This thesis studies and discusses the controversy concerning the extension of the requirements for the Man Booker Prize, a literary prize established in the United Kingdom that is awarded every year to a novel of fiction ...

This thesis will examine the function of literary techniques in first Falling Man by Don DeLillo (2007) and then The Zero by Jess Walter (2006) and relate it to the classic trauma theory approach by Caruth and contemporary ...

In 1967, the Beatles released their best-selling album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles have been studied in relation to many different topics, but research on the Beatles in relation to national identity ...

Colour-blind casting is becoming more popular in the film industry, but its effect on the representation of people of colour (POC) is still relatively unknown. It is evident that ethnic minorities are heavily under-represented ...

The plot of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic early twentieth-century children’s book series Anne of Green Gables underwent several significant changes in its Netflix adaptation titled Anne with an E, directed by Moira ...

The topic of this thesis is omniscient narration in late-twentieth and twenty-first-century novels. Narration in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughter-House Five, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Ian McEwan’s Atonement have been analysed ...

Little Women (2019) is one adaptation among many popular period dramas that appeared on the screen in the last few years. A common theme within these adaptations is that many have some sense of feminism weaved into the ...

This research will answer the question: in what ways does the poetry written by Francis Ledwidge in the wake of the Easter Rising reflect a changing stance on his role as an Irish soldier in the First World War? Guy Beiner’s ...

The novel Oliver Twist is one of Charles Dickens’ most popular works and has been widely criticised due to the use of anti-Semitism in its plot. This criticism has also transferred to the adaptations that were made of the ...

This thesis will look at the representation of crime in the Sherlock Holmes stories of the nineteenth century, and that in the BBC’s series Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes. The aim is to answer the ...