BackBrowsing Trabajos Académicos-Facultad de Letras by Author "Fernández Menicucci, Amaya"
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"All right, then, I'll go to hell": Religious Hypocrisy as the Subjacent Discourse in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(2020-05-20)The aim of this essay is to analyse the literary elements that Twain utilised as tools to present his sharp critique of religion the institution of slavery and the Southern society which benefited from it. With this purpose ... -
Blossoming into Monsterhood: a comparison of J.S. Le Fanu’s "Carmilla" and Emily Harris's 2019 film adaptation
(2023-04-17)[EN] Vampires have often been used in Gothic fiction as a reflection of diverse concerns regarding sexuality, both in the form of decadence and corruption, and as a celebration of marginal sexual identities. In this essay, ... -
Esther Through the Looking-Glass: Self-Image De(Con)struction in Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"
(2022-03-07)[EN] The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of mirrors in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. Specifically, I concentrate on the six scenes in which a mirror is literally or metaphorically present in order to sustain my ... -
Gender Hybrids: The Representation of Femininity and Masculinity in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park and Colin Trevorrow`s Jurassic World
(2018-12-03)[EN] Gender representation in Hollywood action cinema has inevitably become the object of a wide debate among its critics. The history of film can be divided in different periods according to the way in which gender reflected ... -
Gender Stereotyping in L.M Alcott's Little Women And Its 1949 And 1994 Film Versions.
(2020-05-22)The present paper aims to analyze two of the films based on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: Little Women (1949) directed by Mervyn LeRoy and Little Women (1994) directed by Gillian Armstrong. In particular, I intend to ... -
Hommes Fatals: Masculine Destructiveness in Alfred Hitchcock´s Rebecca (1940) and Sam Taylor-Johnson´s Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
(2017-11-21)Femmes fatales have been and are still nowadays represented and labelled as inherently or innately evil figures who, by means of their beauty, lure and seduce men in order to deliberately destroy them. Female deadly figures ... -
“I Am an Old Woman”: Sophie’s Quest for Identity in Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle and Miyazaki’s 2004 Adaptation
(2024-05-06)[EN] This dissertation compares the representation of identity in the character of Sophie from Diana Wynne Jones's novel Howl’s Moving Castle (1986) and from Hayao Miyazaki’s anime adaptation by the same title (2004). I ... -
Monstrous victims: the representation of female vampires in Ryan Murphy’s "American Horror Story Hotel"
(2020-11-24)[EN].Gender representation in cinema has been an object of debate for years. More recently, television series have been incorporated to this debate as these productions also offer gender representations which may even ... -
Out of control: The representation of hegemonic masculinity in Mary Harron's "American Psycho" and Steve McQueen's "Shame"
(2023-04-17)[EN] Hegemonic masculinities define standardised forms of manhood, and they have been historically linked with violence in western societies as a way to establish male dominance and control over women and those men who do ... -
We´re all mad here: applying chaos theory to Lewis Carroll´s “Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” and Tim Burton´s “Alice in Wonderland”
[EN].Chaos theory, through its exploration of the construction of reality and its dynamics, provides a valid method for the analysis of any literary work. Research on the relationship between this theory and literary works ...