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J’écris donc je fuis. Petite métaphysique de l’évolution du style littéraire en France, de Stendhal à Emmanuel Carrère
Style is a matter of life and death. Since Homer, the main literary themes have changed little: love, family, nature, society, power. Ceaselessly renewed by times and personalities of each epoch, the interpretation of these ... -
Surveillance and perception in world cinema : three case studies
This thesis examines the increasing centrality of surveillance devices, themes and concepts from varying social, theoretical and philosophical points of view by analysing and comparing three films. These films examine the ... -
Arte para el pueblo: A Look at the Postcolonial Potential of the Murals of los tres grandes and Their Value and Limits as Emancipatory Visual Narratives
Los tres grandes were the leading members of the Mexican Mural Renaissance, a government sponsored public art movement that emerged from the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920. Commonly labelled ‘architects of the nation’, ... -
The Role of Values in Japanese Elite Views of Contemporary Japan-China Relations
The thesis seeks to clarify understanding of the role values play in Japanese views of contemporary Japan-China relations. It seeks to answer the question: how consistently do values play a role in Japanese elite thought, ... -
How Franz Marc Returns
How can we recover Franz Marc, a central figure of German Modernism, in a way that reveals new interpretations of his life and work? In this doctoral thesis I attempt to answer this question, which neither art historians ... -
Re-Writing Women in Qingshi
This study examines women in Qingshi 情史 (QS). QS is a volume of 851 love stories, some dating back as early as Xia 夏 (ca 2100 -1600 B.C.E.) and continuing through to the Ming 明 (1368-1644) dynasty. By deploying both textual ... -
The Grimms’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen as a Product of Modernity
In this thesis I investigate the extent to which the Brother Grimms’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen (KHM) can be considered as a document of modernity. This gives ground to argue that over the course of more than forty years ... -
Reaching for UNESCO World Heritage Site Status: A Study of Three German Sites, on Three Stages, in Three Acts
The aim of this thesis is to investigate whether The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) mission of “building peace in the minds of men and women” can remain relevant by promoting ... -
Vocal Texts: Voice as productive obstruction in the early prose of Thomas Bernhard
Can Thomas Bernhard’s prose be considered a contribution to the philosophy of the subject? In this thesis I consider whether the seductive power of Bernhard’s literary voice – its “Sprachsog” (Eyckler, 1995) – is also the ... -
Fleeing the Dusty Net: Reclusion and Reclusive Ideals in the Poetry of the Wei-Jin Period
Reclusive poetry has been an integral part of the Chinese poetic tradition since ancient times. But it was not until the Wei-Jin 魏晉 period (220-420) that poetry written around the theme of the recluse became popular amongst ... -
Rewriting in Literary Translation: The Case of Howard Goldblatt's Translations of Contemporary Chinese Fiction
This study investigates literary translation as an act of rewriting. In particular, my research looks into the translation of contemporary Chinese fiction from the perspective of André Lefevere’s rewriting theory that was ... -
La guerre dans l'espace littéraire français de 1935 à 1945
In this Master Thesis, my goal was to analyze a few war representations in 20th Century French literature and its complex functions. Therefore I have chosen three different genres, i.e. the historical novel, poetry and the ... -
Towards A Metamodern Literature
The aims of the thesis are to establish the concept of metamodernism in literature, and to consider its wider applicability within the arts and society generally. The thesis examines the features of metamodernism in light ... -
The Spectacle and the Witness: an Historical and Critical Study of Surveillance in Visual Culture from 1920 to 2008
This thesis engages with surveillance as a pervasive theme presented in several modes of modern visual culture and is approached with particular reference to Guy Debord’s theory of the spectacle. Through an historically ... -
Travel Texts and Moving Cultures: A German-focused Comparative Analysis in the Context of the Mobilities Turn
How does the experience of travel transform culture over time? This is the question at the heart of my thesis, which brings together two main areas of scholarship: the cultural analysis of literature and film, and the ... -
The Derzhavin-L'vov circle
The Derzhavin-L'vov circle was the most productive literary society in eighteenth-century Russia. It consisted primarily of four members, four poets who were drawn together by friendship, family ties and shared interests: ... -
Neoliberalism and Border Crossings in Recent German Cinema
This thesis explores the actual impact of neoliberal or free market policies on the real lives of people in Europe from the 1980s onwards as refracted in cinema. The critical framework in Chapter One will summarise the ... -
Fruitful Land and National Cadres: Mainstreaming Resistance and Critical Realism in Contemporary Chinese TV Drama
Despite the fact that alternative discourses have been located in recent Chinese TV dramas, scholars have tended to overlook and rarely consider the questions of resistance and the operation of resistance. In contrast, ... -
Brazilian National Identity in the Lyrics of Chico Buarque
Music has a fundamental role in the popular culture of contemporary Brazil. Not only does music represent Brazilian national cultural identity, or brasilidade, to the international community, it is also a vehicle for ... -
Towards a Chinese vocabulary list for learners of Mandarin as a foreign language at tertiary level in Malaysia : a needs-based study.
This study aims to find solutions for the problems of ‘how much vocabulary’ and ‘what vocabulary’ when creating curriculum for the learning of Mandarin as a Foreign Language (hereafter MFL). Both the HSK Vocabulary List ...