Browsing Tesi di laurea (dall'anno accademico 2011/2012) by Author "Villari, Enrica"

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  • Anti-heroines in Jane Austen's novels 
    Sancarlo, Gilda <1987> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2012-06-16)
    Analisi dei ruoli e delle funzioni narratologiche svolte dalle antieroine nei romanzi di Jane Austen. In sei capitoli, ognuno dei quali prende in considerazione un singolo romanzo, le anti-eroine vengono presentate ...
  • Community, Religion and Chance: A Thematic Reading of George Eliot's Silas Marner 
    Alaimo, Elisabetta <1989> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016-02-29)
    This dissertation aims at analysing George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861), examining its main themes and how they are addressed in the two spatial settings of the novel, namely the urban Lantern Yard and the rural Raveloe. ...
  • From a Strict Education to the Education of Imagination and Feelings 
    Damiani, Giorgia <1989> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013-10-22)
    The lack of balance between the rational side of human beings and their emotional part is an issue which characterises a considerable part of the British nineteenth-century literature and culture. Both the rise of technology ...
  • George Eliot's "Silas Marner" and Gustave Flaubert's "Un Coeur Simple": a Comparative Study of the Theme of Simplicity 
    Favaretto, Sara <1996> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020-10-26)
    This comparative study aims to investigate the realist theme of simplicity as it is conceived and applied by two well-known nineteenth-century European writers in two illustrative works, namely George Eliot’s "Silas Marner" ...
  • Hellenism, paganism and aestheticism: Arnold’s influences on Hardy’s later novels 
    Grosso, Stefania <1988> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013-10-22)
    The nineteenth century was characterized by important changes in society following the Industrial revolution and in this transformation era great personalities arose from the midst. This dissertation will consider one of ...
  • “Into The Woods”. A Critical Insight Into The Major Themes of Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders. 
    Marchesan, Giulia <1990> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016-02-29)
    This dissertation is formed by four chapters and it aims at providing a critical insight into some of the main themes that characterise Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders (1887). Considering the conflict between Nature and ...
  • "It is too much what I feel": The Roots of Thomas Hardy's Melodramatic Imagination 
    Berno, Giorgia <1993> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017-10-30)
    My dissertation aims to explore how the melodramatic mode influences Thomas Hardy’s representation of human experience in four of his major novels. In particular, this study will be conducted through the perspective ...
  • Maria Edgeworth, Ireland and Castle Rackrent 
    Perin, Lorenza <1992> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016-11-03)
    La tesi analizza alcuni aspetti del romanzo Castle Rackrent facendo dei riferimenti alla storia irelandese durante gli anni precedenti alla pubblicazione del romanzo.
  • "My Romance Has Come to an End": Women and Marriage in Thomas Hardy 
    Bormolini, Sara <1991> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016-06-28)
    Il mio elaborato analizzerà alcuni dei romanzi e delle poesie di Thomas Hardy per esplorare la caratterizzazione della donna in relazione al matrimonio.
  • Nineteenth-century religious Dissent in the Novels by Elizabeth Gaskell & George Eliot 
    Manna, Ilaria <1987> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013-10-22)
    The nineteenth century is a period of transition, of great discoveries and also great contrasts. Strict morality, hypocrisy, charity and compassion are considered to be the pillars of Victorian society. Yet there is also ...
  • Northanger Abbey. An analysis of the novel and novel readers. 
    Garato, Giulia <1996> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020-07-28)
    The aim of this work is to read Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey from different perspectives, indeed the work is divided into three chapters and each one focuses on a different aspect. The first analyses the differences ...
  • Out of the Shadow: Intellectually Ambitious Women in George Eliot's Essays and Fiction 
    Zodiaco, Sandra <1990> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015-03-11)
    My dissertation aims to investigate how the experiences of intellectually ambitious women in mid-Victorian England are reflected in George Eliot’s essays and two main novels "The Mill on the Floss" (1860) and "Romola" ...
  • Pictorial art in the development of the concept of ‘realism’ in George Eliot’s fiction 
    Costa, Maria Chiara <1988> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015-10-28)
    The aim of this thesis is to highlight the importance of pictorial art in the development of the concept of ‘realism’ which is crucial in all Eliot’s fiction, with particular reference to her first and last novel.
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  • Pleasures and Pains of "Going Native" in Rudyard Kipling's Kim and Four Short Stories. 
    Carloni, Marta <1987> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015-03-11)
    This dissertation aims to analyze the myth of “going native” in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and four short stories, namely Miss Youghal’s ‘Sais’, Beyond the Pale, To Be Filed for Reference and The Man Who Would Be King. In the ...
  • Priests, Poets, Criminals, Lunatics: The Detective Fiction in Chesterton's Works 
    Lattanzi, Giulia <1986> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2012-10-19)
    In questa tesi ho analizzato tre raccolte di racconti gialli di Chesterton: The Farther Brown Stories, The Poet and the Lunatics e The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond, i cui protagonisti sono tre straordinari investigatori dilettanti. ...
  • Redgauntlet 
    Anisimova, Viktoriya <1983> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019-03-26)
    Nella mia tesi di laurea andrò ad analizzare uno dei romanzi storici della serie dei Waverly Novels di Sir Walter Scott: Redgauntlet. Sir Walter Scott è ritenuto uno dei padri della cultura scozzese dal momento che le sue ...
  • Redgauntlet, the Strategy of Oppositions, and the Logic of Compromise 
    De Stefano, Giulia <1996> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021-05-14)
    Lo scopo di questa tesi è analizzare Redgauntlet di Sir Walter Scott (1824) in termini di opposizione tra i valori contrastanti che pervadono il romanzo e il loro compromesso. Per esplorare questo tema su diversi livelli, ...
  • Supernatural, Tragic and Comic in Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor 
    Manzato, Anna <1995> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021-07-15)
    English This dissertation investigates Sir Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor and particularly focuses on the coexistence of the supernatural, tragic, and comic dimensions within the novel. After briefly introducing ...
  • Sympathy as Redemption – a Reading of "Middlemarch" 
    Girdescu, Anamaria Gabriela <1990> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019-03-26)
    George Eliot’s "Middlemarch" explores the lives of the middle-class inhabitants of Middlemarch, among whom Dorothea Brooke is singled out at the beginning as a modern “Saint Theresa” as for ambitions and wishes. She is ...
  • Thackeray’s Barry Lyndon: Genesis, Structure, Sources, and the Concept of Anti-Hero in Barry Lyndon. 
    Pisano, Vittoria <1990> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017-03-22)
    Con questa tesi, ‘Thackeray’s Barry Lyndon: Genesis, Structure, Sources, and the Concept of Anti-Hero in Barry Lyndon’, si vuole analizzare l’opera di un grande autore del 1800, William Makepeace Thackeray. Il titolo ...