Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has famously observed that man is “essentially a story-telling animal”. There are multiple ways and platforms that people can adopt to tell their stories. However, there is a recent ...

The 2008 financial crisis impacted catastrophically on people’s lives on a global basis, leaving the world population a feeling of shock and non-understanding. British theatre has tried to respond to this phenomenon both ...

The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 have represented a globally traumatic event in contemporary human history. The attacks were not only a severely disruptive experience that profoundly impacted the individuals ...

La tesi vuole proporre uno sguardo sull'utilizzo, da parte della storiografia umanistica, di cronache medievali come fonti storiche. In particolare viene analizzato il caso dell’Historia Bohemica (1458) di Enea Silvio ...

The present study aims to shed some light on how the main stakeholders of EMI (lecturers and students) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice perceive their role within the recent trend of offering courses in English at ...

Il contenuto della presente tesi tratta degli adattamenti cinematografici dell'opera letteraria di Gogol "Le anime morte", dagli albori del cinema russo fino ai nostri giorni. In particolare vengono analizzati quattro ...

In this thesis a comparison will be attempted between Waverley and The Portrait of a Lady from the perspective of Bildungsroman. Both Waverley by Sir Walter Scott and and The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James have long ...

This work focuses on providing a corpus-based analysis of a set of American idioms on food. The first part of the work gives the theoretical and methodological background that was used to carry out the subsequent corpus-based ...

La prima produzione letteraria di Chamisso (dalle primissime poesie fino all’opera che lo ha reso celebre, il Peter Schlemihl) è fortemente caratterizzata dalle correnti letterario-filosofiche del suo tempo. Questa ricerca ...

This thesis is a study of Adrienne Rich: American feminist thinker, poet, critic, and public intellectual. It argues that Rich represents an outstanding model of the conjunction of poetic and political discourses in ...