This thesis is mainly concerned with the cultural discourses in the literary works of two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral. Their discourses are studied from the perspective of ...

The Derzhavin-L'vov circle was the most productive literary society in eighteenth-century Russia. It consisted primarily of four members, four poets who were drawn together by friendship, family ties and shared interests: ...

This thesis offers a typology of Postmodern women's discourse from a sociological perspective. By focusing on the reading of Gioconda Belli's Sofia de los presagios, Isabel Allende's Paula, and Anacristina Rossi's La loca ...

Marguerite Duras was born in Indochina in 1914 and died in Paris in 1996. Between these two polarities of her life all the major themes of her work find their place. Duras inscribed the condition of one who could never ...

This thesis explores the actual impact of neoliberal or free market policies on the real lives of people in Europe from the 1980s onwards as refracted in cinema. The critical framework in Chapter One will summarise the ...

This thesis is an analysis of the life and poetry of Cao Zhi 曹植. It will seek to prove that Cao Zhi was a transitional poet during a transitional era. It will demonstrate how he revived the poetic traditions of the past, ...