AIZAWA, Makoto. Scott Fitzgerald as a Crypto-British Romancer: The Key to Activating the Reader’s Experience
IIJIMA, Yuria. The Significance of Casablanca: A Trans-Atlantic Reading
KAWAI, Manaka. Evolution of Hollywood’s Creation: White Savior Film
KUNIMATSU, Eri. The Personal in Perspective: An Intertextual Reading of Sylvia Plath in the New Era of Identity
KOREEDA, Keisuke. Distorting the Discursive Space of Postwar Japan
SATO, Yuka. The Role of Comic Mode in Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories: Violence, Inviolability and Self-Projection
TAKAHASHI, Yuki. Redefining Abraham Lincoln as a Literatus: On His Poetry, Declaration and Speech
NAKAMORI, Aoi. Displacing the Passing Narrative: A Note on George Schuyler's Black No More
NISHIYAMA, Syo. The Immortality of the Original Author in Adaptation: From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Steven Spielberg
HASHIMOTO, Riyo. Escape from Reality: From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to No.44, The Mysterious Stranger
HAYASHI, Haruka. The Post-Feminist World of “The Paper Menagerie”: Williams, Liu and Haraway
YAMANO, Natari. Can We Fully Understand Another Person? Haruki Murakami's Americanism and his Journey of Self-therapy
2019
OIDE, Hirotomo. Towards the Transnational American Dreams: A Comparative Study of Pygmalion and My Fair Lady
KITAJIMA, Yoshihiro. Surviving the Spanish Civil War: On Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
SATO, Shiori. Why Are We Crazy about PSYCHO? : Interactions between Hitchcock and Psychoanalysts
SHOJI, Mai. Myth of Woman in William Faulkner’s Novels
TACHIHARA, Akane. Sarah Josepha Hale’s Feminism in Northwood; or Life North and South
TATEISHI, Kanoko. Messages from Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick: The Shining and Doctor Sleep in the Context of American Gothic
TERADO, Shiori. The Significance of The Sympathizer in the Context of Contemporary American Society
NAKAMURA, Taichi. Haruki Murakami’s Literary Inheritances from Modernist and Postmodernist Writers: Before and After Kurt Vonnegut
NAKAHARA, Mikage. To Be a Yankee: Mixed Identity of Jewish Immigrants in Yekl
NOMURA, Kasumi. How Can We Know the Catcher from the Catch?: J.D. Salinger’s Figuration of American Hero
HASHIMOTO, Kazuha. Is She Really a Lesbian Writer?: A Reading of Willa Cather’s Works
FUKAYA, Yumeko. The Heritage of Drowning Literature: A Note on Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
MAEDA, Nao. The Theme of Survival in Gone with the Wind
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2018
ABE, Nanami. Awakening from Hibernation: Invisible Man as a Guidance for Black Leaders
IWAMOTO, Ryo. Plurality of the World: American Tradition Revealed in Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
OKUDAIRA, Keito. Unreliable Narrator’s in Ambrose Bierce’s World
OCHI, Yuka. In the Wake of Sister Carrie: Transitional Times of Women
KUROSAKA, Mariko. American Japonists in Literature: Fenollosa, Long and Irwin
NANZAI, Yui. Pearl Buck as A Missionary of Civilization: the Lost Cause, Misogyny, and Natural Democracy
NONAKA, Rie. Catherine as the Prophet of the Future of Femininity: Interpreting Rubicon Beach in View of Art History
HATA, Keito. Hip Hop Music as American Literature
HAYAKAWA, Takahiro. Encounters with the Inner Other: Identity Crisis in the Fictions of Paul Auster and Kōbō Abe
HOSHINO, Momoko. Negotiations between Mary McCarthy and Hannah Arendt
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2017
ADACHI, Erika. Seussism in the History of Art and Literature
IDE, Miyabi. Unrequited Orientalism: The Evanescence of Swedenborgianism in the Beat Generation
ENDO, Yo. William Faulkner's Representation of Christianity: A Note on Light in August
SOTANI Saki. The Messages Jack Kerouac Implies in On the Road
TAKAHASHI, Anri. Jhumpa Lahiri's Experimental Journey: Reading The Lowland in the Age of Division
TOKIWAI, Asahi. Thomas Pynchon's Counter-Entropic View: To Overcome the Dichotomous Doom
NAKAHAMA, Kyoko. Escaping the Dangerous Mass: Individuality Celebrated in Steinbeck's Works
YASUHARA, Eiji. The Marginal Narrative: A Comparative Study of Absalom, Absalom! And One Hundred Years of Solitude
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2016
IKEGAYA, Arisa. The Pride of N-E-G-U-S: Between Kendrick Lamar and Kunta Kinte
KONDO, Mai. Race, Gender and the Southern Imagination in Gone with the Wind
SAEGUSA, Reina. Escape from The Bell Jar: The Ideal Way of Life for Sylvia Plath
SATO, Miri. Kubrick’s Space of Insanity: The Terror of the Human Nature in The Shining
TAKAHATA, Mika. Mariln Monroe: A Woman Leading a Life of Love and Dream
ZHANG, Zoe. The Master of Artistic Collage: Nathanael West and 1930s America
NAKAJIMA, Haruka. Capote’ Way of Life: What Holly Golightly Represents in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
HEISHI, Yoshiki. Identity Politics of Chinese American Literature: Chin, Kingston and Tan
MIURA, Masanobu. A Cultural Study of Spider-Men: My Revenge Narrative
MIZOGUCHI, Moye. Is Scarlett O’Hara the Southern Belle?
YANAGIDA, Kurisu. In the Age of “Celebrity Victimization”: From the Lindberghs to Donald Trump
YUDA, Keiichiro. Through the Anywhere Door: A Comparative Study of Benjamin Franklin, Frank Capra and Fujiko F. Fujio
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2015
OKI, Katsuyuki. Transcending Language: The Way of Subverting Anthropomorphism in the Works of Loren Eiseley
OKUDA, Naoaki. Ralph Ellison and His Oklahoma Connection: A Cultural Reading of Invisible Man
KAYANUMA, Fumina. From Dadaism to POPism: The Cultural Impacts of Andy Warhol on High Art / Low Art
KOBAYASHI, Mariko. The Pluralistic Eye of Henry James
SHINANO, Toka. Bartleby at Ground Zero: Melville’s Disaster Narrative of “Wall-Street”
CHOI, Younjoo. At the Heart of The Great Gatsby: The Interplay of Sexuality and Emotions
MAEDA, Kotaro. Holden is a Warrior: Shouting Phony in Everyday War
MATSUBARA, Hiroyuki. Authority in A Farewell to Arms: The Bridge between Hemingway’s Biography and His Work
MIZUNO, Ako. Between Naturalism and Transcendentalism: Dreiser’s Redefinition of American Dream in Early Twentieth Century America
YASUDA, Koharu. The Making of Steinbeck in Fiction: “The Chrysanthemums” and “The White Quail” as a Diptych
WATANABE, Koki. Resistance in Banana Laberinto: Thomas Pynchon and Latin America
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2014
AKAI, Natsumi. “Defying Gravity”: The Critique of Alterity in Gregory Maguire’s Wicked
ODAGIRI, Hiroshi. What is the “Chaplinesque”? : Charles Chaplin as the Hero of Minority People
GONOI, Maki. The Absence of Father: Moral Sense and Gender Panic in American Psycho
KOMAKINE, Ai. The Convention of Solitude: Paul Auster's Works as Family Romances
SASAKI, Takahisa World Color: Truman Capote's Works in the Context of the Cold War
SUZUKI, Yukari. Portrait of A Planetary Figure: Obama through Three Continents
TAMAGAWA, Risa. Guardians in the Dark: Typology and Heroism in The Grapes of Wrath
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2013
UNO, Fujiko. Between America and Europe: Living in The Harsh World in Mary McCarthy’s Birds of America
OSHIMA, Issei. Baseball as a Pseudo-Event: American Consciousness in Shoeless Joe and Field of Dreams
KASHIMA, Seiya. The Times and Lives of Sun Ra: Afrofuturism and Possible Future of Music
KATO, Nanako. In Quest for the True Identity: The Process of Self-Emancipation in Alice Walker’s Works
TAKAHASHI, Sari. Descendants of Hester Prynne:Miller, Condé and Kushner
TENPORIN, Yu. Alternate Science, Alternate Fiction: Humanity in Isaac Asimov’s Series of Foundation and Robot
