Instances of interspecies communication and miscommunication occur in almost every interaction humans have with other animals. Nonetheless, discussions of nonhuman animals as communicative subjects are often relegated to ...

This thesis explores the filmic figure of the double and its relationship to temporality and repetition in cinema. I trace its evolution—extending upon and contributing to the discourse on the trope of the double—by ...

Contemporary vampire literature uses a bloodsucking monster to play with continually shifting social boundaries, to try on new identities, and to refract our world in a different, fantastic context. It has been widely ...

This thesis traces configurations of textual absence (disavowal, repetition, silence) as the elaboration of a political unconscious in three iconic Singaporean prose fiction texts, If We Dream Too Long (1972) by Goh Poh ...

This thesis is positioned at the intersection between studies of citizenship in China and studies of the Chinese internet. It complements these two bodies of scholarship by investigating young Chinese internet users’ online ...

This thesis considers the diverse range of interrelations between the “much-desired land”, Switzerland, and British Romanticism, in writing by predominantly British and Swiss authors across a range of genres. It examines ...

This thesis studies the culture and cultural policies of postcolonial Singapore to chart the cultural history of the Singapore Arts Festival from 1959 to 2012. The study undertakes a detailed examination of the production ...

Complexity theory’s philosophical interpretation of the mathematical phenomenon of chaos has been taken up across various humanities fields. However, this interdisciplinary translation fails to hold the two cultures (science ...

This thesis engages in the work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri as well as others in the post-autonomist Italian Marxist tradition to critique the concept of Empire and to identify serious flaws in cryptolibertarian ...

This study identifies an interplay between gender and genre in a 1990s Hollywood production context, and demonstrates how this undermines gender and genre categories. Late twentieth century post-classical Hollywood cinema ...