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Toepfer, Yvonne
(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)
This comparative project investigates different representations of the sandman between the 19th century and the 20th century. My discussion focuses on Romantic texts, in particular E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1816 literary tale "Der ...
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Lejeune, Nadège
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Literature written in the French language has often been divided into a hierarchical dichotomy valuing French literature (written by metropolitan French authors) over Francophone literature (other writers writing in French). ...
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Crowson, Michelle
(University of Oregon, 2021-04-29)
This dissertation tracks the transformation of the merchant-class female poet, Kaga no Chiyo, from a minor supplementary position as a collected feminine object to an interlocutor and exemplar of post-Bashō poetics in ...
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Ndakalako, Martha
(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)
Borders of the Global Anglophone considers the radical possibilities of three post-independence Anglophone literary works by Black Namibian women—at the intersection of debates in global Anglophone literature, African ...
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Odintz, Jenny
(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)
In this project I explore the creation of female community in the novels of four contemporary feminist writers: Nicole Brossard, Michelle Cliff, Maryse Condé, and Gisèle Pineau. I contend that in their diverse representations ...
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Baumeister, Anna-Lisa
(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)
The dissertation develops a new reading of the status of nature in the Sturm und Drang period of the 1770s, in texts by authors ranging from the early Goethe, Schiller, and Herder, to J.M.R. Lenz, Friedrich Müller, and ...
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Bhattacharya, Sunayani
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-27)
My dissertation traces the formation and growth of the reader of the Bengali novel in nineteenth century Bengal through a close study of the writings by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay that comment on—and respond to—both the ...
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Lester, Jason
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Experiments with China in American Modernity explores formulations of China within America’s early and interwar modernist period. I propose the concept of “transpacific experimentalism” to identify an emergent, sustained ...
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Xiong, Ying
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)
My dissertation is a comparative analysis of the juncture at which Chinese poetry became “modern.” The catalyst for this development was the early twentieth-century translation into Chinese of the European Romantics, which ...
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Sturgis O'Coyne, Laurel
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Well into the late-twentieth century, monolingualism persists as an organizing principle for national community even as the intrinsic multilingualism of the Americas nourishes interconnected histories and political ...
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Endalew, Yewulsew
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
How do literary and folkloric traditions of the Nile inform the region’s water politics? My dissertation answers this question by analyzing poetry and songs from Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt—three of the five countries of ...
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Richards, Jamie
(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)
My dissertation research focuses on Italian literature of the 1960s, specifically translations from the American counterculture and poetry of the neo-avantgarde. Through a detailed study of three specific translational ...
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Lee, Kwan Yin
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This project asserts that recent Sinophone narrative films — Ann Hui’s A Simple Life (2011), Anthony Chen’s Ilo Ilo (2013) and Oliver Chan’s Still Human (2018) — lauded for portraying domestic workers respectfully warrant ...
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Lisiecki, Chet
(University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)
As fascist movements took hold across Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, there emerged a body of lyric poetry concerned with revolution, authority, heroism, sacrifice, community, heritage, and national identity. While the Nazi ...
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Chang, Jeong
(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)
This project focuses on films that reveal concerns about care and subjectivity in a world transformed by neoliberalism, flexible capital, and globalization. As these films show, care is still necessary, but under the logic ...
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Adkins, Roger A., 1973-
(University of Oregon, 2010-06)
This dissertation investigates the cultural importance of the "monstrous Other" in postmodern literature, including novels from Sweden, Finland, and the United States. While the theoretical concept of "the Other" is in ...
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Kovalchuk, Anna
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)
This dissertation investigates nineteenth-century narrative representations of the Cossacks—multi-ethnic warrior communities from the historical borderlands of empire, known for military strength, pillage, and revelry—as ...
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Da Silva, Meyre
(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)
Colonial narratives and nationalist rhetoric in Africa have always associated female sexuality with male desire and consumption, aberrance, or perversion. While historical narratives suggested that native women's bodies ...
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McCann, Michael Charles, 1959-
(University of Oregon, 2011-09)
The twentieth-century project of American rhetorician Kenneth Burke, grounded in a magic-based theory of language, reveals a path to the origins of what I am going to call occult invention. The occult, which I define as a ...
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Gilroy, Andrea
(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)
My dissertation argues that comics’ unique formal properties are particularly suited toward exploring and representing the complex nature of identity. Just as the comics form is broadly defined by a peculiar tension between ...
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