Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by FAS Department "Comparative Literature"
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Ambient Meaning: Mood, Vibe, System
(2017-09-08)This dissertation will present a mathematically informed interpretation of a classically romantic literary-theoretic thesis: that a work of literature can aesthetically communicate an ineffably complex holistic understanding ... -
Anatomy of "Decadence"
(2016-05-19)Examining the perception of literary decline in Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Persian, this study unearths an enduring taboo, one little changed by place and time, against verbal creation too readily sacrificing “nature” and ... -
Children's Literature Grows Up
(2015-05-05)Children’s Literature Grows Up proposes that there is a revolution occurring in contemporary children’s fiction that challenges the divide that has long existed between literature for children and literature for adults. ... -
Ethnicity, Ethnogenesis and Ancestry in the Early Iron Age Aegean as Background to and through the Lens of the Iliad
(2015-05-16)The prevalence of orality in the 8th/7th centuries BCE and the inherent limits of oral memory, in the wake of centuries of illiteracy, invalidate the conventional premise that the archaizing world of the Iliad somehow ... -
Kino-Eye, Kino-Bayonet: The Avant-Garde Documentary in Japan, France, and the USSR
(2017-09-08)This dissertation considers a grouping of films in the former USSR, France, and Japan from the perspective of the political aesthetics they aim to create. These films, usually considered avant-garde documentaries, provide ... -
Medicine as Storytelling: Emplotment Strategies in the Definition of Illness and Healing (1870-1930)
(2016-04-11)This dissertation analyzes medical and literary sources from Russia, Italy, and France in the years 1870-1930. By tracking imagery, rhetorical devices and, above all, emplotment strategies that are employed in medical texts ... -
The Modern Stage of Capitalism: The Drama of Markets and Money (1870-1930)
(2015-05-18)The Modern Stage of Capitalism tells the story of why and how modern drama captured the spirit of capitalism in all its contradictions. Although the bourgeois novel has long been considered the definitive genre of capital, ... -
Platonic Footnotes: Figures of Asymmetry in Ancient Greek Thought
(2015-05-16)In 1953, Maurice Merleau-Ponty claimed, “It is useless to deny that philosophy limps…. [In the philosopher’s] assent something massive and carnal is lacking. He is not altogether a real being.” My dissertation is a critical ... -
Repenting Roguery: Penance in the Spanish Picaresque Novel and the Arabic and Hebrew Maqama
(2015-05-15)Repenting Roguery: Penance in the Spanish Picaresque Novel and the Arabic and Hebrew Maqāma, investigates the significance of conversion narratives and penitential elements in the Spanish picaresque novels Vida de Guzmán ...