The "half-read" knowledge of classical and Celtic languages exerted a major ideological impact on the development of political and linguistic nationalisms in twentieth-century Ireland, Scotland …
This critical history of the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music centers on their formative years from 1946 to 1960. Musicologist Wolfgang Steinecke founded …
This dissertation explores the ways in which three modernist poets—William Butler Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Wallace Stevens—used elements of poetic form, such as rhythm, …
This dissertation poses the “essentially shimmering” as a rubric for conceiving how perception and poetry engage materiality in its most evanescent and changeable dispositions. Think …
My dissertation attends both philosophically and historically to the affect of seriousness in contemporary American culture. It focuses specifically on expressions and performances of seriousness, …
This thesis addresses the poetics and politics of "ambience" and "atmospherics" in contemporary culture. I am interested in how "ambient practices" often associated with the …
“The Poetics of Intervention: Art and Politics in Contemporary Latin America” explores the relationship between art and activism and politics and aesthetics in spaces of …
