Fragmented Knowledge: The Riddle Of Unknowability In Kafka's "In Unserer Synagoge" And "Die Sorge Des Hausvaters",
2016
Dartmouth College
Fragmented Knowledge: The Riddle Of Unknowability In Kafka's "In Unserer Synagoge" And "Die Sorge Des Hausvaters", Matthew Greene
Comparative Literature M.A. Essays
No abstract provided.
The House In South Asian Muslim Women’S Early Anglophone Life-Writing And Novels,
2016
Binghamton University--SUNY
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 …
The Evolution Of Feminism In India Through Women Writers Of The Colonial Period: Krupabai Satthianadhan, Cornelia Sorabji, And Sarojini Naidu,
2016
CUNY City College
The Evolution Of Feminism In India Through Women Writers Of The Colonial Period: Krupabai Satthianadhan, Cornelia Sorabji, And Sarojini Naidu, Betsy George
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Revolution, Redemption, And Romance: Reading Constructions Of Filipino Spanish American Identities And Politics Of Knowledge In Rizal’S Noli Me Tangere And El Filibusterismo Alongside Filipino American Fiction,
2016
Hamline University
Revolution, Redemption, And Romance: Reading Constructions Of Filipino Spanish American Identities And Politics Of Knowledge In Rizal’S Noli Me Tangere And El Filibusterismo Alongside Filipino American Fiction, Steven Beardsley
Departmental Honors Projects
This project analyzes the literary works and the iconic role of Filipino nationalist José Rizal before, during, and after the Spanish American War of 1898. Rizal’s social activism and writing inspired a revolution against the Friarocracy in the Philippines. He also influenced Filipino American writers who reference Rizal’s construction of the Filipino woman in Christianity and Filipinos fighting against colonial oppression. Additionally, Filipino American writers illustrate how being Filipino in the US today is a transcultural experience rather than a simple binary of traditional Philippines and modern America. Recognizing Spain as an earlier colonizing force is critical in understanding the …
Re-Examining And Redefining The Concepts Of Community, Justice, And Masculinity In The Works Of René Depestre, Carlos Fuentes, And Ernest Gaines,
2016
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Re-Examining And Redefining The Concepts Of Community, Justice, And Masculinity In The Works Of René Depestre, Carlos Fuentes, And Ernest Gaines, Jacqueline Nicole Zimmer
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In La Communauté desoeuvrée (1983) French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy describes how a community is creating by bringing its members together under a collective identity. The invention of myths, such as the myth of racial superiority and the mythic revolutionary community, functions to sustain the hegemonic dominance wielded in Haiti by the United States and later by François Duvalier, the Porfiriato and its aftermath in Mexico, and white society in the United States Deep South. These myths often engender policies founded in the inhospitable treatment of those who are deemed lesser or ‘other’. Nancy’s conception of being singular plural posits that …
The Evolution Of The Vampire Other: Symbols Of Difference From Folklore To Millennial Literature,
2016
University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College
The Evolution Of The Vampire Other: Symbols Of Difference From Folklore To Millennial Literature, Kate Buckley
Honors Theses
With its roots in Eastern Europe and rapidly spreading to Western society in the past few hundred years, the vampire has served as a double for humanity, with the division of self between monstrosity and the human ideal. Vampires in folklore and literature have been a means by which human cultures have identified concepts of human subjectivity (identity), particularly with regard to what various societies have defined as monstrous (being Othered) within human nature. This study examines how the vampire character evolves throughout the centuries, with a specific focus on the less monstrous contemporary vampires who form hybrid communities with …
Arts: Fiction And Fiction Writers: The Americas,
2016
Linfield College
Arts: Fiction And Fiction Writers: The Americas, Rachel Norman
Faculty Publications
This essay by Rachel Norman, which originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, discusses contemporary Muslim fiction published in the United States with a particular focus on three novels: Mojha Kahf's The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land, and Randa Jarrar's A Map of Home.
Nursery Rhymes: Pieces Of The Children’S Literature Puzzle In Translation,
2016
Berklee College of Music
Nursery Rhymes: Pieces Of The Children’S Literature Puzzle In Translation, Catalina Millán Scheiding
Faculty Works
Nursery rhymes are being found increasingly in translational situations, normally in intertextual translations, yet there is no framework or specific study of how they should be translated. This paper aims, on the one hand, to explore the theories related to children’s literature translation that could be applied to nursery rhyme translation, and on the other hand, to identify the particular idiosyncrasies of nursery rhymes that may have an effect on their translation. Several examples are analyzed from different media (comic, children’s book and film) in their translation from English into Spanish and new study possibilities are proposed.
