Comparative Literature Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Comparative Literature, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Politics of the Female Body: Middle Eastern Female Refugee Writers in Canada and the US, Sepideh Hatami Ms.
Untangling the Threads: A Comparative Literary Journey Through Female Guilt and Shame, Shahrzad Izadpanah
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
CIVILIZING THE STAGE: Reform and Theatrical Aesthetics in Colonial Western India (1850-1914), Abhimanyu Acharya
Unfolding Infinity: Expressionism in Sufi Cosmopoiesis and the Poetics of Islamic Art and Architecture, Amany Dahab
A Haven of Peace: Justice and Hesed in the Book of Ruth and its Retellings in Spanish Drama, European Visual Arts, and Latin American Poetry, Luigi De Angelis Soriano
Indian and British Women’s Contributions to Modern Theatre in Punjab: 1830s -1940s, Ramanpreet Kaur
The Limits of the Law: Recent Fiction on the West German Prosecution of Nazi Atrocities, Pascal Michelberger
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Veni, Pati, Scripsi: The Maghrebi Diaspora in Driss Chraïbi’s Les Boucs and Salah Methnani-Mario Fortunato’s Immigrato, Mohamed Baya
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Embodiment of Creative Thought and Visual Logic in Bookmaking: An Example of Intermediality in Word-Picture Adaptation, Diana Bychkova
Between a Harmless Game and a Bittersweet Disease: Forms of Nostalgia in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe, George A. Condrache
Shame and Its Other Family Members in Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater and Everyman and Pierre Lemaitre's Au revoir là-haut, Shahrzad Izadpanah
I Ran to Write: Travel, Translation, and Journalism on Persian Spaces, Emadeddin Naghipour
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Moloch's Children: Monstrous Techno-Capitalism in North American Popular Fiction, Alexandre Desbiens-Brassard
Re-presenting Violence in the works of Jorge Amado, Gabriel García Márquez, and Ariel Dorfman, David Mongor-Lizarrabengoa
Postcolonial Trauma in the Mediterranean: The Italian-Libyan Transnational Community, Rosario Pollicino
The Amphibian, Melioristic Agenda for Dividuals: Tropological Oscillations versus Tropological Settlements, Donatas Sinkunas
Kurdish Narratives of Identity: A Comparative Reading of Novels from Turkey and Iraq, Persheng Yari
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Subjectivity in Young Adult Literature (Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, Zohre Javaheri
Cultural Memory and the Traumatic Past: Examining the Voids in Contemporary German and Uruguayan Literature, Museums, and Film, Jessica Paola Marino
Romance, Politics and Minor Art: A Nomadology of Inamoramento de Orlando and Star Wars, Andrea Privitera
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Let Me Tell You What It Means: Reading Beyond Humor in Selected Iranian-American Memoirs, Stand-up Comedy, and Film in the Post-9/11 Era, Reza Ashouri Talooki
“Walking around with broken hearts on their hands:” Intimate Writings in Contemporary Comics, Gabriella Colombo Machado
Being Gender/Doing Gender, in Alice Munro and Pedro Almadovar, Bahareh Nadimi Farrokh
Exploring Kitsch: Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Parastoo Nasrollahzadeh
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Organizations of Knowledge about the Orient in German and British Romanticism 1780-1820, Naqaa Abbas
"I" am not "I" anymore: Negation, Doubling and Identity in Roman Polanski's The Tenant and Max Frisch's Stiller, Parastoo Alaeddini
Saturnine Constellations: Melancholy in Literary History and in the Works of Baudelaire and Benjamin, Kevin Godbout
The Entelechial Thinker in Space: ‘Worlds within Worlds’ in Durrell, Flaubert, and Carroll, Sheena M. Jary
From Dispossession to the Grotesque: Deterritorializing Human Identity in Cobra, El obsceno pájaro de la noche and The Unnamable, Sandra Paola Preciado
Inhuman and Heroic Women: Femininity in the Odyssey and the Arthurian Vulgate, Alexandra Salyga Reynolds
Discussions of Diaspora: Cultural Production and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Canadian Literature, Rachel L. Wong
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
"More or Less" Refugee?: Bengal Partition in Literature and Cinema, Sarbani Banerjee
Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetic Play in Diasporic Iranian Visual Literature: Neshat, Satrapi, Bashi, Soltani, Mehraneh Ebrahimi-Eshratabadi
Peri Algeos: Pain in Aeschylus and Sophocles, Anda Pleniceanu
Paradise Lost: Astronomy, Scepticism, Perspective, Yanxiang Wu
Scintillating Scotoma: Migraine, Aura, and Perception in European Literature, 1860-1900, Janice Y. Zehentbauer
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Ha-Ha Holocaust: Exploring Levity Amidst the Ruins and Beyond in Testimony, Literature and Film, Aviva Atlani
Unmasking the Protester: The Meanings and Myths of Collective Civil Resistance Movements in African American and Polish Postresistance Prose Fiction, Agnieszka Herra
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
From Nizam to Nation: The Representation of Partition in Literary Narratives about Hyderabad, Deccan, Nazia Akhtar
Enunciation and Plurilingualism in the Francophone and Anglophone African Novel, Ndeye F. Ba
Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett, Roberta Cauchi-Santoro
Mobilizing Insurgent Pasts Toward Decolonial Futures, Patrick Crowley
Magic(infra)realism: Jetztzeiten of Believability and Latin American History in García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad and Otoño del patriarca., Katarzyna Jasinski
Through the Carnival Looking Glass: A Carnivalesque Reading of Bruno Schulz's A Street of Crocodiles and Guy Davenport's A Table of Green Fields, Tamara A. Kowalski
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Burying Dystopia: the Cases of Venedikt Erofeev, Kurt Vonnegut, and Victor Pelevin, Natalya Domina
Human Automata, Identity and Creativity in George Du Maurier's Trilby and Raymond Roussel's Locus Solus, Adrienne M. Orr
Playing with the Other: The Stories of Mu Xin and Vladimir Nabokov, Meng Wu
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Myth, Language, Empire: The East India Company and the Construction of British India, 1757-1857, Nida Sajid