engaged actor in meaning creation. The reader enters into dialogue with the text, th…
The aim of this thesis is to introduce, justify, and apply a better framework for analysing Sherlock Holmes, one of the most adapted characters of all time. The project works to resituate the focus of those involved in studying adaptations of Sherlock Holmes from an examination …
Jesus' story has been retold in various forms and fashions for centuries. Jesus novels, a subset of the historical fiction genre, are one of the latest means of not only re-imagining the man from Galilee but also of rewriting the canonical Gospels. This thesis explores the Chris…
This intertextual study explores the interrelationship between some modern and postmodern Hebrew writers and kabbalistic texts. The premise is that some early mystical-theosophical texts have certain fundamental poetic characteristics that became a fertile source for later Hebre…