Browsing by Subject "Modern Literature"
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“Chinese Whispers”? The “China” that Disappears from Lossy Communications
(2021)In 1949, Bell Lab mathematician Claude Shannon modeled telephone communication by assigning statistic regularity to the rather irregular usage of human language. His lab mate Warren Weaver took a step further, putting the ... -
Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Modernism: State, Self and Style in Four Authors
(2011)This study examines Irish modernist literature in order to complicate established critical modes which read modernist movements as reflective of distinctly vernacular or cosmopolitan aesthetic and political commitments. ... -
Machine Poetics: Pound, Stein and the Modernist Imagination
(2011)This dissertation intervenes in the fields of modernist criticism and new media studies to examine an under-appreciated reciprocity between them. I argue that this reciprocity has not yet been adequately incorporated into ... -
The Female Figures in Aesthetic Literature in Early Twentieth-Century China and Japan—Yu Dafu and Tanizaki Junichiro as Examples
(2020)In this thesis, I mainly discussed the commonalities and differences between two representative authors of Chinese and Japanese aesthetic literature in the early 20th century: Yu Dafu and Tanizaki Junichiro, in terms of ... -
Unsettled Nation: Britain, Australasia, and the Victorian Cultural Archipelago
(2009)This dissertation argues that the literary, intellectual, and cultural borders of Victorian Britain extended as far as Australia and New Zealand, and that the tradition of nation-based literary criticism inherited from the ... -
What Can Philosophical Literature Do? The Contribution of Simone de Beauvoir
(2011)"What Can Philosophical Literature Do? The Contribution of Simone de Beauvoir" examines Simone de Beauvoir's existentialist aesthetic theory of the philosophical novel alongside two fictional works, L'invitée (1943) and ...
