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A comparative analysis of two writing styles: Latin American magical realism represented by García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Chinese hallucinatory realism represented by Mo Yan's Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
In 2012, Chinese writer Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His work differs from traditional socialist realism but draws on the writing techniques of many world literature, including Latin American magical ... -
The International Self: Comparative analysis of Gilles and A Dark Night's Passing
This dissertation aims to analyse the thematic similarities of the heroes of Drieu La Rochelle's Gilles and Shiga Naoya's A Dark Night's Passing in orther to produce an international conception of the Self as embodied by ... -
Between Playfulness, Trauma, and Autofiction: Postmemories of Childhood in Dictatorial Argentina and Chile
This dissertation explores the dynamic between postmemory, trauma, playfulness, and autofiction in The Rabbit House by Argentinian writer Laura Alcoba and Space Invaders by Chilean writer Nona Fernández. Since the early ... -
Roots, Tentacles and Words: The Representation of Animals and the Environment in the Contemporary Works of N. Scott Momaday and Linda Hogan
Scholars claim that the current environmental crisis is of anthropogenic origin: caused by humans. However, it is important to distinguish between the harm that western civilizations and the capitalist system has caused, ... -
Faith and Suspect: A Comparative Analysis of Lu Xun's A Madman's Diary and Cervantes' Don Quixote from the perspective of madness
Don Quixote and A Madman's Diary are two significant works in the history of world literature, both from literary giants and composed at a similar historical stage, i.e., the period when modernity took place. However, there ...
