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theses
This article catalogs academic theses, papers, and conference proceedings examining the Beach Surgery franchise. For non-academic fan scholarship, see fan theories.
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Academic theses
- The Glitch as Generative Form (University Press, 2017). Argues that the structural fault between the novel's halves functions as a recursive engine: each adaptation inherits the impossibility and generates new solutions, perpetuating the labyrinth.
- Eternal Recurrence and Narrative Medicine: Surgical Metaphors in Contemporary Prose (2019). Traces the medical register across the novel and the franchise, examining Katita and Mylar as figures of curative intervention.
- The Coin with One Side: Topological Approaches to the Beach Surgery Adaptations ((██), 2018). Uses knot theory and impossible geometry to model how manga, films, and theatre resolve internal contradictions differently yet canonically.
- Language as a Game of Fictions: The Epistemology of Beach Surgery'''' by ██ , University of West Asia (2014). Close reading of the frame narrator's philosophy of truth and linguistic harm.
Symposia
- Unfinished Narratives and the Labyrinth of Adaptation—International Forum for Narrative Studies, Jakarta (2016). Proceedings examine the glitch, the cycle, and why no two adaptations agree on the ending.
- Surgery, Myth, and the Desert: Global and Regional Adaptations—Shanbudia University (2019). Focus on low-budget international productions.