NAGANO, Yasuyuki. Someone inside Me: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Alternative Vision
FUKUMURA, Mai. Anti-Americanism in Eugene O’Neill’s Drama: Irish-American Theater of the Absurd
FUJITSUKA, Daisuke. Lessons of Willa Cather:Rereading My Ántonia
MORITA, Kazuma. Memoir of Traumatic America: Creation of Identity and Narrative of History in the Works of Richard Brautigan
YAMAMOTO, Emi. Rediscover Japan:Multiple Perspective on Lafcadio Hearn
YANBE, Rika. Covering Presidency: Attractive Contradictions of John F. Kennedy
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2012
ASANO, Masaya. The Critical Point of Thomas Jefferson: A reading of the Declaration of Independence
UEDA, Yutaro. Figure of Alternative America: Hope and Evil in Steve Erickson's 20th Century
KASHIMA, Seiya. The Times and Lives of Sun Ra: Afrofuturism and Possible Future of Music
KURIHARA, Miki. Cyberspace as Sanctuary: Areading William Gibson's Neuromancer
SUGIURA, Yukiho. Devastating Insanity: An Approach to Maddness in The Haunting of Hill House
BANN, Yuji. Toward a History of War on Words: Red Purge, All the King's Men, and Robert Rossen
MATSUMOTO, Ayaka. The Southern Imagination Reconsidered: Gone with the Wind in the Context of the Great Depression
WAKASA, Maki. The Revival Annie: Double Representations of American Dream and Nightmare
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2011
AIHARA, Yumi. Spiritual Crisis in The Pioneers: The Defeat of the Noble Savage in Templeton
EGAWA, Yohei. Teller of Tales: The Film Adaptation of Ray Bradbury
OEDA, Kasumi. The Distorted Wonderland: Expensive People as a Dark Fantasy of Joyce Carol Oates
OKONOGI, Takuya. Seeking to be Free: The Madness in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
KAZUMORI, Tomomi. Williams' World: His Memories and Delicate Characters
KOIZUMI, Yumiko. Children on the Air: Celebrity, Minority, and Singularity in Salinger's Glass Chronicle
SATO, Junpei. Infringing Edges of Normality, Disability, and Maternalism: In the Case of Sherwood Anderson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
JOJIMA, Yukiko. "Matrix" Pulled Over Our Eyes: Racial Conflicts and Emergence of New Leader
SUGIYAMA, Haruka. How to Americanize Fairy Tales: The Process of Self-Realization Seen in Walt Disney's Films
CHIBA, Kazuma. Scattered Voices: Linguistic Mulititude in the Works of Paul Auster
DEGUCHI, Kaori. "Melting Frat" America: Comedy Film and Nationality
NAKAO, Syuku. Searching for Identity: Love and Sexual Desire in the Works of Jeffrey Eugenides
HOSONO, Kaori. No Black, No White: Michael Jackson and Racial Consciousness in American Entertainment
MATSUMOTO, Yuki. Listening to Jazz: Toni Morrison's Reflection on History and the Role of Music
YAMAGUCHI, Ryo. He Took a Face from the Ancient Gallery: Narrativity in The Doors and Jim Morrison
YOTSUGI, Ayano. "One Play Glory" of Jonathan Larson: RENT as a Gospel
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2010
AMAGAI, Kanako. A Trans-Pacific History of Rakugo: Between Japanese and American Literature
IRIE, Asami. The Women in The Great Gatsby: The Genesis of the Flapper
ODA, Chiaki. Of Mice and Men as an Optimistic Narrative: Deferring American Dream
KAGEYAMA, Sakiko. Tactics of Ascension: CATS, or Old Possum's Masquerade
KANAI, Yu. Expanding China: Multiculturalism in the Novels of Amy Tan
KANEMITSU, Ai. Speaking Up for America: I Love Lucy and the 1950s
KON, Eriko. Beneath the Southern Renaissance: The Anachronistic Imagination in the Age of Harper Lee
TANOKUCHI, Shogo. Voicing Silence, Nailing Words: The Future of Writing in Pierre; or, the Ambiguities
NOMURA, Ai. "Hey" Everybody, Yell USA!": A Cultural History of American Cheerleading
FUJII, Tomoko. Displacing Autobiography: The Black Heritage of James Weldon Johnson
MATSUMIYA, Shizuka. Other Indians in Jhumpa Lahiri's Fiction: A Note on the Characters in The Namesake
MINAMIDE, Takahiro. Earnest Hemingway's Symbolic World: An Eco-critical Reading of His Works
YAMADA, Mayumi. Lost in the Woods: Revisiting the Biosphere of Walden
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2009
AOYAMA, Kiho. Towards the Style of Ambivalence: A Literary Gardening of East of Eden
KATO, Chiaki. Marilyn at Her Bath: The Feminist Legacy Full of American Dreams
SASAGUCHI, Marie. Motor-Flight from Old New York: International Mobility in Edith Wharton's Fiction
HIGUCHI, Nami. Fictions of Identity: Passing Narratives of Chase-Riboud, Larsen, and Griffin
MIYAGI, Ken. Alternative to Sentimentalism: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
YATO, Seiya. The Sounds of Niggaz: Hip Hop in African American Music History
ITO, Minori. Loving Broken Nose: Algren's Chicago, Terayama's Tokyo
KOSHIZUKA, Toshinori. Puritanism and American Society: The Influence of Religious Thought on Culture, Economy, and Politics
YAMAZAKI, Hirofumi. The Reproduction of Gilman Girls: A New Perspective to Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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2008
ENDO, Hiroyo. Truman Capote's Sense of Place: Revisiting His Masquerade
KAWAMURA, Satoshi. Reality, Humanity, and Literature: Philip K. Dick's Postmodern Utopia
KUSUNOKI, Yuina. Maria Never Dies: Her Reconciliatory Border-Crossing in West Side Story
SAITO, Aoi. The Office of the Red Badge: Tim O'Brien in the American History of War Literature
TAKAHASHI, Poemu. Out of the Dollhouse: The Literary Heritage of Smith College Alumnae
TOMIZUKA, Ryohei. Humor Against Syndrome: A Reading of Donald Barthelme's Works
TOYOZUMI, Yuya. Gender and Narration of The Left Hand of Darkness: Le Guin's Inner Space
HIRAI, Mami. Women with Power in Soap Opera: The Image of the New Women in Sex and the City
MARUYAMA, Takanobu. The Answer Lies within: A Reading of Don DeLillo's Underworld
MIZOBUCHI, Reika. An Invitation to the New Closet: RENT as the Utopia of Queer
MURATA, Mizuna. In Search of the Unreliable Narrator: Reality and Insanity in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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2007
ARAI, Tomoko. Hitchcock's Logic of Suspense: Towards the Rhetoric of Meta-Movie
IKEZAKI, Ai. From American Dream to Racial Nightmare: OJ Simpson Case as an Expose of America's Racial Issue
ITO, Takehiko. Adventures of Reading: The Strategy of Disguise in Huck Finn and Other Stories
KAZAMA, Miho. His Monster, His / Self: The Dilemma of Identity in Edward Scissorhands
KITANO, Masami. The Happiest Life for Women: A Comparative Study of Little Women and The Makioka Sisters
KOBAYASHI, Kaoru. Dreaming by the Window: Desire and Intertextuality in Sister Carrie
KOBAYASHI, Syo. Inheriting Japanese Ghosts: Lafcadio Hearn's Retold Stories
KOHIRA, Satoshi. Transactions between the Verbal and the Visual: Sherwood Anderson and the Early Twentieth-Century Visual Arts
SAKAI, Mayumi. The White Indian: A Reading of Reservation Blues and Indian Killer
SAKAYORI, Kumi. Independent Women: Black Daredevils in Hip-hop
SATO, Asami. "There's Something Happening Here": Forrest Gump's America
SUDO, Yuki. Watch-Hunting: Puritanism and Voyeurism in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
TSUYUKI, Megumi. Why Did Princess Anne Mistake Shelley for Keats?: The Subliminal Message of Roman Holiday
FUJII, Hiromi. Tourist Development in the New World Order: The Promise and Limits of American Politics
NOGUCHI, Erina. Hybridism in DARK ANGEL: The Cyborgian Identity Restructed
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2006
IZUMI, Masato. The Matrix Revived
SAKAMAKI, Shiho. The Barbie Mystique: Happiness, Cuteness, Mixedness
