Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Narratives of Exile: Themes of Displacement in Seghers, Duras, and Elio, Erin Consla
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Eco-Anxiety and Heteronormativity in Dystopian Novels, Léa M. Briere
Marie de France and the Wife of Bisclavret: A New Understanding, Katie Despeaux
Witchy Politics: Witches and Witchcraft as Political Tropes from Malleus Malleficarum (1487) to Les Sorcières de la République (2016) and The Mercies (2020), Mallaury Joëlle Marie Gauthier
Zur Ästhetik des Widerstands im afrodeutschen Theater: Am Beispiel von Olumide Popoolas Also By Mail, Bertrand Collins Ngong M.A.
Tragic Fate and History in Thomas Hardy's "The Return of the Native", Tristan Pageze
Botanical Empires: The Politics of Plants in Theocritus' Idylls, Christian Rhoads
Was ist (nicht) Deutsch? Historische und aktuelle Versuche "Deutsch" ex negativo zu definieren, Mark McKinney Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
POETICS AS RHETORIC IN THE WORKS OF HORACE, Lauren W. Brown
Pushing at the Seams: French Zines & Bricolage as a Liberatory Act, Shayna M. Davidson
Nelly Arcan, Langage de la Honte, Jordon B. McConnell
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Μηδὲν Ἄγαν: Conviviality and Excess in the Symposium, Lauren B. Alberti
Intolerable Histories and Imperfect Narratives: Nationhood, Identity, and the Integrity of Law in Post-Vichy France and Beyond, Kaela S. Holmen
Erotic Ecology in Ovid's Heroides, Noah Holt
How BoJack Horseman Got Too Real: Audience Engagement and a Critique of Capitalism, Camille Le Pioufle
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Bodies in Shame: Writing Trauma and Affective Unsettlement in Post-Genocide Rwanda Fiction, Cole A. Carvour
Reinventing Maternity in Chariton's Callirhoe, Christine Ellis
GOOD BYE, SOCIALIST PARADISE: REPRESENTATIONS OF POSTREUNIFICATION NOSTALGIA IN SONNENALLEE AND GOOD BYE, LENIN!, Hannah L. Garver
The Translator-Function: Translating Bande-Dessinée for the Anglophone Reader, Ryan C. Gomez
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Turkish Spy: a Peripatetic Novel, Alain M. Antoine
Parodic Archipelago: Friday, or, The Other Island, Vendredi ou la Vie sauvage and Foe, Marie Bellec
Camp de Thiaroye ou la déconstruction du mythe colonial par le truchement de la langue française, Maurice Tetne Mr.
Narrating Refugee Lives: Political Asylum in 21st century France, Susmitha Udayan
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Plurality through Film: Subjectivity in Yoko Tawada's Das nackte Auge, Anna M. Adams
FROM PLATO’S CAVE TO EDWARD YANG’S CINEMA: AN EXAMINATION OF FILMIC LANGUAGE AND ITS NOETIC POTENTIAL, Ruochen Bo
Women Near TV's White House: Power, Gender, and Race on US Narrative Television, Teresa Caprioglio
Negotiation and the Construction of Intimacy in the Letters between Fronto and Marcus Aurelius, Sarah C. Keith
Learning to Read in the Theaetetus: The Recuperation of Writing in Plato's Philosophy, Luke Lea
Drama as Dream: Sophoclean Tragedy and the Cult of Asclepius, Molly C. Mata
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
MEDICINE THROUGH COMICS: WHEELS ARE TURNING ON THE ROAD TO HEALING. NATIVE AMERICANS THROUGH THE LENS OF FRANCOPHONE GRAPHIC NOVELS., Nathalie C. Bléser
Lucie Cousturier: The Female Voice and Travel Narratives in Colonial West Africa, Ashley Gushulak
Carian Greeks and Greek Scythians: The Hybridity of Greek and Barbarian Identity in Herodotus’ Histories, Benjamin D. Leach
Tierno Monénembo et l'écriture de la saga sandervalienne: réhabilitation mémorielle et fracture coloniale, Stephanie Diane Tsakeu Mazan
The Narrator, the Mute, and the Familiar: Configurations of Children in War Films, Kiyomi Wilks
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Mémoire et identité dans les réécritures caribéennes : Wide Sargasso Sea et La Migration des Coeurs, Camille Charlery
Cerberus Amator: Underworld Imagery in the Elegies of Tibullus and Propertius, Makaila Daeschel
Mixing the Roman miles: Character Development in Terence's Eunuchus, Samantha Davis
Plato's Orpheus: The Philosophical Appropriation of Orphic Formulae, Dannu Hütwohl
Performance of gender social status: social identity through clothes, Fanny M. Hamon
Those that Trespass Against Us: Childhood, Violence, and Memory in The White Ribbon, Joseph Kuster
The Ethics and Politics of Love in Postwar France: The Case of Beauvoir, Camus, and Sartre, Christian Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Blue Desire: Narrative Structure, Desire, and Intertextuality in Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue Is the Warmest Color, Kathryn Chaffee
Temporality, Spatiality and Looking in Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) and Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), Genevieve Pocius
Divine Poetics: Representation of Genre in Ovid's Metamorphoses 6.70-128, Hong Yoong
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Shame in the Fabliaux, Scott Brown
"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum": Reproduction and Resistance in Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, and the Alien Series, Amandine Faucheux
Pugilism and Poetry: Guillaume Apollinaire, Arthur Cravan and the Poète-Boxeur, Austin Hancock
Showing the Unsayable: Trauma and Juxtaposition in Persepolis and A Child's Life and Other Stories, Lauranne Poharec
