Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "comparative literature"
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Artificial Humanities: A Literary Perspective on Creating and Enhancing Humans from Pygmalion to Cyborgs
(2020-09-11)This dissertation explores boundaries and relationships between humans and humanlike artificial entities in the twentieth-century and contemporary literature. The central question, What is human?, is posed in relation to ... -
Character before the Novel: Representing Moral Identity in the Age of Shakespeare
(2013-02-20)This dissertation argues that the modern concept of literary character was an unintended consequence of Renaissance moral poetics. The evolution of "character" as a term of literary analysis, from the rediscovery of ... -
The Empire of Chance: War, Literature, and the Epistemic Order of Modernity
(2013-02-20)The dissertation charts the momentous shift in the thinking of war that takes place in Europe around 1800. Against the background of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the discourse on war in literature, military theory, ... -
Freund-schaft: Capturing Aura in an Unframed Literary Exchange
(2013-03-08)This dissertation charts an intellectual history of collaborations centered on the beginning of socio-critical discourse on photography. I study the critically misread oeuvre of photographer and sociologist Gisèle Freund ... -
God and the Devil in the Human Heart: The Dialogic Vision of Abramovitch and Dostoevsky
(2013-02-12)Scholarship on the founder of modern Jewish literature, Sholem Abramovitch (1836-1917), is a rich field of study, yet it has been largely abandoned today, and the author has hardly been studied at all in nineteenth-century ... -
Melancholy, Ambivalence, Exhaustion: Responses to National Trauma in the Literature and Film of France and China
(2013-02-11)This dissertation exposes responses to national trauma in literature and film from France in the twenty-five years following the 1940-1944 German Occupation, and from China in the twenty years following the 1989 Tiananmen ... -
Poetics of the Unfinished: Illuminating Paul Celan's Eingedunkelt
(2013-02-22)This thesis aims to challenge a number of critical assumptions that have unnecessarily restricted the way we read Paul Celan's work, and poetry in general, by reading an unfinished cycle of poems called 'Eingedunkelt.' The ... -
Psychomotor Aesthetics: Conceptions of Gesture and Affect in Russian and American Modernity, 1910's-1920's
(2013-02-12)My dissertation focuses on the notion of “gesture” as a somatic manifestation of psychological experience. This view of movement was elaborated by late 19th-century psychologists, who gave up the metaphysical notion of the ... -
Transforming Trauma: Memory and Slavery in Black Atlantic Literature since 1830
(2013-02-15)Transforming Trauma: Memory and Slavery in Black Atlantic Literature since 1830 examines the interplay between remembering and forgetting in literary and cultural engagements with the trauma of transatlantic slavery. The ...