My dissertation addresses the autobiographical art and literature of postcolonial Francophone women from the Maghreb and Southeast Asia including Leila Sebbar, Assia Djebar, Marguerite Duras, Theresa Cha, and Hélène Cixous. Adopting a comparative approach, I consider how these a…
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Fantasy films have been a part of cinema since the very beginnings of the medium. Although fantasy films can be found in every decade of the last century, the genre only became persistently successful from the late 1970s onwards. Perhaps the relatively recent prominence of fanta…
This study undertakes an examination of the representation of nature in works of literature that it regards as early British ‘mythopoeic fantasy’. By this term the thesis understands that fantasy fiction which is fundamentally concerned with myth or myth-making. It is the conten…
Found wandering the Grymm Forest at age five and raised by a roving band of gypsies, 17-year-old Eurydice and her chatty sidekick Harly—a scholar turned mule—navigate the criminal underbelly of the Twin Kingdom as assassins for justice. In the opening, Eurydice's loyalty to just…
Few science fiction or fantasy franchises have seen the popular reception that Dragon Ball and its sequels has had and yet, its appearance in academic discourse has been left wanting. This dissertation attempts an initial in-depth analysis of the story of Dragon Ball and its seq…
Creation’s Omen revolves around creation mythology and legends with a specific lens toward Korean folklore, which lingers as the backbone of this novel. By using motifs from creation mythos like the snake/dragon or voids/astrological nothingness, this story navigates through rea…
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth has been dissected and researched by philologists, medievalists, and literary theorists for decades. Though his work with languages (both historical and invented) has garnered attention over the past few decades, few scholars have looked at his lang…
幻想題材之於文學的重要性不言而喻，文學本來就體現人類的幻想功能：文學作為一種主觀性的創造，或多或少包含幻想的元素。而作為幻想題材小說的極端形式，無需特別厘定科學規則的幻想小說成為最幻想的文學形式之一，其中東方仙俠小說及西方奇幻小說現今成為當代幻想小說的前沿，這類幻想小說擁有巨大的讀者人群，同時在通俗文學史上也具有突出的地位。對比研究中西方幻想題材小說的具體案例，可以成為比較文學研究的一個有特色的切入口。本文選取東西方在類型上趨於同一，但又各具文化地域特徵的兩部小說作為研究案例，分別論證其在幻想類型上具有相似性及可比性，同時論證其文化屬性、文化思維方面的…
In this thesis, I investigate fairy culture through its music. Fairy music, the music that intersects with these communities, is incredibly diverse, ranging from the protest music of gay rights movements, to music emanating from Irish fairy-forts, to TikTok video soundtracks. I …
The thesis is an autoethnographic approach to J.R.R. Tolkien, female characters and gamers. It will focus the gender studies theory to study how female characters have changed and grown throughout history in Fantasy. J.R.R. Tolkien's work The Lord of the Rings are the primary so…