‘A system of vast circumferences circling round the minute neighbouring points of home’ – An Ecocritical Approach to Edward Thomas’ England

The aim of this thesis consists in reading the poetry of Edward Thomas from an ecocritical perspective. As a lover of nature who died in World War I, his views on England, the country he felt he had to defend, are of particular interest when approaching his poetry. The thesis is divided into six chapters, each looking at different aspects related to an ecocritical study...

Crossing Boundaries: From Private to Public Space in Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Dracula

This dissertation focuses on what are probably the three most famous ‘monster stories’ of the 19th century: Frankenstein (1818), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Dracula (1897). The aim of my research was to determine how information is shared or not shared within and across private, semi-private, and public spaces in the three novels,...

The Eternal Allure of Immortality From Dracula to Edward: The Evolution of the Vampire Figure and its Undying Appeal to the Modern-Day Reader

The Vampire: a dangerous predator yet so alluring and seducing. Over the last few decades, the fascination for the ancient myth of the vampire has increased significantly. Highly adaptable to the needs of any society, the original image of the mythological vampire has undergone several changes to adjust to the demands of modern-day society. The vampire’s...

An evaluation of the FOLA-lessons at the Atert Lycée Redange. Identifying success factors and areas for improvement towards better practice.

FOLA-lessons (Follow-up Learning Activities) at the Atert Lycée Redange consist of a number of weekly lessons in which students are expected to complete a series of tasks. These lessons are meant to reduce social inequality in order to provide students with equal opportunities to do their homework inside the school, especially for those who lack an adequate learning...

Mister Pip’s Great Expectations and Hard Times – Teachers, Authors, and the Art of Storytelling in Charles Dickens’s Hard Times and Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip

In this dissertation, I argue that an analogy can be drawn between the relationship of the teacher to his students and the author to his readers. Authority lies at the heart of both teaching and writing. I outline the parallels between teachers and authors at the hand of two concrete examples in literature; Charles Dickens’s Hard Times and Lloyd...

‘Something Wicked this Way Comes? Shakespeare's Weyward Sisters and their influence upon the figure of the witch in contemporary fantasy fiction.

My thesis aims to analyse the ways in which William Shakespeare’s portrayal of his three sisters in Macbeth have influenced, within a broader intertextual realm, the depiction of the