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A Twenty-First Century Approach To Darius Milhaud's Saudades Do Brasil, Paige H. Crain

Theses and Dissertations--Music

French composer Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from February 1917 to November 1918. Milhaud’s experience in Rio was overwhelmingly positive, and several of his works were influenced by this period of his life, one being a suite for solo piano titled Saudades do Brasil, Op. 67. Inspired by Brazilian popular music, this piece is an example of exoticism, a trend of writing music based on cultures other than the composer’s own. Considering that exoticism historically has the potential to perpetuate harmful stereotypes or generate false information, this research delves into Saudades do Brasil, exploring …

Performance Guide To Select Twentieth-Century French Organ Works Based On Te Deum, Margaret Maria Lerose

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The Gregorian chant Te Deum originated over 1500 years ago and was the basis of many vocal and instrumental compositions. Segments of the chant were also used as motives and themes for improvisation. Students at the French organ school studied both improvisation and composition. This study examined three exemplary pieces that resulted from the French organ school traditions: Improvisation sur le Te Deum (1930) by Charles Tournemire, Hymne d’Actions de Grâces, Te Deum (1934) by Jean Langlais, and Paraphrase sur le Te Deum (1946) by Marcel Dupré.

After a brief chapter on the history of the Te Deum chant, biographical …

Professional Experiences Of Disabled Music Therapists: An Adapted Multiple Case Study, August Lily Tuggle

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Literature about disability often focuses on disabled people as recipients of professional services and there is scant literature about disabled professionals. Although music therapists work primarily with disabled individuals, there is little research on or from the perspectives of disabled music therapists. A growing body of qualitative research, grey literature, and media platforms provides perspectives from the disability community regarding music therapy. Disabled individuals both within and outside the profession critique common music therapy attitudes and practices that conflict with the expressed needs of the disability community. However, much of this literature contains the perspectives of one individual or a …

Luis Serrano Alarcón’S Second Symphony For Wind Orchestra Background, Analysis, And Conductor’S Guide, Adam P. Miller

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Luis Serrano Alarcon’s composition, Second Symphony for Wind Orchestra (2017), is a significant work for the wind ensemble. Written as a tribute to the great Romantic composers it was inspired by their symphonies. It is neo-classical in form but contains a neo-Romantic language and a compositional style unique to the Spanish composer.

The purposes of this dissertation are: 1.) to provide biographical details regarding Luis Serrano Alarcon and his musical career; 2.) to place the Second Symphony for Wind Orchestra in perspective within other modern works for wind band and within the composer’s own catalogue; 3.) to elaborate on the …

En Place De Netflix (2023). Rire Et Réfléchir De La Banlieue À L’Élysée., Ísak I. Gudmundsson Goldstein , '25

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

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La Beauté Ignoble Du Cadavre. Regard Scientifique Et Regard Artistique Dans Thérèse Raquin D’Émile Zola, Shreya Patel , '25

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

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Quakerism At Whittier College: Faded But Still Ever-Present, Damian Garcia

Whittier City & College Historical Research

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The Mule As Working Animal, Teacher, Soldier, Legend, Friend, Louis Medina

Eastern Sierra History Journal

Mules have played a significant role in the Eastern Sierra region of California, and far beyond. Louis Medina offers a warm appreciation of these legendary animals place in the region and its human community over time.

Masc Affect: Affective Masculinity In Video Games Research, Joshua Foust

Media Studies - Open-Access Faculty Scholarship

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Ber Anena’S Vagina Diaries, A Review: An African Student’S Encounter With The American Health System, Akua Agyeiwaa Denkyi-Manieson

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This work delves into the disappointment, indifference, and pretense experienced by the narrator when she sorts the American healthcare system. It also addresses the struggles immigrants face, particularly from Africa, as they navigate a healthcare system that often requires them to prove their pain and worthiness of attention. The narrative emphasizes the importance of not generalizing the entire healthcare system based on a single negative experience while acknowledging the profound impact on one's perception of the system. Furthermore, it explores the paradox between the availability of better resources in America compared to the narrator's home country and the mistreatment and …

Mythopoesis And Gendered Power: An Akan Perspective On Stacy Waite’S A Real Man Would Have A Gun, Akua Agyeiwaa Denkyi-Manieson

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Review of Stacy Waite’s A Real Man Would Have a Gun, challenges traditional Akan gender roles and critiques the societal structures that limit women’s power.

