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“Walking Around With Broken Hearts On Their Hands:” Intimate Writings In Contemporary Comics, Gabriella Colombo Machado

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This thesis aims at analyzing diary fiction in contemporary comic books. I have selected three primary sources, Wet Moon by Sophie Campbell (2004), Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (2008), and Bleu Est une Couleur Chaude by Julie Maroh (2010). These works are close in time of publication, all written and illustrated by women. Moreover, they share other similarities: the protagonists are young female adults, and there is a queer motif underlying the stories. All three protagonists use diaries in order to express their thoughts, and feelings. Diary fiction focuses on character’s development, more than on action. Especially, the …

Being Gender/Doing Gender, In Alice Munro And Pedro Almadovar, Bahareh Nadimi Farrokh

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In this thesis, I compare the short stories, “Boys and Girls” and “The Albanian Virgin”, by Alice Munro, with two films, La Mala Educación and La Piel Que Habito, by Pedro Almodóvar. This comparison analyzes how these authors conceive gender as a doing and a performance, and as culturally constructed rather than biologically determined. My main theoretical framework is Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity as developed in Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. In my first chapter, I compare “Boys and Girls” with La Mala Educación, and in the second chapter, I compare “The …

The Tapestry Of Memory, Kathryn M. Lawson

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Rationality points to the complete annihilation and end of a life when the body perishes, and yet when a loved one dies we continue to experience that person in a myriad of ways. The focus of this thesis will be a phenomenological exploration of the earthly afterlife of those we have loved and lost. By positing the subject as always intersubjective and as temporal in nature, this thesis will investigate how we continue to create and interact with the deceased upon the earth. In the introduction, this work will be placed in the context of the phenomenological tradition. The first …

L'Écran De L'Écriture: Les Adaptations Cinématographiques De Wojciech J. Has Comme Opérateurs De Lecture Des Textes De Jean Potocki, Bolesław Prus Et Bruno Schulz, Jessy Neau

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Cette thèse propose une approche renouvelée de l’adaptation cinématographique de la littérature, par l’étude d’un corpus composé de plusieurs textes littéraires et de leurs adaptations cinématographiques réalisées par le même cinéaste, Wojciech Jerzy Has (1925-2000). L’originalité de notre analyse de corpus réside dans le fait de placer les films, et non les textes, comme éléments premiers et centraux dans l’organisation de notre démarche. Les textes littéraires, par le choix de cette approche target-oriented (Cattrysse 2014) qui part plutôt de la cible que de la source, deviennent ainsi les points d’arrivée plutôt que les points de départ de l’épreuve du corpus. …

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

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Since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Muslims in America have continued to remain the subject of cultural and political debates. In their artistic endeavours, Muslim artists have tried to rectify the negative and mediated images attributed to Islam, Muslims, and their cultures. In this dissertation, I look at Iranian works from the diaspora that not only represent Iranian culture and attempt to raise public awareness in America, but also extensively wade into humor as their linking theme. It is humor embedded in socio-cultural and political implications along with cultural representations that constitute my analysis in this dissertation. …

Exploring Kitsch: Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness Of Being And Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Parastoo Nasrollahzadeh

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This thesis is an exploration of the concept of kitsch in two prominent novels of the twentieth century: Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Kundera in his novel offers a debate on kitsch, tracing it back to its original metaphysical meaning. In Vonnegut’s novel, there is no direct discussion of kitsch. However, both the style of Vonnegut’s novel and the world he depicts in and through the novel are imbued with kitsch and kitsch elements. The thesis offers a general overview of the concept of kitsch in the introductory chapter. The first chapter then aims …