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A most pleasant comedy of Mucedorus
(2009)
The English Renaissance romantic comedy Mucedorus survives in no less than seventeen complete quartos, making it the most widely printed English play prior to the Restoration. It was first performed in the early 1590s, and ...
Evolutionary mythology and interactive entertainment
(2009)
As literary technology continues to evolve with the advent of the internet and other storytelling mediums, so too does mythology evolve within a parallel trajectory along with the narrative structures that contain their ...
'Racing the screen: Race and hegemony in African American television
(2006)
Race is represented, constructed, and negotiated on television just as it is in the texts of more traditional literature. In the course of the cultural struggle for access to the expressive spaces that are television shows, ...
James Blue, Buffalo and the complex urban documentary
(2006)
James Blue, Buffalo and the Complex Urban Documentary is a study of the life and achievements of the documentary filmmaker James Blue, particularly during his years in Buffalo, where he taught at the State University of ...
Architectural grotesque: Impersonal affects and the new queer cinematic
(2006)
Criticism on queer cinema, with its emphasis on irreverence, pastiche, and gender construction, has lost its political efficacy because the aesthetic criteria and cultural conditions in which it is received are becoming ...
Haunted heritage: History, memory, and violence in the drama of August Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks
(2006)
Ghosts, specters, and spirits visit frequently the pages of African American literature. In Haunted Heritage: History, Memory, and Violence in the Drama of August Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks I examine the question of ...
From artificial art to dissolute beauty: The Renaissance in George Eliot and Walter Pater
(2005)
The present work analyses the theoretical impact of the Italian Renaissance, which deeply caught the imagination of the Nineteenth century, in George Eliot's Romola and Walter Pater's Studies in the Renaissance and Greek ...
Performing infancy: Transmitting/transmuting the inhuman in evolutionary and technological gothic
(2005)
Elaborating on the research of Jean-François Lyotard, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jean Baudrillard, this dissertation discusses the ways in which the performativity (the relationship between the text and its reading[s]) of certain ...
Aegean seals and oral literacy in Bronze Age Greece
(2005)
This paper will investigate the correlation between the epic poetry of Homer and his use of simile and metaphor in relation to Bronze Age seals. The use of simile and metaphor extends beyond poetry into the arts and crafts ...
Singing machines: Musical intelligences and human instruments in science fiction and film
(2005)
Singing Machines: Musical Intelligences and Human Instruments in Science Fiction and Film examines the ways that musically-inclined machines and instruments function in science fiction. The texts under investigation ...