Debbie Alicen Reclaimed Her Voice And Started The Human Rights Campaign In Lincoln, Nebraska, Morgan Grey, Debbie Alicen, Moni Usasz

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

A story about Debbie Alicen's efforts in the early 1980s to have an amendment added to Lincoln, Nebraska's Human Rights Ordinance that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual preference.

When The Baobab Trees Bow Before The Iroko: Chinua Achebe And His Literary Heirs In African Fiction: The Case Of Chigozie Obioma, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, And Noviolet Bulawayo, Akua Agyeiwaa Denkyi-Manieson

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The Akan of Ghana have a proverb that translates, “When a thing is not placed in its rightful place, it will fall down,” and “Respect must be accorded to whom respect is due.” They also say, “The one behind walks in the footsteps of the one in front.” These Akan proverbs capture the literary journey encountered in the works of Chigozie Obioma, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and NoViolet Bulawayo in The Fishermen, Purple Hibiscus, and We Need New Names, respectively. Their narratives reflect an undeniable acknowledgment of the literary path cleared by one man often hailed as the …

Digitization, Diversity, And Discovery: A Review Of The 2025 Potsdam Digital Humanities Spring School, Akua Agyeiwaa Denkyi-Manieson

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

A review of the inaugural 2025 Digital Humanities Spring School at the University of Potsdam.

Normal Editions Workshop Newsletter, 2024-2025, Wonsook Kim School Of Art And Design

Normal Editions Workshop Newsletter

Annual newsletter for the Normal Editions Workshop, School of Art, Illinois State University.

Public Art Coordination: Shaping The Irish Arts Landscape, Jennifer Haughton

Doctoral

Appointing public art coordinators responsible and accountable for programming and commissioning in the public sphere is a growing trend internationally. My aim in this PhD thesis is to undertake an inquiry into the practice of how public art coordination facilitates artists in producing ambitious public art works. Appropriating Mary Parker Follett’s (1866–1933) concept of multiple leadership in addition to curatorial, rights, and management theory, I argue for an increased accommodation of public art coordination as a public leadership service arising from the construction sector. Adopting Ricoeurian hermeneutics alongside vignettes, my thesis constitutes a deep dive into the habitat and culture …

Puccini’S Manon: A Holistic Approach To Role Preparation And Execution, Sandra Oman Farren

Doctoral

The fulcrum of this thesis is operatic role preparation and execution, an investigation into how the conscientious singer-actor can ‘become’ the character of ‘Manon’ in Giacomo Puccini’s 1893 opera, Manon Lescaut. Adopting a multi-stranded research strategy, encompassing traditional methodologies, a series of lived experience interviews with international operatic practitioners, and a survey of live performances in 2023–2024, the actuality of performing this complex role is considered, with recommendations and conclusions drawn from a multiplicity of sources.

Agency, Index & Process: Investigating The Role Of The Artist’S Body In Digital Sculpture Production, Alan Magee

Doctoral

Contemporary Digital Sculpture has emerged out of recent developments in digital art, 3d modelling and virtual modes of production. These advances range from the creation of more powerful software and hardware systems to the to nascent XR sectors, and the potential for materialisation through technologies such as 3d printing, laser-cutting, or CNC1 machining. However, critical discourse remains predominantly focused on the end product, often overlooking the embodied labour processes inherent in its creation. As revealed through indexical traces of the artist’s body, these processes encapsulate the gestures, actions and subjective agency of artistic activity. Consequently, with the limitations of digital …

