{"id":7839,"date":"2017-09-15T10:43:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T09:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7839"},"modified":"2017-09-15T11:01:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T10:01:25","slug":"congratulations-to-anna-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/09\/15\/congratulations-to-anna-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Anna Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Comparative Literature is delighted to announce that Anna Street has completed her PhD, entitled &#8216;Comedy of the Impossible&#8217;, under the joint supervision of \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/weller.html\">Professor Shane Weller<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Professor Elizabeth Angel Perez (University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV).<\/p>\n<p>Anna\u2019s thesis gathers evidence highlighting the historical and conceptual developments in the post-Second World War period that made way for a radical shift in comedy\u2019s inferior status, as demonstrated in the plays of Arthur Adamov, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, and N. F. Simpson.<\/p>\n<p>Charting the development of comedic theories alongside philosophy\u2019s growing reliance on dramatic techniques, comedy has the power to transform our basic assumptions and thinking practices, and blur the line of distinction between the abstract and the concrete, the mechanical and the organic and, ultimately, between life and death.<\/p>\n<p>By demonstrating how this reversal is accomplished through linguistics, metaphor, and dramatics, Anna\u2019s study\u00a0reveals how\u00a0comedy\u00a0subverts the idea of a socio-symbolic order\u00a0that relies\u00a0on the logic of possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Anna\u2019s thesis was completed as a European Jointly Supervised PhD (Cotutelle)\u00a0between the University of Kent and the University of Paris-Sorbonne, allowing her to obtain a double doctorate in Comparative Literature from Kent and in English (Theatre) Studies from the Sorbonne.<\/p>\n<p>Our congratulations to Dr Street.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on a PhD in Comparative Literature, please see: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/postgraduate\/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1;font-family: Calibri\">https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/postgraduate\/index.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about European Jointly Supervised PhD Scholarships, please see: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/scholarships\/search\/FNADEURJOI02\">www.kent.ac.uk\/scholarships\/search\/FNADEURJOI02<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Comparative Literature is delighted to announce that Anna Street has completed her PhD, entitled &#8216;Comedy of the Impossible&#8217;, under the joint supervision &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/09\/15\/congratulations-to-anna-street\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":7841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7839"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7874,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839\/revisions\/7874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}