Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has famously observed that man is “essentially a story-telling animal”. There are multiple ways and platforms that people can adopt to tell their stories. However, there is a recent ...

The 2008 financial crisis impacted catastrophically on people’s lives on a global basis, leaving the world population a feeling of shock and non-understanding. British theatre has tried to respond to this phenomenon both ...

The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 have represented a globally traumatic event in contemporary human history. The attacks were not only a severely disruptive experience that profoundly impacted the individuals ...

L'elaborato mira ad analizzare la reazione di Frances Trollope, Harriet Martineau e Charles Dickens a contatto con il paesaggio Americano del fiume Mississippi e delle cascate del Niagara. Essi guardarono l'America da ...

Il mio elaborato finale si concentra sul romanzo “Acceso no autorizado” dell’autrice contemporanea spagnola Belén Gopegui. Una breve introduzione fornirà alcune indicazioni sulle contingenze che hanno condotto alla scelta ...

In this thesis a comparison will be attempted between Waverley and The Portrait of a Lady from the perspective of Bildungsroman. Both Waverley by Sir Walter Scott and and The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James have long ...

This work focuses on providing a corpus-based analysis of a set of American idioms on food. The first part of the work gives the theoretical and methodological background that was used to carry out the subsequent corpus-based ...

La prima produzione letteraria di Chamisso (dalle primissime poesie fino all’opera che lo ha reso celebre, il Peter Schlemihl) è fortemente caratterizzata dalle correnti letterario-filosofiche del suo tempo. Questa ricerca ...

This thesis is a study of Adrienne Rich: American feminist thinker, poet, critic, and public intellectual. It argues that Rich represents an outstanding model of the conjunction of poetic and political discourses in ...

This study explores the importance of memory for African Americans in three major plays by the American playwright August Wilson. Central to Wilson’s theatre is the idea that it is possible to move forward into the future ...