Critical Theory And The Decline Of American Patriotism, Caron L. Norton

Master of Arts in Classical Studies

Abstract

CRITICAL THEORY AND THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN PATRIOTISM

Caron Norton

Southeastern University, 2025

Nationwide there has been a progressive decline in patriotism since the turn of the 21st century. Instead of growing in affection towards their country, more and more American citizens reach adulthood frustrated and angry with the United States and its heritage. Some become consumed with hatred. Rather than honoring America’s forefathers, Americans have torn down and desecrated statues and symbols from the past. Where did this antipatriotic fervor come from? How did Americans become disillusioned? This shift in mood can be directly attributed to the rise …

Fiesta On Shuffle, Tristan William Niskanen

Selected Full-Text Master Theses 2021-

This thesis is a linked short story collection about a character named Thom, told in first person. In 52 short pieces, Thom travels around different places on a seemingly aimless journey. It is almost a mix of a “man goes on a journey” & a “stranger comes to town.” The 52 short stories are structured like a shuffled deck of cards, with four distinct suits. Each suit has a minor story arc for Thom. In Hearts, he’s on a search for love. In Diamonds, he’s on a search for treasure. In Spades, he’s on a search for enlightenment. In Clubs, …

段注「引伸假借」初探, Weixi Du

Dissertations from all years

「引申」和「假借」是兩個詞義發展的概念，我們從小到大都有接觸，深信大家都能分辨清楚「引申」是與字的本義有關；「假借」是與字的發音有關。然而，當「引申」和「假借」連用——成為「引申假借」時，大家又能否知道其真正含義呢？清代大儒段玉裁在其著作《説文解字注》共有44處使用「引申假借」這個術語：：14處：「引申叚借」、6處「引伸叚借」以及24處：「引伸假借」：。惟文章篇幅有限，本文遂以《説文解字注》裏提及最多的——24處：「引伸假借」條目作為基礎，依照現今學者對於「引申」和「假借」的定義，對《説文解字注》「引伸假借」的條目作出初步探究，為此24處「引伸假借」作分類考證以及意義辯證的研究。

巴士病, Hanyu Wen

Dissertations from all years

身處都市的你，可曾見過一類看似正常，甚至善於社交的人，他們感性、共情能力強，但又時常在掙扎於親密和疏遠間；他們想被人愛，又害怕與人親近，忽冷忽熱的態度讓他人捉摸不透的同時，更時刻消耗著他們自身的心力，「這不算病」、「不過是矯情的藉口」的輿論讓他們猶疑自己的感情是否真的出了問題，更不敢承認，他們只能壓抑並以某些「怪癖」躲避不受控的情緒，往往這類人被歸類為「迴避型依戀人格」，而這個人，又會不會是你？

主角若安在即將大學畢業的期間，抱著不得已融入同齡人圈子的心態，憑一顆堅守原則、特立獨行，甚至有些偏執的心，在都市中前後邂逅了琬、婭等以前他不會接觸到的人，也遭遇了人生第一次至親逝世的變故，慢慢察覺到自己內心的異樣，他既求變，又身陷「迴避」，在一次又一次的矛盾中步向茫然。

迴避型依戀人格大體上是個很廣的議題，現實中不同性格的人「迴避」的程度和表現各有不同，小說主角未必能盡現迴避型依戀的特徵，但當中呈現出來的行為和心理活動大多是筆者基於生活經驗以及觀察杜撰而成，礙於孱弱的文筆與創意，可能無法深入人心，若讀者讀到某處情節或某句話時能獲得一絲共鳴便足夠了。

馬華電影《五月雪》中大馬華人的想像共同體, Bingxin Xie

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《五月雪》導演張吉安，作為馬來西亞新浪潮電影的代表導演之一，時常以其獨特的敘事基調，介入大馬華人在馬來西亞的生存情況，其對文化、宗教、語言的大膽描摹構成了馬來西亞地域華人獨特的美學風格。張吉安自09年投入電影行業以來，作品屢獲國際殊榮：首部短片《義山》入圍第22屆釜山國際影展，電影《南巫》入圍金馬創投，而《五月雪》更斬獲金馬獎九項提名及紐約亞洲電影節最佳影片等榮譽，奠定了其在馬華影壇的重要地位。

