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Tyranny in Jacobean Roman tragedies (1603--1611)
(2005)
This dissertation defends the theory that Jacobean Roman tyrant-tragedies are inherently anti-tyrannical and anti-absolutist. As such, they contest the absolutist discourses of James I, which claim that legitimate kings ...
Postmodern optics
(2005)
The aim of this study is to analyze contemporary visual phenomena through the lens of postmodern theory and culture. Starting from the premise that "optics" better characterizes our current visual regime than the term ...
Andrew J. Smitherman: A pioneer of the African American press, 1909--1961
(2006)
My subject of inquiry is Andrew J. Smitherman, an accomplished African American lawyer and journalist. I will examine his life and career as a successful newspaper editor and publisher during the early 20 th Century. Many ...
New breed, old blood: Gothic horror in contemporary fiction and film
(2006)
Whereas most studies treat the "gothic" and "horror" genres as distinct, New Breed, Old Blood uses narrative, feminist, and queer theory, as well as literary and cultural history, to argue that "gothic horror" is a multi-media ...
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 ...
The Benjaminian concept of the aura and dialectical images: Mariko Mori's digital montages and a historical modernity
(2005)
Reinvestigating the Benjaminian concept of the aura, which has been appropriated by art historians and critics, opens up another possibility that fully conveys the opportune issues we are now facing, thus giving us an acute ...
The stories women tell: History, memory and countermemory in twentieth century American literature and film by women
(2006)
This dissertation focuses on literary and cinematic texts by twentieth century women writers and directors that narrate "lost histories," to use Nancy Peterson's phrase. More specifically, the texts under consideration ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...