My dissertation focuses on the two best-known works by Clara Reeve, the novel The Old English Baron (1777) and the critical treatise The Progress of Romance (1785), reading The Progress of Romance as Reeve's effort to outline a feminine, Christianized narrative tradition to serv…
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This thesis closely examines the utilisation of dramatic characters’ comments on matters of literary and theatrical criticism. This phenomenon shaped a trend in European theatre during the first half of the twentieth century, and Egyptian theatre in the second half of the centur…
This study explores parody and resistance in contemporary Japanese women's theater and dance troupes from 1990 to the present. These subversive challenges to the dominance of Western/USA culture and to the modernist, nationalist, and masculinist construction of "the ideal Japane…
This research investigates how visual arts are used to engage dictatorial and ineffectual governments. It examines the traditional and contemporary manifestations of parody of power in Yoruba art from the pre-colonial to the postcolonial period of Nigerian history. It argues tha…
This study explores humor, irony, and satire in the wake of the September 11th attacks, and in relation to nationalist, conservative, and racialized ideologies in the United States. Employing a case study approach, the dissertation analyzes a range of media texts spanning the de…
The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the different ways in which naturalist fiction was parodied in France at the end of the nineteenth century. It demonstrates first of all the validity of approaching naturalist literature through the medium of parody by defining and explai…
This dissertation explores the literary relationship between Ann Radcliffe’s late eighteenth-century heroine-centered novels and Jane Austen’s early nineteenth-century Gothic parodies, Northanger Abbey and Emma. Within this framework, it argues that, contrary to scholarly consen…
The work of nineteenth-century American poet Phoebe Cary presents a complex puzzle of exigence and purpose that combines social structure, political climate, and personal history. Known for her somber and spiritual sentimental poetry, Cary shocked readers and reviewers alike whe…
This thesis examines the ways in which the 1990s art practice of globally renowned artist Lee Bul (b. 1964) critically parodies the visual cultural legacies and collective memories of post-Korean war rapid development, authoritarian dictatorship, and nation-building. Using nontr…