Paul Fussell has remarked that our understanding of modernity throughout the last century; “is essentially ironic; and that it originates largely in the application of mind and memory to the events of the Great War.” What this dissertation demonstrates is that World War I, while…
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This dissertation focuses on the Passion Narrative in the Gospel of John, with particular attention to the arrest scene (18:1-12), the Roman show trial (18:28-19:16), and the crucifixion and burial (19:16-40). It employs James C. Scott's model of hidden transcripts and gives car…
This literary-rhetorical study develops and applies a methodology for discerning irony in Hebrew Bible narrative to 1 Kgs 16:29–22:40 and then pursues implications of its findings for questions raised by source, redactional, and socio-historical investigations of this unit, King…
This dissertation examines the role of humor in contemporary South Asian and African postcolonial literature, arguing that humor opens new spaces for historically marginalized individuals to be heard. I argue that in addition to its unique capacities to question and rebel agains…
This study explores humor, irony, and satire in the wake of the September 11th attacks, and in relation to nationalist, conservative, and racialized ideologies in the United States. Employing a case study approach, the dissertation analyzes a range of media texts spanning the de…
The present project pursues how the nineteenth-century practice of adapting well known stage plays, often constituted a willful misreading of an original text. A surprising yet paradigmatic case in point is Heinrich von Kleist’s (1777-1811) “great historical chivalric drama,” Da…
La presente tesis aborda el papel del humor y de la ironía en la filosofía, no solo como armas retóricas que los más importantes autores de nuestra tradición han empleado, sino también como elemento esencial de una tradición llamada “ironista” defendida por el filósofo norteamer…