Esta tese propõe um estudo comparatista dos romances Madame Bovary , de Gustave Flaubert, Dom Casmurro , de Machado de Assis e O Primo Basílio, de Eça de Queirós, sobre os quais, como questão de base para o nosso trabalho, desenvolveremos uma análise crítica à interpretação que …
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1857 remains a central watershed in the North Indian history, marking an end to the Mughal rule and permanently altering the material and social landscape of North India. This research analyzes the accounts of 1857 and the late Mughal rule by North Indian Urdu authors written in…
Little research exists on the experiences of first generation Iranians and the various factors that may influence their adaptation to life in the United States. As a growing population in the U.S., Iranians are an understudied group within the psychological literature. In consid…
Pierre Grenaud's apparent conclusion in his chapter “Que penser de l'Ecole nord-africaine des lettres?” is that no significant literary community which could be classified as such existed in the French Algeria of the 1930s and 1940s. His analysis seems to indicate that during th…
This thesis is an archaeological and ethnographic exploration of historic military sites associated with the Cold War. It takes a multi-sited approach to former radar installations in the UK and examines the range of meanings and values that surround them, as well as their media…
Websites have become a familiar feature of contemporary cinema and they contribute to the overall audience experience. Yet as a hybrid of storytelling and marketing, they have often been seen as little more than promotional ephemera, and they have rarely been critically examined…
This doctoral thesis studies a cycle of British film and television fictions produced in the years 2005-2011 and set retrospectively in the 1980s. In its identification and in-depth textual and contextual analysis of what it terms the ‘Eighties Cycle’, it offers a significant co…
American musical theater reverberates with both idealized and ironic representations of the past, with complex forms of unthinking, reassuring nostalgia and self-conscious anti-nostalgia. The American past, as the dominant setting for what is often called a uniquely "American" a…
The second half of the twentieth century was a period of rapid urbanization in Istanbul. During this time, the city witnessed the development of a consumer society, the expansion and cultural ascendancy of the middle class, and the development of modern techniques of image mass …
This work examines the role of nostalgia in texts by Judeo-Maghrebian women writers who write retrospectively about their lives in North Africa. I study authors from Algeria (Rachel Kahn, Myriam Ben, Hélène Cixous and Annie Cohen), Tunisia (Annie Goldmann and Nine Moati), and Mo…
This dissertation explores the transformations that took place in Turkish political culture at the end of the twentieth century that shifted boundaries between political and apolitical, public and private. It focuses on the privatization of the Kemalist state ideology and politi…
This Ph.D. dissertation focuses on the nostalgic feelings of the Andalusian Arabs and Jews toward the East and on the role that eastern poetic conventions played in the literary composition of al-Andalus. The first chapter introduces a quick survey of nostalgia among Arabs from …
This dissertation traces the remarkable trajectory of a now-forgotten and quite lethal disease: nostalgia. From the coining of the term in 1688 to its unceremonious removal from medical taxonomies two centuries later, nostalgia was indeed a severe clinical condition, a "passion …
The present work analyzes the return—both the physical return and anticipated physical return—to the homeland after living in exile, the act of remembering caused by this process, and the metareflective role that the genre of autofiction plays in this interaction. The dissertati…
Serving as a visual representation of a different time and place, barns and agricultural architecture across America have both historical and cultural values that are imitable. Evoking a strong sense of nostalgia and simplicity, barns are an often-overlooked architectural typolo…
Proceeding from different conceptualizations of nostalgia in Japan and the United States, this dissertation argues for the need to expand definition of nostalgia and the potential for conversation in performance studies around multiple nostalgias as analytical and pedagogical to…
This dissertation will explore the nostalgic fantasy worlds created by rock musicians at the start of the seventies. While popular culture of the entire decade saw a huge explosion of interest in the past, these early years of the decade are particularly interesting because they…
This collection of papers explores different elements of popular culture and how they reflect our world. The first is about the history of the comic medium as it relates to the development of New York in the late 19th to the 20th century. Attention is paid to the idea of moderni…
Many contemporary artists have turned to the past in order to negotiate and make sense of their relationship with the present. Similarly, museums have begun to look back in order to push forward and through a revisionist lens they scrutinize their collections and reveal ignored …