Bu çalışmanın amacı Kuran-ı Kerim'deki metaforları, indiği dönemin kullanımlarını dikkate alarak ortaya koymaktır. İlk bölümde metafor ve metaforik anlamın ne olduğu tarihsel arka planı ile birlikte incelenecektir. İkinci bölümde ise metaforun klasik ve çağdaş felsefedeki tanım …
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I. Research issue. Filipinos come from different linguistic and cultural traditions. They assert ethnolinguistic origins over national identity. This research attempts to identify causes that discourage development of a strong Filipino national identity. It also searches for app…
This practice-based thesis asks, "In what unique ways can contemporary performance address our preoccupations with narrative?" It reframes what are frequently discussed in screenwriting handbooks as "the rules of storytelling" as "narrative conventions," then asks what central c…
A major portion of Olivier Messiaen's music imitates birdsongs. Even for a composer known for his stylistic independence, this "bird style" seems unusually idiosyncratic. His worldwide sojourns to transcribe birdsongs appertain more to ornithology, it would seem, than to music c…
This study explores parody and resistance in contemporary Japanese women's theater and dance troupes from 1990 to the present. These subversive challenges to the dominance of Western/USA culture and to the modernist, nationalist, and masculinist construction of "the ideal Japane…
This dissertation argues that from the late eighteenth through the nineteenth century the Orient is invoked each time mimesis is redefined. Scholars of British literature have long understood this period through the categories of Romanticism and realism, epistemologies fundament…
This study applies literary and rhetorical analysis to Paul's letter to the Galatians, reading the argument through the eyes of the letter's implied reader. Positioned between prevailing rhetorical and narrative approaches to the letter, the study argues that Galatians functions…
This thesis addresses the ontological and devotional legitimacy of Marian holy cards by comparing two schools of thought regarding the use of memory to access reality. I argue that the intention implied in liturgical anamnesis withstands Plato's critique of mimesis, demonstratin…
Through skillful innovation and manipulations of both genre and media, Philostratus’ Imagines explores the potential roles of art within elite society. Written in the early third century CE, the Imagines is a series of sixty-five ekphrastic descriptions of paintings on display i…
This paper analyzes composer Aaron Cassidy’s 2014-2016 ensemble work The wreck of former boundaries, focusing on Cassidy’s compositional approach to sonically simulating interactive modes and sonic ideals featured prominently in mid-20th century recordings of free jazz artists s…
Bu çalışmanın temel hedefi geçmişte ve günümüzde belge niteliği taşıyan, birçok mecrada kanıt olarak kabul gören fotoğrafın manipülasyona açık yanlarına dikkat çekmektir. Fotoğrafın icadı ve okur yazarlığın artması arasındaki tarihsel paralelliği vurgulayan çalışma aynı zamanda …
Bu metin sosyal bilimlerde yer alan müzik'in neliğine ilişkin bir ihtilaftan doğar. Dolayısıyla bu tez öncelikle müzik hakkında, ve daha sonra müziğin modern toplumdaki konumu hakkında bir tezdir. Bunun için öncelikle bu müzik anlayışını doğuran düşünceyi ele alır. Düşüncenin dö…