My thesis tries to uncover the mechanisms which account for the craze around the work of author Mark Z. Danielewski. His first novel, House of Leaves, earned him an extensive only fanbase and with Only Revolutions we see ...

This thesis explores the question: How does the witch figure relate to and in so doing critique climate change and humanity’s response to it? It answers this by analysing the ecofeminist themes surrounding the witch figures ...

This thesis focuses on the development of the contemporary high fantasy genre, arguing that by innovating, reshaping and experimenting with its perceivably fixed boundaries, high fantasy warrants an acceptance into literature ...

The thesis 'Aesthetic Vision on the Orient' explores three eighteenth and nineteenth century orientalist texts written by William Beckford, Heinrich von Kleist and Gustave Flaubert. The differences between these three ...

Door middel van een checklist van de zwarte romantiek, gedestilleerd uit bronnen over deze stroming, wordt getracht de roman American Psycho in een zwart-romantisch kader te plaatsen.

In this paper I will investigate the changes memory studies, as well as the sheer act of remembering, have undergone in the past eighty-odd years. To do so I will concentrate on one of the most famous contemporary symbols ...

Analysis of the philosophical content in works of Hermann Hesse. How did this German writer assimilate Nietzsche's and Wagner's art theory about the contradictory and complementary Greek Gods, Apollo and Dionysus?

Algeria became independent from France in 1962 and there was hope of a glorious new Algerian nation that would arise. However, Algeria became a totalitarian state that oppressed its own people and lead them into a civil ...