Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 4 of 4
Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network
The House In South Asian Muslim Women’S Early Anglophone Life-Writing And Novels, Diviani Chaudhuri
The House In South Asian Muslim Women’S Early Anglophone Life-Writing And Novels, Diviani Chaudhuri
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation undertakes the first sustained examination of representations of Islamicate material culture, domestic interiors, residential forms, and historic sites in the early Anglophone writing of South Asian Muslim women. Reading the memoirs of Pakistani diplomat Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, From Purdah to Parliament (1963), in conjunction with three early Anglophone novels, namely, Zeenuth Futehally’s Zohra (1951), Mumtaz Shah Nawaz’s The Heart Divided (1957), and Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961), I develop the analytic category of autoethnographic spatial discourse in contradistinction to the harem fantasy inflected colonial spatial discourse prevalent at the time in order to describe the …
Yourcenar's Les Vagues: Changing The Rhythm Of The Waves, Amy L. Cooper
Yourcenar's Les Vagues: Changing The Rhythm Of The Waves, Amy L. Cooper
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
The Imagery Of Time And Season In The German Baroque And Romantic Poetry, Jane Muenzer Mehl
The Imagery Of Time And Season In The German Baroque And Romantic Poetry, Jane Muenzer Mehl
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
Historians of German literature generally agree that the decisive turning point in the reappraisal of German Baroque literature was largely due to Heinrich Wölfflin’s seminal study Renaissance und Barock: Eine Untersuchung über Wesen und Entstehung des Barockstils in ltalien (1888). This monograph on the development of architecture in Rome represents the first significant attempt to distinguish Renaissance and Baroque art using purely structural terms. In it Wölfflin rejects an Aristotelian view of art as the imitation of nature and redefines art history as the study of artistic styles of different epochs, nations, and individuals, expressing distinct philosophies of life, aspirations, …
The Dramaturgy Of Sławomir Mrozek, Regina Grol-Prokopczyk
The Dramaturgy Of Sławomir Mrozek, Regina Grol-Prokopczyk
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
The focus of this dissertation is the dramaturgy of Sławomir Mrożek. The study was triggered by a striking disproportion in Mrożekian criticism. There is a multitude of minor articles and reviews, but not a single monographic study devoted to the dramatist and his work. Such a state of affairs resulted from some accidental factors. In Poland where Mrożek is very well known and appreciated, the official ban imposed on him during the past five years precluded any book on him from appearing. In the West, the absence of a full-length critical study on Mrożek might be attributed to the fact …