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The Burden of a Song: Victorian Women’s Poetics, Silence and Dissonance
This dissertation has explored the ways in which women poets manipulate and expand the scope of women’s poetics. Looking at women poets’ development of poetics in relation to voice, sound and music helps us to understand ... -
The Myth of Voluntary Death: The Representation of Sacrifice and Martyrdom in the Maoist Films (1949-1976)
The dissertation investigates into the layered narratives of sacrifice and revolutionary martyrdom in Maoist films. Martyr’s death is abstracted and elevated from unpredictable personal event to be a collectively controllable ... -
The Transforming Mediascape in Postwar Japan: A Media History of Oshima Nagisa
This dissertation traces a history of the transforming mediascape in postwar Japan by focusing on the trajectory of Oshima Nagisa’s multimedia collaboration. The project has two discrete but intertwined objectives. One is ... -
The Zagreb School of Animation and the Unperfect
University of Washington Abstract The Zagreb School of Animation and the Unperfect Paul W. Morton Chair of Supervisory Committee Gordana Crnković Department of Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media From 1956 until 1991, ... -
"This Humble Work": Puerto Rican and Philippine Literature between Spanish and United States Empires
“‘This Humble Work’: Puerto Rican and Philippine Literature between Spanish and United States Empires” interrogates the concept of value that underpins contemporary theories of world literature, arguing that this field of ... -
To the Funhouse: W. G. Sebald's Playful Intertextuality
<italic>To the Funhouse: W. G. Sebald's Playful Intertextuality</italic> examines intertextual and intermedial techniques of narrative composition in the works of W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) as a creative and ludic methodological ... -
Un/Becoming Chinese: Huaqiao, the Non-Perishable Sojourner Reinvented, and Alterity of Chineseness
(2013-07-25)This dissertation explores the construction of huaqiao, the Chinese sojourner, and its representation in modern Chinese literature. By interrogating and problematizing the concepts of Chineseness and huaqiao, this project ... -
Urban and Rural Encounters in Chinese Postsocialist Film and Media
This dissertation examines mainstream popular forms of nonfiction film and media in postsocialist Mainland China. I trace how these programs reflect and shape contemporary Chinese visions of reality—in particular, how these ... -
The uses of the supernatural in the works of Lord Dunsany and James Stephens
(1990)This study has its genesis in the letters written between Lord Dunsany and James Stephens between 1909 and 1912. The letters reveal interest in each other's work and contrasting ways in which each employed supernatural ... -
The Übermensch comes to Scandinavia: rereading Hamsun and Dinesen in the light of Nietzsche's philosophy
(2000)This dissertation seeks to clarify the works of Knut Hamsun (1859--1952) and Isak Dinesen (1885--1962) in the light of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy (1844--1900). The author considers Hamsun and Dinesen a "step-son" and ... -
Versican Expression During Embryonic Development in the Mouse
(2014-04-30)Versican is a chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan and a component of the extracellular matrix that has previously been shown to have an important role during the embryonic development of many organs. In this study, versican ... -
Women's Modernism in Peripheral Catholic Europe: The Poetry of Blanaid Salkeld and Concha Méndez
(2013-07-25)Hindered by both the gendering of modernism and entrenched patriarchal Catholic notions of gender, the Irish poet Blanaid Salkeld and the Spanish poet Concha Méndez have been respectively erased from their national canon ... -
Writing the Indigenous: Contemporary Mayan Literature in Chiapas, Mexico and Palestinian Literature in Israel
(2013-07-25)This dissertation examines contemporary Mayan literature in Chiapas, Mexico (1983-2010) and Palestinian literature in Israel (1976-2010). It performs an understudied comparison between the literary traditions of two ... -
Yellow Face, White Screen: Racial Performance, Media Technology, and Film Aesthetics in American Cinema, 1901-1949
This dissertation studies the mutually constitutive ways in which a multitude of media technologies intersected with the racial formations of the so-called “Oriental” or the “yellow race” in the burgeoning screen culture ...