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"One Must Go Forth to Evil Houses": Kitsch, the Aesthetic Sense, and the Ethics of Negative Thinking
The faculty of taste as a dialectical unity of sensual and moral pleasure (or displeasure), an idea first consolidated as an effective concept by Immanuel Kant, has been fully commodified by capitalist-consumerist culture. ... -
Pacific Crossings: Travel, Writing, and Literary Transition in the Sino-American Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Animated by the goal of drawing substantial comparisons between the transitions to literary modernity in China and the United States, Pacific Crossings explores the beginnings of Sino-American transpacific travel in the ... -
Pariahs, Tricksters, and the Subversion of Modernity: The Decolonial Borderland Narratives of Cormac McCarthy and Eduardo Antonio Parra.
This dissertation analyzes how decolonial borderland narratives unveil the rhetoric and promises of modernity. In particular, how they reject Western ideals of progress, development, and civilization, while also conveying ... -
Picaresque Comedy and Its Discontents
(2013-02-25)The emergence of Lazarillo de Tormes in sixteenth-century Spain represents not only the birth of the picaresque genre but also a new comic sensibility--picaresque comedy. The critical new dimension of picaresque comedy is ... -
Questions in Narratives from Oral Tradition to Literature
“Questions in Narratives from Oral Tradition to Literature” examines the functions of questions in fictional narratives. By attending to the interplay between performance and text, the dissertation encompasses both ... -
The romantic outlaw narrative
(2004)Focusing on five German works of the Romantic Period, this study offers a glimpse into the nature of Romantic outlaw narrative and its place in literary history. Friedrich Schiller's Die Rauber (1781), serving as a ... -
Saltwater Language: Making Sense of Ourselves Through the Science and Art of Marine Invertebrates
Saltwater Language: Making Sense of Ourselves Through the Science and Art of Marine Invertebrates is an “undisciplined” project entangling the biology of four marine invertebrates (sea stars, crabs, barnacles, and octopuses) ... -
Screening the Museum Aesthetic: Auteurs in Transnational Heritage Film
This dissertation interrogates the relationship between heritage visual culture and its ability to present an alternative individual and collective past. Expanding on Gavriel D. Rosenfeld’s concept of an alternate history, ... -
Secrecy, Secularism, and the Coming Revolution in Naguib Mahfouz's Postwar Masterpieces (1952-1967)
(2012-09-13)In the wake of the Egyptian revolution of 1952, Egypt's Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz turned to stories of corruption and alienation, initiatory underworlds of the revolution's political detractors drawn from an unlikely ... -
Strategies of Inwardness Narrative Apprehension and the Modernist Quest for the Locus of Authenticity
(2014-02-24)Strategies of Inwardness: Narrative Apprehension and the Modernist Quest for the Locus of Authenticity Abstract This dissertation reads together for the first time Heart of Darkness, The Confessions of Zeno, and The ... -
Tao Yuanming and William Wordsworth: A Parallel Study
The dissertation conducts a parallel study of a prominent Chinese poet from the early medieval period named Tao Yuanming and William Wordsworth, one of the founding figures of British Romanticism, with the aim to suggest ... -
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 ...