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From silence to recognition: giving voice to minority girls in Rita Williams-Garcia's “One crazy summer” (2010) and Cynthia Kadohata's “The thing about luck” (2013)
(2020-11-20)
It is widely known that the United States is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. Some researchers assure that the several settlements and the massive immigration to the country have contributed to ...
"The tale of Cupid and Psyches" and "Till we Have Faces": the attainment of self-worth via femininity and masculinity.
(2020-12-21)
The Apuleian myth of Cupid and Psyche has long been a source of inspiration in art
and literature. This motivation might be derived either from its spiritual and
philosophical wisdom or from the love of mythology; being ...
The sins of the parents: an analysis of german trauma and memory after WWII in Bernhard Schlink's novel "The Reader"
(2020-12-21)
The Second War World had a huge impact on German society and left its trace in the cultural history of the country. For this reason, we can find many movies and literature based on the war but also on the years following ...
The Importance of Storytelling for Children and Adults Alike: Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan
(2018-12-04)
Since the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Peter Pan (1904), much has been studied and said about these two stories and their authors Lewis Carroll and J. M. Barrie, respectively. They have ...
The Victorian Education through the Eyes of Charles Kingsley and Lewis Carroll in The Water Babies and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(2020-05-25)
Ever since the appearance of The Water Babies (1963) and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) children’s fantasy books started to be praised for their ability to distance themselves from reality. England’s youngest ...
The dehumanisation of totalitarianism: George Orwell’s "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and the Spanish Civil War and Francoism
(2020-11-24)
The phenomenon of dehumanisation has been present throughout the history of humankind, being totalitarianism the principal instigator. Processes of dehumanisation are adaptive and stand out from the times of slave-trading ...
George MacDonald's Personal Theology in At the Back of the North Wind
(2017-11-21)
Personal belief systems have always influenced the creation of literary works; such theological principles worm their way into stories and depict the author’s convictions. Nineteenth-century author George MacDonald’s ...
The contested tombs: an ecofeminist analysis of Ursula K. Le Guin’s character Tenar
(2020-11-24)
The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin is frequently mentioned in discussions of fantasy literature, not only for the relevance it has narratively and as a saga, but also because thematically it deals with topics inherent ...
"As remorseless as Nature": victorian sublime in Dr Moreau's fin de siècle-manifestation of the mad scientist
(2020-11-24)
This dissertation discusses H. G. Wells’ Island of Doctor Moreau from a Romantic perspective, arguing that the novel’s antagonist Doctor Moreau fails in transforming animals into human beings through the practice of ...
Technology, Power and Ignorance: The sources of corruption in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
(2018-12-04)
Since the first Industrial Revolution and up to our current days, there has been an exponential growth in the power of technology over nature and over humanity. Simultaneously, the concern about the negative impact that ...