This dissertation explores how robot fiction uses pain and trauma to interrogate the boundaries of selfhood, embodiment, and empathy. Across a range of texts, artificial [...]

This thesis explores the intersection of the subversion of genre conventions and the socioeconomic hardships in contemporary South Korea through the domestic films of Bon[...]

This study critically examines the ethical dimensions of cultural exchange and engagement with marginalized communities in Northeast India, utilizing philosophical framew[...]

Following the logic of Fernando Pessoas semiheteronym, Bernardo Soares, the artist renders in a visual image the sensations of his emotional state. I compose landscapes o[...]

This thesis presents a translation of the previously untranslated sequel to Huon de Bordeaux titled Yde et Olive, accompanied by a critical edition based on the Manuscrip[...]

Ekphrasis in epic poetry functions as a uterine body inside the larger masculine epic body; its extreme vividness and feminine form offer a pageant of alluring sexual pow[...]

In The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche speaks of all art as a result of the interchange between the Dionysian and the Apollonian, the timeless illusion of music and[...]

Japanese author Abe Kbs body of work problematizes the relationship between the individual and the community within modernity. This relationship is based on outdated mode[...]

There are few twentieth century films that have successfully inspired a complex combination of awe and controversy when socially and critically received. Among them are s[...]

In The Winters Tale, Shakespeare inverts the settings of his source, Robert Greenes Pandosto, by placing Leontes, the jealous husband and parallel to the Bohemian king Pa[...]

Because of the current vulnerable state of literary studies, there is a pressing need to open up the discussion of the role of literature in education. The present study [...]

This study examines the problematic of selfhood in three novels by women authors: Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood; La Maison de Claudine by Colette; and L'Opoponax by Moniqu[...]

Informed by the work of Michel de Certeau, this dissertation will explore how the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Sren Kierkegaard, and Franz Kafka present ne[...]

This thesis investigates the digital-literary phenomenon of #instapoetry, that is, the poetry published on the social network Instagram. Following a critical discussion o[...]

Texts from Caribbean authors serve as a framework for questions of individual self representation that blends the aesthetics of both oral literature and written literatur[...]

In order to promote an understanding of the centrality of space and the intimate relationship between space and identity in Wong Kar-wais films, this dissertation examine[...]

Wu Weiyes Spring in Moling is one of the sixteenth and seventeenth century classical Chinese plays deserving thorough reevaluation. Set during a dynastic transition, this[...]

This dissertation argues that although in the Aeneid Vergil engages extensively with the textual tradition to develop Aeneas role as helmsman and Turnus as charioteer int[...]

After closely reading the works of Ayi Kwei Armah questions about the dynamics of power arose. What are the different conceptions of power? How does Armah use power in h[...]

After a discussion of the historical and critical context of Kafkas Zürau aphorisms, this thesis explores one aphorism that describes mankind's ongoing state of deception[...]

Coinciding with the rise in population and sophistication of high medieval Europe,chivalric romances of the twelfth through fourteenth centuries attempted to settle a num[...]

The purpose of this thesis is to understand the differing traditions that influenced the version of the only extant copy of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf and how their int[...]

In the summer of 2009, in the process of researching the history of the development of national identity in Czechoslovakia, I discovered a collection of photographs by th[...]

Thomas Bernhards 1985 novel Old Masters is theatrical in style and experimental in form. Old Masters is an exploration of the role of the spectator and spectacle in twent[...]