This thesis is an analysis of performance, linguistic repetition, and silence in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's March 30, 2011 speech to the People's Assembly given 2 weeks after riots erupted in the Syrian province of Deraa on March 15, 2011. Various types of repetition inc…
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Repeated verses and lines occur with relative frequency in the Hebrew text of Proverbs. This study explores how those repetitions are translated in the Septuagint version. Translated repetitions provide unique insight into the decision making process of the translator because th…
This dissertation examines the consequences of the (post)colonial experience in the Caribbean and nationhood in Israel as represented in the contemporary fiction and essays of Édouard Glissant and Aharon Appelfeld. The works of both Glissant and Appelfeld, I argue, represent a c…
This dissertation explores literature from the Pied-Noir community from 1962 to present and examines the written recreation of Algeria in a postcolonial context. The majority of Pieds-Noirs, formerly the French citizens of Algeria or Français d Algérie, left Algeria upon its ind…
It has long been asserted that the mind’s predisposition to predict the future based on the past and present underpins the understanding and enjoyment of music. An oft-considered paradox in music psychology is that if a listener’s thwarted expectations cause an emotional respons…
Rhythmic Proportions is a story about shifting the balance between logical structures and artistic freedoms. Manifested through paintings and found objects from a piano, my thesis negotiates a series of missions through an evolution of creative methodology in the interest of dis…