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Join us for the Final Public Oral of Aliya Ram, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature. Her dissertation, titled "Torn // and new: Literary Address and the Reinvention of Ambiguity," explores the ways literary texts engage readers through ambiguous modes of address, challenging conventional interpretations and creating new possibilities for meaning.
Drawing from a diverse range of authors and critical frameworks, Ram investigates how ambiguity functions not as a limitation but as a dynamic tool of reinvention in literary communication. Her work rethinks the relationship between speaker and audience, past and present, and clarity and uncertainty in literature.
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