RSS 1.0Comparative Literature Dissertations
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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 ... -
Hooked on a feeling Remembering sensory experience to unveil the world in Marcel Proust's Swann's Way (1913) and Günter Grass’ The Tin Drum (1959)
This dissertation analyses the structure of the memory narrative in Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust and The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, through the lens of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology as presented in Ideas I and II. More ... -
"Writing Back" - How non-Western authors represent postcolonial identity in literature
"Writing Back" examines and compares how non-Western authors tell the story of the harmful impact of British colonialism on post-colonial conflict and displacement in two of the most ethnically diverse and highly populated ... -
Virtual Genfūkei: The Internet as Originary Landscape in Three Born-Digital Literatures
Digital folklorists and ethnographers have engaged with the advent of the internet age in various ways, but few scholars have approached the internet from the perspective of literary analysis to address its function as a ... -
Dining Etiquette Culture between Northwest Europe and Northeast China in Cross-Cultural Communication
Various dining etiquettes reflect various dining cultures, and various regions have their own dining cultures. Due to globalization, the world is getting closer and closer today, understanding different dining cultures is ... -
Expressions and Functions of Disgust: The City, the Self and a Solution in Art – A Comparative Analysis of Jean Paul Sartre's La Nausée and Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf
Modernist culture has engaged with the uncertainty and disillusionment of the interwar years in various ways. Among the explosion of modernist culture and its ensuing ambiguities and discontents, Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf ... -
The Scarlet Convent: An Analysis of the Outcast Female Body in the Fictions of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Toni Morrison
This dissertation investigates how the female body is represented and defined in literature through instances of psychological transformation and/or exile, utilizing Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection and the analysis ...