A Culinary Revolution: The First Celebrity Chef and the Unification of French Culture, Lindsey Teel
AUGUSTAN TRIUMPHS: DISHONORABLE LAURELS IN OVIDS AMORES AND METAMORPHOSES, Matthew Wilkens
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Mémoire et silence autour de la guerre d’Algérie, Romain Chadaigne
RAP AND RESISTANCE: VISIONS OF SELF AND SOCIETY IN AMERICAN, AFRICAN, AND FRENCH HIP HOP MUSIC, Rosalind Hutchinson
Battle of the Bains: Tactical Bathing in Two Expository Texts, One Film and a Novella, LeAnn Marie Lewis
Embracing Evil: The Threat and Allure of the Female in Greek Poetry, Caley S. McGuill
Zombie Economics: Violence and Economics in three first-person shooter zombie-themed video games., Brynn S. Shaw
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Le rôle du hammam féminin dans la construction et la consolidation des identités sexuées en Algérie et au Maroc, Nina Bauwens
Identität bei Herta Müller: Schreiben als Mittel der Selbstbehauptung, Elvine Bologa
Occidental Encounters: Early Nineteenth-Century Egyptian travelers to Europe, Omran Doaa
Erinnern ist Frauensache? - Frauen als "Erinnerungsspeicher" in Tanja Dückers' Roman "Himmelskörper", Erin Ebnother-Perry
Flucht, Vertreibung, Heimatverlust – eine deutsche Leidenserfahrung und ein schwieriger Balanceakt, Dagmar Krupinski
VERS UNE ECOCRITIQUE POSTCOLONIALE AFRICAINE: L’ENVIRONNEMENT DANS LES LITTERATURES AFRICAINES DE LANGUE FRANÇAISE, Marie Chantale Mofin Noussi
Higher Powers: The Metrics of Divine Will and Agency in Euripides' Hippolytos and Herakles, Trigg Settle
Ars Audax: The Myth of the Flight of Icarus and Its Reception Since Antiquity, Jessica Rose Wells
UNTRANSLATABLE WORDS IN CLASSICAL LATIN: THE PROBLEM WITH PIUS, Keith Alexander Woodell
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
A New Language for Heroes: Odysseus, Ajax, and Sophistic Language in Attic Tragedy, Scott Barnard
Not a Cinematic Hair Out of Place: Examinations in Identity (Transformation) as Evidenced through Haircuts in The Crying Game, Allen Herring III
Hearts, Bellies, and the Hunger of Heroes: Intertraditional Agonistic Discourse between the Iliad and Odyssey, Israel McMullin
La danse du Tutuguri ou le rite du soleil noir : une performance textuelle d'Antonin Artaud., Anne-Sabine Nicolas
Constantine's Policy of Religious Tolerance: Was It Tolerant Or Not?, Pamela Sharp
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Rape and Male Identity in Arthurian Romance, Chrétien de Troyes to Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anna Angeli
UNE ÉTUDE FOUCALDIENNE DE LA « FEMME EXOTIQUE » COMME FIGURE PÉDAGOGIQUE DU DÉSIR FÉMININ ALTERNATIF DANS LE ROMAN FRANÇAIS DE 1747 À 1997, Valerie S. Putnam
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Impact of American Movies on Egyptian Cinema in 1950s and 1960s, Radi Abouelhassan
Friend, Foe, or Other? Monsters and Identity on the Odyssean Sea, Daniel Bellum
The 'Uncanny' and The Android, Noah Cooperstein
Hans-Ulrich Treichel's Der Verlorene: Trans-Generational Trauma, Guilt And Shame, Anja Jennifer Riley
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
The Representation of the Darker Faustian Elements of the Walpurgisnacht and Mephistopheles in Heavy Metal and Rock Music, Edgar Dan Hornback
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Die Erscheinungsformen der Ostjüdischen Kultur in Berlin 1919-1925, Glenn Scott Levine
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
The Role of the Family in the Works of the Marquis De Sade, Gene Marshall
Photonuclear Activation at the Pantex Plant, Gilbert L. Rendon
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
La Poesia de Efraín Huerta, Ricardo D. Aguilar
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Myth and Reality in Hijo de Hombre, A Novel by Augusto Roa Bastos, David R. Gifford
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Pascal's Concept Of Christianity., Audrey Vivien Bull
Le Motif De L'Etoile Dans Les Oeuvres De GéRard De Nerval., Shelley Gregory Crowe
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
The Archetype Of Woman In The Theatre Of Jean Giraudoux., Elisabeth Josephine Price
An Annotated Critical Edition of También tiene el sol menguante, by Luis Velez de Guevara and Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, James Stone Rambo
An Annotated Critical Edition of También tiene el sol menguante by Luis Vélez de Guevara and Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, James Stone Rambo
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Julio Cortazar, Clarice Lispector e a nova narrativa Latino-americana, Teresinha Alves Pereira Martins
"Realia" dans le Perceval de Chretien de Troyes, Claude Jean Fouillade
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
L'Art De La Description Et Du Portrait Chez Manette Salomon Des FrèRes Goncourt., Barbara Joan Goodman
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Le Monde De Madame De Girardin Vu A Travers Les Lettres Parisiennes., Janina M. Cikotas
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
Simone Weil's Search For Unity Through The Union Of Contradictories., Barbara J. Brim
Stendhal et la Musique, Rafael Valdés CamÍn
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
Pierpont Morgan Manuscript 324: Le Roman De La Rose; A Study in Social Transition, Louise A. Miller
Mathieu Bidar's Hippolyte: A Critical Edition, Evyenia L. Triandafilidis
