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Voice of the Immigrant Bard: Social Commentary in Scottish Bardic Compositions in Nineteenth Century Nova Scotia
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The poetry of the Scottish emigrant bards in the nineteenth century provides integral insight into the experience of the immigrant Scots in Nova Scotia. This thesis explores the role of the Scottish emigrant bards as social commentators; that is, how the narrative and bardic elements present...
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“Lost, Unhappy and at Home”: René Girard's Theory of Mimetic Desire, Religious Violence and Apocalyptic Vision Applied to the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
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The relationship between religion and violence in our modern world is problematic. In the post-Christian West, religion has been privatized and personalized as what scholars like René Girard call secular modernity emerged. The legitimate use of violence in the West has been restricted to the...
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2019-10-01
SSHRC IG funded 2020: This study of Carol Shields' oeuvre has three aims: to explore her achievement in challenging nonfiction genres; to explore how this work influenced her novels; and to explore how this work rendered her fiction increasingly feminist and postmodernist. Methods include...
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Fall 2018
The goal of this dissertation is to legitimize and to bolster the validity of an intuitive epistemology. By using Léopold Sédar Senghor’s “Revolution of 1889” as the foundation for deeper consideration of a movement towards an intuitive epistemology, I not only consider the meaning of intuition...
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My Way or the Highway: Depictions of Society in the Travel Songs of B. Okudzhava, Yu. Vizbor, and V. Vysotsky
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Despite the intense popularity of Bard song in the former Soviet Union, research has only recently begun to analyze the lyrics of the songs and the political and artistic importance therein. Through close textual reading and taking into account the literary and cultural history, I analyze the...
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Fall 2011
In her writing, Canadian poet Erín Moure combines challenging formal experimentation with keen social and political awareness; Moure, indeed, insists that words and ideas always affect social practices. Accordingly, Moure offers a poetics of protest that reveals and mourns oppression and...
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Fall 2016
This thesis examines the Ming (1368-1644) literatus Jin Shengtan’s (ca. 1608-1661) commentaries on Du Fu’s (712-770) poetry and his imitation of Du Fu. The first chapter focuses on Jin Shengtan’s commentaries on Du Fu’s poem series “Autumn Stirrings Eight Poems,” analyzing how Jin Shengtan,...
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Fall 2018
This thesis examines representations of debt and obligation in works of Caribbean Canadian literature published between 1997 and 2007. It uses these representations to discuss the relationship between postcolonial, global, and diasporic approaches to cultural studies. These disciplinary...
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Fall 2011
“Intimate Rock” is a collection of original, autobiographical poetry gleaned from my experiences climbing and exploring in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Although many of the poems recall moments spent on specific mountains, the structure of the piece is loosely that of a single climb. This...