Browsing Theses by Subject "Comparative Literary Studies"
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9/11 and the Socio-Politics of Poetry
(2013)This thesis explores the poetic responses to 9/11 and its political aftermath as came about in the US in the first decade after the attack. Examining a diverse array of poetic practices, ranging from the widespread circulation ... -
A Cyborg Autobiography: Autism & the Posthuman
(2014)Autism is omnipresent in contemporary culture: it can be considered the 'zeitgeist condition.' As such, it characterises this zeitgeist, which is often theorised as moving in the direction of the posthuman. However, whereas ... -
A Road of One's Own: On the Roles of Mobilities in Feminist Utopian Writings
(2022)A key to utopia’s relevance and fascination lies in its dual function as critique of society and hopeful imagining of alternatives, as well as the question of how one might reach an unreachable ideal. From this starting ... -
A Watery Cosmopolitanism
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Between Reason and Unreason: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
(2017)This thesis discusses the novel 'Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights' by Salman Rushdie. In the novel, reality and fantasy frequently overlap. That is why the connection of Salman Rushdie and magic realism is ... -
Beyond the Dutch Indies: Colonial Memory of the Second and Third Generation Indo in Literary Texts and Monuments
(2015)Departing from the notion of the hybridity of Indos, who traditionally have a position between colonizer and colonized, this thesis analyses how the memory of the Dutch Indies influences second and third generation Indos ... -
Bodily Metaphors: The Plague and its Carriers
(2016)This thesis focuses on a number of modern and contemporary plague novels as a prism through which to analyze the use of the plague (and the concept of contagion more generally) as a metaphor for social problems, such as ... -
Cixous and Derrida - A faithful aimance to come through writing
(2017)In this thesis, I explore a new form of friendship, called a 'faithful aimance to come through writing', that is grounded in faith and that lovingly recognizes the friend, or 'aimi(e)', as different. I do so by reading ... -
Coetzee’s Traumatized Creatures: Toward a Post-Anthropocentric and Posthumanist Understanding of Trauma
(2015)This thesis investigates what trauma theory would look like if it were more attuned to the creaturely residues of trauma. Through theorizing Freudian trauma theory and showing how its humanist focus is taken on by literary ... -
Comics as Theoretical Devices: The Relationship between the Act of Doing Theory and the Ways in which Comics Draw Attention to their Form
(2021)Today's digital culture is becoming harder to analytically approach and theorize due to its multimodality, speed, scale, and pervasive control. These difficulties present a problem for theory, as many scholars continue to ... -
Constructing the Cyborg-Soldier: Posthuman Military Enhancements in Veterans’ Autobiographical Fiction from WWI to the Present
(2016)Current military efforts aim to erase 'flawed' human input by creating weaponry that exceeds what we consider to be human abilities (and limitations). The possible ways of doing so have become the subject of cultural ... -
"Dreaming of Elsewhere": Landscape in W.H. Auden
(2015)This thesis discusses the ways in which landscape and borders, both geographical and cultural, influence the works of the British-American author W.H. Auden (1907-1973). In his works, both phenomena are constantly contested ... -
"Dreaming of Elsewhere": Landscape in W.H. Auden
(2015)This thesis discusses the ways in which landscape and borders, both geographical and cultural, influence the works of the British-American author W.H. Auden (1907-1973). In his works, both phenomena are constantly contested ...