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Her Constellated Mind: Jay Macpherson's Modernism and the Canadian Mythopoeic Turn
(2017-07-26)
Mythopoeic versewhich relies on biblical and Classical myth, and often works to create moments of heightened apocalyptic vision and revelationwas the dominant poetic mode in Canada from the late 1940s well into the 1960s, ...
Squeaky Wheel: Thomas Bernhard and A Party for Boris
(2017-07-27)
Though productions of his plays are extremely rare in North America, Austrian Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) is one of the pillars of the European repertory, especially in theatrically progressive Germany. His bellicose, ...
Population Genomic Approaches to Understanding the Genetics and Evolution of Social Insects
(2017-07-27)
Eusocial animals are comprised of distinct and specialized individuals that carry out specific tasks within colonies. Despite decades of research on eusocial insects (e.g. bees, wasps, termites, and ants), we lack knowledge ...
In the Name of the People: Yugoslav Cinema and the Fall of the Yugoslav Dream
(2017-07-27)
This dissertation outlines the trajectory of Yugoslavias decline through an examination of select works of Yugoslav cinema from the late 1960s to the late 1980s which cogently commented on their sociopolitical context. It ...
Post-Capitalist Struggles in 21st Century Latin America: Cooperation, Democracy and State Power
(2017-07-27)
This dissertation develops the concept of post-capitalist struggles. This concept highlights how a post-capitalist future is a recurring moment within the capitalist present and can be developed through struggles that ...
Psychoanalysis as an Interdisciplinary Science: From 19th Century Neuropsychology to Modern Neuropsychoanalysis
(2017-07-27)
This dissertation explores interdisciplinarity from three perspectives. It emphasizes the intellectual foundations of Sigmund Freuds Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895) and Alexander Bains Mind and Body (1872). It ...
Children's Oxygen Consumption Responses to Self-Paced Active Play and Prescribed Treadmill Exercise
(2017-07-27)
The intensity and intervals of physical activity (PA) are important in eliciting dose-dependent physical and physiological adaptations. The objectives of the study were to examine the VO2 responses plus accelerometer-based ...
Power Optimization of Wind Turbines Subject to Navier-Stokes Equations
(2017-07-27)
In this thesis, we first develop a second-order corrected-explicit-implicit domain decomposition scheme (SCEIDD) for the parallel approximation of convection-diffusion equations over multi-block sub-domains. The stability ...
For the Other, Beyond Ethics: Responsibility, Critique, and Praxis in Levinas and Adorno
(2017-07-27)
This dissertation grows out of the conviction that Emmanuel Levinas ethics and Theodor W. Adornos negative dialectics could supplement each other in mutually beneficial ways. While Levinas could provide an articulation of ...
The Atomic Prince: A Lucretian Interpretation of Machiavelli
(2017-07-27)
In 1417 Poggio Bracciolini discovered a copy of De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of Things. Lucretius, a Roman Epicurean philosopher, who lived from approximately 99 to 55 BCE, was its author. This dangerous text argued ...