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2020年度以降の卒業論文の題目をご紹介します。
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2025年度卒業論文
“Ordinary Heroes in an Extraordinary World: Realism, Ideology, and Historical Reconfiguration in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Series”
“The Art of Shortening: Narrative Strategy in The Floating Opera”
“Rebirth of “The Fall of the House of Usher”: Poe’s Aesthetic Theory of Death”
“Exploring Identity Through Normativity: Intersecting Oppressions in Giovanni’s Room”
"A Self-Made Woman in the Wilderness: Domesticity, Immigrants, and Nature in My Antonia”
“Museumification and Supplementary Silence: Two Forms of Historical Transformation in The Underground Railroad”
“Closets Still Un-Rediscovered:Reticent Lesbianism in Elizabeth Bishop’s Geography III”
“A Space of Care: Connections with Others in the Works of Sigrid Nunez”
“Female Death and the Collapse of Masculine Authority in Edgar Allan Poe: Narrative Control, Resurrection, and the Limits of Rational Mastery”
“Coping with Discrimination: Human Rights in Frederick Douglass's Writings”
“In the Battle of Gaze: Vision and Uncertainty in the ‘Stable’ Bly Manor in The Turn of the Screw”
“Creating Home Across Generations: Housekeeping, Inherited Femininity, and Self-Formation in Laura Ingalls Wilder”
“We Are All Children of Mothers: Mother-Daughter Relations and Cultural Conflicts in The Joy Luck Club”
“The Birth of the New American Hero: Rocky Balboa, Situated between Conservatism and Progressivism”
2024年度卒業論文
Faux Pas in “Bananafish”: Reconstructing Seymour’s Saintliness in J. D. Salinger’s Short Stories
The Rise and Fall of the Ideal Girl: Two Portraits in J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories
Untitled,: Psychoanalysis, Gender Identity and Politics in Arab American Adaptation of Frankenstein
In Search of Our “Inner” Mother’s Gardens: A Womanist Reading of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
The Transcendence of Naturalism: The Distinctive Qualities of Stephen Crane’s Works
McTeague as a Love Story: Why Was The Heroine Killed by Her Husband?
Poetry Shattered by Prose: Empathy for the Small and Tender Things in the Works of Tennessee Williams
The End of “The Pickwick Club”: Contradictions and New Possibilities for Little Women
Regulating Laughter: Satire, Black Humor and Free Speech in The Simpsons Movie
The Destruction of White Masculinity: A Critique of Racial Dominance and Ableism in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Remembrance to Forget: Controllable Reminiscence and Its Oblivion in Men in Black
2023年度卒業論文
Books in the Shell: Reconsidering Censorship, Technology and Walking in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
Changed and Unchanged: The Significance of Child-ness and Time in Peanuts
The Resurrection of Ophelia in Marian: The Opening of Her Mouth in The Edible Woman
Tender is the Sight: Nicole’s Wealth and Gaze in Tender is the Night
The Burden of Original Sin: A Study of Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter”
Castration, Incest, or Suicide: Exploring Patriarchy and the Male Crisis in The Sound and the Fury
The Order of the Universe in the Heart of an Artist: Perverseness for the Principle of Unity in Edgar Allan Poe’s Aesthetic Theory
A Utopia of the Women, by the Women, for the Women: Redefine Avonlea through Anne and the Women’s Community
A Little Insight into Life: A Alternative to American Dream in the Works of Raymond Carver
Lost in Paradise: Reconsidering Vladimir Nabokov’s America through Lolita
2022年度卒業論文
The Winding Way to Solidarity: Understanding Arthur Miller’s Five Plays
The Power of Resilience: The Reconsidering Family Relation in The Scarlet Letter
A Young Boy without Blood Relationship: The Fear of Hemingway’s Male Characters in The Old Man and the Sea
An Underlying Desire for Family Affection: A New Analysis on Philip Marlowe
A Blissful Slumber: The Significance of Sleep in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Lost and Found: Romanticism in John Irving’s The Hotel New Hampshire
What It Means to be Human: Reading Philip K. Dick’s Valis Trilogy
Embodiment of Human Beings: The Way of Seeing Ourselves in a Godless World in Flannery O’Connor’s Works
2021年度卒業論文
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door: Bob Dylan’s Christian Trilogy
Lonesome Holden Caulfield on the Battlefield: Elements of War Narrative in The Catcher in the Rye
What kind of consciousness caused the ghosts to appear and Miles to die to The Turn of the Screw
The Nightmare of the Stray Girls: Their Choices in the Journey to Adulthood
The Angel in the House Starting to Fly Away to the Outside World: The Representation of Women in Henry James’s Early Works
Beyond Boundaries: Unconventional Strong Female Figures in James Cameron’s Films
Return to Music Poems: Langston Hughes’ Regaining of Harlem Renaissance in the 1940s
2020年度卒業論文
“Parent-Child” Bond: Family Relationship in the March Trilogy by Louisa May Alcott
That is the Way She Is: What the “American Lady” Means for Meg in Little Women
The World He Wants to Realize: What Would Okada Want to Hand Down in American Society
The Confession: Gender Fluidity in Tender is the Night
Comparison between Lindbergh and Roosevelt: Why Did Roth Write The Plot Against America?
Is La Rue an Ideal Woman for Susanna Rowson?: Reconsidering the Role of Women in Charlotte Temple
A Small, Good Something: The Extraordinary Ordinary Lives in the Works of Raymond Carver
Reasons for Being Possessed: Portrayals of Women in The Haunting of Hill House
The Hope for Medicine: The Representations of Doctors in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Utopia Trilogy
Exploring Histories Made by Relationships: The Underlying Power of Things Connecting Characters in The Color Purple
Women Confronting a Male-Dominated Society: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Short Stories
Walking Through the Waste Land: Telling Her Story in In the Country of Last Things
Inheritance of Heroism: Non-Absoluteness of Spider-Man
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