This thesis will explore the implications of performances by female Arab-American stand-up comics in the United States since the beginning of the 21st century. By examining the subversive ways in which these comics tackle issues of identity through their art, this exploration draws conclusions on how this performance platform creates unique challenges and opportunities for female comics that are not experienced by their male counterparts. It will identify the cultural and sociological sources of challenge for female agency, whether internal or external and theorize ways in which they are overcome. This thesis utilizes qualitative analysis of live and recorded performances through the theoretical lens of social interaction. The analysis is supplemented by in person and documentary film interviews with Arab-American female comics as well as research on reviews, articles and archives of performances. While previous scholarship on the subject of Arab-American stand-up comedy has mostly taken into account the male voices, this thesis focuses exclusively on female comics and the significance of their performance of comic resistance to their agency.
While previous scholarship on the subject of Arab-American stand-up comedy has mostly taken into account the male voices, this thesis focuses exclusively on female comics and the significance of their performance of comic resistance to ...
Patrick Boyde argues that the way in which Dante represents what he (or his fictional self) saw and felt was profoundly influenced by the thirteenth-century science of psychology. Professor Boyde offers an authoritative account of the way in which vision and the emotions were understood in Dante's lifetime, and rereads many of the most dramatic and moving episodes in the Comedy, throwing light on Dante's narrative technique. Seeing and feeling were known to be inextricably bound up with thinking and voluntary action, and were treated as special cases of motion and motive forces. Dante's treatment of perception and passion is set in the context of Aristotelian epistemology, ethics and physics. In these areas too a knowledge of Dante's philosophical ideas is shown to illuminate his poetic representation of mental processes and value judgements, and the meaning of his journey towards the source of goodness and truth.
It is given in differing degrees, in proportion to the soul's deserts, as just
explained; but it is still a gift, not a contractual right. And since this ... For
responsibility, reward and punishment, see Epist. xm, 25; C.G. ill, 73, esp. § 2491.
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