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Christopher Marlowe’s Faustian codes in Eighteenth-century Gothic literature
(2019-05-14)
This thesis explores Renaissance Faustian codes seen in the eighteenth-century Gothic novel using selected works of three writers of the Gothic Revival. I argue that by looking at William Beckford’s Vathek, Matthew G. ...
The ripple effect: mirror images of Helen of Troy
(2012)
This thesis explores the concept of the uncanny as presented in three female characters that
mirror Helen of Troy, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Criseyde from Troilus and Criseyde, William
Shakespeare’s Cressida from the play Troilus ...
Finding the path: The library as labyrinth in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose
(2019-05-13)
This thesis focuses on the labyrinth found within the library in the award-winning novel by Italian author Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose. This research explores how the library labyrinth represents a postmodern embodiment ...
Altered images: The agency of the gaze in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde
(2016)
In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde the protagonists experience the process of falling in and out of love in very different ways. The poem is shaped through the agency of the gaze that transforms the developing ...
A walk through the standing stones: The historical novel, gender and the supernatural in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander.
(2019-05-13)
Traditionally, historical/fantasy novels perpetuate stereotypical narratives; said works are situated in the past and provide some historical background, though unfortunately history is often sacrificed in the quest for ...