This thesis deals with some of Allen Ginsberg's most important poems as expressions of his political thought. I have wanted to explore Ginsberg's political commitment as expressed in his poetry, since it is already well ...

The thesis aims to explore the plotting of six mystery- and crime-thrillers. The texts I have chosen are classics from an increasingly prestigious era of our modern narrative history; the novels are hardboiled and the ...

Dialogues with the Past: Vision, Voice and Writing in Lady Mary Wroht s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621) is an analysis of the first published sonnet sequence by an Englishwoman. In this thesis I stage feminist theory of ...

In this thesis I have studied, through textual analysis, several ways in which the Canadian author Margaret Atwood experiments with the short story form. The approaches I have chosen are, firstly, to analyse some of her ...

On 28 March 1979 the House of Commons passed a Motion of No Confidence in the Government. It was the first (and only) time since 1924 that a British government had lost such a motion. The result of the following election ...

Fantastic fiction as a popular literary genre has a wide audience, and has become popular especially since the 1970s as a vehicle for feminist social criticism. Fantastic fiction is often viewed as escapist literature ...

Summary This study explores how the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 1996, filmed by David Fincher in 1999, treats the themes of identity and religion in an American postmodern cultural context. Fight ...

Summary/Abstract The subject of this thesis is fin de siècle Gothic fiction, more specifically an analysis of issues relating to gender roles and sexuality in this literature. In particular, the thesis focuses on Gothic ...

Abstract: The main purpose of this thesis is to explore McCarthyism and its legitimacy.This paper will particularly look at the legitimacy of the HUAC investigations, of the loyalty-security programs, and of the FBI ...

The thesis is about texts of travel produced by Americans in the Victorian period. Bayard Taylor wrote travel books where he supposedly reported the facts of his journeys in Africa and the Mediterranean countries. Charles ...