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Fall 2018

Perez Trujillo, Axel

The dissertation traces the evolution of dominant environmental imaginations of the Latin American plains as depicted in literary texts. It offers the close readings of texts in various genres, targeting the descriptions of plains geographies. I argue in favour of establishing an epistemology of...

Fall 2018

Stephen A. Cruikshank

The "mulata affect" may be understood as the repetitive process and movement of power and affect qualified in the mulata image over time. Through a lens of affect theory this study seeks to analyse how the mulata image in Cuba has historically been affected by, and likewise affected, cultural...

Spring 2018

Chen, Guangfeng

Despite China's central role in environmental issues on both domestic and international levels and the importance that the country attaches to its national image abroad, few studies have investigated China's national image in the environmental domain on the international scene, and almost none in...

Fall 2017

Boivin, Jennifer

Animation is seen as the innocent child of contemporary media and is often considered innocuous and juvenile in general popular culture. This might explain why it is still a marginal field. Perhaps this perception is influenced by the mass media of animation being mostly aimed at children, or at...

Fall 2017

Rempel, Leanne M

The crónica has been an important literary and cultural component in Latin America for years. Published in newspapers or magazines, these short works details true events while employing literary elements usually reserved for fiction. Today, many scholars still debate the elements of the genre as...

Fall 2017

Longard, Jeffrey S

The twelfth-century Lais of Marie de France, twelve short narrative romances in French verse, are a delightfully heterogenous mixture of old Celtic, classical, Anglo-Norman and Christian themes and motifs. At times these varied streams of influence stand together in unreconciled incongruity....

Fall 2017

Pridmore-Franz, Milane C.-J.

This mixed-methods study focuses on the audience reception of theatre surtitles in a Francophone minority theatre context in Western Canada at L’UniThéâtre in Edmonton, Alberta. The main objective of this multifaceted research was to measure the perceptions of and reactions to English surtitles...

Fall 2017

Holtby, Jessica L

Producing song translations that are singable introduces issues that are not relevant to every genre of translation. As a type of constrained translation, song translation requires that the translator respect limits such as rhyme and rhythm and, in doing so, understand that the content must shift...

Fall 2017

Lockhart, LoriAnn D

For many, translation begins and ends with the book on the shelf; it is often thought to be the end product of a simple process of linguistic transfer between languages, completed by someone who simply has knowledge of both languages. However, this hardly captures the nature of translation and is...

Fall 2016

You, Jiaying

My dissertation topic focuses on the interaction between dances, their contexts and their meanings. I am interested in a wide range of creative factors that are involved in the dance-context interaction. I chose to investigate these factors by looking at the Peacock Dance, which originates in the...