Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Comparative literature"
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Afterlives of the Culture: Engaging with the Trans-East Asian Cultural Tradition in Modern Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese Literatures, 1880s-1940s
(2014-10-21)This dissertation examines how modern literature in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan in the late-nineteenth to the early-twentieth centuries was practiced within contexts of these countries' deeply interrelated literary ... -
Anticlimax: The Multilingual Novel at the Turn of the 21st Century
(2021-05-13)I propose to see multilingualism as a mode of critique that offers us new reading strategies and new ways to construct and historicize literary archives. It destabilizes political hegemonies, allowing us to rethink concepts ... -
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 ... -
Bagh-e Bi-Bargi: Aspects of Time and Presence in the Poetry of Mehdi Akhavan Sales
(2013-09-19)Mehdi Akhavan Sales (1928-1990) is one of the most important figures in modern Persian literature. However, his poetry is little known in the West. Even in Iran, though held in high regard, his work is considered hermetic. ... -
Be an Outlaw, Be a Hero: Cinematic Figures of Transgression and Urban Banditry in Brazil, France, and the Maghreb
(2013-03-18)The project is a transnational study of how filmic representations of urban criminals and marginal figures transformed as Brazil, France, and the Maghreb shifted from military governments to liberal democracies. Beyond ... -
Beyond Diaspora: The Off Home in Jewish Literature from Latin America and Israel
(2022-11-23)“Beyond Diaspora: The Off Home in Jewish Literature from Latin America and Israel” fills a gap in scholarship regarding our understanding of and language to articulate identity construction. It attempts to decenter the ... -
Black Notes on Asia: Composite Figurations of Asia in the African American Transcultural Imagination, 1923-2013
(2014-02-25)Black Notes on Asia: Composite Figurations of Asia in the African American Transcultural Imagination, 1923-2013 sheds new light on the hitherto neglected engagements of African American writers and thinkers with various ... -
Counter-Republics of Letters: Politics, Publishing, and the Global Novel
(2023-09-08)The international literary field centered in New York is a politicized space, with a progressive cosmopolitan orientation. The dominant position in the field sees world literature—and the global novel in particular—as an ... -
Democratic Performances: How Theater Creates the People
(2023-06-01)This work offers the concept of “democratic performance” as a corollary of “people’s theater.” “People’s theater” is a branch of the performing arts that aims to engage a particular audience, which is made of new spectators, ... -
Disorientations. Latin American Fictions of East Asia
(2014-06-06)This dissertation explores the relationship between fiction, knowledge and "knowing" in Latin American discourses of China and Japan. By scrutinizing Brazilian and Hispanic American travel journals, novels, short stories ... -
Dreaming Empire: European Writers in the Fascist Era
(2014-06-06)This dissertation explores how literary writers from across Western and Central Europe--namely Germany, Italy, Britain and France--invoked Europe's legacy of empire and colonialism in their attempt to come to terms with ... -
Facing the Limits of Fiction: Self-Consciousness in Jewish American Literature
(2013-03-15)This thesis explores the limits of fictional language by studying the work of Jewish American writer-critics, novelists who significantly engaged with literary criticism, and critics who experimented with the novel or short ... -
Fakt, Fiktion und Transparenz. Modi autobiographischer Selbstreferenz im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert
(2022-06-06)This dissertation explores autobiography and autofiction from the perspective of transparency. Drawing on a variety of texts – from the German-speaking world as well as from Scandinavia, France, and the US –, it examines ... -
Indeterminate “Greekness”: A Diasporic and Transnational Poetics
(2022-06-06)As a critical concept, “Greekness” indeterminately characterizes ancient constructions and their contemporary reception histories, rendering it elusive to disciplinary definition. This dissertation reconceives of its ... -
L'Imaginaire de la Peste dans la Littérature Française de la Renaissance
(2013-03-19)This thesis explores the theme of the plague in sixteenth-century French literature, beginning with works from Antiquity and the Middle Ages in 16th-century French translation: Claude de Seyssel’s LHistoire de Thucydide ... -
Mapping the Amazon: Territory, Identity, and Modernity in the Literatures of Peru and Brazil (1900-1930)
(2014-06-06)My dissertation proposes a comprehensive study of the politics of representing the Amazonian territory in literature and culture. Using the context of the Amazonian rubber boom (1879-1912) and its aftermaths in Peru and ... -
Music and Exile in Twentieth-Century German, Italian, and Polish Literature
(2021-05-13)My dissertation studies the connections between music and exile in three sets of literary works by Thomas Mann, Eugenio Montale, and Czesław Miłosz. Although rarely compared together, these three writers approach the theme ... -
The New Voyager: Theory and Practice of South Asian Literary Modernisms
(2013-08-21)My dissertation, The New Voyager: Theory and Practice of South Asian Literary Modernisms, investigates how literary modernisms in Bengali, Hindi, and Indian English functioned as much as a turning away and remixing of ... -
On with the Dance! Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry
(2013-09-04)This dissertation investigates how Augustan poetry imagines, redefines and reconfigures the idea of the chorus. It argues that the chorus, a quintessential marker of Greek culture, was translated and transformed into a ... -
Performing the Author-Translator Across Shores: Japanese Refractions of World and Latin American Literature in the 20th Century
(2023-06-01)This dissertation intervenes in current scholarly debates surrounding East-West literary exchanges and the role that Western literary and academic cultural networks play in the mediation of transcultural literary relationships ...