De Bortol, Giulia <1984>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013-02-21)
Introduzione e ricezione critica dello scrittore A. I. Kuprin nell'ambito del realismo russo del primo Novecento. Analisi testuale dell'opera "Il Duello"; confronto della stessa opera con "Il Deserto dei Tartari" di D. ...
Schiavon, Paolo <1998>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2023-06-01)
This thesis will talk about the relationship between science fiction and colonialism. Starting from examples from our colonial past I will discuss the outcomes that those episodes have created nowadays in our society. ...
Scaggiante, Elena <1999>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2023-10-20)
Lo scopo di questa tesi è quello di analizzare la rappresentazione dei personaggi femminili negli adattamenti cinematografici di opere letterarie in chiave diacronica, confrontando il testo originale con il rispettivo ...
Reja, Marta <1996>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022-03-18)
La presente tesi si pone l’obiettivo di approfondire l’opera più nota della scrittrice russa, Sovremennyj Paterik (2004), proponendone la traduzione e il commento di alcuni cicli. Al fine di una migliore comprensione del ...
Bonazza, Laryssa <1997>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022-03-23)
This body of work attempts to interpret Sylvia Plath’s and Ted Hughes’ literary career from a point of view that extricates itself from the standard discourses surrounding their private lives, discourses that often distort ...
Negrisolo, Letizia <1994>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018-07-10)
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.
Galzignato, Marco <1991>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018-07-10)
My thesis is an attempt to analyze the contemporary developments of utopian criticism by investigating how Eggers’ The Circle, Ted Chiang's Liking What You See: A Documentary and the critically acclaimed TV series Black ...
Ribon, Riccardo <1995>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020-03-18)
The following work deals with the representation of the 1980s AIDS crisis in 21st century American cinema. Chapter 1 introduces the concept of “stigma” as theorized by Susan Sontag in AIDS and Its metaphors (1989). Stigma ...
Papa, Alessia <1998>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2024-03-04)
The main purpose of my thesis is the analysis of the aesthetics of petroleum, namely the ways in which petroleum is represented in different artistic forms.
The work is divided into four chapters. The first chapter defines ...
Augello, Giulia <1999>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2024-03-28)
In her works, the American poet A. E. Stallings avails herself of classical mythology to discuss contemporary topics and issues, establishing an interesting mixture of antiquity and modernity. Her poems are rich in allusions ...
Gurbanova, Sabina <1996>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021-05-13)
Theatricals and Theatricality in Jane Austen’s “Mansfield Park”
Abstract
“Mansfield Park” is one of the Jane Austen’s novel that deals most directly with theatrical subjects. Themes in the novel are strongly connected with ...
Messano, Miriam <1997>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022-03-23)
This thesis examines how Raymond Chandler’s first noir fiction changed the common conception that all crime novels are the same. The first chapter focuses on the author’s life, providing the background to his creation of ...
Lukic, Jelena <1997>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2023-10-24)
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the impact bilingual’s languages have on expressing emotions. Studies over the past two decades have provided important information on the factors that could influence ...
Arman, Laura <1975>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2024-03-04)
This dissertation is conceived as a journey of exploration of the black female body under slavery and its aftermath, in 19th and 20th-century America. At the center is the black enslaved woman; she was transformed into ...
Schiesaro, Maria <1996>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021-07-12)
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 ...
Marinaro, Martina <1994>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021-10-18)
Toni Morrison was an African American writer who dedicated her works to the Black community experience with a special focus on family issues, womanhood and motherhood, and the legacy of the ancestors. This dissertation ...
Burgess, Claire Reilly <1990>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019-07-08)
This Joint Degree thesis will pull largely from William Blake’s major poems and visual art between America, A Prophecy (1793) and Jerusalem (1820) in order to contribute to a dimension of the discussion of Blake’s later ...
Moracas, Emanuela <1984>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020-03-18)
the work is An analysis of Arthur Miller' s the crucible examining the the themes, the characters, the language of a play that since its opening never stop to exerts its charm.
Fiorani, Giulia <1998>(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2023-03-13)
The American Constitution established a federal democratic republic system of governance linked to an indivisible union of fifty independent States. Because each State regulates the education system, each one has its own ...