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The nature and scope of this dissertation focuses on one particular work by the composer Enrique Granados—his opera Goyescas. Because the music of the opera was derived from the piano suite of the same name, this discussion necessarily includes an examination of that piano suite…

This is an examination of the thematic and formal elements of Ken Bugul's first six books (1982-2005). Fyfe contextualizes this Senegalese female author's works as a literary response to alienation in the post-colonial time period. Drawing on the performance and Wolofophone elem…

This dissertation presents a technological and stylistic assessment of Early Bronze Age pottery production at Tarsus-Gözlükule, a multi-period mound settlement located in the Cilician Plain in southern Turkey. Pottery production, like all other man-made objects, is firstly a tec…

The impetus and drive for my dissertation was three-fold: (1) My extensive professional and vocational proficiency as a Pastor and Preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; (2) My personal witness, experiences, and practice of Black Preaching's power to excite, inspire…