In this thesis, Kenneth Branagh’s film adaptation Murder on the Orient Express (2017) will be analysed to see how it deviates from Agatha Christie’s novel. This thesis aims to provide an answer to the question of how Kenneth ...

This thesis reads and analyses Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith (2002) and Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White (2003) in the light of its portrayals of contemporary anxieties. A specific 21st century anxiety which is ...

This thesis researches the professional reception of graphic novels and uses Bourdieu’s field theory to determine whether the graphic novel’s position in the literary field has changed since the 1980s, when the term “graphic ...

This research will deal with newspapers and their columns on Brexit from January 2015 up till December 2016. The newspapers that will be discussed are The Guardian and The Daily Mail and their columnists John Crace and ...

Reviews of various contemporary British novels contain distinctive characteristics associated with modernism as well as direct references to the literary movement or the historical period. The reception of Ali Smith’s two ...

The research answers the question: In what way are the issues of race and gender represented in three Harry Potter novels and three Narnia novels, and to what extent are these representations essential to the film adaptations? ...

This thesis is a contribution to the discussion of one of the key figures in the study of fairy tales: Vladimir Propp and his work Morphology of the Folktale. His framework is based around 31 functions which, he claims, ...

This research is about the adaptation process in new media. It will look at the YouTube series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries in comparison to the “Hollywood” version Pride & Prejudice (2005) by Joe Wright. This thesis will ...

The Victorian period can be marked as an era of historical, economic and social change. Due to industrialization, colonisation and urbanization, society changed, and there was the feeling of a loss of identity. New scientific ...

This thesis examines the fictionalisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, and the Brontë sisters as detectives in six biofiction novels in the detective genre. The research question is: In what ...