This thesis analyzes three postmodern pieces: “Scarlatti Tilt”, a short story by Richard Brautigan, The Body Artist, a novel by Don DeLillo, and Adaptation, a film by Spike Jonze, with an aim to prove that the structure ...

This thesis explores the possibilities that Deleuzian ethics offers—the investment in the body's capacities to enter affective and transformative relations, thus lead a response(able) life—as they become manifest in two ...

There is a deep lack of attention to the discussions of climate change, both in general and in literature. The scientific data suggests that we are at a point of no return when with global warming and we will face great ...

This M.A. thesis examines Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room, Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms in relation to the possibilities of narrating personal accounts war, with special ...

This M.A thesis studies three contemporary novels, V.S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men, Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and Milan Kundera's Ignorance with regard to their interrogation of nation and identity through their thematization ...

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955) and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (1997) narrate the traumatic effects of societal transgressions, namely pedophilia and incest. The authors distort literary notions of time and ...