2020/06/01

Alumnae/i of Tatsumi Zemi

2020
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
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

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
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


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


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?)


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)


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)


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)