This dissertation examines the different gender performances, complicities, and complacencies demonstrated by three versions of the character Aunt Lydia: first, the Aunt Lydia of the novel version of The Handmaid’s Tale; ...

Houses in literature are an important signifier, and for Canadian author L.M. Montgomery, places and especially houses were deeply meaningful. This study explores the portrayal of houses and homes in a selection of L.M. ...

Of all human identity categories such as race, religion, culture, class and gender that a person might belong to, race and gender are arguably two of the most contentious in the world. This study takes gender as its main ...

This thesis is concerned with T.S. Eliot’s exploration and depiction of art in his Four Quartets. Central to this investigation is the logos/flux paradigm, which is established by the two quotations from Herakleitos, a 6th ...

Traditionally the hero of any story in the Fantasy genre has been decidedly and overwhelmingly male, with female representation being limited to that of sidekicks and damsels in distress. With the rise of the Second Wave ...

The aim of this thesis on the Victorian poet/novelist George Meredith is to analyse the philosophical and psychological aspects of some of his poetry in relation to his reputation as a ‘difficult’ author. The study attempts ...

This dissertation explores the psychological effect of social inequality and social injustices fostered by colonialism as portrayed by Tsitsi Dangarembga in her novel, This Mournable Body (2018), the third novel in her ...

Critics such as Elizabeth Napier and Lorraine Sim explore some aspects of space and borders in their discussions of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, presumably to demonstrate that the novel is a representative nineteenth-century ...

When Ted Hughes published the volume of poetry Birthday Letters in 1998, only months before his death, and after decades of silence on the subject of Sylvia Plath, it seemed he was finally offering a confessional account ...

In this dissertation I explore the dynamics of how the definition of the human is established and subsequently challenged in both H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) and R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr ...