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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"body and the senses"”.
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Hearing Africa: Auditory Perception and the Construction of Race In Early Modern England
<p>This thesis interrogates the interplay of ideas regarding the body and the senses in the early modern English auditory world as encounters with sub-Saharan Africans increased in regularity. It posits that bodies were essentially connected through sensory observation and experience, and that as …
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Unflattening the page: Lucian, ecphrasis, and the embodied reader
My thesis, entitled ‘Unflattening the page: Lucian, ecphrasis, and the embodied reader’ has as its main focus the ecphrastic work of Lucian, a second-century CE Syrian-Greek writer, and one of the most prolific and versatile writers of Greek imperial literature. It argues that imperial, and in …
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Secular séance: Post-Victorian embodiment in contemporary South African art
In this thesis I explore selected bodies of work by five contemporary South African artists that resuscitate nineteenth - century aesthetic tropes in ways that productively reimagine South Africa’s traumatic colonial inheritance. I investigate the aesthetic strategies and thematic concerns employed …