The Department of Comparative Literature is delighted to announce that Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez has completed his PhD under the supervision of Professor Shane Weller.
Juan’s thesis analyses the ways in which various twentieth-century European writers adopt circular narrative forms in order to break with an essentially teleological and theological thinking. The thesis assesses the extent to which this revolutionary break with linear narrative may be owing to the impact of Nietzsche’s discussion of nihilism, and in particular his idea of the ‘eternal recurrence of the same’. Through a series of close readings, the thesis aims to highlight the various ways in which narrative circularity serves to challenge the underlying ideology of linear narrative, and concludes with a proposed new typology of non-linear forms. The degree will be conferred at a ceremony later this year.
Our congratulations to Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez.
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