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Death, Nature and Society in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
(2021)
[Abstract] In this BA thesis I proceed to the revision of the imagery in The Waste Land (1922) through the intertextual analysis of the modernist imagery present in T.S Eliot's poem and the novel The Great Gatsby by F.S ...
Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer: a Gothic Labyrinth of Tales
(2021)
[Abstract] In this dissertation I have conducted the analysis of the Gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer by Irish author Charles Robert Maturin. I intended to demonstrate the competences and abilities acquired in the Grao ...
The sociolinguistics of language variation:the dialect of the city of Birmingham
(2021)
[Abstract] Language variation can be considered a representation of not only the linguistic reality of a community, but the development of socio-economic changes within a given society. These processes implement profound ...
A Postcolonial Study of Aboriginal Identity in Tara June Winch’s The Yield
(2021)
[Abstract] This study aspires to explore the issue of Aboriginal identity in Tara June Winch’s novel The Yield (2019) from a postcolonial point of view. In order to fulfill this main goal, I will focus on four major aspects ...
Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself: A Feminist and Gender Studies Approach
(2023)
[Abstract] The object of study of this BA thesis is Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Girl, Written by Herself, published in 1861. My aim is to demonstrate that, apart from race,
gender conforms a crucial ...
Regency Romances over Time: A Comparison between Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton: The Duke and I and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility.
(2023)
[Abstract] This present study intends to demonstrate the evolution of novels set in the
Regency period but written in the twenty-first century through the comparison of the
novel Bridgerton: The Duke and I by the American ...
“Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?” The Motif of the Wolf in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber
(2023)
[Abstract] The object of study of this end-of-degree project is the wolf trilogy of Angela Carter’s
The Bloody Chamber, written in 1979. The aims that I will pursue are two: to analyse the figure
of the wolf in this work, ...
The role of the written press in the construction of division in Northern Ireland
(2023)
[Abstract] This research examines the role played by the print media in the construction of social division in
Northern Ireland during the years of the events known as the Troubles, a dark period in Irish
history that ...
Zelda Fitzgerald: Flapper and Writer
(2014)
[Abstract] Zelda Fitzgerald has ramained under Scott's shadow for too long and this is one of the reasons why I try to show she deserves literary recognition. Contrary to what some critics think, she is the author of decent ...
The Hidden Figures of the Scottish Literary Renaissance: Willa Muir
(2022)
[Abstract] The objective of this paper is the analysis of Willa Muir as a Scottish woman and as a
writer, and how she is framed within the Scottish Literary Renaissance, which was a
progressive tendency that reached ...