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Description:: This dissertation argues that British and Ottoman literatures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are linked and mutually informed in their representations of sovereignty. My study of the poetry, fiction, chronicles and travelogues from these periods demonstrates that both literary traditions respond to the rivalry between the British and Ottoman...
Keyword:: Mysticism, Political Ontology , Poetics, Sovereignty, and Empire
Subject:: Comparative literature, Middle Eastern literature, and English literature
Creator:: Camoglu, Arif
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_780321 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15391

Description:: This dissertation studies the sense most neglected in literary studies, philosophy, and the history of the senses: olfaction. It argues that modernity has been marked by a tendency towards deodorization that attempts to establish a monosensorial and odorless civilization shaped by ocularcentrism. Against this tendency, the authors studied here (Friedrich...
Keyword:: Poetics, Differentiation, Ecocriticism, Senses, Smell, and Aesthetics
Subject:: Comparative literature, German literature, and Aesthetics
Creator:: Rosenbrück, Jonas
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_763165 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15234

Description:: Literary critics typically oppose chronological and anachronistic historiographical schemes. In paired readings of early modern and contemporary poets, my dissertation, “The Shock of the Old: Periodization, Poetics, and Diachronic Exchange between the Renaissance and the Avant-Garde” investigates a series of poetic texts that defy this opposition. The poetic objects I...
Keyword:: diachronic, genre, Poetics, Queer, Periodization, and form
Subject:: English
Creator:: Toby Altman
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/25/2019
Date Modified:: 01/30/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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