Nature has been always a focus point for writers and poets. However, human beings have acted as the pivotal enemy of nature throughout history. Nature is as vital as fresh water and good bread. =The Unforeseen Wilderness ...

It has been said that throughout history, fiction has always responded to wars, crises and calamities. This is only natural bearing in mind that narratives have been said to help deal with threats by making them understandable ...

North American nature writers often ground their environmental thought on the assumption that Western civilization constitutes a means through which human beings have detached themselves from more natural ways of living. ...

This thesis explores the various stays of James Baldwin in Switzerland, and the influence they had on his life in the personal, social and literary spheres. Over the years, critics have extensively tackled Baldwin’s foreign ...

The main purpose of this work is to try to cast a new light on one of the most singular, yet neglected, Second World War poetry collections in American Literature. Created by the brilliant mind of the ballet impresario and ...

The Pre-Code era is a misnomer that refers to a four-year period in which the Hollywood motion picture industry formally decided to abide by a self-regulatory code concerning film content, the Production Code, from 1930 ...

My thesis will be divided into 4 chapters: Chapter 1: Translation from English to Italian of the first 4 chapters of the book Infants of The Spring by Wallace Thurman. These chapters are introduced by some personal ...

This thesis examines how Raymond Chandler’s first noir fiction changed the common conception that all crime novels are the same. The first chapter focuses on the author’s life, providing the background to his creation of ...

This dissertation aims to show how an author like Howard Philips Lovecraft, who can certainly be defined as belonging to the trend of gothic and weird tales, inserts the Faustian figure in his works. First, this work will ...