Year: 2019, 2019
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Aghayan, Nooshin, Thesis advisor (ths): Bordo, Jonathan, Degree committee member (dgc): Wernick, Andrew, Degree committee member (dgc): Junyk, Ihor, Degree committee member (dgc): Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohammad, Degree committee member (dgc): Mincheva, Dyliana, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This dissertation is a critical review of the discursive formation of Islamic art in the twentieth century and the continuing problems that the early categorization of this discipline carries. It deals with the impact of these problems on the conceptualization of another category, Persian art. The subject is expounded by three propositions. First, the category of Islamic art was… more Full Text: Instabilities in the Identity of an Artistic Tradition as "Persian," “Islamic," and “Iranian” in the Shadow of Orientalism A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of …
Year: 2019, 2019
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>The modern sense of historicism developed over time that brought different textures at the intersection between history and fiction. The life of Jesus of Nazareth, prolifically researched after Herman Reimarus (1694-1768) right until today – a phenomenon known as The Quest for the Historical Jesus – provides an instructive case study for a wider discussion about the intersection between… more Full Text: AT THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN HISTORY AND FICTION IN BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY; A REPOSITIONING, USING THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL JESUS AS A CASE STUDY. A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements …
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Bell, Jeremy Owen, Thesis advisor (ths): Bordo, Jonathan, Thesis advisor (ths): Thomas, Yves, Degree committee member (dgc): Junyk, Ihor, Degree committee member (dgc): Wernick, Andrew, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>The dissertation explores the aesthetic anthropology of Georges Bataille and his collaborators in the Collège de Sociologie, a distinguished group of intellectuals including Roger Caillois, Michel Leiris, Pierre Klossowski, and Walter Benjamin among others. At the dissertation's outset the role, influence, discovery and indeed invention of the Marquis de Sade as the almost mythic… more Full Text: EROS NOIR: TRANGRESSION IN THE AESTHETIC ANTHROPOLOGY OF GEORGES BATAILLE, HANS BELLMER, AND PIERRE KLOSSOWSKI A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>The dissertation explores and defends the theory and practice of a Western-Islamic public sphere (which is secular but not secularist and which is Islamic but not Islamist), within which a critical Islamic intellectual universe can unfold, dealing hermeneutically with texts and politically with lived practices, and which, moreover, has to emerge from within the arc of two alternative,… more Full Text: The Politics of Muslim Intellectual Discourse in the West: the Emergence of a Western-Islamic Public Sphere A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in …