SASAKI, Yuji. Waiting for A New World: Collective Memory in the Works of R.A. Lafferty
TAKAYANAGI, Yusuke. Nowhere Men in Paul Auster's Fiction: On the Transient and Profound Meaning of Addiction
FUNAKAWA, Ayako. The Orientalist Witch of Oz: Baum, Maguire and Beyond
MATSUMOTO, Shinji. The Metaphorics of Baseball in Salinger and Kinsella
MATSUMOTO, Risa. Tastes of Honey: How Disney Read Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh
YAMAGISHI, Kaoru. Anne of Green Gables: A Gift Beyond Time and Space
YAMAMOTO, Naotake. "I contain multitudes": The Photographic Imagination in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
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2005
ITO, Kensuke. James Baldwin's Blues: On the Strategies for Overcoming the Problems
OKAMOTO, Kenta. Re-Creating American Baseball Narrative: From Malamud to Kinsella
KATSUBE, Nobuo. Of Lion Born: The Adventure of Children in Stephen King's World
KATO, Yukari. Tonkatsu Self-Fashioning: Japanese-Canadian Narrative from Obasan to Chorus of Mushrooms
KITO, Yoichiro. Through the Fearful Loops: A Reading of Danielewski's House of Leaves
KUSAKA, Marin. Oz, the Enchanting Land as a Mirror of America
KUMAGAI, Nao. Girls' Side Story: Desires of Men in West Side Story
KOIZUMI, Yuko. On the Bridge between the Past and Future: A Note on Edith Wharton's Fiction
KOGURE, Noriko. Duchamp, Reich, Williams: A Note on American Multiscape
SAITO, Shoko. In the Ending Escape or Hope? Joseph Heller's Anti-Americanism in Catch-22
SAITO, Takaaki. Wandering around the Unreal City: Aspects of Young Men in Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City
TSUJI, Ayano. Mother's Voice Within: Alice Walker as a Womanist
BANJAKU, Sayoko. Collecting Butterflies: The Heritage of Japonism in Long, Puccini and Golden
HIYOSHI, Ryoko. Genuine Voice in Hurston's World: Transmitting Women's Legacies
FUJITO, Yoshino. Bridges over Times, Places and Generations: Everlasting Journey of Edwidge Danticat
HORIKAWA, Naohiro. What Was Generation X Movement? A Reading of Douglas Coupland's Works
MIZUKAMI, Aiko. Against Conformity: Absurdity in Richard Brautigan's Prose
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2004
ADACHI, Emiko. Something Sweet about Bitter Bierce: An Ideal Death of the Death-Writer
ABE, Hirokazu. We Have Double Histories: Memory and Imaginative Visions in Erickson's Fiction
IIDA, Mikako. The Encounter with the Other Self: The Image of the Double in Twain's Works
ICHINO, Keita. After the Gold Rush: Pynchon's Vineland and the End of Utopianism
EBIHARA, Yutaka. Visions of Cyborg Narratology: A Note on James Tiptree, Jr.'s Science Fiction
OKUBO, Satoko. Color Tornado: Transformation in Sylvia Plath's Poetry
OKUDA, Eiji. Decentered and Defeated: Ideogramic Aspects of Ezra Pound's Poetics
TAKAGI, Noriyuki. "It's Really Something": The Moment of Crisis in Carver's Fiction
TOMIYAMA, Hiroyuki. Philly Is Burning: A Reading of J. E. Wideman's Works
MATSUI, Kazuma. Mythology of Losers: The Idea of Transcendence in Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers
YOKOTA, Toyotaka. Searching for a Possible Future: One Phase of Universality and Diversity in Bernard Malamud's Fiction
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2003
AKIYAMA, Yuri. Searching for Innocence: The Image of People with Mental Disabilities in American Literature
OTAKI, Akiko. Rediscovering "New York Girls" in O.Henry's Works
KAMEDA, Yoko. Self-Reflection in Nature: Looking for Waterscape in Hemmingway's Works
SHINOHARA, Shiori. Artistry as Metaphor: Kate Chopin Reconsidered
SUMI, Kengo. Always Intended to be Realistic: The Hidden Agenda of Raymond Chandler's Hardboiled Fiction
TAKAHARA, Asami. The Powerful and The Powerless: Flapper's Stylistics in Fitzgerald's Novels
TANAI, Keiko. Secret Sings of Misery: Insect Girls in Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides
NISHIOKA, Emiko. Is Scarlet a Feminist?: Reading Gone with The Wind
HIRAMATSU, Taro. Female Trouble: Kathy Acker and Her Tactics
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2002
ISHIKAWA, Rina. Where is She Going?: The Image of Orphan in American Literature
KIMURA, Akiko. Reconstructing Destiny: Circular Time and Space in Kurt Vonnegut's Fiction
KOBAYASHI, Noriko. A World within Itself: Small Town in Stephen King's Fiction
SUGIUCHI, Yukiko. Road Toward "Manself": A Structural Reading of John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath
TAKASHIMA, Kazumi. The Meaning of Repetitions in Updike's Novels: The Inheritances from Parents to Children
TAKAHASHI, Masayuki. A Lonesome Savior: John Cheever's Writing as Prayers
YAMAGUCHI, Choko. A Chaotic World of Videos and Novels: The Intertextuality of Tarantino's Films
WATANABE, Miki. The Feminist Face of Louisa May Alcott
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2001
EBINUMA, Kuniaki. The Poetics of Surrogate Family: Families and Homes in Auster's Novels
TAKAKUWA, Nozomi. Axross the Inner Space: A Note on Edith Wharton's Heroines
TATARA, Ayano. The Figure of Androgyny in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles
CHIGIRA, Yuko. Richard Brautigan and His Sense of the Past
HASHIMOTO, Yuusuke. Four Aspects of Sarah Orne Jewett: Analyses of Narrators and Protagonists
YAMAJI, Ayaka. No Stopping the Streetcar: Tennessee Williams Revaluated by Pedro Almodovar
YAMAUCHI, Yoshiyuki. The First Pioneers in the North American Continent: A Literary and Anthropological Study
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2000
AOAYAMA, Rie. Creative Loneliness in Truman Capote's Fiction
KANBE, Takako. Arthur Miller's Dramaturgy: Death of a Salesman in the Cultural Milieu of the Depression
KOBAYASHI, Mika. Gone with the Wind and American Literary History
TSAI, Lin-kun. The Feminist Imperative in Kate Chopin's The Awakening
FUJITA, Erina. Portrait of the American Girl: Henry James' Ad-Space
MORIMOTO, Nao. Self-Seeking and Narrative in Toni Morrison's Novels
YOSHIDA, Naoshi. Emily Dickinson as a War Poet: A Surrealistic Reading
OTSUKA, Shusaku. Power of Recreation: Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn
NAKAMURA, Eri. Loss and Recovery: Family in John Irving's Novels
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1999
OKAWA, Yumi. A Study on Holly in Breakfast at Tiffany's
SATO, Tomoko. The Age of Medicine: American Health in Rowson, James and Burnett
TAKANAMI, Mitsukuni. Beyond West's Land: Dream Narrative of Nathanael West
TSUBOI, Natsuko. The Self-Realization through Taoism in Eugene O'Neill's Plays
NAGASAWA, Aya. Alcohol and American Literature in the 20th Century
NAGANO, Fumika. Nuclear Imagination: Freakish Figures in Kurt Vonnegut's Novels
BABA, Akira. Ye Careless Saviors!: The Amae Theory and American Novels in the 1960s
HARA, Makoto. Searching Hemingway's Real Image
MAKINO, Yoshifumi. Genius Loci in John Barth's Fiction
YASUMORI, Fumio. Good Freud Don't Kill Bad Freud
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1998
ASAI, Wakako. Dear Witch, Anne: Towards the Poetics of Prince Edward Island Literature
ARITA, Rika. The Release of Chain in Steinbeck's Fiction
IGAWA, Taku. A Reading of Sam Shepard
KUJIRAI, Hideyuki. The Indians and Nature in The Last of the Mohicans
SHICHINO, Yoko. Mark Twain in His Later Period: A Deconstructive Analysis of No.44 The Mysterious Stranger
TAKAGI, Yumiko. The Hemingway Heroes
TAKATSUJI, Erika. What She Found There: Adrienne Rich and Her "Sources"
TANAKA, Yumi. Literary Influence of Don Quixote in America
CHIBA, Koko. Destruction and Reconfiguration in Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer
HONDA, Maki. Who's Afraid of Lolita?
