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Spring 2021

Beauchesne, Nicholas L.

Abstract This tome is both a “solar” dissertation and a “lunar” grimoire that performs its own argument. Adepts of Modernism argues that the infamous “little magazines” of modernism conjured their own enlightened, reading “counter-publics” by exploiting the same strategies and tactics of...

Spring 2022

Kootnikoff, David J.

In this dissertation, I identify an aesthetic tradition in settler literary texts that parallels the settler state’s political response to such policies as multiculturalism and Reconciliation. I argue that modern Canadian fiction in English continues the tradition of romantic art in Hegel’s...

Fall 2021

Peters, Amber E

In my thesis, I analyse two composite animal Buraq paintings from the Medieval Deccan. These two paintings, apparent copies of each other, are significantly different from other images of the Buraq in the Muslim world. Instead of placing the Buraq in a narrative scene, the Buraq takes up the...

Fall 1970

Camfield, Barbara

The purpose of this thesis is to examine literary use of music in a large selection of the writings of André Gide and Aldous Huxley. The introduction exposes the various problems involved in any study of the integration of music into literature, and uncovers the reasons for my special interest in...

Spring 2023

Piazza, Robert

The purpose of my autoethnographic study is to understand more fully how my experience of educational events and their emerging truths impact my identity and my curricular and pedagogical approaches as a seasoned English Language Arts teacher. My dissertation addresses the following research...