La tesi propone un’analisi strutturale/narratologica, basata sulle categorie di Genette, di Parade’s End di Ford Madox Ford. I romanzi della tetralogia sono poi trattati in base alle nozioni di Bakhtin di cronotopo e ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to analyse the work of the British writer Zadie Smith, with special regard to her first and most well-known novel, White Teeth, from a realist perspective, in particular considering James ...

This thesis is an analysis of the theme of human happiness in the Sermons written by Archbishop John Tillotson (1630-1694). Tillotson is today considered as one of the most important and influential members of the ...

This thesis focuses on Charlotte Dacre's scandalous novel "Zofloya, or The Moor" (1806) and aims at providing evidence of its embracing both the male/horror and female/terror Gothic traditions. The thesis starts by analysing ...

In the filmic adaptation of Alan Bennett's novel "The Lady in the Van" three different disruptions intervene to translate the creative process the author has experienced. Being present in the literary text as well, a close ...

The origin of English Romanticism coincides with the publication of the Lyrical Ballads of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Ballads are preceded, in the second edition of 1800, by a Preface, which ...

The aim for the composition of this dissertation is thoroughly elaborate the debut book of Fanny Burney entitled Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, which belongs to the eighteenth-century ...

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 ...

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 ...

Questa tesi analizza sette film girati a Londra negli anni ’50 da registi di provenienza straniera. L’italiana Lorenza Mazzetti, l’ungherese Robert Vas, l’egiziana Nazli Nour e l’inglese (ma dai natali indiani) Lindsay ...