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The dichotomous paradigm constituted by the realist tradition of Chinese cinema has become the epic and inertial discourse for understanding Chinese modernity. However, I argue that some new filmmakers after the sixth generation of directors have used the narrative and aesthetic…

This dissertation develops a theoretical framework for the study of a resurgent realism in the context of contemporary global anglophone literature. By demonstrating the continuing relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin and Georg Lukács, and by expanding their theories of realism and the …

The cultural productions of Katherine Anne Porter, Anita Brenner, Tina Modotti, Maria Izquierdo, and Juanita Guccione represent a distinctive interweaving of gender and class consciousness, national identification and political resistance, as represented in their artistic work. …

The world is shifting from a unipolar system following the end of the Cold War to a multipolar system that is ushered in by “the rise of the rest.” This change in the global structure has led some analysts to predict an increase in nuclear weapons proliferation caused by increas…

This study includes two main parts. In the first part, the three-perspectives, realism, liberalism, and constructivism, of international relations are explained using a specific methodology. In the second part, I analyze Turkish foreign policy between 2002 and 2010 as a case stu…

In the remarkable text of Genesis 18:1–15, Yahweh appears to Abraham and the two share a meal and an intimate conversation. Throughout this encounter, the form which Yahweh assumes is described explicitly as that of a man. He is initially identified as one of three men ('ănāšîm …

The Ethics of Evaluation: the Immigrant, the Cosmopolitan, and the “Jew” in American Literary Realism, 1880–1925, argues that vacillations between philo-Semitic and anti-Semitic literary Jewishness are symptomatic of upheavals in the ethico-religious, economic and aesthetic land…

The Gorbachev epoch surprised and confounded most of the expectations and predictions of "totalitarianism" and "realism" on the question of change in the Soviet Union. Mainstream analysts--adhering, to varying degrees, to these two prevailing and mutually reinforcing Cold War pa…

Iran's foreign policy is consistent and is fundamentally realist with a revolutionist vision while the means are rationalist is the central argument of this dissertation. I make use of the English Schools three traditions of realism, rationalism and revolutionism in analyzing th…

Metatheories of the State is a contribution to reinterpreting contemporary state theorythrough an account of three leading approaches in recent political theory.Metatheorising, as a form of critical analysis and exegesis, is portrayed as a sensitiveexploratory technique which se…

An increasing number of theorists are involving themselves in the historical evolution of geopolitical thought, although most are concerned only with the development of conventional western thinking' This thesis derives from the idea that it may be interesting and useful to inve…

This thesis proposes a new view of space in Theodor Fontane’s writing as both a mode of literary expression and an object of literary inquiry: space serves a poetic function and is a thematic concern. The research draws on theories of literary space which focus on spatial struct…

This study investigates the complex operation of realism in the representational make-up of animated films of the Aardman studio. It focuses on ten early films made in a three-dimensional clay/puppet medium. All the films are based on ‘real’ soundtracks, gathered via secretly re…

This thesis theorises an approach to cinematic suspense derived from a set of films that challenge the teleological and redemptive principles of traditional narrative. It is argued that such a challenge is drawn from the need to account for conditions of violence and suffering w…

This thesis investigates the distinction, or distinctions, between response-dependent and response-independent concepts or subject matters. I present and discuss the three most influential versions of the distinction: Crispin Wright’s, Mark Johnston’s, and Philip Pettit’s. I arg…

The dissertation examines the figure of the adulterous heroine of the nineteenth-century European novel as a symbol of national anxieties. The gendering of a nation or a nation-like collectivity as female has a long history, evident in expressions such as "Mother Earth" or "Moth…

Since the end of the Cold War, mainstream media and state discourses in Europe have established an image of the threatening migrant and minority which fuels anxieties about security. Especially after 9/11, these populations have become associated with terrorism, and depicted as …

This dissertation will seek to answer the following questions: Why has the US-Saudi relationship survived for so long in spite of numerous changes in world order? Can the reason for the longevity of this relationship be explained through alliance theory? In sum, is alliance theo…

Suspense is a central preoccupation of Victorian literature, but it has been under-theorized. Unlike work that argues that suspense does the work of Victorian empiricism, "Stories without End" argues that by borrowing structures from popular culture, suspense undermines and chal…