If, as the Horation motto pontificates, art mirrors life, it is incumbent on we who engage the art work to know what we are looking at in tandem with the act of looking. Recently, theorists …
This dissertation concerns the interplay between perceptual and narrative processes, which has been under scrutiny not only in theories of sense perception but also in literary …
The thesis takes as a starting point Pasolini's and Fassbinder's theoretical writings (collected esp. in Empirismo eretico (1972) and Filme befreien den Kopf (1984)). It argues that these …
This dissertation considers the role of the railroad in the developments of modern conceptions of identity and of literary modernism in America. It examines the connection …