Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2004. / Thesis directed by Chris Vanden Bossche for the Department of English. "July 2004." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 266-283).

Inaug.-Diss.--Marburg. / Vita. Summary in English. Bibliography: p. [267-280].

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2009. / "A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Department of Drama." At end of title main screen: University of Alberta. Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on October 6, 2009). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Deparment of English Language and Literature, August 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Department of Germanic Studies, August 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1997. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-187).

Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. "The major argument of this work is that French Caribbean novels pursue a political agenda"--P. iv. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179-185). Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2004. / Advisor: D. L. Coleman. Also available via World Wide Web.

Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

My thesis is concerned with Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), the Frankfurt School theorist, and the implications of his philosophy for literary studies. I show that Adorno's thought may offer a valid contribution to the analysis of literary texts, even texts with which he is not historically associated. More specifically, I link Adorno with texts that emerge out of situations of political extremity but are not necessarily understood as "political" protest literature. Drawing on a variety of Adorno's texts, I assert that key concepts within Adorno's thought - truth content, immanence, the non-identical - allow us a way of understanding literary texts that appear apolitical, but in fact are speaking to the social and material relations of their specific (political) context. Adorno's exposition on the interface between the artwork and history usefully engages authors that problematise or dismantle our traditional conception of what constitutes the "political" - overt manifest content that aligns itself with a particular ideological position. I have chosen three twentieth-century authors (J.M. Coetzee; Margarita Karapanou; Michael Ondaatje) whose literature bear the burden of political extremity (respectively, South African apartheid, the 1970s Greek military junta, and the Sri Lankan civil war), and is at loggerheads with the literature of political commitment emerging from each of those situations. Each of these authors asserts his or her aesthetic autonomy over prescriptive understandings of literature as a vehicle actively espousing a particular nationalist, political, ideological or even aesthetically formalist position. The work of these authors, I argue, embodies an alternative Adornian version of engaged literature. In short, my thesis operates as a two way conversation asking: "What can Adorno's concepts give to certain literary texts?", and reciprocally, "What can those texts give to our traditional understanding of Adorno and his applicability?" This thesis is an act of rethinking the literary in Adornian terms, and rethinking Adorno through the literary.