FUJIBE, Arashi. Eyes and Their Metaphor: Dennis Cooper's Guide
YOSHIMI, Tomoko. Pumpkin King: A Note on Tim Burton
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1997
SATO, Sayako. The Memories of Metaphors: On the Novels of John Irving
SHIBATA, Megumi. Edith Wharton: A Woman Entrapped in the House
NARUSHIMA, Yoko. Steve Erickson the Contemporary Narcissus
NISHIKAWA, Asako. The Anxiety of Photographic Influence: A Cultural Historical Approach to Emerson and Thoreau
FUKASE, Yukiko. Invisible Woman: The Heritage of the Slave Narrative in Toni Morrison's Beloved
HORIGUCHI, Akiko. "I am me": Zora Neale Hurston's Declaration of Independence
YODA, Yuko. The Universal Theme of "Living": Thornton Wilder's Dramaturgy and His Idea
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1996
ONO, Yukiko. James Fenimore Cooper and His Pursuit of American Identity
KATAKURA, Yumiko. Baseball and American Literature
SHU, Yan. Regenerating the American Spirit
SHIRATORI, Kenji. Philip K. Dick as a Kabbalist
SUZUKI, Junko. Positive Versus Negative: The Relation Between Pudd'nhead Wilson and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
TAGASHIRA, Ken. Seeing as Misreading: Henry James's Pursuit of Freedom in The Ambassadors
TAMURA, Eri. The Healing System in Islands in the Stream
HATTORI, Kohei. Fake, Reality and Fantasy: The Floating Identity of Woody Allen
MIYAMOTO, Naoko. L. Frank Baum, The Mythmaker of the New Culture
MORIOKA, Tabito. Go Home to Your Radio: A Reading of Le Roi Jones "The Baptism"
MORIYAMA, Erika. "The Baptism" A Reading of Joseph Heller's Absurd Diptych
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1995
OYAMA, Manabu. Hipster's Role in Mailer's Ideal Society
KAGAWA, Emiko. Styron's Choice: Race as the Hidden Agenda
KANEMARU, Junko. Truman Capote: The Quest for the Psychological Truth
TURUTA, Akiko. Snapshots: Ann Beattie & American Ordinary People
YANAGISAWA, Noriko. Celibacy, Sorority, Domesticity: Feminist Characterization in the Novels of Loisa May Alcott
YAMAZAKI, Takako. Suicide Novels in America
YAMAMOTO, Yoko. Witches of America: The Creation of a Distorted World
WATABIKI, Akiko. A Conflict Within Oneself: Historical and Psychological Analysis of the Ku Klux Klan
WANAKA, Chisako. Madness, Violence, and Marriage: A Study of Joyce Carol Oates
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1994 (Theses listed below are written in Japanese)
ISHIDA, Ayako. Betonamu-Senso no Retorikku (The Rhetoric of Vietnam War)
INUZUKA, Michiyo. John Irving no Shousetsu ni miru Kazoku (A Study of Family in John Irving's Novels)
IMAIZUMI, Asako. Richado Raito: Kare ha Kougi-shousetsu wo Kakitakatta no ka ina ka (On Richard Wright: Did He Want to Write Protest Novels?)
USUI, Hayate. Cowboys on Mars: Furontia Naratibu to Kasei Bungaku-shi (Cowboys on Mars: Frontier Narrative and Martian Literary History)
OGOSHI, Akiko. Inyu to shiteno Nacchesu (Natchez as Metaphor)
KOMATSU, Emiko. Janisu Joppurin Kenkyu: Sex, Drug, Rock'n' Roll (A Study of Janis Joplin: Sex, Drug, Rock'n'Roll)
SINODA, Yasuko. Koisuru Furi-kutachi: Ka-son Makkara-zu The Member of the Wedding wo Yomu (Freaks in Love: A Reading of Carson McCuller's The Member of the Wedding)
SUWA, Kyouhei. Sha-wuddo Anda-son: Pasutorarizumu no Bungaku (Sherwood Anderson: The Literature of Pastralism)
TAKASHIMA, Kazuko. Kasarin An Pohtah: Nikoutairitsu no Sekai niokeru Shinjitsu (Katherine Ann Porter: Truth in the World of Dichotomies)
HATA, Yukari. Arisu Wohkah to Brakku Wuhmanisuto Burujowaji no Shomondai (Alice Walker and the Problems of Black Womanist Bourgeoisie)
HINO, Tomonori. Chahruzu Burokkuden Buraun: Mataha Yamai toshiteno "Onna" (Charles Brockden Brown: Or, "Women" as Illness)
MARUYAMA, Fumie. Kyazah-bungaku ni miru Rezubian-teki Fukusou Tousaku (Lesbian Transvestism in Willa Cather)
MIYATA, Kayoko. Naisei-suru Bungaku: Hahman Merubiru niokeru Genjitsu-hihan (Introspective Literature: The Critique of Reality in Herman Melville)
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1993
AIZAWA, Shino. Patorikku Magurah no Posutomodan Goshikku (On Patrick McGrath's Postmodern Gothic)
ARAMAKI, Kumiko. J. D. Sarinjah ni mirareru Shin-hihyou-teki Ideorogih (New-Critical Ideology in J.D. Salinger)
INNAMI, Misa. Ahnest Heminguwei A Movable Feast ni mirareru "Fikushonizumu" ("Fictionism" in Ernest Hemingway's A Movable Feast)
OGUSHI, Hisayo. Expanding America: The Americaness in Fiction of Paul Bowles
KATAOKA, Etsuko. The Wings of the Dove: Kate to Milly ni okeru Ningen-zou (A Study of The Wings of Dove: The Portraits of Kate and Milly)
KATO, Eriko. Emirih Dikinson to Jitsuzon-teki Tamashii (Emily Dickinson and Existentialist Spirit)
KUSUMI, Yuka. Toruhman Kapohthi: Nonfikushon Noberu kara Gosippu Romansu he (A Study of Truman Capote: From Nonfiction Novel to Goship Romance)
KOMATSU, Kaoru. Bobih An Meison: Ido no Kyohi ni miru Mouhitotsu no Amerikan Dorimu (Bobbie Ann Mason: Alternative American Dream as the Denial of Moving)
SUZUKI, Emi. Furanarih Okonah ni okeru Boshi-zou (Mother and Child in Flannery O'Connor)
HIRAGA, Miyuki. Tayou no nakano Touitsu: Soroh no Geijutsu-sekai (E Pluribus Unum: Thoreau's World of Art)
HOSOKAWA, Kazuki. John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor ni miru "Rekishi-Kaihen Shosetsu" no Seijisei (The Politics of "Alternative History" in John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor)
MASHIMO, Takuya. Tomasu Pinchon: Pyu-ritanizumu no Saikouchiku (A Study of Thomas Pynchon: Restructuring Puritanism)
WATANABE, Chihei. Suthihbun Kingu: Yon-sakuhin ni miru "Aku" no Keitai (A Study of Stephen King: The Figuration of the "Evil" in Four Novels)
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1992
IKEDA, Satoshi. Bobu Dhiran: Uta heno Kaiki (A Study of Bob Dylan: The Return to Songs)
IWATA, Tomoko. Jon Sutainbekku: Henbou no nakani Hisomu Ikkansei to Sono Shoutai (A Study of John Steinbeck: Uniformity within Transformations and Its Truth)
UEJIMA, Akiko. F.S. Fittsujerarudo ni okeru Higeki-teki Ishou: "Saigo no Taikun" wo Chuushin ni (Tragic Design in F. S. Fitzgerald: Some Notes on The Last Tycoon)
OTA, Rena. Erisu no Bungaku ni miru Buratto-pakku (Brat-Packs in Ellis's Works)
SHIMOKAWA, Maki. A Study of Bernard Malamud, The Natural
TAJIMA, Yutaka. Sarinja ni Miru Amerika no Seigi to Kyomu (American Justice and Nihilism as Seen in Salinger)
TSUCHIYA, Naoyuki. Kokujin-bungaku, burusu niokeru "Riterashi" Kakutoku no Igi oyobi sono Shouhin-kachi wo Kangaeru (The Significance of the "Literacy" in African-American Literature and Blues: Or, Its Commercial Value)
NAKAMURA, Mio. Tanpen “Nineteen Fifty-five” to Arisu Whojkah niokeru Hakujin-kan ("Nineteen Fifty-five" and Alice Walker's View of the White)
HASHIKATA, Kumi. Henry David Thoreau, Walden niokeru“self-culture” (On "Self-Culture" in Henry David Thoreau's Walden)
HARADA, Ayako. Theodore Dreiser: Shihonshugi-Shakai ni okeru Jinsei no Imi (Theodore Dreiser: The Meaning of Life in the Capitalist Society)
HIGASHI, Ayako. Heminguwei-teki Rinri: Shukusai, Shi, Rakuen wo Chuushin ni (Hemingway's Ethics: On Festivity, Death, and Paradise)
MIZUTANI, Takeshi. F. Sukotto Fittsujerarudo: Romantikku Morarisuto no Shouzou (F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Portrait of a Romantic Moralist)
YAMADA, Natsumi. Kaato Vonegatto ni okeru Jiyuu-Ishi to Ketteiron: Rasenjou Jikan no Teigi (The Free Will and Determinism in Kurt Vonnegut: A Definition of the Spiral Time)
YAMAGUCHI, Takashi. Southern Narratives: Foukunah no Monogatari-Souchi (Southern Narratives: Faulkner's Narrative Machine)
