Guide to the Stanford University, Department of Comparative Literature, Honors Theses SC4-3433

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Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Stanford University, Department of Comparative Literature, honors theses
creator: Stanford University. Department of Comparative Literature
Identifier/Call Number: SC4-3433
Physical Description: 1.25 Linear Feet (13 volumes in 3 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1996-2011
Abstract: Honors theses written by undergraduates in the Stanford University Department of Comparative Literature.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of honors theses written by undergraduates in the Stanford University Department of Comparative Literature.

Access to Collection

The collection is open for research use; materials must be requested at least 48 hours in advance of intended use. No photocopies may be made.

Publication Rights

Copyright is retained by the creator for materials they have authored or otherwise produced. Transmission or reproduction of materials requires the written permission of the copyright owner.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Stanford University, Department of Comparative Literature, Honors Theses (SC4-3433). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Acquisition Information

Theses were transferred to the Stanford University Archives from the Hume Writing Center in 2011.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Student papers.
Comparative literature -- Study and teaching.
Stanford University. Department of Comparative Literature

 

Theses Accession ARCH-2011-152

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Antognini, Albertina, The literary practice of philosophy: the phenomenology of Palomar. 2004

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Haslanger, Andrea, The physical mind and the thinking world: the poetry of Wallace Stevens. 2003

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Jernigan, Adam, Nabokov's naughty narrators: panoptic structures of narrative authority in Nabokov's American novels. 1997

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Lash, Cristina, Extra-realism in the contemporary slave narratives of Toni Morrison and Manual Zapata Olivella. 2006

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Lindsey, Ursula, In search of lost Paris: the city in literature: space, time, memory and nostalgia. undated

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Schachter, Allison, Inscriptions of the errant past: memories through language, memorials of the Holocaust. 1996

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Milburn, Colin, Bleeding texts and monstrous authors: theorizing horror. 1998

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Sheehan, Rebecca and Katherine Anya Smucker Lemons, Imperative to critique: defamiliarizing the Silicon Valley. 2001

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Anderson, J. Bradford, An aristocracy of readers: canon formation in Joris-Karl Huysmans' A rebours. 1998

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Powell, Jessica, El buscapiés del pensamiento: Oliverio Girondo y Ramón Gómez de la Serna. 2000

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Lewis-Kraus, Gideon, Uncalled-for to this day: psychoanalysis and pragmatism in the service of self and culture. 2002

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Ewald, Marie, Representing the south: reflections on Carlo Levi and Danilo Dolci. 2000

 

Theses Accession ARCH-2018-060

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Sun, Vicki, "What is a minor literature? The (re) writing of a more gender-equal Islam by three Muslin women living and writing in the west" 2011

 

Theses

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Davenport, Claire, "Creative delusions: alternative realites in the work of Vladimir Nabokov, as inspired by Stephane Mallarmé 2004

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Agnolucci, Simona, "After Catullus: a translation" 1998

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Trousdale, Mark Cella, "Faire bouger: a critical treatment of Musil's character development in MOE" 2002

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Li, Stephanie, "The development of consciousness: a comparative study of the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Ralph Ellison" 1998

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Foulks, Beverley, "The African Francophone novel after independence: parody as a means to Une Prise de Conscience" 1998

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Lewis-Kraus, Gideon, "Uncalled-for to this day: psychoanalysis and pragmatism in the service of self and culture" 2002

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Seelig, Rachel Elana, "Recovering tomorrow: S.Y. Agnon and the legacy of Jewish renewal" 2003

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Haslanger, Andrea, "The physical mind and the thinking world: the poetry of Wallace Stevens" 2003

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Swai, Aika, "The mad, the sad, and the bad: four suicides after the enlightenment" 2003

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Pekron, Beki, "X's and Arabesques: exploring the boundaries of representation in Poésies" 2004

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Glasser, Julie, "Imagining post-Soviet reality: depictions of justice and gender in Dar'ia Dontsova's detective fiction" 2004

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Antognini, Albertina, "The literary practice of philosophy: the phenomenology of Palomar" 2004

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Riddell, Allen Beye, "The unalterable animal: performance and its limits in Phillip Roth's The Human Stain" 2004

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Weinberg, Dara, "Time to rhyme" 2004

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Anguiano, Mónica Itzel Henestroza, "Jineteras matter: sex, race and nation in productions of jineterismo" 2004

