This study investigated the interactive effects of the field dependence cognitive style and interface presentation modes (“icon-only” and “text-only”) on learners' performance in a CBI environment. Forty-seven graduate students voluntarily participated. The Group Embedded Figure…
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Jorge Luis Borges, a literary figure intimately linked to Argentina's sense of cultural identity, has evoked both veneration and vilification among the country's intellectuals and the general public. Despite the vast amount of work written about his life and work in Argentina an…
This dissertation investigates a distinctive genre of Israelite poetry developed in Babylonia and Judah in the latter sixth century B.C.E. that mocks the construction and worship of cult images. I disassociate these Israelite "icon parodies" from post-biblical, dualist discourse…
This thesis explores the afterlives of the Chinese revolutionary icon Sun Yat-sen and their relevant contexts, arguing that these contexts have given rise to different images of the same figure. It serves as a gallery in which these different images are put into conversation wit…
The wood-panel paintings created by the Franciscan order in the thirteenth century present a dramatic transition from a static, stoic Byzantine style to increasing degrees of naturalistic, realistic, emotional, and corporeal representations. As a driving force behind the iconogr…
This dissertation contributes to contemporary scholarship on the historical and theological significance of Christian iconodulia—the appropriate veneration of holy persons, places, and things. By accentuating the economic aspect of the Byzantine image debates it illustrates how …