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1991
SASAKI, Mariko. "Kaze to tomoni Sarinu" Kenkyu: "Kaze to tomoni Sarinu" niokeru Nanbu-Kyanon (A Study of Gone with the Wind: Southern Canon in the Novel)
HOSOGAYA, Kumi. Amerikan Furontia mataha Kakudai-suru Souzouryoku: Laura Ingalls, Little House on The Prairie wo Megutte (American Frontier or Expanding Imagination: Some Notes on Laura Ingalls, Little House on The Prairie)
OKADA, Kazuhisa. Ho-ruden Igo no Gendai Wakamono-zou (The Youth after Holden Caulfield) 2019
NAKAHAMA, Kyoko. Escaping the Dangerous Mass: Individuality Celebrated in Steinbeck's Works
YASUHARA, Eiji. The Marginal Narrative: A Comparative Study of Absalom, Absalom! And One Hundred Years of Solitude
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1991
SASAKI, Mariko. "Kaze to tomoni Sarinu" Kenkyu: "Kaze to tomoni Sarinu" niokeru Nanbu-Kyanon (A Study of Gone with the Wind: Southern Canon in the Novel)
HOSOGAYA, Kumi. Amerikan Furontia mataha Kakudai-suru Souzouryoku: Laura Ingalls, Little House on The Prairie wo Megutte (American Frontier or Expanding Imagination: Some Notes on Laura Ingalls, Little House on The Prairie)
OKADA, Kazuhisa. Ho-ruden Igo no Gendai Wakamono-zou (The Youth after Holden Caulfield)
Hirotomo Oide, Towards the Transnational American Dreams: A Comparative Study of Pygmalion and
Yoshihiro Kitajima, Surviving the Spanish Civil War: On Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
Shiori Sato, Why Are We Crazy about PSYCHO? : Interactions between Hitchcock and Psychoanalysts
Mai Shoji, Myth of Woman in William Faulkner’s Novels
Akane Tachihara, Sarah Josepha Hale’s Feminism in Northwood; or Life North and South
Kanoko Tateishi, Messages from Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick: The Shining and Doctor Sleep in the Context of American Gothic
Shiori Terado, The Significance of The Sympathizer in the Context of Contemporary American Society
Taichi Nakamura, Haruki Murakami’s Literary Inheritances from Modernist and Postmodernist Writers: Before and After Kurt Vonnegut
Mikage Nakahara, To Be a Yankee: Mixed Identity of Jewish Immigrants in Yekl
Kasumi Nomura, How Can We Know the Catcher from the Catch?: J.D.Salinger’s Figuration of American Hero
Kazuha Hashimoto, Is She Really a Lesbian Writer?: A Reading of Willa Cather’s Works
Yumeko Fukaya, The Heritage of Drowning Literature: A Note on Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
Nao Maeda, The Theme of Survival in Gone with the Wind
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2018
ABE, Nanami. Awakening from Hibernation: Invisible Man as a Guidance for Black Leaders
IWAMOTO, Ryo. Plurality of the World: American Tradition Revealed in Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
OKUDAIRA, Keito. Unreliable Narrator’s in Ambrose Bierce’s World
OCHI, Yuka. In the Wake of Sister Carrie: Transitional Times of Women
KUROSAKA, Mariko. American Japonists in Literature: Fenollosa, Long and Irwin
NANZAI, Yui. Pearl Buck as A Missionary of Civilization: the Lost Cause, Misogyny, and Natural Democracy
NONAKA, Rie. Catherine as the Prophet of the Future of Femininity: Interpreting Rubicon Beach in View of Art History
HATA, Keito. Hip Hop Music as American Literature
HAYAKAWA, Takahiro. Encounters with the Inner Other: Identity Crisis in the Fictions of Paul Auster and Kōbō Abe
HOSHINO, Momoko. Negotiations between Mary McCarthy and Hannah Arendt
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2017
ADACHI, Erika. Seussism in the History of Art and Literature
IDE, Miyabi. Unrequited Orientalism: The Evanescence of Swedenborgianism in the Beat Generation
ENDO, Yo. William Faulkner's Representation of Christianity: A Note on Light in August
SOTANI Saki. The Messages Jack Kerouac Implies in On the Road
TAKAHASHI, Anri. Jhumpa Lahiri's Experimental Journey: Reading The Lowland in the Age of Division
TOKIWAI, Asahi. Thomas Pynchon's Counter-Entropic View: To Overcome the Dichotomous Doom
NAKAHAMA, Kyoko. Escaping the Dangerous Mass: Individuality Celebrated in Steinbeck's Works
YASUHARA, Eiji. The Marginal Narrative: A Comparative Study of Absalom, Absalom! And One Hundred Years of Solitude
YUN, Arumu. The Korean Version of American Dream: Reading Chang-rae Lee with Suki Kim
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2016
IKEGAYA, Arisa. The Pride of N-E-G-U-S: Between Kendrick Lamar and Kunta Kinte
SAEGUSA, Reina. Escape from The Bell Jar: The Ideal Way of Life for Sylvia Plath
SATO, Miri. Kubrick’s Space of Insanity: The Terror of the Human Nature in The Shining
TAKAHATA, Mika. Mariln Monroe: A Woman Leading a Life of Love and Dream
ZHANG, Zoe. The Master of Artistic Collage: Nathanael West and 1930s America
NAKAJIMA, Haruka. Capote’ Way of Life: What Holly Golightly Represents in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
HEISHI, Yoshiki. Identity Politics of Chinese American Literature: Chin, Kingston and Tan
MIURA, Masanobu. A Cultural Study of Spider-Men: My Revenge Narrative
MIZOGUCHI, Moye. Is Scarlett O’Hara the Southern Belle?
YANAGIDA, Kurisu. In the Age of “Celebrity Victimization”: From the Lindberghs to Donald Trump
YUDA, Keiichiro. Through the Anywhere Door: A Comparative Study of Benjamin Franklin, Frank Capra and Fujiko F. Fujio
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2015
OKI, Katsuyuki. Transcending Language: The Way of Subverting Anthropomorphism in the Works of Loren Eiseley
OKUDA, Naoaki. Ralph Ellison and His Oklahoma Connection: A Cultural Reading of Invisible Man
KAYANUMA, Fumina. From Dadaism to POPism: The Cultural Impacts of Andy Warhol on High Art / Low Art
KOBAYASHI, Mariko. The Pluralistic Eye of Henry James
SHINANO, Toka. Bartleby at Ground Zero: Melville’s Disaster Narrative of “Wall-Street”
CHOI, Younjoo. At the Heart of The Great Gatsby: The Interplay of Sexuality and Emotions
MAEDA, Kotaro. Holden is a Warrior: Shouting Phony in Everyday War
MATSUBARA, Hiroyuki. Authority in A Farewell to Arms: The Bridge between Hemingway’s Biography and His Work
MIZUNO, Ako. Between Naturalism and Transcendentalism: Dreiser’s Redefinition of American Dream in Early Twentieth Century America
YASUDA, Koharu. The Making of Steinbeck in Fiction: “The Chrysanthemums” and “The White Quail” as a Diptych
WATANABE, Koki. Resistance in Banana Laberinto: Thomas Pynchon and Latin America
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2014
AKAI, Natsumi. “Defying Gravity”: The Critique of Alterity in Gregory Maguire’s Wicked
ODAGIRI, Hiroshi. What is the “Chaplinesque”? : Charles Chaplin as the Hero of Minority People
GONOI, Maki. The Absence of Father: Moral Sense and Gender Panic in American Psycho
KOMAKINE, Ai. The Convention of Solitude: Paul Auster's Works as Family Romances
SASAKI, Takahisa World Color: Truman Capote's Works in the Context of the Cold War
SUZUKI, Yukari. Portrait of A Planetary Figure: Obama through Three Continents
TAMAGAWA, Risa. Guardians in the Dark: Typology and Heroism in The Grapes of Wrath
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2013
UNO, Fujiko. Between America and Europe: Living in The Harsh World in Mary McCarthy’s Birds of America
OSHIMA, Issei. Baseball as a Pseudo-Event: American Consciousness in Shoeless Joe and Field of Dreams
KASHIMA, Seiya. The Times and Lives of Sun Ra: Afrofuturism and Possible Future of Music
KATO, Nanako. In Quest for the True Identity: The Process of Self-Emancipation in Alice Walker’s Works
TAKAHASHI, Sari. Descendants of Hester Prynne:Miller, Condé and Kushner
TENPORIN, Yu. Alternate Science, Alternate Fiction: Humanity in Isaac Asimov’s Series of Foundation and Robot
