Browsing Tesi di laurea (dall'anno accademico 2011/2012) by MIUR Discipline "L-LIN/11 LINGUE E LETTERATURE ANGLO-AMERICANE"

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  • Femininity in Philip Roth's American Trilogy 
    Scordari, Giulia <1992> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019-03-22)
    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 ...
  • Film Narratives and Their Adaptation, Psycho: A Case of Study 
    Gnes, Valentina <1993> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018-03-07)
    In 1878, even though there wasn’t a definition for it yet, the concept of cinema appeared for the first time with the motion picture entitled The Horse in Motion. Ten years later, in 1888, the Roundhay Garden Scene was ...
  • Four Representations of Othello 
    Redi, Marta <1988> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013-02-27)
    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, ...
  • From Drifting Grounds: Revisiting the Human/Nature Relationship in Gary Snyder and Elizabeth Bishop 
    Aldrighetti, Jacopo <1996> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022-07-15)
    North American nature writers often ground their environmental thought on the assumption that Western civilization constitutes a means through which human beings have detached themselves from more natural ways of living. ...
  • From Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid’s Tale" to "The Testaments": a story and its generic inflections 
    Saretta, Maria <1995> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020-03-18)
    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 ...
  • Hamlet's Phantom in the Arab World 
    Al Amine, Nour <1992> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022-06-07)
    In this paper, we will be providing an overview of Shakespeare's Hamlet presence in the Arab world. The paper provides a brief overview of Arab theater formation and establishment. It provides an understanding of Arabs' ...
  • Hard Times: an ecocritical reading 
    Ballarin, Isabella <1995> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020-03-23)
    The present study is concerned with the environmental and cultural change that occurred in Victorian London as a consequence of the Industrial Revolution, which has altered the relationship between humans and their ecosystem ...
  • Harper's Bazaar's Representation of American Style in the 1950s. 
    Bertazzo, Mariachiara <1994> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018-10-23)
    "Harper’s Bazaar’s Representation of American Style in the 1950s.” This is the title of my thesis, and it perfectly summarizes its content. Harper’s Bazaar – the oldest of all American fashion magazines acts as a ...
  • Hollywood and Indiewood’s War on Terror: George W. Bush and American exceptionalism in war cinema 
    Riedi, Federica <1990> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020-11-10)
    American exceptionalism is an expression that refers to a multitude of ideas revolving around the belief Americans have of themselves as a nation apart from and above others, different from the Old World, and with a special ...
  • “Home as it was or home as it should have been”: Constitutional rights in Octavia Butler's not so fictional world 
    Milanese, Elena <1995> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019-10-28)
    Attraverso una lettura volta all'individuazione dei legami tra i temi cari a Octavia Butler e i diritti umani fondamentali espressi nella costituzione americana, in questa tesi cercherò di rispondere alle domande: perché ...
  • HOODED ROLE PLAYERS: Humor, Racism, and Representation of the Ku Klux Klan in US Culture 
    Gatto, Francesco <1993> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019-07-11)
    “BLACKkKLANSAM”, il nuovo film di Spike Lee, ha gettato una luce ironica sul Ku Klux Klan, riuscendo a ridicolizzare le idee e le convinzioni sulle quali il Klan si fonda, definendo gli affiliati al clan come persone rozze ...
  • Hyphenated identities in Mordecai Richler's Novels 
    Galvani, Viola <1989> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013-10-29)
    Despite many traditional aspects in Mordecai Richler’s novels, mostly concerning form and structure, his protagonists are expressions of a determined place and time, notably post II-World-War Montreal, and they well embody ...
  • Identifying stasis in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest 
    Budicin, Stefano <1992> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018-03-05)
    The present study aims to investigate the theme of stasis as addressed by David Foster Wallace in his massive novel Infinite Jest. Nearly all the critical readings of the novel have always hinted at the theme of stasis ...
  • I'm more than a piece in their Games Contemporary American Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults 
    Miotto, Isabel <1985> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013-02-11)
    Nel corso della tesi si intendono analizzare gli aspetti che delineano la narrativa distopica per giovani adulti come sottogenere della narrativa distopica generica.
  • L'intercomprensione tra lingue di diverso ceppo linguistico: il russo e l'italiano. 
    Quaranta, Gaia <1998> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2023-10-19)
    Il presente elaborato è basato sul metodo sperimentale, il quale include la conduzione di un esperimento concernente l’intercomprensione di due lingue appartenenti a famiglie linguistiche differenti, quali la lingua italiana ...
  • Investigating Blackness in the United States through the works of Ta-Nehisi Coates 
    Levorato, Irene <1995> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021-10-18)
    Abstract: My final dissertation takes into exam the challenges of being black in the United States, as they are narrated in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s work. The thesis is divided into three chapters, each one focusing on a book ...
  • James Baldwin in Switzerland: Life, Works and Legacy 
    Ferraro, Mattia <1998> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2023-03-10)
    This thesis explores the various stays of James Baldwin in Switzerland, and the influence they had on his life in the personal, social and literary spheres. Over the years, critics have extensively tackled Baldwin’s foreign ...
  • Jennifer Egan's Storyworlds: An Exploration along Organic Lines 
    Mazzon, Anna <1994> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018-07-11)
    This dissertation focuses on four novels by contemporary American writer Jennifer Egan, namely Invisible Circus (1995), Look at Me (2001), A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010), and Manhattan Beach (2017). The main purpose ...
  • John Keene's Counternarratives: An Act of Narrative Power 
    Silvestrini, Giovanni <1997> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021-10-18)
    This thesis analyzes the contemporary African-American author John Keene's collection of short stories "Counternarratives". among the many themes keene's represents, this dissertation focuses on the issues of personal/group ...
  • John Muir, a Saunterer in the Woods 
    Coppo, Diana <1973> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2012-06-20)