Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Bodies of Books: Literary Illustration in Twentieth Century Brazil
(2017-01-26)This dissertation explores the nature and role of literary illustrations twentieth century Brazil, not just in relation to their companion texts, but also in what ways they reflect defining characteristics of Brazilian ... -
Bodies of Knowledge: Medicine, Memory, and Enhancement in Medieval Islam
(2021-07-12)In this dissertation I study the privileged place of medical erudition in the ethical literature (ādāb) written by Muslim scholarly elites (ulema) from the tenth through fourteenth centuries. Authors of ādāb in this period ... -
Bodies, Technology, and Emerging Notions of Subjectivity in the Poetry of Thomas Kling, Ulrike Draesner, and Durs Grünbein
(2022-06-06)In the works of the 20th-century German poets Thomas Kling, Ulrike Draesner, and Durs Grünbein, modern developments in medical technology, such as tomography, transplant surgery, and discoveries in areas such as neuroscience, ... -
The Body and the Building: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the transformation of the French built environment alongside medical discourses of the body in the early 19th century, arguing that emerging theories on health and hygiene comprised a politically ... -
Body, Subject, Self: The Art of Piero Manzoni
(2014-06-06)Piero Manzoni (1933-1963) is one of the best-known and under-theorized artists in all of postwar Europe. His body of work includes a range of practices from monochrome painting to readymade objects, from participatory ... -
Books and Their Readers in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul
(2016-05-17)This study contributes to the cultural and intellectual history of the early modern Middle East by analyzing how books were produced and circulated, and which audiences existed for various types of books in the Ottoman ... -
The Books of Numa: Writing, Intellectuals and the Making of Roman Religion
(2013-09-30)This dissertation provides an intellectual and social history of learned writing on Roman religious culture during the late Republic and early Empire. I examine the ways in which an elite learned literature, for which I ... -
Border Listening: A Global Hermeneutics of Gustav Mahler and His Music
(2022-11-23)This dissertation posits a praxis of border listening enunciated in Gustav Mahler’s music as an intercultural theory of listening through such topics as truth, ontology, translation, and affect. The praxis of border ... -
Boundary Issues in Three Twentieth-Century Russian Poets (Mandelstam, Aronzon, Shvarts)
(2019-01-07)This dissertation examines works by three twentieth-century Russian poets in which the construction, dismantling, crossing, and blurring of boundaries plays an important role. Boundaries are understood in a variety of ... -
Boundary Notions: A Sonic Art Portfolio
(2013-09-19)I offer this dissertation as a survey and a story: a survey of my work across the field of sonic art and a story of my progressive compulsion toward sound that conveys touch. This haptic sensibility sharpens from Susurrus ... -
Boundary, Artefact, and Presence in Recent Work
(2022-05-16)This dissertation describes compositional techniques and theoretical background for works composed during my time at Harvard. Two compositions predating this time are provided for context, laying out the problems I seek ... -
Bounded Rights: Citizenship in Non-Ideal Settings
(2021-08-03)Enforcing rights under non-ideal settings poses moral challenges. When, if ever, is a society justified in circumventing the ordinary enforcement of human and civil rights, to address problems, especially those that undermine ... -
The Brain Has an Innate Immune Response That Can Limit Virus Spread
(2016-05-17)The brain has a tightly regulated environment that protects non-regenerating post-mitotic neurons and limits inflammation, which led to its description as a site of ‘immune privilege’. For example, viral and bacterial ... -
Brain-Wide Neural Dynamics Underlying Looming-Evoked Escapes and Spontaneous Exploration
(2015-05-15)Behavior is generated via brain-wide coordination of neural circuits. But until recently, it was difficult to analyze neural dynamics at cellular resolution throughout the brain during behavior. With the genetic and optical ... -
Branching Out: An urban systems approach to evaluating the environmental and socioeconomic benefits of street trees in Cambridge, Massachusetts as a method of developing sustainable, resilient cities.
(2022-06-03)An urban systems approach was developed to evaluate the annual benefits ($/year) of street trees in Cambridge, MA. The environmental factors (calculated using iTree Canopy) considered were air pollution (NO2, SO2, O3, CO, ... -
Brane Constructions and BPS Spectra
(2013-10-07)The object of this work is to exploit various constructions of string theory and M-theory to yield new insights into supersymmetric theories in both four and three dimensions. In 4d, we extend work on Seiberg-Witten theory ... -
BRAVE NEW TURKEY: Contesting the Production and Valuation of Bodies, Urban Space, and Ecology
(2021-09-14)In this ethnography, I examine fragmented urban and social dynamics in Istanbul, Turkey. The issues of the country are mirrored and coalesced into these dynamics. Binaries of proper/valuable versus improper/abjected city ... -
Breaking and Entering: Verb Semantics and Event Structure
(2015-02-25)Any event can be construed from a variety of perspectives. While this flexibility is fundamental to human ingenuity, it poses a challenge for language learners who must discern which meanings are encoded in their language ... -
Breath, Gravity, Giants, and Death: Puppet-Musical Encounters from Die Zauberflöte to Today
(2022-05-11)Puppets are silent. But they are never apart from sound. In fact, they are immersed in it, entwined with it, inextricable from it. Prevailing definitions of the puppet allow its sounds to go unheard, rendering puppetry a ...