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Losing Shahrazad: A Distant Reading Of 1001 Nights, Taysa Mohler Jan 2018

Losing Shahrazad: A Distant Reading Of 1001 Nights, Taysa Mohler

Senior Projects Spring 2018

This project is a distant reading analysis of seven 19th and 20th-century English translations of One Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights. Through the use of computer programming and distant reading, it becomes clear that the Nights' frame tale is the carrier of the internal logic and generative power of the story cycle. Further, the frame tale expresses the Nights' self-representation, which serves to undermine the historical use of the Nights as synecdoche for the Orient. Therefore, the translators that remove the frame story from their versions further the Nights' use as an Orientalist object, …


Signor Mio Carissimo: A Theatrical Analysis And Translation Of Michelangelo’S Love Letters To Tommaso Dei Cavalieri, Miles Edmonds Messinger Jan 2018

Signor Mio Carissimo: A Theatrical Analysis And Translation Of Michelangelo’S Love Letters To Tommaso Dei Cavalieri, Miles Edmonds Messinger

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts and The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Word As Bond: Rhetoric And Performativity In Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, Stephen Appel Jan 2018

Word As Bond: Rhetoric And Performativity In Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, Stephen Appel

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Guillotine Rubies And Weighted Tortoise Shells: An Exploration Of Uncanny And Grotesque Aesthetics, Anne Sasha Lutwak-Schneider Jan 2018

Guillotine Rubies And Weighted Tortoise Shells: An Exploration Of Uncanny And Grotesque Aesthetics, Anne Sasha Lutwak-Schneider

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.