Translating History And Expunging Treason: Textual And Political Intervention In The Conspiracy Of The Duke Of Biron,
2016
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
Translating History And Expunging Treason: Textual And Political Intervention In The Conspiracy Of The Duke Of Biron, Adrian Izquierdo
Publications and Research
This article explores the connections between official history writing, the genre of political biography and translation practices in France and Spain in the seventeenth century. It argues that Juan Pablo Mártir Rizo’s Historia trágica de la vida del duque de Biron, a biography he wrote using Pierre Matthieu’s monumentally large Histoire de France as a source, served to refashion contemporary history by actively intervening in the text in order to change its political and ideological implications. Early modern theories on imitation and the hackneyed traduttore, traditore motif are thus the backbone of the analysis of a translation that shows how …
(Re)Writing History In Maryse Condé, Femi Euba, And Reinaldo Arenas,
2016
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
(Re)Writing History In Maryse Condé, Femi Euba, And Reinaldo Arenas, Lázara Bolton
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This comparative study asserts the centrality of spirituality to literature that explores life in the African Diaspora. Specifically, it emphasizes the importance of spirituality both to the authors and to the lives of their characters in the novels Victoire, les saveurs et les mots (2006) by the Guadeloupian author Maryse Condé, Camwood at Crossroads (2007) by Nigerian author Femi Euba, and El color del verano (1991) by Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas. A close reading of the three novels shows that they are representative of autohistoría literary works, which represent the spirituality of the writer, as well as the people written …
Evil Men Have No Songs: The Terrorist And Literatuer Boris Savinkov, 1879-1925,
2016
University of South Carolina
Evil Men Have No Songs: The Terrorist And Literatuer Boris Savinkov, 1879-1925, Irina Vasilyeva Meier
Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation is devoted to the works of the legendary terrorist mastermind Boris Savinkov (1879-1925), who planned notorious political assassinations at the turn of the twentieth century even as he took part in the leading literary circles of his day. This work situates Savinkov in what Mikhail Bakhtin defines as a “chronotope,” a time-space module that I label “Revolutionary Apocalypse.” I compare the development of revolutionary myths of martyrdom in Revolutionary Russia for both Savinkov and his contemporary Maria Spiridonova to analyze the redefined notions of love, truth, and sacrifice among the Russian intelligentsia that turned these Russian revolutionary terrorists …
Familial Betrayal And Trauma In Select Plays Of Shakespeare, Racine, And The Corneilles,
2016
University of South Carolina
Familial Betrayal And Trauma In Select Plays Of Shakespeare, Racine, And The Corneilles, Lynn Kramer
Theses and Dissertations
In this dissertation I will argue that familial betrayal is a central element in sixteenth-century British tragedy and seventeenth-century French tragedy. Family relationships help to define who the characters are and provide a point of identification between the audience and the play. This identification, as Aristotle argues, is necessary for the arousal of pity and fear and thus creates the possibility of catharsis. Fear is a key component of psychological trauma. This is the main link between Aristotle’s theories and modern trauma theory but there are other overlapping ideas that form a basis as to why old tragedies still resonate …
The Development Of ‘Meaning’ In Literary Theory: A Comparative Critical Study,
2016
University of South Carolina
The Development Of ‘Meaning’ In Literary Theory: A Comparative Critical Study, Mahmoud Mohamed Ali Ahmad Elkordy
Theses and Dissertations
This research project studies different approaches to the question of meaning in literary texts in medieval Islamic critical traditions and modern Western literary criticism. Based on a comparative analysis, the dissertation attempts to explain each theory in its own terms, to find the commonalities and differences of the handling of such a question by literary theories, to establish a dialogue between the theories to understand them better and in wider terms. Thus, the dissertation also analyzes some texts by looking at them through the lenses of different theories.
A Bill Of Goods: How Advertisers Sold The Great War, And Created The Lost Generation,
2016
CUNY City College
A Bill Of Goods: How Advertisers Sold The Great War, And Created The Lost Generation, Adam Poltrack
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Short Story Long: Towards A Poetics Of The Novel Stories,
2016
CUNY City College
Short Story Long: Towards A Poetics Of The Novel Stories, Sarah Meyer
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Bodies On The Line: Border Crossing In The Fiction Of Ernest Hemingway And Salman Rushdie,
2016
CUNY City College
Bodies On The Line: Border Crossing In The Fiction Of Ernest Hemingway And Salman Rushdie, Rachel Northrop
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Why John Stuart Mill Cannot Dismiss The Poet Of Culture,
2016
CUNY City College
Why John Stuart Mill Cannot Dismiss The Poet Of Culture, Nelson Tuero
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Uncloseting The Harlem Renaissance: A Look At The Movement Through A Queer Lens,
2016
CUNY City College
Uncloseting The Harlem Renaissance: A Look At The Movement Through A Queer Lens, Mionnay Mckee
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
The Ptolemaic System And The Ramifications Of Hierarchical Thinking; The Impact Of Medieval Literature,
2016
CUNY City College
The Ptolemaic System And The Ramifications Of Hierarchical Thinking; The Impact Of Medieval Literature, Mark-Allan Donaldson
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
The Force Of Imagination And The Limits Of The Rational In Polidori, Stoker, And Weird Fiction,
2016
CUNY City College
The Force Of Imagination And The Limits Of The Rational In Polidori, Stoker, And Weird Fiction, Eric Mattina
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
