Contemporary Hawai’i is a renowned tourist destination for millions of visitors a year. Prior to the arrival of Europeans in 1778, missionary intervention in 1820, and American occupation in 1893, the islands had its own monarchy and unique cultural traditions. Since the interfe…
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This dissertation investigates the literary style of four modernists—Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Mae West—in terms of camp. As Susan Sontag suggests in her essay about camp, the concept is useful in reexamining the interrelationship between form an…
Underwhich Editions was a publishing collective and music imprint u nder which a group of Canadian writers, sound poets, and electronic sound explorers released books, chapbooks, postcards, broadsides, one-folds, leaflets, handmade editions, cassettes, microfiche, floppy disks, …
Die Asoke-Gemeinschaft wurde Mitte der 70er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts gegründet und hat sich seitdem zu einem maßgebendem und außergewöhnlichem Bestandteil der thailändischen Religionslandschaft entwickelt. Die Gemeinschaft besteht sowohl aus ordinierten Frauen und Männern, als…
O objetivo do presente projeto artístico foi adquirir um maior conhecimento sobre o Konzert für Oboe und kleines Orchester (1952) de Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918- 1970). Pretende-se também que este estudo possa contribuir para uma maior divulgação do concerto, tornando-o mais ap…
A arquitetura orgânica nasce da ideia de um desenvolvimento natural, integrado a uma dinâmica complexa de partes organizadas em um todo harmônico, em que a criação arquitetônica dialoga com o entorno de forma simbiótica, como um organismo único. A chave central desta investigaçã…
The aim of this dissertation is to conceptualize the aesthetics of the 1920's in relation to their role amid the art and society of the time. It also strives to describe the concise artistic environment that was born in Paris during the period motivated by several historical fac…
Türk şiirinin modemleşme çabası uzun yıllara yayılan arayışlann sancılanyla doludur. Buna rağmen tarihsel akış içinde yenilik iddiasıyla ortaya çıkan hareketlerin ya da bireysel kalkışmalann etki alanı sınırlıdır. Şiire yönelik takınılan tavır, şairane duyuş, ortak bir dünyanın …
Though they lived a century apart and wrote in starkly disparate historical, cultural, and literary contexts, Russian poets Aleksandr Pushkin and Vladimir Mayakovsky were both victims of the posthumous processes of bureaucratization and monumentalization at the hands of the Sovi…
The thesis explores methods for integration of structural analysis, design and production in a digital design environment. The somewhat ambiguous title implies the ambition to make such integration in relation to the explorative phase of the design process which is described by …
Sebîlürreşâd Dergisi, kültür tarihimizin en önemli ve en uzun soluklu basın-yayın organlarından biridir. İlk olarak Sırât-ı Müstakîm ismiyle 1908 yılında yayın hayatına başlayan dergi, çeşitli sebeplerle bazı dönemlerde kapatılmış olsa da 1966 yılına kadar aralıklı olarak yayını…
This dissertation explores the dual nature of Richard A.W. Hughes as a marginalized Gothicist and modernist. This duality facilitated the development of the author’s reparative vision for a 20th-century world traumatized by planetary war. The present study utilizes close reading…
Yeni Türk Sineması dönemi, Türk Sineması dönemleştirmelerinde Yeşilçam Dönemi’nden sonra geldiği kabul edilen, Yeşilçam’ın içinden doğan ve bu anlamıyla hem Yeşilçam anlatısının izlerini taşıyan hem de Yeşilçam anlatısına zıt bir anlatıyla temellenen bir sinema anlayışına sahipt…
In stark contrast to the city, rural spaces are often considered resistant to the novelistic impulse of narrative progress. Lives here are seemingly unchanged by time or human invention. The rural is often overlooked as an immobile reference point of beginning, way station or en…
What is the role of epic in modernity? Does it still have any value? What shape and structure does it take? This dissertation claims that the epic does indeed continue to inform our experience of the world in modernity, albeit often in unusual ways. Focusing on the period betwee…
Since Senegal's independence, scholars have critically examined each president on how his policies shaped contemporary Senegalese art and its promotion at home and abroad. The presidential patronage of the arts garners an international authority based on cultural supremacy. This…
This study bridges modernist and postcolonial studies to examine the relationship between decadence and empire across the long twentieth century. From Britain and Ireland to the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia, I argue that decadent aestheticism and fin-de-siècle radicalism co…
This dissertation documents and analyzes the work of Alfred Neumann in Israel between 1949 and 1968. Neumann’s approach to architecture reflected a paradigm shift from the notion of ‘building as object’ to ‘building as pattern,’ and served as a critique of Israel's overarching a…
Modernism is not typically thought of as a genre that engages with the gothic, in any mode other than dismissal. And yet the gothic abounds in modernist literature, and in particular, modernist literature is filled with ghosts. In this dissertation, I offer readings of James Joy…