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Keady, Stephen (Fecha de defensa: 2008-01-18)
My aim is to recreate from the texts and films the world which is shown, and then examine it in order to demonstrate a number of points. I hope to show that there is such a phenomenon as an English ...
Grau Perejoan, Maria (Fecha de defensa: 2015-05-15)
This study revolves around the figure of Caribbean writer Earl Lovelace. The thesis demonstrates that the emphasis on the deterritorialisation of the Caribbean region and the focus on transnationalism ...
Lytle, Cynthia (Fecha de defensa: 2014-12-19)
This dissertation analyzes the fiction of South African author Zoë Wicomb (1948- ) through her two collections of short stories: You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (1987) and The One that Got Away (2008) ...
Meer, Golda Van der (Fecha de defensa: 2021-04-13)
Cuando la naturalidad del territorio ha desaparecido, solo en el poema puede una lengua minoritaria luchar por subsistir. Esta tesis examina cómo los factores históricos pueden modificar la relación con ...
Ortega, Dolors (Fecha de defensa: 2013-01-30)
This thesis aims to problematise the hegemonic set of relations that has been aligned to gender and sex within the framework of binary thought when reading Woolf’s narrative of gender. Woolf’s elusive ...
Haiduc, Sonia Amalia (Fecha de defensa: 2021-03-19)
This thesis examines the sub-genre of the literary biopic and its intersections with literary texts and other film genres through the lens of the melodramatic mode. It explores the dramatization of the ...
López Peña, Laura (Fecha de defensa: 2013-10-18)
This dissertation argues that Herman Melville’s Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) is a universalist poem which analyzes the necessity, political potentiality, and challenges of ...
Armengol Carrera, José María (Fecha de defensa: 2006-06-29)
This thesis attempts to "gender" men by theorizing masculinities in American culture and literature. It tries to demonstrate that (white heterosexual) men, like women, are also gendered beings; that ...
Monforte, Enric (Fecha de defensa: 2000-02-25)
This doctoral dissertation approaches three plays written by British playwright Caryl Churchill (1938- ): <i>Cloud Nine</i> (1979), <i>Top Girls</i> (1982), and <i>Blue Heart</i> (1997). Her plays deal ...
Ribas Segura, Catalina (Fecha de defensa: 2013-12-13)
This thesis presents original research: it examines the constructs of duty and obedience in post-World War II Greek-Australian and Chinese Australian literature and compares the strategies these first- ...