Applying utopian theory to the Bible reveals a number of issues surrounding the biblical text within academic disciplines such as biblical studies, which study the Bible as an ancient cultural artefact, and among religious readers of the Bible. The biblical passage Numbers 13 wa…
U ovom radu bavimo se teorijskim, stilskim, komparativnim i hermeneutičkim istraživanjem vizuelnih elemementa u prozi srpskog postmodernizma i neoavangarde. Pod vizuelnim elementima podrazumevamo ovom prilikom: slike, ilustracije, karikature, embleme, kolaže i fotomontaže. Cilj …
This current work focuses on death and “mask” motifs in Konstantin Vaginov’s novels Kozlinaia pesnʹ (The Goat Song; 1926), Trudy i dni Svistonova (The Works and Days of Svistonov; 1929), and Bambochada (Bambocciada; 1929-30) by engaging with Mikhail Bakhtin’s discussion of the r…
Hugh Walpole was born in 1884, and arrived on the literary scene at the first attempt with his novel The Wooden Horse (1909), just as literary modernism was making its mark. Loyal to the traditional novel of plot and character, he was nevertheless aware that writers of his own g…
Second Life is a long established virtual world, set up as a user created space, rather than a games studio designed product. This longevity is interesting, providing an example of how humans can develop a presence in virtual space, and where people, re-embodied as avatars, inte…
For the first time in critical theory, the Black subject can see itself whole. It can now tell its story from the emergence of the first humans in Africa to the present, as a relatively unbroken continuum. The epistemological conditions for the emergence of a new Black subjectiv…
This project traces and theorizes a history and aesthetics of abstract space in American literature and cinema since 1945. Focusing on the works of Jean Toomer, Ralph Ellison, William Gaddis, Karen Tei Yamashita, and American avant-garde and New Hollywood filmmakers in the 1960s…
What does it mean to read today, now that close reading methods are joined not only by various forms of ‘posthermeneutic’ reading, ranging from media archaeology to the digital humanities, but by the many machine reading processes involved in digitizing text? What relationships …
Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī (d. 403 AH/1013 CE) is known as a preeminent theorist of both the Ash 'arī school of Islamic theology and the Mālikī school of law, and his writings span a wide range of disciplines. This dissertation brings together his thought in two apparently disparate …