This thesis analyses two works by Don DeLillo, his essay titled In The Ruins of the Future (2001), and his novel Falling Man (2007) both of which, although in different ways, deal with the horrifying events that hit the ...

Questa tesi di laurea vuol presentare e discutere alcuni testi di autori in lingua inglese dedicati al Lago di Garda. Gli autori analizzati, che appartengono al diciannovesimo e ventesimo secolo, sono i seguenti: Alfred ...

Feminism has proved to be a resourceful source in the critique of the discourse of ‘identity politics’, which led to much debate. Similarly, blackness has always been a contested ground calling for a unifying definition. ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the emergence of new female characters in English literature during the nineteenth century and how emerging female writers, particularly Elizabeth Gaskell, responded to social ...

The Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie stands out as one of the most important figure in discussing gender within a postcolonial frame, becoming one of the most outspoken feminist writers. As a matter of fact, her ...

The post-colonial theory and critique emerged to reveal the secrets of colonialism. Likewise, post-colonial literature was born to shed light on the realities of the entire colonial process from various perspectives. In ...

The Last Man was published in 1826 and nowadays it is considered the second most famous novel, written by Mary Goldwin Shelley, after Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus published in 1818. Because of its dark features ...

Partendo da un'analisi del postmodernismo, inteso come fenomeno culturale, e della postmodernità, come periodo storico, intendo contestualizzare l'analisi di tre opere di Julian Barnes:"Flaubert's Parrot", "A History of ...

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 ...

La tesi esamina in particolare un libro di condotta scritto da Eliza Haywood intitolato A Present for a Servant-Maid (1743)e dimostra come questo genere della letteratura venga ripreso da questa scrittrice a metà del ...