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This article explores the speculative short stories of Egyptian writers Alifa Rifaat (Alīfah Rifaʿat, 1930–1996) and Mansoura Ez-Eldin (Mansūrah ʿIzz al-Dīn, b. 19 [...]
10 August 2023 |
Comparative Literature; Humanities |
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“The Rest is Literature: Midrash and the Institution of ‘Theory’ in America" offers a new interpretation of the brief, unlikely mutual interest taken by rabbinicist [...]
2022-08 |
Comparative Literature; Divinity |
Dissertation |
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This dissertation is a study of the Arabic discourse of “revival” (iḥyāʾ) in Egypt and Greater Syria in the Tanzimat era (1839–1876), with a focus on elite cult [...]
2022-08 |
Comparative Literature |
Dissertation |
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“Kira Muratova: Epistemology of Self-Knowledge on the Cinema Screen” engages in a philosophical reading of the cinematic opus of Romanian born Soviet/Ukrainian filmma [...]
2022-06 |
Social Thought; Comparative Literature |
Dissertation |
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Through a series of interconnected theoretical and creative vignettes, this dissertation explores the philosophy of Hawaiian Nietzscheanism. It also addresses various iss [...]
2021-12 |
Divinity; Comparative Literature |
Dissertation |
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Since the seventeenth century, Jin Shengtan (1608-1661) has been famous among East Asian readers for his densely annotated editions of two works of vernacular literature, [...]
2021-08 |
Comparative Literature |
Dissertation |
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In this dissertation I examine the role played by “unease” in the Homeric epics, the Ancient Near Eastern Gilgamesh texts, and the Indian Rigveda. I position unease a [...]
2021-08 |
Comparative Literature |
Dissertation |
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This dissertation focuses on the intertwined worlds of Hebrew and German-Jewish modernism and their impact on the Jewish sense of belonging before the Shoah. Set against [...]
2020-08 |
Comparative Literature |
Dissertation |
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Focusing on several Italian and Portuguese novels that remarkably thematize the encounter of the human with the machine and its noise, this dissertation is an inquiry int [...]
2020-08 |
Comparative Literature |
Dissertation |
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Dragons, Fairies, and Time: Imagining the Past in Medieval Welsh, Persian, and French Narratives explores how speculative modes informed imaginative writing about the pas [...]
2020-06 |
Comparative Literature |
Dissertation |
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Secular consolation literature has been inadequately studied, particularly with regard to its conceptual foundations. In this dissertation, I argue against two dominant s [...]
2019-12 |
Comparative Literature |
Dissertation |
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This dissertation seeks to examine these changing spatial logics of novels written at the neoliberal turn, many of them during times of political strife and military occu [...]
2017-03 |
Comparative Literature |
Dissertation |
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This dissertation treats a set of six literary adaptations of the story of King David in the Hebrew Bible Books of Samuel. By attending to common modes of biblical readin [...]
2018-08 |
Comparative Literature |
Dissertation |
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My dissertation develops a transcultural model for literary movements by exploring the emergence of literary Romanticism in 18th-century Germany and its reemergence in Ru [...]
2017 |
Comparative Literature |
Dissertation |
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“Aspirational Intimacy” investigates the transformative potential ascribed to vernacular languages in the postcolonial era, examining affective investments in vernacu [...]
2017 |
Comparative Literature |
Dissertation |
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Samuel Beckett seems to invite philosophical interpretation, with his characters that often question their surroundings, and that attempt to reason about existence and me [...]
2017 |
Comparative Literature |
Dissertation |
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In this dissertation, I propose a reconsideration of the idea of speech that animates the writing and reading of lyric poetry. The project revisits competing linguistic a [...]
2016 |
Comparative Literature |
Dissertation |
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This study’s examination of popular Dutch and British juvenile literature in a comparative context from 1814-1879 has a threefold purpose: to understand how nineteenth- [...]
2018 |
Comparative Literature |
Dissertation |
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As the crowning achievement of Chinese classical tales, Pu Songling (1640-1715)’s Liaozhai zhiyi has enjoyed a prolific literary afterlife in the centuries following it [...]
2017 |
Comparative Literature |
Dissertation |
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