MOVING WORDS, MOVING PICTURES: A COMPARISON OF THE PORTRAYAL OF ALIENATION IN THE NOVELS AND FILMS DEATH IN VENICE, SWANN IN LOVE, UNDER THE VOLCANO, AND LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN

BY

CHARLES ARTHUR McCAFFREY

A.B., University of Illinois, 1976

B.S., University of Illinois, 1976

A.M., University of Illinois, 1982

THESIS

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for

the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature

in the graduate college of the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998

Thesis directed by Prof. Nancy Blake

Urbana, Illinois