Theses at the Centre for Comparative Literature
Recent graduates
Vanessa Robinson
Reflecting the Other: The Thing Poetry of Marianne Moore and Francis Ponge
Defense date: November 15, 2011
Adriana Dragomir
Communication and the Construction of the Ideal in the West
Defense date: August 24, 2011
Paul Pemeja
Modernist Curiosities: Desire, Knowledge, and Literature in Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet, Elias Canetti’s Die Blendung and Jorge Luis Borges’ “El Aleph.”
Defense date: May 16, 2011
Elisa Segnini
The Mask as a Literary Trope between Decadence and Modernism
Defense date: September 17, 2010
Andrés Pérez Simon
The Theatrical Pendulum: Paths of Innovation in the Modernist Stage
Defense date: September 15, 2010
Karen Heather Pike
Theories of the Fantastic: Postmodernism, Game Theory, and Modern Physics
Defense date: June 2nd, 2010
Lauren Lydic
Metaphor and Gender in Conflict: Discourse, the Bosnian War, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Chechen Wars.
Defense date: April 9, 2010
Pouneh Saeedi-Tabatabai
Corporeal Configurations of the Heroic and the Monstrous: A Comparative Study of ‘Beowulf’, ‘The Shahnameh’ and ‘Tristan’
Defense date: February 9th, 2010
Scott Marentette
The Language of Real Life: Self-Possession in the Poetry of Paul Celan, T.S. Eliot, Rainer Maria Rilke and Paul Valéry
Defense date: December 3rd, 2009
Ioana Cosma
Angels In-Between: The Poetics of Excess and the Crisis of Representation
Defense date: September 21st, 2009
Martin Zeilinger
Arts and Politics of Appropriation
Defense date: September 18, 2009
Pamela Coles
Necessary Monsters: A General Theory about the Global Impulse to Monster-make
Defense date: September 12, 2009
Jenna Brook Sunkenberg
Reconfiguring Ricoeur: A Study of Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of the Self in discourse with Dante’s Commedia
Defense date: August, 10th, 2009
Keavy Martin
Stories in a New Skin: Approaches to Inuit Literature in Nunavut
Defense date: June 10, 2009
Nizar Hermes
‘Ifranjalism’: The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture, 9th-12th Century (A.D.)
Defense date: January 29th, 2009
Stephanie Chong
The Anthropomorphization of Law: Fictional Judges and Lawyers in Contemporary North American and European Settings
Defense date: January 21st, 2009
Yves Saint-Cyr
The Glass Bead Game: From Post-Tonal to Most-Modern
Defense date: September 2008
Sandra Bialystock
The Cuckhold, his Wife and her Lover: A Study of Infidelity in the Cent nouvelles, the Decameron, and the Libro de buen amor
Defense date: April 16, 2008
Suha Kudsieh
Cultural Encounters between East and West: Analyzing Travel and Encounter Accounts from Postcolonial Perspective
Defense date: January 25, 2008
Nadia Bozak
Consumptive Crash: The Aesthetics of Obsolescence at the End of the Age of Oil
Defense date: January 7, 2008
Ioana Sion
Ontological Journeys of Descent in Dramas of Selfhood: Descensus ad infernos and Individuation in Dante, Claudel, Beckett, Ionesco
Defense date: November 15, 2007
Lisa Fiorindi
”Penelope Speaks: Making the Mythic Specific in the Works of Five Contemporary Italian and Caribbean Writers”
Defense date: October 22, 2007
Barnaby Clunie
Epic Epistles: Scripting the Early Modern Self in Chivalric Romance, the Picaresque and the Conquest Relación
Defense date: October 5th, 2007
Jenna Habbegger-Conti
“Infinity Plus One: The Thousand and One Nights as a Model for Infinite Narrative in Borges, Calvino, Barth and Rushdie”
Defense date: August 31, 2007
Jessica Tsui-Yan Li
“Rewriting the Female Body in Eileen Chang’s Fiction and Self-Translations”
Defense date: July 16, 2007
Heather Carol Macfarlane
“Road Work, Theorizing the Road Trip Narrative in Anglophone, Québécois and Indigenous Literatures in Canada”
Defense date: June 20th, 2007
Sylwia Dominika Chrostowska
Literary-Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland and Russia, 1700-1800: A Genre Perspective
Defense date: November 24, 2006
Eric Liddell
The Heart of the Plot A Study of Autobiographical Literature of the Meditative Type: Augustine, Rousseau and Proust
Defense date: February 28, 2006
Levi Namaseb
Language, Environment and Community in Storytelling of Khoekhoe, Khomani, English and Afrikaans in Southern Africa
Defense date: February 14, 2006
American Incunabula: ‘Grotesque Genesis’ and the Genealogical Genre One Strand in the Twentieth-Century American Novel
Defense date: January 27, 2006
Abjection, Sublimity, and the Question of the Unpresentable in Poe, Baudelaire, and Lovecraft
Defense date: January 20, 2006
George Gasyna
The ‘Other’ Place of Language: Identity and Heterotopia in Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz
Defense date: July 12, 2005
Four Writers Being Political on Their Own Terms: Feminist, Class and Cultural Identity Discourses Across Continents
Defense date: May 6, 2005
Current theses
Jonathan Andrew Allan
The First Time and the Mourning After: A Study of Love, Loss, and Virginity
Myra Bloom
Formal Interventions: Experimental Writing as Social Praxis in 20th Century Canadian and Quebecois Literature
Joseph Culpepper
Reception and Adaptation: Magic Tricks, Mysteries, Con Games
David J. Dagenais
Governmentalization, Desubjugation, and the Crisis of Humanism in the Essais, Hamlet, and The Tempest
Allen Haaheim
Breaking Form: Prosody and Lyricism in the Poetry and Poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) and Shen Yueh (441-513)
Nathaniel Heisler
The Pedagogy of Print: Transmission, Authority and the Press in 19th Century Cairo
Magdalena Corina Ionescu
Paradoxes of Deixis. A Word-and-Image Approach to the 16th-Century Renaissance Portraiture
Paula Liliana Karger
Transatlantic Alterity and Identity: Exploring the doncella Teodor’s Materialisations
Vesna Leko
Women in War, War in Women: A Comparative Study of Matute, Morante and Velmar Jankovic
Yan Lu
E/Motion: The Affective Recognition in Multilingual Chinese Canadian Literature
Emilie McCabe
Reading and the Canon: The Implication for Science Fiction
Ronald Ng
The Ethics of Transference in Trauma Discourse
Sarah O’Brien
Binding and Loosing: Posthumanist Movements in Contemporary Literary and Visual Culture
Julie Parisien
Derrida in Wonderland: The Readability of ‘Postmodern’ Texts Across Genres
Teresa Russo
The Moralization of Classical Myths in Renaissance Humanism and Marianne Moore
Tetiana Soviak
Representations of work in literature and film
Rachel Freedman Stapleton
Family, Social, and Gender Roles in Early Modern Letters of Petition
Lukasz Wodzynski
Utopian Desire and the “Dark Romance” in Polish and Russian Literature of the Fin de Siècle