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The r/evolution of the Victorian femme fatale
(2016)
The focus of this thesis is to examine the construction of femme fatale representations of nineteenth century England, particularly in mid- Victorian to fin-de-siècle art and literature, thus tracing radical and significant ...
“It was all a matter of hints and shades”: Reconceptualizing Virginia Woolf’s Flush
(2013)
This thesis aims to reconceptualize Virginia Woolf’s 1933 novel Flush: A Biography. The novel has been largely ignored by the intelligentsia due to its subject matter: a dog. Although various critics have attempted ...
Fearful narrator: A look at problems of reliability in the storytelling within Moby Dick and At The Mountains of Madness upon the emergence of the supernatural
(2012)
This thesis explores the elements of fear and the supernatural as seen through the lens of narrative and psychoanalytical theory focusing on the novels Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and Howard Philips Lovecraft’s At The ...
Charting the route: From gothic to magic realism
(2003)
Gothic fiction is one of the most interesting and influential forms of literature. Its scope has reached many genres, periods and epochs, and it has engendered numerous offspring since its origin. One of its most famous ...
Materializing the specter: The scapegoat and the Victorian bildungsroman
(2011)
This thesis will explore and scrutinize the literary genre of the formation novel or novel of education, formally known as the Bildungsroman, in order to develop a solid yet encompassing comprehension of this somewhat ...
Cleverly voiced: The narrators’ uncommon perceptions and depictions of the bad woman in Middlemarch and Vanity Fair
(2011)
This thesis explores the way in which William Makepeace Thackeray‘s Vanity Fair and George Eliot‘s Middlemarch present a different point of view towards their “bad” women than the one usually expected in the Victorian ...
Re-creating the text: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and its film adaptations
(2009)
Film adaptation is a relatively new and popular form of studying texts, which is
very important to our society because of the effect that adaptation has on it. The
differences between the “original” text and adaptation ...
Life of Pi and the oceanic sublime
(2020-05-26)
This thesis situates Yann Martel’s Life of Pi within the area of sea studies, analyzing the novel at the intersection of ecocritical ethics, social histories at sea, shipwreck allusions in literary texts, and the burgeoning ...