在多民族共生的馬來西亞社會語境中，語言文化生態的多元性構成了馬華電影的重要美學特徵。而對於華人導演而言，這種多語言文化的並置現象不單只是國家文化生態的直觀反映，更是大馬華人族群生存實態的隱喻性象徵不同語言的碰撞與融合，已經在當下重要的傳播媒體──銀幕空間中構建出了具有地域特質的文化景觀，形成區別於傳統華語電影的「在地化」模式，進而催生出獨屬於大馬華人的文化特色。

本文將應用「華語語系研究」中的語言考察視角，加以文本細讀，剖析《五月雪》中華人文化的表達策略，重點考察其「異質性」如何作為文化特點，揭示大馬華人如何在多重文化張力下形成其「想象共同體」的獨特形態。本研究將特別關注大馬華人的身份認同與文化內部的異質性特徵，探討這種「非純粹」性與大馬華人想像共同體之間的關係。

一輛會移動的孤島, Yat Daisy Mak

Dissertations from all years

在這篇散文中，作者詳細記錄了「我」在成長過程中，人生不同的經歷，以及面對生離死別的感情。「我」在回顧之前往事時，不僅是對過去的眷戀，更是對生活、友情、愛情，以及自我的探索。從一開始親人離世，到後來嘗試接受離別的課題，更甚主動提出分開的關係。最後更求問：在自我的探索中，到底我是一個怎樣的人？這些經歷又造就了一個怎樣複雜的自我形象？

在文章中，不難看出一個人為適應不同的生活和關係變化而有了成長的機會。每段關係不但是作者的回憶，更是「我」在一次次面對不同人生課題時的反思、學習和成長，思考難道人生的盡頭便是孤獨嗎，作者最後更把自己比喻為一輛慢慢前進的巴士，一座經歷滄桑歲月的孤島。

紮營點, Yuk Lun Chan

Dissertations from all years

陳傑由不會下雪的城市乘坐十幾小時的飛機去找莫建，他移民的朋友。他們像以前一樣去露營，卻因為誤食了沒煮熟的牛肝菌而陷入了輕微中毒。舊友的到訪不但為莫建帶來了家鄉的食物，同時也喚起了他深埋的陰影。中毒而產生的幻覺讓莫建的潛意識開始浮現，曾經的經歷幻化成夢境再次湧現。這片本不該有熊的樹林出現了棕熊，並且對他們窮追不捨，破壞他們的營地，更企圖將他們困在樹林之中。恐懼，似曾相識，夢中莫建所做的一切都由潛意識所主導，對應著他的過往。他，似乎曾經面對過棕熊。

本文故事背景為在香港的朋友去國外探訪近年移民的朋友，呼應近年來因為政治運動而爆發的移民潮。故事的寫法上參考了海明威的部分作品，嘗試在省略背景描述的情況下，以對話，人物行為以及其夢境帶出故事背景以及人物經歷，講述莫建移民後內心的不安定感，對於香港政治景況的不信任感，以及曾經參與政治運動卻失敗的無力絕望感。並結合自身經歷，例如出國探望朋友，露營的小故事等等增加故事的細節以及說服力。

余華先鋒小說的敘事策略──以《十八歲出門遠行》、《河邊的錯誤》及《現實一種》為例, Simei Zeng

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在20世紀80年代中國先鋒文學的浪潮中，余華早期作品《十八歲出門遠行》（1987）、《河邊的錯誤》（1988）和《現實一種》（1988）體驗了敘述形式實驗和暴力敘述的先鋒性，以顛覆性敘事策略塑造個人寫作風格，現有研究大多聚焦於單篇文本，或是研究余華轉型後的作品，如《活著》和《在細雨中呼喊》，較少研究其先鋒敘事策略。

