This work examines the ways in which imperialism operates on middle-class Victorian women in the mid-Victorian age. Focusing on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and George Eliot's Adam Bede, I analyze the process of imperialism which functions on t…
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This thesis focuses on the figure of an abyss residing at the heart of metaphysics, and argues that thinking in light of its destabilising connotations opens up the possibility of attempting to take responsibility for the violence immanent to any and all politico-philosophical p…
The thesis focuses on the conservative canon and analyses the validity of exceptionalist claims of conservative thinking through a deconstructive reading of conservatism. The comparison of classical and radical conservatisms provides the grounds for this analysis. After the intr…
Many works of '9/11 fiction' have attempted to counteract the 'us and them' identity binaries propounded by both the Bush administration and Islamist extremists after 9/11. Often these works proclaim a kind of empathy of the sort Ian McEwan described shortly after the event. As …
When considering the ethico-political task of postcolonial criticism Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak claims that "ethics is the experience of the impossible, " and that "deconstruction cannot form a political program of any kind. " Both these ideas motivate the central question of th…
This thesis explores the psychological trauma of the survivors of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which occurred on April 26, 1986. I argue for the emergence from the disaster of three Chernobyl traumas, each of which will be analysed individually – one per chapter. In reading t…
Considering deconstruction as a means of achieving sustainable construction, would enable the construction industry to address some of its environmental problems. In addition, the growing pressure from the public and legislation for environmental considerations, means that there…
This thesis analyses discourses about the roles and barriers to access for women to decision-making positions in Israeli sport organisations. In particular it focuses on the exploration of discourses of masculinity and femininity that underpin the relatively recent construction …
This thesis examines how the Soviet construction of womanhood resulted first in females’ active participation in World War II and then in the silencing of women’s war experiences by fabricating a reality in which women’s trauma did not exist. Such a deprivation of women’s agency…
My thesis involves an examination of the first written text of ancient China’s pre-dynastic period. The Dao De Jing of LaoTse presented a fully developed system of philosophical thought that would influence all future writings of Traditional Chinese culture. LaoTse is said to ha…
This dissertation examines the ways in which educators that self-identify as religious produce themselves as ethical subjects within the pseudo-secular space of public schools. This inquiry has its foundations in poststructuralist theories such as Derrida’s deconstruction (deepl…
This dissertation argues that Stanley Grenz developed an evangelical bibliotrinitarian method to confront the challenge of postmodernism. The dissertation covers his development within evangelicalism, from a pastor's kid who inherited a pretribulation-premillennial dispensationa…
Deconstruction is a philosophical concept that sounds difficult to understand. However, if people can realize its core and the way it works, they will know that it is a method that everyone can repeatedly use in their daily life to open up their minds.
This study sought to examine how graduates of the "at-risk youth" category experience their selfhood years after they populated this category. The sample comprised adults who had been removed from their homes in their youth by court order or at the local welfare department's rec…
In contemporary France, there exists a tension between republican universalism and antiracism, particularly in terms of the way in which identities are constructed. Part of the difficulty, or the “trouble” that France has with identity has to do with its relationship to its form…
U ovom radu bavimo se teorijskim, stilskim, komparativnim i hermeneutičkim istraživanjem vizuelnih elemementa u prozi srpskog postmodernizma i neoavangarde. Pod vizuelnim elementima podrazumevamo ovom prilikom: slike, ilustracije, karikature, embleme, kolaže i fotomontaže. Cilj …