This study is the first attempt to systematically examine the central role of economy, money and debt in the oeuvre of Shmuel Yosef Agnon—1966 Nobel laureate in literature—by offering a reading that combines perspectives from economic theory, semiotics, psychoanalysis, narrative…
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One does not have to read very far in the Old Testament to discover that war and warfare are frequently recurring motifs. Whether spiritualized, extolled in poetry, or reported in sparse narration, war is everywhere. One aspect of the ancient Israelite approach to war in the Bib…
This dissertation uses the 1961–63 Demystification Program of the Guinean socialist government as the focal point for a historical ethnography of a West African postcolonial state. The Demystification Program aimed at eradicating the indigenous religion and accompanying masquera…
The American woman is the leader of the awakened social conscience in a country-wide crusade to build a better race, declared Progressive reformer Mabel Potter Daggett in 1912.\sp1 Between 1900 and 1960, this "country-wide crusade" to strengthen family and civilization by regula…
The purpose of the study was to improve the understanding of the present situation and the key problems regarding the conservation of designed landscapes of the recent past. Another aim was to investigate roles and initiatives undertaken by key stakeholders and recommend key are…
In 1957 a number of women's organizations were involved in planning a government-sponsored Festival of Women - an event that indicates contemporary awareness of and interest in the changing position of women. This study is similarly concerned with the position of women in the 19…
Divided into four chapters, this dissertation focuses on six Royal Academicians from the late Victorian to the Georgian era. The first chapter examines the impact of the Orient on Frederic Leighton. An analysis of Leighton's eastern travelogue traces critical connections between…
My dissertation, Prosaic Conditions: Writing in the Modern Mode from Hegel to Bialik, investigates the terms prose and the prosaic as metaphors of modern political and cultural conditions, and as indices of the epistemological transformations and aesthetic sensibilities that for…
Mehdi Akhavān Sāles (1928-1990) is one of the most important figures in modern Persian literature. However, his poetry is little known in the West. Even in Iran, though held in high regard, his work is considered hermetic. There is no unambiguous message, no identifiable politic…
As a director and theatre artist, I want my creative work as a storyteller to illuminate myth. The beauty of myth transcends all cultural boundaries by revealing, through the art of storytelling, the universal within the particular, thus illuminating the foundation of our common…
This dissertation examines the life and work of Solomon Schechter, a central yet understudied figure in modern Jewish history. It focuses on the grand theme of the Jewish encounter with modernity—the ways in which Jews came to terms with dramatic changes and losses of traditiona…
Chamber ensembles have incorporated clarinets since the instrument’s creation in the 1700s. Though there are a few examples of violin-clarinet-piano trios from those early periods, the medium was developed primarily in the 20th century. Composers of such works often refer to his…
During the 1930s, Russian-American artist Raphael Soyer (December 25, 1899–November 4, 1987), a committed realist, was one of the preeminent artists working in the United States. However, with Abstract Expressionism superseding American Scene Painting as the dominant mode of exp…
Challenging the conventional approaches to modernity, this work argues that sublimity, rather than diminishing, became a persistent feature of modern life. This work engages with the sublime by investigating late colonial Hindi and Urdu reinventions of the classical epic form. E…
Why has legal and judicial reform in the Arab region failed in promoting the rule of law, ensuring judicial independence and safeguarding democratic values: prerequisites for economic, political, and social development? This dissertation attempts to address this failure in the c…
In this dissertation I explore the puzzle of why Egyptian secularists, many of whom were in positions of great power both inside and outside the state, have historically moved in an increasingly Islamic direction and failed to legitimize secularism as a discourse on its own term…
This dissertation is a history of astronomy in three cultural locations in late Ottoman Egypt: the scholarly culture of Muslim 'ulama', the state institution of the Viceregal Observatory, and the Arabic press. Through an interwoven history of these cultures, the dissertation she…
This dissertation discusses the Khawarij in modern Islamic scholarship. Chapter one discusses the rise of the Khawarij and the historical events that took place from the accession of 'Uthman until the death of 'Ali. A great deal of attention was given to 'Ali's reign since the K…
This dissertation examines the play of representations of religious and secularist discourses in a series of novels written from 1870 to the present moment, in Victorian England, colonial Ireland and India, and postcolonial India. I argue that the novels in question critique "re…