本文採用文獻分析法及文本細讀法，分析三篇作品的先鋒敘事策略，並結合80年代文學轉型期的歷史語境，解釋余華對傳統文學的顛覆。研究發現，余華通過對傳統文學規範的破壞、荒誕的建構，以及非常理寫作手法等先鋒敘事策略，將其小說主題昇華至社會層面及歷史創傷，為先鋒文學提供具有價值的參考。

本研究突破單篇解讀的局限，揭示余華早期創作形式及思想的關係，為先鋒文學的歷史定位提供新視角，探究如何以創新敘事回應社會的精神危機。

離散與植根──以廖克發的《菠蘿蜜》為例, Hoi Ka Kelly Tam

Dissertations from all years

古往今來，全球人口常有流動，移民、定居早已成普遍現象。華人的離散經驗成就無數當代馬華文藝經典，華人的身份早已被不斷重構。在馬華導演廖克發的視野中，離散華人不再是單一焦點，禁忌歷史中和當代來自各國的離散者被聚集在《菠蘿蜜》，他的人文關懷讓隔代各國的離散者被發現，打破長久以來着重於離散華人的馬華文藝傳統。

談及「離散」，過去有學者提出「離散有其終時」，認為離散者到了異地應該落地生根，擺脫離散。筆者認為廖克發呈現了離散者在離散與反離散之間的遊離狀態，離散者到了異地定居，卻無法融入當地，甚至面臨被驅逐的可能。有見及此，本文將以《菠蘿蜜》的三種離散經驗，探討離散者的鄉愁與植根困難，反思離散者在異地植根的可能性。

本論文首先分析電影中的人物離散的原因，研究廖克發如何將兩代離散者連繫。第三章討論鄉愁和困頓的呈現，分析離散者與原鄉的關係及在異地的生存困境。第四章將先分析離散者如何逃離苦悶，再分析逃離的成效，最後反思離散者在異地植根的可能性。

論蹇先艾三、四十年代鄉土文學的轉變──以《山城集》為中心, Yan Tung Yip

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二十世紀初的中國作家群中，貴州籍作家寥寥無幾。蹇先艾憑着描繪貴州鄉土的風俗民情，在文壇佔有一席之地。其鄉土小説可分為三個時期：早期、成熟期和解放後，各階段都以故鄉貴州為敍事中心。《山城集》輯錄了成熟期至解放前的短篇小説，反映出三四十年代的思想轉折——由鄉愁情結到現實批判。貴州的地理閉塞軍閥橫行和戰亂構成其轉變之催化劑。繼而逼迫作者面對現實，脱離精神家園，進一步催化其探尋出路的決心。

故此，本文以《山城集》為中心，結合時代背景，探析作者思想轉變的根源所在。以此歸納作者在語言風格人物形象和鄉土書寫的轉變。從作者的寫作策略，分析其思想深化和鄉土色彩之重塑。

論周曉楓的生態女性主義書寫──以《有如候鳥》中鳥類意象為例, Siqi Wang

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中國當代作家周曉楓以「小說式散文」著稱，其作品融合小說情節的跌宕起伏與散文的非虛構內核。動物題材是她創作的重要部分，通過動物與人的互動，揭示中國當代社會的現象和問題，並融入女性經驗書寫，探討動物與女性之間的神秘聯系及其對生存空間的影響。《有如候鳥》（2017）通過女性生命經驗，講述女性與候鳥的聯系，是中國當代文學中首次顯著體現生態女性主義的作品。

本文從生態女性主義理論出發，分析《有如候鳥》中的三個代表性鳥類意象：大雁、鷗鳥和鴿子。大雁象征女性意識的啟蒙；鷗鳥隱喻女性在當代社會中的多重生存處境；鴿子則關聯女性的離散與再生。這些意象展現了女性與自然的共同困境，反映了中國當代女性面臨的壓迫與挑戰。

本文分為五部分：緒論介紹作家背景、理論框架及研究意義；第二至四章分別分析三種鳥類意象；結語總結全文觀點。