My thesis analyzes the first silent movie inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1912 eponymous book, pointing out the differences between film and novel and between this and later adaptations.

My thesis explores the figure of the black physician in a series of African American literary works published between the 1890s and the early 1930s, a period marked by the rise of a middle-class profession among African ...

John Updike belongs to the post-war generation of contemporary American writers, whose work was largely determined by the philosophical direction and the aesthetic level of the contemporary literary process in the United ...

The readings and critical interpretations of Moby-Dick have been prolific and varied. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries the role of whales and nonhuman animals has been re-thought and has started to be seen as ...

My thesis deals with the fictional representation of the Spanish Influenza pandemic in the US literature. After illustrating the impact of that pandemic on American culture, as provided by history books, I will take into ...

Questa tesi ha lo scopo di analizzare la figura del flaneur Americano e la sua evoluzione nella città di New York. Inizieremo concentrandoci sul concetto di camminare urbano. Procederemo analizzando poi l'origine del flaneur ...