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 purpose of this research is to analyze varied representations of the figure of the witch through television series and the implication these representations have within the field of feminist studies. For this investigation, ...

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 ...

This thesis focuses on the representation of the monstrous in Female Gothic literature of the late 18th Century and early 19th Century. The focus of this research is on three novels: The Italian by Ann Radcliffe, Zofloya ...

Persephone's abduction and descent to the Underworld is certainly a tragedy. However, this event impulses her to become queen of her own hell, turning the situation in her favor. In a similar way, contemporary popular ...

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 ...

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 ...

This thesis examines the relationship between transgressive texts–traditionally defined as those that aim to challenge and possibly subvert the artistic, social, or political traditions of a culture—and their acceptance ...

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 ...

During the second half of the twentieth century, scholars and literary critics have tried to escape master narratives, the epic stories of European supremacy, set in place by historicists like Leopold von Ranke. The most ...