NAGANO, Yasuyuki. Someone inside Me: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Alternative Vision
FUKUMURA, Mai. Anti-Americanism in Eugene O’Neill’s Drama: Irish-American Theater of the Absurd
FUJITSUKA, Daisuke. Lessons of Willa Cather:Rereading My Ántonia
MORITA, Kazuma. Memoir of Traumatic America: Creation of Identity and Narrative of History in the Works of Richard Brautigan
YAMAMOTO, Emi. Rediscover Japan:Multiple Perspective on Lafcadio Hearn
YANBE, Rika. Covering Presidency: Attractive Contradictions of John F. Kennedy
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2012
ASANO, Masaya. The Critical Point of Thomas Jefferson: A reading of the Declaration of Independence
UEDA, Yutaro. Figure of Alternative America: Hope and Evil in Steve Erickson's 20th Century
KASHIMA, Seiya. The Times and Lives of Sun Ra: Afrofuturism and Possible Future of Music
KURIHARA, Miki. Cyberspace as Sanctuary: Areading William Gibson's Neuromancer
SUGIURA, Yukiho. Devastating Insanity: An Approach to Maddness in The Haunting of Hill House
BANN, Yuji. Toward a History of War on Words: Red Purge, All the King's Men, and Robert Rossen
MATSUMOTO, Ayaka. The Southern Imagination Reconsidered: Gone with the Wind in the Context of the Great Depression
WAKASA, Maki. The Revival Annie: Double Representations of American Dream and Nightmare
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2011
AIHARA, Yumi. Spiritual Crisis in The Pioneers: The Defeat of the Noble Savage in Templeton
EGAWA, Yohei. Teller of Tales: The Film Adaptation of Ray Bradbury
OEDA, Kasumi. The Distorted Wonderland: Expensive People as a Dark Fantasy of Joyce Carol Oates
OKONOGI, Takuya. Seeking to be Free: The Madness in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
KAZUMORI, Tomomi. Williams' World: His Memories and Delicate Characters
KOIZUMI, Yumiko. Children on the Air: Celebrity, Minority, and Singularity in Salinger's Glass Chronicle
SATO, Junpei. Infringing Edges of Normality, Disability, and Maternalism: In the Case of Sherwood Anderson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
JOJIMA, Yukiko. "Matrix" Pulled Over Our Eyes: Racial Conflicts and Emergence of New Leader
SUGIYAMA, Haruka. How to Americanize Fairy Tales: The Process of Self-Realization Seen in Walt Disney's Films
CHIBA, Kazuma. Scattered Voices: Linguistic Mulititude in the Works of Paul Auster
DEGUCHI, Kaori. "Melting Frat" America: Comedy Film and Nationality
NAKAO, Syuku. Searching for Identity: Love and Sexual Desire in the Works of Jeffrey Eugenides
HOSONO, Kaori. No Black, No White: Michael Jackson and Racial Consciousness in American Entertainment
MATSUMOTO, Yuki. Listening to Jazz: Toni Morrison's Reflection on History and the Role of Music
YAMAGUCHI, Ryo. He Took a Face from the Ancient Gallery: Narrativity in The Doors and Jim Morrison
YOTSUGI, Ayano. "One Play Glory" of Jonathan Larson: RENT as a Gospel
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2010
AMAGAI, Kanako. A Trans-Pacific History of Rakugo: Between Japanese and American Literature
IRIE, Asami. The Women in The Great Gatsby: The Genesis of the Flapper
ODA, Chiaki. Of Mice and Men as an Optimistic Narrative: Deferring American Dream
KAGEYAMA, Sakiko. Tactics of Ascension: CATS, or Old Possum's Masquerade
KANAI, Yu. Expanding China: Multiculturalism in the Novels of Amy Tan
KANEMITSU, Ai. Speaking Up for America: I Love Lucy and the 1950s
KON, Eriko. Beneath the Southern Renaissance: The Anachronistic Imagination in the Age of Harper Lee
TANOKUCHI, Shogo. Voicing Silence, Nailing Words: The Future of Writing in Pierre; or, the Ambiguities
NOMURA, Ai. "Hey" Everybody, Yell USA!": A Cultural History of American Cheerleading
FUJII, Tomoko. Displacing Autobiography: The Black Heritage of James Weldon Johnson
MATSUMIYA, Shizuka. Other Indians in Jhumpa Lahiri's Fiction: A Note on the Characters in The Namesake
MINAMIDE, Takahiro. Earnest Hemingway's Symbolic World: An Eco-critical Reading of His Works
YAMADA, Mayumi. Lost in the Woods: Revisiting the Biosphere of Walden
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2009
AOYAMA, Kiho. Towards the Style of Ambivalence: A Literary Gardening of East of Eden
KATO, Chiaki. Marilyn at Her Bath: The Feminist Legacy Full of American Dreams
SASAGUCHI, Marie. Motor-Flight from Old New York: International Mobility in Edith Wharton's Fiction
HIGUCHI, Nami. Fictions of Identity: Passing Narratives of Chase-Riboud, Larsen, and Griffin
YATO, Seiya. The Sounds of Niggaz: Hip Hop in African American Music History
ITO, Minori. Loving Broken Nose: Algren's Chicago, Terayama's Tokyo
KOSHIZUKA, Toshinori. Puritanism and American Society: The Influence of Religious Thought on Culture, Economy, and Politics
YAMAZAKI, Hirofumi. The Reproduction of Gilman Girls: A New Perspective to Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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2008
ENDO, Hiroyo. Truman Capote's Sense of Place: Revisiting His Masquerade
KAWAMURA, Satoshi. Reality, Humanity, and Literature: Philip K. Dick's Postmodern Utopia
KUSUNOKI, Yuina. Maria Never Dies: Her Reconciliatory Border-Crossing in West Side Story
SAITO, Aoi. The Office of the Red Badge: Tim O'Brien in the American History of War Literature
TAKAHASHI, Poemu. Out of the Dollhouse: The Literary Heritage of Smith College Alumnae
TOMIZUKA, Ryohei. Humor Against Syndrome: A Reading of Donald Barthelme's Works
TOYOZUMI, Yuya. Gender and Narration of The Left Hand of Darkness: Le Guin's Inner Space
HIRAI, Mami. Women with Power in Soap Opera: The Image of the New Women in Sex and the City
MARUYAMA, Takanobu. The Answer Lies within: A Reading of Don DeLillo's Underworld
MIZOBUCHI, Reika. An Invitation to the New Closet: RENT as the Utopia of Queer
MURATA, Mizuna. In Search of the Unreliable Narrator: Reality and Insanity in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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2007
ARAI, Tomoko. Hitchcock's Logic of Suspense: Towards the Rhetoric of Meta-Movie
IKEZAKI, Ai. From American Dream to Racial Nightmare: OJ Simpson Case as an Expose of America's Racial Issue
ITO, Takehiko. Adventures of Reading: The Strategy of Disguise in Huck Finn and Other Stories
KAZAMA, Miho. His Monster, His / Self: The Dilemma of Identity in Edward Scissorhands
KITANO, Masami. The Happiest Life for Women: A Comparative Study of Little Women and The Makioka Sisters
KOBAYASHI, Kaoru. Dreaming by the Window: Desire and Intertextuality in Sister Carrie
KOBAYASHI, Syo. Inheriting Japanese Ghosts: Lafcadio Hearn's Retold Stories
KOHIRA, Satoshi. Transactions between the Verbal and the Visual: Sherwood Anderson and the Early Twentieth-Century Visual Arts
SAKAI, Mayumi. The White Indian: A Reading of Reservation Blues and Indian Killer
SAKAYORI, Kumi. Independent Women: Black Daredevils in Hip-hop
SATO, Asami. "There's Something Happening Here": Forrest Gump's America
SUDO, Yuki. Watch-Hunting: Puritanism and Voyeurism in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
TSUYUKI, Megumi. Why Did Princess Anne Mistake Shelley for Keats?: The Subliminal Message of Roman Holiday
FUJII, Hiromi. Tourist Development in the New World Order: The Promise and Limits of American Politics
NOGUCHI, Erina. Hybridism in DARK ANGEL: The Cyborgian Identity Restructed
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2006
IZUMI, Masato. The Matrix Revived
SAKAMAKI, Shiho. The Barbie Mystique: Happiness, Cuteness, Mixedness
