English Literary Criticism

Catholicism and Protestantism - two ways of looking at the world?

Why is Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey often referred to as a parody of the Gothic novel?

Is the "Taming of the Shrew" a Sexist Play?

Mina Harker - A New Woman?

G.K. Chesterton's 'The Wisdom of Father Brown'

The Humour Of Pride And Prejudice

Elements of Parody in David Lodge's "Nice Work"

The incompatibility of self and service as presented in Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Remains of the Day'

A Revolution in Female Manners- Mary Wollstonecrafts "Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography. The work of a selfish man?

The Hobbesian State of War in Shakespeares King Lear.

The Character of Rosalind in Shakespeare's 'As You Like It'

Moral Identity in Early Modern English Literature

Prehistoric Islanders. Community Life, Nature and Religion in William Golding's 'The Inheritors'

Metafictional Aspects in Novels by Muriel Spark

The Aspect of Ignorance in Golding's Lord of the Flies

Forms and Functions of the Trickster Figure in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water

The representation of madness in Clarke's poem Mnemosyne Lay in Dust

Being afraid of the Machine? Alchemy, the Golem and Vampirism as Sources for Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

Naked Liberty and the World of Desire

Slavery and Augustan Literature

role of women's education - Shaw vs Wollstonecraft

Jack and Algernon, Gwendolen and Cecily: Two "minimal pairs"

The Holocaust - a Literary Inspiration?

Keats: Ode to a Nightingale - A Grecian Urn. A comparison.

Causes and effects of invisibility and blindness in Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man'

Caliban - his representation in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and three film versions

Elizabeth Bowen - "The Demon Lover" and "Mysterious Kôr" as stories of suspens and stories of war

Daniel Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe' and J.M. Coetzee's 'Foe': Characters in Comparison

If Caliban´s Wish Came True - The the master-servant relationship of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' in Nadine Gordimer's contemporary novel

John Milton, Paradise Lost: An Analysis of Hell

Oscar Wilde: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - Making fun of Victorian values and society and parodying dramatic conventions

Social Criticism in Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan

The Story of Pooh - Rezeptionsgeschichte Winnie-the-Pooh

Death as a Theme of Initiation: An essay on the autobiographies 'The Twelth of Never' by Louis Nowra and 'To The Is-Land' by Janet Frame

The Short Story "On Saturday Afternoon

National and personal history in Kazuo Ishiguro´s "The Remains of the Day"

An interpretation of "A Lecture upon the Shadow

Mr. Knightley and Jane Austen's concept of the gentleman ideal

Auden's Memorial for the City

it's just a bad system: A Marxist reading of Trevor Griffiths Comedians

Examine the representation of the relationship between language and power inSouth African Literature

The Shattering of the Self

Mary Shelley in Her Times

Social and religious aspects in Bram Stoker's DRACULA

The English Novel, 1700-1740

The Poetry of Robert Burns and the Relationship of his Contemporaries to it

Ulysses from Notes and Drafts to Editions and Revisions

Female emancipation in Charlotte Bronte's JANE EYRE

Modern British Women Writers

Vernon Halliday and the Judge: Editorship and Newspaper Power in Ian McEwan's "Amsterdam"

John Steinbeck - In Dubious Reputation

Victorian Keats

The Presence of the Past

Beckett's Catastrophe - A Play about Power and Impotency

Perverseness in Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart and Black Cat

Tess of the D Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

A Companion to the Victorian Novel

Seditious Allegories

Understanding Jane Eyre