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Rosensweig, Jason, "Two modern cynicisms" 2004

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Vizcarra, Diana, "With a vision for our community: the production and reception of the Chicano/Latino young adult novel" 2004

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Sherman, Jeannine, "Changements dans la littérature sénégalaise depuis l'indépendence: une conscience nationale et feministe" 2005

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Lash, Christina, "Extra-realism in the contemporary slave narratives of Toni Morrison and Manuel Zapata Olivella" 2006

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Rountree, Liz," From new worlds to new words: otherness in 16th century European exploration narratives" 2006

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Olaru, Monica, "Feasts for bandits, monuments for hypocrites: a political-anthropological view of Molière's Don Juan" 2006

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Lee, Felicia S., "Name traveling through the Wind-up Bird Chronicle: the construction of character identity via writing system" 2007

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Li, Katherine Victoria, "Acts of re-naming: Adrienne Rich and the sea" 2007

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Denischenko, Irina M., "The carnivalesque and Russian carnival in Doestoevsky's The Double" 2007

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Reback, Jenna, "The map within the text: a narratological vindication of Clarice Lispector" 2008

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Quiggle, Aaron, "Poetry and the impossible: Larry Levis' silent vocation" 2009

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Draper, Maia, "Negated narratives and embodied resistance in Chile: situating the works of Diamela Eltit and Pedro Lemembel" 2009

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Kingsland, Haley Smith, "A quantative and rhetorical analysis of National Geographic magazine's wildlife coverage" 2009

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Herrera, Elia, "Storytelling into existence: a comparative approach to Beur and Chicana/o literature" 2009

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Bershad, Anya, "Trainable judgment: Montaigne, Kafka, and the honing of a faculty" 2009

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Fonseca, Carlos, "Heavy birds: an exhausted modernity in search for grace" 2009

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Sun, Vicki, "What is a minor literature?: the (re-)writing of a more gender-equal Islam by three Muslim women living and writing in the West" 2011

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Nam, Alice," Chasing Scheherazade" 2011

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DeCelles, Naomi, "How an auteur: Fritz Lang's Mabuse trilogy as key to his oeuvre" 2011

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Isaacs. Nick, "The fragility and power of narrative in computer role playing games" 2012

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Hu, Jasmine, "Orienting modernism: Ezra Pound's Chinese translations" 2012

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Marshall, Leigh M., "Truth in an imagined world: a philosophy of unconcealment, transformation, and potential in the work of theatre" 2013

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Hernandez, Nicolas, "Speculative genres and the restoration of historical silences in the works of Toni Morrison and Junot Díaz" 2013

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Coleman, Rachel, "A multicultural choice: fated and un-fated worldmaking in the Buddha of Suburbia and White Teeth" 2014

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Kureishi, Aysha Evelyne, "Testimonies of the ones left behind: a study of love and abandonment imagery in classical Arabic and Chinese poetry" 2014

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Fayyaz, Parwana, "Poetry: a study of Jāmi's language and imagination" 2015

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Shah, Mina, "Radicalism and resistance through disorientation: an analysis of B. Kojo Laing's Big Bishop Roko and the Altar Gangsters and Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah" 2016

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Kim, Yura, "Shinjū: literary imagination surrounding lesbian double suicides in Taisho Japan" 2016

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Dominguez, Daniel, "Oh what fun! The ludic and ergodic in Perec and Cortázar" 2016

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Toyonaga,Noah Y., "Pynchon's peyote poetics" 2017

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Vann, Alyssa, "The fluid and motherly poetics of Nancy Morejón and Lorna Goodison" 2017

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Jia, M. [Michelle]," Between time and politics: Gandhi's angel of history" 2016

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Zaremski, Dennis," Great noon: tracing the rise of a new ethics from Don Juan to Nietzsche's Übermensch" 2016

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Schott-Rosenfield, Abigail, "Guides to abstraction: Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and Adonis" 2018

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Heros, Jose de los, "'Una monstruosidad tras otra:' coping with crises in Baltasar Gracián's El Criticón" 2018

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Wolenetz, Alissa, "Hauntings: literature, diaspora, and the mass grave" 2018

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Reichenbach, Rachel, "The ethics of international community service: narrative, philosophy, education as solutions" 2018

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Frankel, Matthew Ryan, "Invisible freedom: revealing commitment as radical" 2018