Starting from the initial idea that beauty trends change continuously, this study will attempt to explore the relationships between identity, age, race, beauty and sexuality. Since colonial times until the present day, ...

La tesi tratterà dell'infanzia nel periodo Vittoriano, prenderà in cosiderazione il ruolo del bambino in particolare nei lavori di Charles Dickens

It has been said that throughout history, fiction has always responded to wars, crises and calamities. This is only natural bearing in mind that narratives have been said to help deal with threats by making them understandable ...

Libertines’ behaviour does not go unnoticed at Charles II’s licentious court. Social figures of the Restoration age, libertines have a strong Hobbist sense of self-preservation which mingles with an inclination towards the ...

“Writing is le vrai for me. That’s what I conclude!” Philip Roth writes in his notes for The Facts. Since the beginning of his career, Philip Roth has explored how the professional fiction writer makes sense of reality ...

My final thesis is an analysis of the phenomenon of self-translation. In particular, it is focused on Pier Maria Pasinetti’s work. He was born and grew up in Venice, where his father was a physician and his mother belonged ...

This thesis is aimed at analyzing ‘Strong Black Lead’ movement, a Netflix content production project started in 2018, as a form of Black Activism and resistance on screen. This visual activism is examined through its main ...

La presente tesi è incentrata sul tema della femminilità nell’American Trilogy di Philip Roth. L'introduzione cerca di illustrare il modo in cui Roth mette in discussione le identità femminili come parte di cambiamenti ...

La tesi si pone l'obiettivo di analizzare la tragedia "Othello" di William Shakespeare, comparandola con alcuni adattamenti. Partendo dall'analisi dell'opera shakespeariana e analizzandone soprattutto l'aspetto linguistico, ...

In one of her many interviews, Margaret Attwood states that in writing "The Handmaid’s Tale", she was inspired by Orwell’s dystopia par excellence, "1984". It is not so easy, however, to insert the novel in a specific ...