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Facing her fears: Analyzing monsters in the early Female Gothic
(2020-11-04)
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 ...
Canons of transgression: Shock, scandal, and subversion from Matthew Lewis' The Monk to Bret Ellis' American Psycho
(2004)
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 ...
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. ...
Magical sexualities: Witchcraft in film and television
(2020-04-17)
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, ...
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 ...
The daughters of Persephone: Defilement as a rite of passage in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire
(2021-05-13)
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 ...
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 ...
“A history of possibilities”: The use of history in the interpretation of William Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy
(2006)
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 ...