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Dissertations

The following is a list of all dissertations that have been written in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

2009

Lucie Medova
Reflexive Clitics in Slavic and Romance Languages. A Comparative View from an Antipassive Perspective
 
Mark Pettus
Dostoevsky’s Closed Threshold in the Construction of the Existential Novel
 

2008

Yuri Corrigan
Chekhov’s Existentialism: The Ethics of Outsideness
 
Ivan Eubanks
Influence, Discourse and Synthesis in Alexander Pushkin's Dramaturgy, with an Epilogue on Novelistic Discourse in Hordubal, Karel Capek's Adaptation of the Oresteia
 

2007

Dunja Popovic
Sacrifice and Salvation: Twentieth-Century Russian Literature and Soviet Ideology of the Body
 
Sarah Valentine (Dunn)
The Poetry and Thought of Gennady Aigi
 

2006

Tania Gordeev
The Letter as Inserted Genre in the Russian Literary Tradition
 
Sarah Beth Mohler-Kube
A Prosaics of the Mind's Eye: Reader Visualization, Perspective Engagement, and the Visual Ethics of Tolstoy's War and Peace
 

2005

Cole M Crittenden
Theatre in Time: The Meta-Temporal Drama of Chekhov, Vvedensky, and Havel
 
Laura Elaine Davies
A Construction-Grammatical Analysis of Impersonalization in Russian
 

2004

Jeanette Koenig
A Diachronic Analysis of the Interaction of Syllabification and Jer Vocalization
 
Sarah Clovis-Bishop
The Book of Poems in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature: Khodasevich, Gippius and Shvarts
 

2003

Eva Rottman
The Mary Stuart Myth in 20th Century Russian Literature
 

2002

Brian K. Stimmler
A Diachronic Analysis of the Russian Short Form Active Participle: the Syntax of Absolutes and Bare Predicate Adjuncts
 
Stephanie Harves
Unaccusative Syntax in Russian
 

2001

Abigail Wildman Konopasky
A Syntacto-Morphological Analysis of Dependent Heads in Slavic
 
Edit Noemi Jakab
The Modality of Nonfinite Clauses in Slavic and Finno-Ugric
 
Inessa Medzhibovskaya
Tolstoy's Projects of Transcendence (Reading the Conversion)
 

2000

David Freedel
A Comparative Pedagogical Analysis of Introductory Russian Language Textbooks
 
James E. Lavine
Topics in the Syntax of Nonagreeing Predicates in Slavic
 
Ludmila Shleyfer Lavine
From the Lyric to the Epic: Some Trends in the Early Twentieth-Century Russian POEMA
 
Nicole M. Monnier
The Man Who Became a Myth: The Canonization of Vissarion Belinsky in the Russian Literary Tradition
 

1999

Thomas Cunningham
Terrible Visions: The Sublime Image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian Opera
 

1998

Anthony Prather
Platonov's Chevengur and the Soviet Literary World of the 1920s
 
Craig Cravens
Pushkin's Evgenji Onegin, Dostoevsky's Besy, Capek's Hordubal, and Kundera's Zert: The First-Person Novel in Czech and Russian Literature
 
Gabriella Safran
Narratives of Jewish Acculturation in the Russian Empire: Bogrov, Orzeszkowa Leskov, Chekov
 
Marjorie J. McShane
Ellipsis in Slavic: The Syntax-Discourse Interface
 

1995

Loren Billings
Approximation in Russian and the Single-Word Constraint
 

1974

Emily Klenin
Russian Reflexive Pronouns and the Semantic Roles of Noun Phrases in Sentences
 

1972

Ellen Chances
The Ideology of "Pocvennicestvo" in Dostoevskij's Journals Vremja and Epokha
 
Nicholas Rzhevsky
Herzen in Russian Literature
 

1971

J.G. Kelso Russell
Leskov and Folklore
 
Priscilla Meyer
Aksenov and Soviet Prose of the 1950's and 1960's
 
Virginia Heron Bennett
The Russian Tradition of Nineteenth Century Literary Memoirs and Andrej Belyj's Vospominanija o A. A. Bloke
 

1970

Lewis Jules Bernhardt
Chapters in the History of the Hebrew Literary Renaissance in Russia (1892 - 1924): Hebrew Renaissance Poetry in Russian Translation
 
Michael K. Launer
Word-Formation in the Russian Adverb
 

1969

Gary Kern
Lev Lunc, Serapion Brother
 
John Earl Malmstad
The Poetry of Andrej Belyj: A Variorum Edition
 

1968

Elizabeth Phelps Sessions
The Language of Two Versions of the First Six Chapters of the Skazanie Avraamija Palicyna
 
Elliott Dunbar Mossman
The Prose of Boris Pasternak
 

1967

Joseph Benjamin Dees
Content and Expression in the Poetry of Baratynskij
 

1966

Henry Robert Hedrick
The Poetry of Derzavin