Imagination, love, reason: these three elements come together in a delicate balance to form the workings of the human mind. This dissertation explores these concepts and their intricate relationship as portrayed in key writings of Italian literature. I focus on authors of the It…
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Every community--whatever nomenclature attached to it--is as much a product of the imagination as it is a historically instituted political entity. While research in the social sciences has tended, until fairly recently, to concentrate on the latter aspect to determine what "exa…
Migration has become a topical theme both in academia and in public discourses across the media which have contributed to create a highly political and visual 'migrant subject'. However, the highly mediatized figure of the migrant has left crucial aspects of migration underrepre…
Psychological, sociological and feminist models of understanding domestic violence have contributed to the development of interventions that seek to raise awareness, keep women safe, and help them to create new lives for themselves and their families. Research literature has ext…
This thesis is centred on the question of the effect security technologies, and the imaginaries associated with them, have on the formation of the present security doxa. With a more nuanced understanding of technology as process, and the role of imagination reintroduced into the…
Western Christianity today seems caught between a scientistic perspective insisting on empirical verification of truth and a literalistic faith hardened into a clearly defined and manageable representation of the divine. But the core experiences of the holy on which Christianity…
My dissertation, "Emperors of Invisible Cities: The Sovereignty of the Imagination in Caribbean Literature," explores the ability of the imagination to empower the individual, both as fictional character and reader, to make political and personal changes in her reality. The nove…
This thesis reports research undertaken to explore a school community’s imaginings for secondary education for future generations. The research was designed to trouble the seemingly straightforward constructs of imagination and creativity, not merely to trace or audit their incl…
My interdisciplinary dissertation seeks to reevaluate the ethics that are implicit in the way that wenarrate, or rather fail to narrate, experiences of mass or systemic violence, and the effect that such a failure wields on literature and contemporary political and social discou…
This dissertation examines the social construction of ethnic identities among Greek Cypriot children aged nine to twelve attending elementary school in Cyprus. More specifically, it examines how children construct and negotiate their identities in the social domains of everyday …
This hermeneutic inquiry explores the Mexican Day of the Dead using a close reading/active imagination methodology with a depth psychological perspective. It addresses the question, how an imaginal approach can deepen our understanding of death, and help bring meaning to our las…
One of the major themes in environmental philosophy in the twenty-first century has broadly focused on how we experience and value the natural world. Along those lines, the driving question I take up in this project is if our ordinary experiences are seen as interpretations, wha…
This dissertation theorizes a new understanding of “imitation,” the central objective and operation early modern writers prescribed for fiction, better known in the period as “poesy.” Reading poems, plays, and fictional prose from canonical authors, John Donne, William Shakespea…
My dissertation examines how literature prompts us to visualize complex, multisensory and multidimensional images that push the boundaries of our cognitive capacities. Rather than considering descriptive power in literature in terms of perceptual mimesis, I argue that the imagin…
The aim of this thesis is to explore how imagination influences people who stay alone and how solitude impacts people’s imagination. In the first 2 parts, definitions of imagination and solitude are presented. These show that the historical evolution of imagination and its impor…
This hermeneutic phenomenological study examines the experience of using Embodied Imagination when confronting a life-threatening illness. Embodied Imagination (EI) is a type of guided dreamwork concerned with the direct effect of imagination on the mind, body, and spirit and in…
This interdisciplinary study in comparative literature reconceptualizes hypnosis as an aesthetic activity in light of the phenomenology of novel reading, literary theory, and narrative ethics. It begins by tracing the history of hypnotism in the medical literature, from Mesmer, …
The purpose of this project was to create a resource for Christian Caregivers that would educate them concerning formative practices for children. A group of sixteen experts in the three fields of ministry, psychology, and education were asked to evaluate the effectiveness of th…
This dissertation presents an untold story about the resurgence of medieval memory arts throughout the nineteenth century. Beginning in the Romantic era, I examine how these new “artificial memory” systems responded to the pressures of an expanding print market. While their init…