Nella sua parziale autobiografia A Different Person, James Merrill afferma che per scrivere poesie non serva conoscere “ciò che gli uomini attraversano”, perché metrica, rime e frasi azzeccate suppliscono alla mancanza di ...

The objective of this thesis is to analyse the female heroines present in three of Jane Austen’s novels: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1815) and determine whether they are revolutionary ...

This dissertation aims at examing Jane Campion's “The Piano” as one of the few films directed by a woman to achieve critical and financial success. It will demonstrate that the film is inspired by Gothic Romantic writing ...

It is hard, in this day and age, to imagine a time in which television and the internet di not exixst; a time in which the only way to "see" a story was to attend a play, instead of having a barrage of images flung our ...

This thesis delves into how contemporary biopics illuminate the profound contributions of black jazz musicians, specifically Bessie Smith and Miles Davis, to American society. By examining their lives and artistic endeavors ...

The following dissertation aims to analyse the contemporary author Jhumpa Lahiri. I will introduce a discussion to define an appropriate framework to place the author in the literary field. The first chapter opens the ...

Most of the critical work regarding Joan Didion revolves around the themes of loss and death and her personal reporting of major events in U.S. history and society since the 1960s. However, little has been said regarding ...

Among the many writers and poets of Romanticism, John Keats got out of the way and gained an important position, even though he lived only twenty-five years: his inheritance is anyway copious and irreplaceable. He got ...

La tesi analizza il romanzo Uncle Silas dello scrittore irlandese Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Il primo capitolo fornisce una panoramica della vita e delle opere dell'autore, focalizzandosi sulle sue opere più note. Il secondo ...