This dissertation aims at providing readers of Nabokov's fiction with a better awareness towards his works and the way they playfully engage with concepts such as culture, national representation, and identity, especially ...

This dissertation aims to analyse works of English literature revolving around the figure of the anti-hero. I argue that this type of character is generally future-oriented, contrary to what others have claimed. Anti-heroes ...

La pazzia e il genere sono due fenomeni che corrono paralleli nella letteratura. La raffigurazione di donne pazze, che invece di sopravvivere dovrebbero essere inserite nei manicomi più riprovevoli solo per il loro genere ...

Possiamo considerare il movimento e le dinamiche spaziali come un elemento distintivo della letteratura americana e francese? Il rapporto di ciascun paese con il movimento è una costante culturale? Mentre i francesi sono ...

Since its formulation by Stefano Ercolino, the concept of negative empathy as a form of high-level empathy consisting of a cathartic identification with negative characters is receiving increasing attention in academic ...

This thesis examines the characters of notable works of science fiction such as The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, Dune by Frank Herbert and Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell in order to investigate their ‘human-yet-not’ nature ...

The present thesis majorly argues for a re-interpretation of metafictional narratives of traumatic experiences approached through Affect Studies and its innovative theories having largely contributed to literary critique ...

This paper discusses the readers' empathetic engagement with postmodernist fictional characters, focusing on "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" by Moshin Hamid. Specifically, it first introduces postmodernism as a "contradictory" ...