The "half-read" knowledge of classical and Celtic languages exerted a major ideological impact on the development of political and linguistic nationalisms in twentieth-century Ireland, Scotland …
My dissertation investigates connections between the family sphere and politics during the rise of Algerian nationalism through the French-Algerian War (1954-1962). Specifically, it examines ways …
This dissertation examines the critical anti-Zionist literary and cultural movement surrounding al-Jadid, the Arabic journal of the Israeli Communist Party (MAKI) in Israel/Palestine. This study …
This thesis is a complete translation of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (132 pages; 2019), an experimental prose autobiography by contemporary French writer Anne Savelli. Saint-Germain-en-Laye continues Savelli’s exploration …
The dissertation examines forms of cultural production that assimilated capture as an epistemological model in the modern period. The project looks to canonical works in …
This dissertation studies mechanisms of identity formation in the works of women in the French colonies of North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia). Informed by recent …
This dissertation focuses on contemporary Francophone, French, British, and Canadian novels that portray collectives, crowds, and communities in place of individual subjects. These texts shift …
My dissertation, Beyond the Poetic Principle: Psychoanalysis and the Lyric, intervenes in recent debates over lyric reading practices and proposes psychoanalytic theory as a compelling …
“Black and Balkan: A Comparison of Caribbean, African, African-American and Balkan History, Theory and Art” is a project on black and Balkan identities and an …
“Commitment as Traveling Theory: Politics in Modern Arabic Literature” studies the dialectical relationship between aesthetics and politics in the Arabic literary discourse during the second …
"Constructing the Caribbean: Regional Discourse and Literary Practice on the Edge of World War II” examines how literary magazines in the Caribbean constructed the region …
This dissertation places risk and questions of ethics at the center of the naturalist novel of the nineteenth and early-twentieth century. Arguing against the conventional …
The dissertation analyzes the destabilization of the human-animal divide in literary and theoretical discourse after the Holocaust. It demonstrates how the works of Theodor W. …
“Critical Fictions in Latin America” examines literary texts, published after 1950 in Latin America, that mimic the formal conventions of critical discourse. I argue that …
This dissertation traces the changing landscape of Lebanese fiction through a reading of novels from key moments in the country's recent history. It engages with …
This dissertation explores the ways in which three modernist poets—William Butler Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Wallace Stevens—used elements of poetic form, such as rhythm, …
“Economies of the Infinite” is a comparatist reading of Hegel and Borges’ ideas on the presentation of infinity, bringing to bear on these authors questions …
This thesis adopts a feminist lens to scrutinize the primary and secondary female characters in two seminal works of early modern tragedy: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet …
"Foreign Correspondences" investigates nineteenth-century print culture in Latin America and the United States through the lens of news. In the 1880s and 1890s, as daily …
“Foundational Futures” is a comparative study of nationhood as conceived by Indigenous nations and Latinx communities. It follows storytelling traditions among Latinx and Indigenous authors …
This thesis explores two distinct literary bodies, Nuyorican and Beur literature, as characterized in four foundational novels in the genre: Down These Mean Streets, Le …
This dissertation brings into focus the interactions of Renaissance English literature with foreign, especially classical, languages and cultures. The incorporation of foreign words into early …
My dissertation is an exploration of the lives of trailblazing women who travelled across what I call the “plantation zone” and how they produced knowledge …
Abstract of "Indeterminate Reading with Foucault: Performing Critical Distance through Textual Analysis," by Jennifer L. Schmeyer, A.M., Brown University, May 2017. This thesis is an …
This thesis places work by Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and Samuel Becket side-by-side. This is done more specifically in relation to texts which exemplify progressions …
This dissertation comprises close readings of poems and prose texts by four poets: Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, Aimé Césaire, and Charles Reznikoff, along with several …
Legal personhood – the foundational concept of most current legal systems – is unravelling, particularly in relation to animal life. A new legal regime is …
This thesis focuses on the tensions between fact and fiction—reportage, memoir and creative writing. It provides broad context and reconceptualizes the way that migrant narratives …
This dissertation studies a series of encounters between literature and technoscience from 1880 to 1914 in both Britain and China. It examines the rise of …
This dissertation is a study of how literature, intellectual culture, and spirituality scripted the early encounter between English colonists and the Powhatan people of Tidewater …
Jean Terrasson’s 1731 novel “Sethos, Histoire ou Vie tirée des Monumens anecdotes de l’ancienne Egypte,” follows the ancient Egyptian prince Séthos through his education, his …
This thesis explores conceptions of emasculation—physical, literary, and socio-emotional—in three Roaring Twenties novels: José Eustasio Rivera’s La vorágine (1924), Phillippe Soupault’s En joue! (1925), and …
This dissertation examines the discourses and silences around blackness in the ever-shifting frontier territory of the United States, arguing against narratives that figure the West …
This dissertation explores the concept of 'narrative world' within the frame of the relationship between embodiment and writing. The first chapter looks at how Martin …
This dissertation studies how punctuation marks serve as instruments and symbols of modernism's historical self-awareness and produce seams and ruptures between and within literary writing, …
This thesis examines the uncertain ‘humanity’ of Asian female characters in Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu (2019) and Chi Ta-wei’s The Membranes (1995), queer post-apocalyptic …
This thesis analyzes power relations in the forms of asymmetries and hierarchies of gender and race. The analysis falls on three texts, Sor Juana Inés …
This dissertation considers the structural relationship between the example and the general principle that constitutes a given text as an example by analyzing a range …
The aim of this dissertation is to bring to light innovative ? and until recently, thoroughly ignored ? theoretical discussions of the concepts of "actuality" …
Translation of six short stories from contemporary Mexican author Luis Felipe Lomelí’s book Ella sigue de viaje which explores loss and the breakdown of relationships …
In sacramental confession, writes Michel Foucault in "The History of Sexuality", “one confesses, or one is forced to confess. When it is not spontaneous or …
Seeking to derive a set of “autobiographical strategies” for humans living in the era of ecological catastrophe and technological upheaval, this dissertation examines the role …
This project seeks to revise understandings of nationhood and identity construction by locating a literary affect of movement in Singaporean literary production. Through the frameworks …
In this dissertation, I aim to historicize the early modern subject through an examination of the period’s concept of conscience. I trace the transformation of …
A translation of the Cambridge Songs from Latin and Old High German into English, with basic commentary. Includes music (in an appendix) where possible.
This thesis attempts to shed light on the encounters between narrative and mysticism through a Kabbalist reading of a short story by Brazilian modernist writer …
A ghost is haunting the eighteenth-century novel – the ghost of Lucretia, the chaste Roman matron who killed herself after being raped by Tarquinius and …
“The Peripheral Metropolis: The City, Montage and Modernity” examines Latin American writers in the 1920s and 1930s who, in writing about Mexico City, Lima and …
“The Poetics of Intervention: Art and Politics in Contemporary Latin America” explores the relationship between art and activism and politics and aesthetics in spaces of …