Browsing by Subject "Modern literature"
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Disconsolate Subjects: Figures of Radical Alterity in the Twentieth Century Novel, From Modernism to Postcolonialism
(2012)This dissertation focuses on a group of 20th and 21st century novelists writing in English - Samuel Beckett, J.M. Coetzee, and Kazuo Ishiguro - whose fiction is populated by figures of disconsolation: characters who resist, ... -
Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century
(2017)My dissertation offers an interpretation of twentieth century political thought which emphasizes the influence of dystopian images, themes, and anxieties. Drawing examples from philosophy, literature, and social science, ... -
Fictions of Trauma: The Problem of Representation in Novels by East and Central European Women Writing in German
(2013)This dissertation focuses on the fictional narratives of Eastern and Central European women authors writing in German and explores the ways in which historical and political trauma shapes their approach to narrative. By ... -
Living in Other Places: Genre and Globalization in the Contemporary Anglophone Novel
(2022)This dissertation reframes current debates over the role national culture and international connection plays in contemporary anglophone fiction in the formalist terms of genre studies. The processes and consequences ... -
Modernism after Nietzsche: Art, Ethics, and the Forms of the Everyday
(2012)This dissertation uses Nietzsche's writings on truth and metaphor as a lens through which to reconsider the contribution that modernist art sought to make to both the understanding and, ultimately, the reconstruction of ... -
Modernist Form: On the Problem of Fragmentation
(2018)This dissertation explores formal fragmentation in the modernist novel. It shows that such fragmentation not only represents the historical conditions of modernism, but also posits the potential for new forms of human relation. ... -
Récits des bords des villes. Esthétiques et politiques du précaire
(2013)Ce travail porte sur les écritures périphériques françaises après les années 1990. Centré sur des oeuvres de Philippe Vasset, de Jean Rolin, d'Antoine Volodine, et de Yamina Benguigui, du côté du documentaire, il se propose ... -
The Modernist Will to Totality: Dream Aesthetics and National Allegory
(2017)This dissertation argues that one of the distinguishing characteristics of modernist literature is its desire to represent the social totality and that some of the significant modernist narrative-formal experiments can be ... -
War Worlds: Violence, Sociality, and the Forms of Twentieth-Century Transatlantic Literature
(2016)“War Worlds” reads twentieth-century British and Anglophone literature to examine the social practices of marginal groups (pacifists, strangers, traitors, anticolonial rebels, queer soldiers) during the world wars. This ...