SASAKI, Yuji. Waiting for A New World: Collective Memory in the Works of R.A. Lafferty
TAKAYANAGI, Yusuke. Nowhere Men in Paul Auster's Fiction: On the Transient and Profound Meaning of Addiction
FUNAKAWA, Ayako. The Orientalist Witch of Oz: Baum, Maguire and Beyond
MATSUMOTO, Shinji. The Metaphorics of Baseball in Salinger and Kinsella
MATSUMOTO, Risa. Tastes of Honey: How Disney Read Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh
YAMAGISHI, Kaoru. Anne of Green Gables: A Gift Beyond Time and Space
YAMAMOTO, Naotake. "I contain multitudes": The Photographic Imagination in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
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2005
ITO, Kensuke. James Baldwin's Blues: On the Strategies for Overcoming the Problems
OKAMOTO, Kenta. Re-Creating American Baseball Narrative: From Malamud to Kinsella
KATSUBE, Nobuo. Of Lion Born: The Adventure of Children in Stephen King's World
KATO, Yukari. Tonkatsu Self-Fashioning: Japanese-Canadian Narrative from Obasan to Chorus of Mushrooms
KITO, Yoichiro. Through the Fearful Loops: A Reading of Danielewski's House of Leaves
KUSAKA, Marin. Oz, the Enchanting Land as a Mirror of America
KUMAGAI, Nao. Girls' Side Story: Desires of Men in West Side Story
KOIZUMI, Yuko. On the Bridge between the Past and Future: A Note on Edith Wharton's Fiction
KOGURE, Noriko. Duchamp, Reich, Williams: A Note on American Multiscape
SAITO, Shoko. In the Ending Escape or Hope? Joseph Heller's Anti-Americanism in Catch-22
SAITO, Takaaki. Wandering around the Unreal City: Aspects of Young Men in Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City
TSUJI, Ayano. Mother's Voice Within: Alice Walker as a Womanist
BANJAKU, Sayoko. Collecting Butterflies: The Heritage of Japonism in Long, Puccini and Golden
HIYOSHI, Ryoko. Genuine Voice in Hurston's World: Transmitting Women's Legacies
FUJITO, Yoshino. Bridges over Times, Places and Generations: Everlasting Journey of Edwidge Danticat
HORIKAWA, Naohiro. What Was Generation X Movement? A Reading of Douglas Coupland's Works
MIZUKAMI, Aiko. Against Conformity: Absurdity in Richard Brautigan's Prose
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2004
ADACHI, Emiko. Something Sweet about Bitter Bierce: An Ideal Death of the Death-Writer
ABE, Hirokazu. We Have Double Histories: Memory and Imaginative Visions in Erickson's Fiction
IIDA, Mikako. The Encounter with the Other Self: The Image of the Double in Twain's Works
ICHINO, Keita. After the Gold Rush: Pynchon's Vineland and the End of Utopianism
EBIHARA, Yutaka. Visions of Cyborg Narratology: A Note on James Tiptree, Jr.'s Science Fiction
OKUBO, Satoko. Color Tornado: Transformation in Sylvia Plath's Poetry
OKUDA, Eiji. Decentered and Defeated: Ideogramic Aspects of Ezra Pound's Poetics
TAKAGI, Noriyuki. "It's Really Something": The Moment of Crisis in Carver's Fiction
TOMIYAMA, Hiroyuki. Philly Is Burning: A Reading of J. E. Wideman's Works
MATSUI, Kazuma. Mythology of Losers: The Idea of Transcendence in Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers
YOKOTA, Toyotaka. Searching for a Possible Future: One Phase of Universality and Diversity in Bernard Malamud's Fiction
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2003
AKIYAMA, Yuri. Searching for Innocence: The Image of People with Mental Disabilities in American Literature
OTAKI, Akiko. Rediscovering "New York Girls" in O.Henry's Works
KAMEDA, Yoko. Self-Reflection in Nature: Looking for Waterscape in Hemmingway's Works
SHINOHARA, Shiori. Artistry as Metaphor: Kate Chopin Reconsidered
SUMI, Kengo. Always Intended to be Realistic: The Hidden Agenda of Raymond Chandler's Hardboiled Fiction
TAKAHARA, Asami. The Powerful and The Powerless: Flapper's Stylistics in Fitzgerald's Novels
TANAI, Keiko. Secret Sings of Misery: Insect Girls in Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides
NISHIOKA, Emiko. Is Scarlet a Feminist?: Reading Gone with The Wind
HIRAMATSU, Taro. Female Trouble: Kathy Acker and Her Tactics
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2002
ISHIKAWA, Rina. Where is She Going?: The Image of Orphan in American Literature
KIMURA, Akiko. Reconstructing Destiny: Circular Time and Space in Kurt Vonnegut's Fiction
KOBAYASHI, Noriko. A World within Itself: Small Town in Stephen King's Fiction
SUGIUCHI, Yukiko. Road Toward "Manself": A Structural Reading of John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath
TAKASHIMA, Kazumi. The Meaning of Repetitions in Updike's Novels: The Inheritances from Parents to Children
TAKAHASHI, Masayuki. A Lonesome Savior: John Cheever's Writing as Prayers
YAMAGUCHI, Choko. A Chaotic World of Videos and Novels: The Intertextuality of Tarantino's Films
WATANABE, Miki. The Feminist Face of Louisa May Alcott
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2001
EBINUMA, Kuniaki. The Poetics of Surrogate Family: Families and Homes in Auster's Novels
TAKAKUWA, Nozomi. Axross the Inner Space: A Note on Edith Wharton's Heroines
TATARA, Ayano. The Figure of Androgyny in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles
CHIGIRA, Yuko. Richard Brautigan and His Sense of the Past
HASHIMOTO, Yuusuke. Four Aspects of Sarah Orne Jewett: Analyses of Narrators and Protagonists
YAMAJI, Ayaka. No Stopping the Streetcar: Tennessee Williams Revaluated by Pedro Almodovar
YAMAUCHI, Yoshiyuki. The First Pioneers in the North American Continent: A Literary and Anthropological Study
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2000
AOAYAMA, Rie. Creative Loneliness in Truman Capote's Fiction
KANBE, Takako. Arthur Miller's Dramaturgy: Death of a Salesman in the Cultural Milieu of the Depression
KOBAYASHI, Mika. Gone with the Wind and American Literary History
TSAI, Lin-kun. The Feminist Imperative in Kate Chopin's The Awakening
FUJITA, Erina. Portrait of the American Girl: Henry James' Ad-Space
MORIMOTO, Nao. Self-Seeking and Narrative in Toni Morrison's Novels
YOSHIDA, Naoshi. Emily Dickinson as a War Poet: A Surrealistic Reading
OTSUKA, Shusaku. Power of Recreation: Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn
NAKAMURA, Eri. Loss and Recovery: Family in John Irving's Novels
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1999
OKAWA, Yumi. A Study on Holly in Breakfast at Tiffany's
SATO, Tomoko. The Age of Medicine: American Health in Rowson, James and Burnett
TAKANAMI, Mitsukuni. Beyond West's Land: Dream Narrative of Nathanael West
TSUBOI, Natsuko. The Self-Realization through Taoism in Eugene O'Neill's Plays
NAGASAWA, Aya. Alcohol and American Literature in the 20th Century
NAGANO, Fumika. Nuclear Imagination: Freakish Figures in Kurt Vonnegut's Novels
BABA, Akira. Ye Careless Saviors!: The Amae Theory and American Novels in the 1960s
HARA, Makoto. Searching Hemingway's Real Image
MAKINO, Yoshifumi. Genius Loci in John Barth's Fiction
YASUMORI, Fumio. Good Freud Don't Kill Bad Freud
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1998
ASAI, Wakako. Dear Witch, Anne: Towards the Poetics of Prince Edward Island Literature
ARITA, Rika. The Release of Chain in Steinbeck's Fiction
IGAWA, Taku. A Reading of Sam Shepard
KUJIRAI, Hideyuki. The Indians and Nature in The Last of the Mohicans
SHICHINO, Yoko. Mark Twain in His Later Period: A Deconstructive Analysis of No.44 The Mysterious Stranger
TAKAGI, Yumiko. The Hemingway Heroes
TAKATSUJI, Erika. What She Found There: Adrienne Rich and Her "Sources"
TANAKA, Yumi. Literary Influence of Don Quixote in America
CHIBA, Koko. Destruction and Reconfiguration in Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer
HONDA, Maki. Who's Afraid of Lolita?
