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- 1Ilnytzkyj, Oleh S. (Modern Languages and Cultural Studies)
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- 1Pylypiuk, Natalia (Modern Languages and Cultural Studies)
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"Beauty, that piercing joy akin to pain": Romanticism and the "Christian Moral Economy of 'Sacrifice'" in First World War Poetry
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This thesis examines the connection between Romanticism and the Christ-like sacrifice of soldiers depicted in British poetry of the First World War. It focuses on the Romantic notion of the artist as an individual with special knowledge who suffers in order to create beautiful art, which, this...
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Mr. Robot and the Romantic Genius: The Figure of the Programmer in Contemporary Mass Culture
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Modern visual culture and, specifically, popular TV-series place great emphasis on technology and its relationship with humankind. Issues such as codependency between technology and users, the boundaries of human potential with regard to artificial intelligence, and cognitive loss from the...
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Spring 2013
This dissertation examines the intersection of British Romantic literary and scientific cognitive theory from 1749 to 1818. Asserting that William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge participated in cognitive science debates initiated by Joseph Priestley’s popularization of David Hartley’s...
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Fall 2011
While there have been many studies devoted to the Gothic in European and American Romantic literatures, it has remained largely overlooked in Ukrainian criticism up to now, mostly, due to political reasons. Firstly, this genre was mostly excluded from the Soviet canon as something that was...