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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Letteratura inglese"”.
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La rappresentazione della Grande Guerra nella letteratura inglese contemporanea.
La tesi esamina cinque romanzi storici sulla Grande Guerra pubblicati in Inghilterra tra il 2010 e il 2015: My Dear I Wanted to Tell You e The Heroes' Welcome di Louisa Young, Toby's Room di Pat Barker, The Lie di Helen Dunmore e Field Service di Robert Edric. L'analisi dei romanzi permette di …
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L'a(rche)tipico Brian O'Nolan. Comico e riso dalla tradizione al post-
This study aims at analysing Brian O'Nolans literary production in the light of a reconsideration of the role played by his two most famous pseudonyms ,Flann Brien and Myles na Gopaleen, behind which he was active both as a novelist and as a journalist. We tried to establish a new kind of …
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Reconsidering early modern English spiritual autobiography. Quaker women's self-writings in 17th-century England
This thesis examines the development of Quaker women’s self-representation in autobiographical writing in the early Quaker movement. It investigates the collective and communitarian value of women Friends’ autobiographical writing, as well as the theory that Quaker women authors had created a …
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'LONDON UNDER ATTACK.' ANARCHIA E IMMAGINARIO URBANO.
“London under attack. Anarchia e immaginario urbano” aims at detecting the characterisation of both terrorist violence and anarchy during London fin de siècle. Opening up to contemporary cultural representations in a post 9/11 age, this PhD dissertation tackles anarchic narrations like The Secret …
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DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES: MEDICAL DIATRIBES IN EARLY MODERN DRAMA
Health, sickness, and death have always been concerns deeply embedded in society. Even more so in early modern England, at a time when people saw physicians as suspicious and vice-ridden individuals, medicine could easily turn into something grotesque, and kitchen physics was one step away from …
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An Ecoritical Approach to Chaucer. Representations of the Natural World in the English Literature of the Middle Ages
Starting from an introduction on ecocriticism the work traces the development of the idea and the representations of nature in the ancient world which so much influenced the Middle Ages; it focuses on the English world by offering an interpretation of the natural world in Beowulf, and draws …
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PRIVILEGE LOST: THE COUNTRY HOUSE, ARISTOCRACY AND ENGLISHNESS IN NANCY MITFORD'S NOVELS
This thesis explores the connections between Englishness and the English aristocracy in Nancy Mitford’s novels through a detailed analysis of their symbolic-cultural representation: the English country house. The main purpose of the present work, which combines literary, biographical, historical, …
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The only truly alien planet is earth: J. G. Ballard, dalla fantascienza al mainstream tra romanticismo e surrealismo
As an author J. G. Ballard used to deal with different genres and topics, producing several short stories and a number of novels. Yet he has always been true to himself. He started as a science fiction writer, which in a sense he was until the end. With some occasional romantic references, over the …
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Letteratura e identità irlandese nell'opera di Bram Stoker
This research project stems from two different sources: an interest in the connection between literature and identity (both personal and national) and an interest in the recent desire of reappropriating Bram Stoker as an Irish author that can be noticed both in academia and in the wider public. In …