FUJIBE, Arashi. Eyes and Their Metaphor: Dennis Cooper's Guide
YOSHIMI, Tomoko. Pumpkin King: A Note on Tim Burton
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1997
SATO, Sayako. The Memories of Metaphors: On the Novels of John Irving
SHIBATA, Megumi. Edith Wharton: A Woman Entrapped in the House
NARUSHIMA, Yoko. Steve Erickson the Contemporary Narcissus
NISHIKAWA, Asako. The Anxiety of Photographic Influence: A Cultural Historical Approach to Emerson and Thoreau
FUKASE, Yukiko. Invisible Woman: The Heritage of the Slave Narrative in Toni Morrison's Beloved
HORIGUCHI, Akiko. "I am me": Zora Neale Hurston's Declaration of Independence
YODA, Yuko. The Universal Theme of "Living": Thornton Wilder's Dramaturgy and His Idea
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1996
ONO, Yukiko. James Fenimore Cooper and His Pursuit of American Identity
KATAKURA, Yumiko. Baseball and American Literature
SHU, Yan. Regenerating the American Spirit
SHIRATORI, Kenji. Philip K. Dick as a Kabbalist
SUZUKI, Junko. Positive Versus Negative: The Relation Between Pudd'nhead Wilson and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
TAGASHIRA, Ken. Seeing as Misreading: Henry James's Pursuit of Freedom in The Ambassadors
TAMURA, Eri. The Healing System in Islands in the Stream
HATTORI, Kohei. Fake, Reality and Fantasy: The Floating Identity of Woody Allen
MIYAMOTO, Naoko. L. Frank Baum, The Mythmaker of the New Culture
MORIOKA, Tabito. Go Home to Your Radio: A Reading of Le Roi Jones "The Baptism"
MORIYAMA, Erika. "The Baptism" A Reading of Joseph Heller's Absurd Diptych
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1995
OYAMA, Manabu. Hipster's Role in Mailer's Ideal Society
KAGAWA, Emiko. Styron's Choice: Race as the Hidden Agenda
KANEMARU, Junko. Truman Capote: The Quest for the Psychological Truth
TURUTA, Akiko. Snapshots: Ann Beattie & American Ordinary People
YANAGISAWA, Noriko. Celibacy, Sorority, Domesticity: Feminist Characterization in the Novels of Loisa May Alcott
YAMAZAKI, Takako. Suicide Novels in America
YAMAMOTO, Yoko. Witches of America: The Creation of a Distorted World
WATABIKI, Akiko. A Conflict Within Oneself: Historical and Psychological Analysis of the Ku Klux Klan
WANAKA, Chisako. Madness, Violence, and Marriage: A Study of Joyce Carol Oates
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1994 (Theses listed below are written in Japanese)
ISHIDA, Ayako. Betonamu-Senso no Retorikku (The Rhetoric of Vietnam War)
INUZUKA, Michiyo. John Irving no Shousetsu ni miru Kazoku (A Study of Family in John Irving's Novels)
IMAIZUMI, Asako. Richado Raito: Kare ha Kougi-shousetsu wo Kakitakatta no ka ina ka (On Richard Wright: Did He Want to Write Protest Novels?)
USUI, Hayate. Cowboys on Mars: Furontia Naratibu to Kasei Bungaku-shi (Cowboys on Mars: Frontier Narrative and Martian Literary History)
OGOSHI, Akiko. Inyu to shiteno Nacchesu (Natchez as Metaphor)
KOMATSU, Emiko. Janisu Joppurin Kenkyu: Sex, Drug, Rock'n' Roll (A Study of Janis Joplin: Sex, Drug, Rock'n'Roll)
SINODA, Yasuko. Koisuru Furi-kutachi: Ka-son Makkara-zu The Member of the Wedding wo Yomu (Freaks in Love: A Reading of Carson McCuller's The Member of the Wedding)
SUWA, Kyouhei. Sha-wuddo Anda-son: Pasutorarizumu no Bungaku (Sherwood Anderson: The Literature of Pastralism)
TAKASHIMA, Kazuko. Kasarin An Pohtah: Nikoutairitsu no Sekai niokeru Shinjitsu (Katherine Ann Porter: Truth in the World of Dichotomies)
HATA, Yukari. Arisu Wohkah to Brakku Wuhmanisuto Burujowaji no Shomondai (Alice Walker and the Problems of Black Womanist Bourgeoisie)
HINO, Tomonori. Chahruzu Burokkuden Buraun: Mataha Yamai toshiteno "Onna" (Charles Brockden Brown: Or, "Women" as Illness)
MARUYAMA, Fumie. Kyazah-bungaku ni miru Rezubian-teki Fukusou Tousaku (Lesbian Transvestism in Willa Cather)
MIYATA, Kayoko. Naisei-suru Bungaku: Hahman Merubiru niokeru Genjitsu-hihan (Introspective Literature: The Critique of Reality in Herman Melville)
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1993
AIZAWA, Shino. Patorikku Magurah no Posutomodan Goshikku (On Patrick McGrath's Postmodern Gothic)
ARAMAKI, Kumiko. J. D. Sarinjah ni mirareru Shin-hihyou-teki Ideorogih (New-Critical Ideology in J.D. Salinger)
INNAMI, Misa. Ahnest Heminguwei A Movable Feast ni mirareru "Fikushonizumu" ("Fictionism" in Ernest Hemingway's A Movable Feast)
OGUSHI, Hisayo. Expanding America: The Americaness in Fiction of Paul Bowles
KATAOKA, Etsuko. The Wings of the Dove: Kate to Milly ni okeru Ningen-zou (A Study of The Wings of Dove: The Portraits of Kate and Milly)
KATO, Eriko. Emirih Dikinson to Jitsuzon-teki Tamashii (Emily Dickinson and Existentialist Spirit)
KUSUMI, Yuka. Toruhman Kapohthi: Nonfikushon Noberu kara Gosippu Romansu he (A Study of Truman Capote: From Nonfiction Novel to Goship Romance)
KOMATSU, Kaoru. Bobih An Meison: Ido no Kyohi ni miru Mouhitotsu no Amerikan Dorimu (Bobbie Ann Mason: Alternative American Dream as the Denial of Moving)
SUZUKI, Emi. Furanarih Okonah ni okeru Boshi-zou (Mother and Child in Flannery O'Connor)
HIRAGA, Miyuki. Tayou no nakano Touitsu: Soroh no Geijutsu-sekai (E Pluribus Unum: Thoreau's World of Art)
HOSOKAWA, Kazuki. John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor ni miru "Rekishi-Kaihen Shosetsu" no Seijisei (The Politics of "Alternative History" in John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor)
MASHIMO, Takuya. Tomasu Pinchon: Pyu-ritanizumu no Saikouchiku (A Study of Thomas Pynchon: Restructuring Puritanism)
WATANABE, Chihei. Suthihbun Kingu: Yon-sakuhin ni miru "Aku" no Keitai (A Study of Stephen King: The Figuration of the "Evil" in Four Novels)
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1992
IKEDA, Satoshi. Bobu Dhiran: Uta heno Kaiki (A Study of Bob Dylan: The Return to Songs)
IWATA, Tomoko. Jon Sutainbekku: Henbou no nakani Hisomu Ikkansei to Sono Shoutai (A Study of John Steinbeck: Uniformity within Transformations and Its Truth)
UEJIMA, Akiko. F.S. Fittsujerarudo ni okeru Higeki-teki Ishou: "Saigo no Taikun" wo Chuushin ni (Tragic Design in F. S. Fitzgerald: Some Notes on The Last Tycoon)
SHIMOKAWA, Maki. A Study of Bernard Malamud, The Natural
TAJIMA, Yutaka. Sarinja ni Miru Amerika no Seigi to Kyomu (American Justice and Nihilism as Seen in Salinger)
TSUCHIYA, Naoyuki. Kokujin-bungaku, burusu niokeru "Riterashi" Kakutoku no Igi oyobi sono Shouhin-kachi wo Kangaeru (The Significance of the "Literacy" in African-American Literature and Blues: Or, Its Commercial Value)
NAKAMURA, Mio. Tanpen “Nineteen Fifty-five” to Arisu Whojkah niokeru Hakujin-kan ("Nineteen Fifty-five" and Alice Walker's View of the White)
HASHIKATA, Kumi. Henry David Thoreau, Walden niokeru“self-culture” (On "Self-Culture" in Henry David Thoreau's Walden)
HARADA, Ayako. Theodore Dreiser: Shihonshugi-Shakai ni okeru Jinsei no Imi (Theodore Dreiser: The Meaning of Life in the Capitalist Society)
HIGASHI, Ayako. Heminguwei-teki Rinri: Shukusai, Shi, Rakuen wo Chuushin ni (Hemingway's Ethics: On Festivity, Death, and Paradise)
MIZUTANI, Takeshi. F. Sukotto Fittsujerarudo: Romantikku Morarisuto no Shouzou (F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Portrait of a Romantic Moralist)
YAMADA, Natsumi. Kaato Vonegatto ni okeru Jiyuu-Ishi to Ketteiron: Rasenjou Jikan no Teigi (The Free Will and Determinism in Kurt Vonnegut: A Definition of the Spiral Time)
YAMAGUCHI, Takashi. Southern Narratives: Foukunah no Monogatari-Souchi (Southern Narratives: Faulkner's Narrative Machine)
1991
SASAKI, Mariko. "Kaze to tomoni Sarinu" Kenkyu: "Kaze to tomoni Sarinu" niokeru Nanbu-Kyanon (A Study of Gone with the Wind: Southern Canon in the Novel)
HOSOGAYA, Kumi. Amerikan Furontia mataha Kakudai-suru Souzouryoku: Laura Ingalls, Little House on The Prairie wo Megutte (American Frontier or Expanding Imagination: Some Notes on Laura Ingalls, Little House on The Prairie)
OKADA, Kazuhisa. Ho-ruden Igo no Gendai Wakamono-zou (The Youth after Holden Caulfield)