Some artists achieve substantial fame only after their death. Such fame is brought about through the efforts of a network of curators, critics, and estate managers who collectively shape a story from the life and work of the artist into a cohesive mythology and, in so doing, cre…
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While the origin of the Arab Spring is well documented in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria, the role of press photography in presenting these conflicts is not. Images taken during a conflict often follow a particular narrative that comes to define how we remember a conflict. Cons…
This dissertation provides a new interpretation of the Bronze Age Ugaritic myth of Baal. The poem is read within its political context of the thirteenth and twelfth centuries B.C. Building off of previous scholarship that has recognized a political focus in the poem, I situate t…
In this thesis I theorize Indian revolutionary V.D. Savarkar's seminal text "Hindutva: Who is a Hindu?" (1923), comparing related themes in Carl Schmitt's Weimar writings: national myth (1923) and the friend-enemy distinction (1932). Responding to the first phase of mass-mobiliz…
New Testament discussion over the meaning of the kingdom of God has been dominated by the scholarship of Norman Perrin. Perrin, adopting insights about symbols and myths from the works of Philip Wheelwright and Paul Ricoeur, categorized the kingdom of God as a symbol that evoked…
In his novels on India, Rushdie finds it necessary to employ the mythical mode which accommodates the deeply religious as well as the secular side of the nation. Especially in Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh, the Hindu gods dance through his pages, taking on the myt…
This dissertation explores the many allusions to and retellings of the Oedipus myth in twentieth-century writing and examines their relationship to what many have seen as the crisis in humanism as it has unfolded in the past hundred years. For modernists and many of their succes…
World War One has evoked a prodigious and sustained literary response from Jewish writers in Eastern and Western Europe, America and Israel. For some, it was their formative literary experience; for others their culminating one. Some wrote as soldiers or veterans, others as refu…
This dissertation is a study of how the symbolism, meaning and function of the Lincoln Memorial has been shaped and altered by civil rights protests held at its site from 1922 to 1968 and by the overarching influence of the ideology of American exceptionalism. The focus is on pr…
The ancient Egyptians and Dogon conceive that all elements of the universe operate in harmony. Therefore, the manner in which the Egyptians and Dogon express and experience their cosmologies must agree with this harmony. Using an African-centered approach, this study examines th…
The Pyramid Texts, written on the walls of the entrance corridors, antechambers, and funerary chambers of the royal pyramids of the late Fifth and entire Sixth Dynasties, are filled with mythic statements and allusions, without using prose or poetic narrative. They functioned as…
The satyr, that ubiquitous creature of Greek mythology, is often defined from the thousands of images which appear on Attic vases of the Archaic and Classical Periods. This dissertation looks instead at other, mostly non-Attic representations of the satyr in the same periods. Th…
This thesis presents three main arguments. First, that curating in national museums is a process of meaning making and that the exhibitionary meaning is situated in and mediated by culture, thus, the products of curatorial work, i.e. the exhibitionary complexes are complex polit…
In 2014, as the number of survivors dwindles, the representation of their memory and testimony after they have gone becomes increasingly important. Although it is critical to discuss the historical facts of the atrocities of World War II, those facts often do not reach the perso…
The aim of my thesis is to examine the writings of the modernist author, Mary Butts, placing her work in the context of the early twentieth century. I concentrate specifically on reading her work in relation to 'time', both as a historical period and as a more abstract idea. But…
The thesis consists of five chapters: the first functions as an overture; the second, third and fourth deal with Plato, Cicero and Montaigne respectively; and the fifth raises some questions. The overture explores the ways in which Odysseus, Lucretius and Seneca approached death…
The War on Terror ushered in a third level of diplomacy grounded in values as a cumulation of everyday micromoments: mythic public diplomacy. Mythic public diplomacy uses values as a communicative outcome that is a process, not a product. Mythic public diplomacy seeks to enginee…
The primary research question of this dissertation examines how the media, relying on mythical conceptions of femininity and masculinity, both reflect and shape cultural understanding about gendered labor roles within the context of the family. Drawing on theories of gender iden…