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Back To The Future Or Forward To The Past: Ocean Voyaging And Slow Travel, Christina Gerhardt
Back To The Future Or Forward To The Past: Ocean Voyaging And Slow Travel, Christina Gerhardt
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Going back to previous modes of travel, such as walking or sailing, to ensure a future, is currently being engaged by everyone from ambling environmentalists to scientists and technologists. In Germany and in Sweden, scientists are working to develop large cargo sailing ships. These ships of the future hearken back to the past of ocean voyaging. They dovetail with contemporary literary reflections on ocean voyaging and slow travels, such as Judith Schalansky’s Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will (2009). Weaving together an analysis of Schalansky’s atlas with environmental humanities discourses on …
Fir-Flower Petals On A Wet Black Bough: Constructing New Poetry Through Asian Aesthetics In Early Modernist Poets, Matthew Gilbert
Fir-Flower Petals On A Wet Black Bough: Constructing New Poetry Through Asian Aesthetics In Early Modernist Poets, Matthew Gilbert
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Critics often credit Ezra Pound and his Imagist movement for the development of American poetics. Pound’s interest in international arts and minimalist aesthetics of cross-cultural poetry gained the attention of prominent writers throughout Modernist and Post-Modern periods. From writers like Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein to later poets like Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder, image and precise language has shaped American literature. Few critics have praised Eastern cultures or the Imagist poets who adopted an East-Western form of poetics: Amy Lowell and William Carlos Williams. Studying traditional Eastern painting and short-form poetry and interactions with personal connections to the East, …
A Passage From Brooklyn To Ithaca: The Sea, The City And The Body In The Poetics Of Walt Whitman And C. P. Cavafy, Michael P. Skafidas
A Passage From Brooklyn To Ithaca: The Sea, The City And The Body In The Poetics Of Walt Whitman And C. P. Cavafy, Michael P. Skafidas
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This treatise is the first extensive comparative study of Walt Whitman and C. P. Cavafy. Despite the abundant scholarship dealing with the work and life of each, until now no critic has put the two poets together. Whitman’s poetry celebrates birth, youth, the self and the world as seen for the first time, while Cavafy’s diverts from the active present to resurrect a world whose key, in Eliot’s terms, is memory. Yet, I see the two poets conversing in the crossroads of the fin de siècle; the American Whitman and the Greek Cavafy embody the antithesis of hope and dislocation …
Constructing Abe No Seimei: Integrating Genre And Disparate Narratives In Yumemakura Baku's Onmyōji, Devin T. Recchio
Constructing Abe No Seimei: Integrating Genre And Disparate Narratives In Yumemakura Baku's Onmyōji, Devin T. Recchio
Masters Theses
The Onmyōji series has had an incredible impact on Japanese fiction. It has created an entire genre of material called onmyōjimono and sold 5 million copies counting only the novel series. Despite this, it has been woefully understudied by both Japanese and English speaking scholars. The Japanese scholars that do acknowledge it use it as a springboard to launch a survey of Abe no Seimei in written and performed media throughout history, and the English speaking scholars have limited their analyses to the form that oni take in the narrative. My research has revealed that Yumemakura Baku utilizes a complex …
Zadam Bede’S Dutch Realism And The Novelist’S Point Of View, Rebecca Gould
Zadam Bede’S Dutch Realism And The Novelist’S Point Of View, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Topographies Of Anticolonialism: The Ecopoetical Sublime In The Caucasus From Tolstoy To Mamakaev, Rebecca Gould
Topographies Of Anticolonialism: The Ecopoetical Sublime In The Caucasus From Tolstoy To Mamakaev, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Inimitability Versus Translatability: The Structure Of Literary Meaning In Arabo-Persian Poetics, Rebecca Gould
Inimitability Versus Translatability: The Structure Of Literary Meaning In Arabo-Persian Poetics, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
“A Singapore Ramayana: Academic Freedom And The Liberal Arts Curriculum”, Rebecca Gould
“A Singapore Ramayana: Academic Freedom And The Liberal Arts Curriculum”, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Prisons Before Modernity: Incarceration In The Medieval Indo-Mediterranean, Rebecca Gould
Prisons Before Modernity: Incarceration In The Medieval Indo-Mediterranean, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Allegory And The Critique Of Sovereignty: Ismail Kadare’S Political Theologies, Rebecca Gould
Allegory And The Critique Of Sovereignty: Ismail Kadare’S Political Theologies, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Reading Ruins Against The Grain: Istanbul, Derbent, Postcoloniality, Rebecca Gould
Reading Ruins Against The Grain: Istanbul, Derbent, Postcoloniality, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Leaving The House Of Memory: Post-Soviet Traces Of Deportation Memory, Rebecca Gould
Leaving The House Of Memory: Post-Soviet Traces Of Deportation Memory, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Philology, Education, Democracy, Rebecca Gould
Yiddish In Abramovitsh's Literary Revival Of Hebrew, Ken Frieden
Yiddish In Abramovitsh's Literary Revival Of Hebrew, Ken Frieden
Ken Frieden
No abstract provided.
World Literature As A Communal Apartment: Semyon Lipkin’S Ethics Of Translational Difference, Rebecca Gould
World Literature As A Communal Apartment: Semyon Lipkin’S Ethics Of Translational Difference, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
The Geography Of Comparative Literature, Rebecca Gould
The Geography Of Comparative Literature, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
“The Geography of Comparative Literature,” Journal of Literary Theory 5.2 (2011): 167–186 (examines the disciplinary history of Comparative Literature in the Arab and Persian world in relation to Europe; reviewed in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 13.07.2011, No. 160, S. N5).
Universal Identities And Local Realities: Young Poland's (Mis)Readings Of Synge, John A. Merchant
Universal Identities And Local Realities: Young Poland's (Mis)Readings Of Synge, John A. Merchant
Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The problems Young Poland experienced in understanding the work of John Millington Synge were informed by precisely the same kind of behaviors that Daniel Corkery described in his argument for a truly native Irish national literature in the 1930s. Overcome by a strong sense of self, Poles were not fully able to appreciate the complexities and nuances of Synge's work and by extension, the Irish-Ireland movement. In the end, then, Young Poland was incapable of really understanding the Irish, and so the best they could do was to associate with them. As a result, Poles may have been able to …
Review Of The Calligrapher’S Secret By Rafik Schami, Rebecca Gould
Review Of The Calligrapher’S Secret By Rafik Schami, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
How Newness Enters The World: The Methodology Of Sheldon Pollock, Rebecca Gould
How Newness Enters The World: The Methodology Of Sheldon Pollock, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Ignaty Krachkovsky’S Encounters With Arabic Literary Modernity Through Amīn Al-Riḥānī, Rebecca Gould
Ignaty Krachkovsky’S Encounters With Arabic Literary Modernity Through Amīn Al-Riḥānī, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
The Impact Of Irish Ireland On Young Poland, 1890-1918, John A. Merchant
The Impact Of Irish Ireland On Young Poland, 1890-1918, John A. Merchant
Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works
John. A. Merchant examines the impact of a contemporary cultural movement, Irish Ireland, on its Polish counterpart, Young Poland. He traces the reception of Irish literature in the form of translations of works by W. B. Yeats and John Millington Synge in Poland through translations by Jan Kasprowicz, Zenon "Miriam" Przesmycki and others as well as through a variety of cultural commentaries by Polish critics and by means of stage productions of Irish plays by theater directors, such as Tadeusz Pawlikowski.