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A Natural History of Genius: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Totalitarianism
The eighteenth-century concept of ‘genius’ evolved to strip ambivalent and communal qualities to prioritize the ‘man of genius’ over the merits of his work. A Natural History of Genius: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Totalitarianism ... -
Animate Biology: Data, Visualization, and Life's Moving Image
The dissertation, Animate Biology: Data, Visualization, and Life’s Moving Image, develops a concept of scientific aesthetics in order to counter the neoliberalization of scientific visualization practices. In particular, ... -
Anywhere I Lay My Head: Politics and Poetics of Private Space in Early Soviet Literature and Film
In an article about his visit to Moscow in the winter of 1926-27, Walter Benjamin claimed that “Bolshevism has abolished private life.” Benjamin’s frequently quoted statement highlights a key feature of Soviet society in ... -
Archives of Post-Occupation: Indigenous Peoples and the Biopolitics of Modern Chile
This dissertation studies discourses on Indigenous peoples in the aftermath of the late-nineteenth-century occupation of the lands of the Mapuche people in Wallmapu (historical and unceded Mapuche lands) and Selk’nam people ... -
Borderless Fandom and Contemporary Popular Cultural Scene in Chinese Cyberspace
This dissertation introduces the current Chinese internet fan culture, a subculture basing on consumption and rewriting media and literary texts of various national origins. In seven topics and case studies, I discuss the ... -
Breta sogur from AM 544 4to: an Edition and Translation
In the years following the turn of the fourteenth century, an Icelandic lawyer named Haukr Erlendsson worked as a legal representative to the King of Norway. Haukr preserved many Icelandic literary renderings in a manuscript ... -
Catastrophizing Humanism in Romantic Literature: Mary Shelley, Goethe, and Kleist
This dissertation argues for a new notion of catastrophe as an affective encounter between human beings and an overwhelmingly unintelligible nature, which then creates new temporalities. It explores Romantic novels, poetry, ... -
The Catholic Imagination of Czeslaw Milosz
This dissertation will argue, using a unique hermeneutic model, for interpreting the poetic work of Nobelist Czeslaw Milosz as thoroughly permeated by a Catholic imagination. The introduction will outline a general theory ... -
Classical Allusions and Imperial Desire: Problems of Identity in Georgian and Russian Literature
(2013-02-25)This dissertation explores cultural and political aspects of the relationship between Russia and Georgia, through the lens of Classical allusions. Since ancient Greek and Roman times, Classical myths and tales have been ... -
A computer analysis of the Latin poetry of the fourth century
(1984)The author of this dissertation has written a computer program which scans Latin poetry and which prints out three things: the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables for each line; the number of syllables in each ... -
Created in the Image? Holocaust Perpetrators in Israeli Fiction
(2013-02-25)This dissertation studies aesthetic, political and ethical dimensions of the representation of Holocaust perpetrators in Hebrew and Israeli fiction published since the mid-1940s. Drawing on recent scholarship by Holocaust ... -
Elmi Bodari and the Construction of the Modern Somali Subject in a Colonial and Sufi Context
(2014-04-30)Elmi Bodari was the first Somali poet to compose poems exclusively about the theme of love. Many Somalis believe that it was his unrequited love that caused his early death. His personal tragedy and poems have earned him ... -
Expose and Punish: Trial by Moving Images in Revolutionary China
My dissertation traces a history of how class struggle was made of and through moving images in China. Whereas many existing studies concerning socialism and leftist cultural politics treat class struggle as a given fact, ... -
Feminine Plural: Representations of Vulnerabilities and Vulnerabilities of Representations - Narratives of Women in Contemporary Egyptian Cinema
Huda Shaarawi’s purposeful unveiling in 1919 and the violent undressing of the girl in the blue bra in 2011 trace a narrative arc that begins with the birth of the Egyptian nation and end with the collapse of the state. ... -
Figures of degeneration in fin-de-siècle French literature
(2013-07-23)This dissertation explores how authors used the biological metaphor of degeneration to explain and condemn the decline of France in the first decades of the Third Republic. Degeneration was originally a medical coinage ... -
Fnip1 Regulates Skeletal Muscle Fiber Type Specification, Fatigue Resistance, and Susceptibility to Muscular Dystrophy
Skeletal muscle is characterized by the presence of two distinct categories of muscle fibers called Type I "red" slow twitch and Type II "white" fast twitch, which display marked differences in contraction strength, metabolic ... -
Fragmentation and wholeness in the novels of Luisa Josefina Hernandez and Gerlind Reinshagen
(1999)Themes of fragmentation and wholeness are the twentieth-century version of the eternal questions of disconnection and the search for unity inherent in the human condition. Where the literature of earlier ages has posited ... -
Fragmenting History: Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of Empire
By exploring various figures of gendered and sexualized female workers, such as street prostitutes, hostesses, comfort women, teachers, idols, and actresses, this dissertation reveals that women's bodies were highly contested ... -
From Romantic Aesthetics to Environmental Ethics: Rethinking the Role of Natural Aesthetics in Ecocritical Discourse
This dissertation questions the growing tendency in contemporary ecocriticism to regard the Romantic concept of nature as antithetical to a modern system of environmental ethics. By emphasizing the inherent interconnectedness ...