Questo studio indaga il piacere che i lettori ricavano dalla letteratura disturbante. La domanda: “Perché proviamo piacere quando leggiamo?” introduce il background teorico della successiva analisi, che mira a rispondere ...

Is it possible to feel empathy for a murderous religious maniac? The answer may not be as simple as it seems. James Hogg’s "The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner" has been puzzling the general public ...

This thesis discusses questions of sexual identity and female empowerment in fan fiction. Fan fiction is created by the fans of a source narrative to expand on the original material and resolve its shortcomings. Because ...

The turn of the eighteenth century was a time in which science and literature were not as diametrically distinct as they are today. What has been labelled the 'heroic age of science' witnessed extraordinary advancements ...

The aim of this study is to identify the characteristics of William Somerset Maugham’s narrative style, and it is especially concerned with the implications of the narratorial point of view. It proposes a close reading of ...

In "The History of Sexuality", Michel Foucault claimed that the category of the homosexual emerged towards the end of the nineteenth century and came to define a type of personality through the proliferation of medical, ...

Clara Reeve, born on 23 January 1729, was an author who is usually remembered in connection with Walpole's The Castle of Otranto. Nevertheless, Reeve's particular relationship with Gothic literature influenced this literary ...

Lo studio della letteratura è strettamente legato allo studio del funzionamento del cervello umano dato che non può esserci creazione letteraria senza una mente che, attraverso il potente strumento dell'immaginazione ...

The reasons which led the study of bodily deformed people lie on the fascination of the relationship established between ‘normal’ people and freaks. The term ‘freak’, short for freak of nature, has commonly been applied ...