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 thesis analyses Margaret Atwood's renowned "The Handmaid's Tale", showing how the author, through the depiction of a dystopic future world, deals with significant 20th-century issues, such as environmental pollution, ...

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 ...

Pubblicato nel 1997, "Underworld" è considerato il capolavoro di Don DeLillo. Di certo è la sua opera più complessa ed impegnativa. Solo un'analisi serrata può dissotterrare la miriade di temi e simboli, nonché seguire le ...

Gli Stati Uniti sono stati a lungo caratterizzati da una forte divisione razziale, secondo la quale i bianchi erano superiori ai non-bianchi. Per questo motivo, molti neri dalla pelle chiara hanno praticato il ‘passing’, ...

This thesis is an analyses of the book by Jamaica Kincaid entitled A Small Place. Although this book has spurred some controversies because of its critical tone,I argue that it is in fact a very important book for literature. ...

Il lavoro proposto consiste in un'edizione del testo "A narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's Captivity", pubblicato a Philadelphia nel 1779. L'edizione consisterà in un'introduzione che introduca l'opera ed il tipo di analisi ...

This work argues that the cognitive theoretical approach called enactivism is the most functional to interpret contemporary YA speculative fiction. J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter saga, Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments ...

Translation of a selection of chapters taken from Meena Alexander's novel "The shock of Arrival". Brief introduction on the writer and her background, description of the major themes she touches in her work, translation ...

My final dissertation puts into dialogue two novels, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, focusing on their way of addressing the topics of self-identity and relationship with society in ...