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The Afterlife of Painting
… in its operations. Hence the title: The Afterlife of Painting. After an Introduction on the formulation of the research topic and its relation to my art practice, chapter one examines the arguments proposed for the death of painting. The principal finding is that the putative death was …
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Ancient Maya Afterlife Iconography: Traveling Between Worlds
The ancient Maya afterlife is a rich and voluminous topic. Unfortunately, much of the material currently utilized for interpretations about the ancient Maya comes from publications written after contact by the Spanish or from artifacts with no context, likely looted items. Both sources of …
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Private initiation and the afterlife in classical Greece
… polis religion, and their views of the afterlife. I argue that they did not belong to anything that could be called a sect, a concept anachronistic for this period, and that they did not have a coherent doctrine of the afterlife, but rather employed a patchwork of different and …
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The Complete Bentham: Rationality's Afterlife in Victorian Literature
<p>“The Complete Bentham: Rationality’s Afterlife in Victorian Literature,” focuses on one of the nineteenth century’s most contentious attempts to imagine the social good in quantitative terms: Jeremy Bentham’s proposal to measure and manage “the greatest happiness for the greatest number.” The …
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A Vanishing Act: Gulag Narratives and Their Afterlife
A Vanishing Act: Gulag Narratives and Their Afterlife examines the crucial role Gulag narratives play in the reexamination of the communist past in Russia, Romania, and Bulgaria but also the way in which they contribute to the emergence of a new prescriptive (meta)language for describing that past …
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Representations of the pagan afterlife in medieval Scandinavian literature
… is concerned with the way in which the afterlife, in its various forms, is presented in extant literary texts: not as an exercise in religious history, but in an attempt to find out what literary use was made by authors of different periods and genres of the two main Scandinavian realms …
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Repressions and revisions: the afterlife of slavery in Southern literature
Though many scholars have explored the memory of slavery in Southern literature, my project expands these readings through a hybrid critical methodology from the fields of trauma studies, African American studies, historiography, and psychoanalysis to articulate how texts about the antebellum past …
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Reading Speculative Subjectivities: The Second Generation and the Afterlife of Migration
This dissertation takes a transethnic, transnational, relational, and comparative approach to literature about the children of immigrants, the second generation. It argues that second generation is a distinct subject position that is shaped but not wholly defined by race, ethnicity, and nation and, …
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The afterlife of Michael Collins: commemoration, biography and historiography, 1922-1973
… and contested the posthumous reputation, or afterlife, of Michael Collins between the years 1922 and 1973, a key period in the consolidation of the Irish State. This era was characterised by war, reconciliation, peace, and the continuation of a range of political conflicts involving …
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"Orhan Pamuk's novels and their ""afterlife"" in English and German translations"
In this dissertation, I focus on the Turkish Nobel Prize laureate Orhan Pamuk’s novels and on their English and German translations by Güneli Gün, Maureen Freely, and Ingrid Iren. I argue that literary translation is a creative act, the study and critique of which needs to be anchored within a …
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The Afterlife of Wells, from oil to soil in the Amazonia
… era has begun. The thesis investigates the afterlife of abandoned wells in the Ecuadorian Amazon by understanding the territory and the socio-environmental effects oil has brought to the country. It focuses on the Sucumbíos province, which condenses many of the pressures and disputes that …
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The afterlife of survival: a thematic guide to contemporary Canadian short fiction
Margaret Atwood’s Survival: a thematic guide to Canadian literature was originally published by House of Anansi Press in Toronto in 1972. In spite of the mixed reception, Survival became a key text in the study of Canadian Literature. Although it is now taught as a historical curiosity, it is …
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Afterlife of Empire: Muslim-Ottoman Relations in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina, 1878-1914
"Afterlife of Empire" explores Ottoman cultural, social, and political continuities in Bosnia Herzegovina during the Habsburg administration (1878-1914). The research focuses on the enduring influence of the Ottoman Empire - an influence perpetuated both by the efforts of the Ottoman imperial …
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Pennies from Heaven: Death and the Afterlife in World War II Fantasy Films
… the supernatural (i.e., ghosts, angels, and the afterlife) into wartime settings with relevant protagonists and themes to address the psychological trauma of wartime death and loss. Three case studies – <em>The Human Comedy (</em>Clarence Brown, 1943), <em>A Guy Named Joe</em> (Victor Fleming, …
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From Scar To Scaffold: The Afterlife of the Oil Pipeline for a Decarbonizing World
With over 86,000 kilometers of crude oil pipelines—and more than 2.13 million kilometers of total oil and gas pipelines in the United States as of 2024—many segments are already corroded and aging, deeply embedded within urban and ecological systems that are increasingly endangered. As the global …
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Pu-abi's Adornment for the Afterlife: Materials and Technologies of Jewelry at Ur in Mesopotamia
This dissertation investigates one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the 20th century - the jewelry belonging to a female named Pu-abi buried in the so-called Royal Cemetery at the site of Ur in southern Mesopotamia, modern Iraq. The mid-third millennium B.C. assemblage represents …
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