• Bilingualism in grade V Maltese primary schools : a sociolinguistic perspective 

  Frendo, Romina (University of Malta, 2018)

  Chapter 1, Article 5 of the Constitution of Malta (1964) (Il-Kostituzzjoni Ta’ Malta) recognises Maltese as the national language of Malta, whilst it accords both Maltese and English the status of official languages. ...
• ‘A manifestation of being human?’ : a study of identity, myth, and genre in Margaret Atwood’s writing 

  Zerafa, Lara (University of Malta, 2018)

  The purpose of this dissertation is to evaluate Margaret Atwood’s portrayal of identity, myth, and genre in her novels; three notions which the author brilliantly combines together. By looking at Atwood’s literary career ...
• From acquisition to abjuration : magic and its extravagant promise in canonical and popular fantasy literature 

  Zerafa, Ian (University of Malta, 2018)

  This dissertation seeks to analyse the use of magic in literature. Criticism on magic is surprisingly disproportionate to its prevalence as a plot device. Three texts, William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, J.R.R. Tolkien’s ...
• Spirituality and religious beliefs in selected fiction by Ishmael Reed 

  Zammit, Terry (University of Malta, 2018)

  The aim of this dissertation is to analyse spirituality and religious beliefs in two selected novels by Ishmael Reed: Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down and Mumbo Jumbo. The main argument being presented is that in these two ...
• The shoe might not always fit : gender and diversity in fairy-tales and contemporary retellings 

  Zammit, Martina (University of Malta, 2018)

  This dissertation offers a comparative analysis of some of the most known classical fairy-tales with lesser known contemporary retellings. The lack of diversity found in the classical tales and the way contemporary retellings ...
• Preserving the irish identity in modern literature : a study on the writing styles of W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge and James Joyce 

  Vella, Ryan (University of Malta, 2018)

  In this dissertation I will be looking at how three writers in particular W.B.Yeats, J.M.Synge and James Joyce capture the Irish Identity. These writers do not simply retell history, but use metaphors, symbols and create ...
• 'To everything there is a season’ : tracing hope across the themes and motifs in Ali Smith's novel quartet 

  Theuma, Martha (University of Malta, 2018)

  This dissertation will attempt to trace hope in the themes and motifs that Ali Smith tackles in her four-piece seasonal novel quartet; a series of four books of which two have been published—and these are the two I will ...
• Ambivalence in Hawthorne 

  Pocock, Elena (University of Malta, 2018)

  In this dissertation we provide three different perspectives on the nature of Ambivalence in a wide selection of works by the American 19th Century writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. Chapter 1 concerns itself with an exploration ...
• Physical and psychological confinement : a study of Victor Frankenstein and his monster in Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus’, the unnamed narrators in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’, and Bertha Mason in Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’ 

  Vella, Jasmine (University of Malta, 2018)

  In this dissertation, the primary focus will be about physical confinement and how it creates psychological confinement and other mental complications. The literary texts chosen to explore this are Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; ...
• Letters to tell the tale : a study of the epistolary mode in Samuel Richardson’s ‘Clarissa’ and selected novels by Wilkie Collins 

  Pawney, André (University of Malta, 2018)

  This dissertation aims to throw into relief the contribution which the epistolary genre has provided to the realm of psychological development within the genre of the Novel. The three texts on which this dissertation’s ...
• ‘My voice being water’ : imaginative transfiguration in Alice Oswald’s ‘Falling awake’ 

  Micallef, Luke (University of Malta, 2018)

  Alice Oswald’s latest poetry collection, Falling Awake (2016), is the culmination of themes she has explored in her past work. The water mythology of Dart (2002) continues to evolve together with the more recent appropriation ...
• Changing representations of women in Disney films 

  Mallia, Jillian Marie (University of Malta, 2018)

  This dissertation will discuss specific Disney films in relation to changing representations of women. Through an analysis of different filmic adaptations, three main topics will be discussed, with two specific animations ...
• The dramatisation of history in Shakespeare’s historical plays 

  Grech, Marise (University of Malta, 2018)

  The verses Shakespeare writes throughout his dramatic career to be produced on stage have been admired by audiences worldwide throughout the ages. Due to the popularity of his plays, one could say that Shakespeare excelled ...
• Morality of the act of creation in J.R.R. Tolkien’s 'The Silmarillion' 

  Gatt, Jeremy (University of Malta, 2018)

  This dissertation attempts to read The Silmarillion as a representation in narrative of J.R.R. Tolkien’s notion of Sub-Creation. Specifically, how Tolkien’s notion of Sub-Creation, as he explains in On-Fairy Stories, is ...
• Shakespearean tragedy : an exploration of neoclassical re-workings and criticism 

  Formosa, Erika (University of Malta, 2018)

  Literary neoclassicism was a movement which began in the mid-seventeenth century and continued throughout the eighteenth century gradually moving into Romanticism. The neoclassicists drew on Aristotle’s Poetics as well as ...
• 'All things are linked’ : magical realism in Ben Okri’s 'Abiku trilogy' 

  Fenech, Claire (University of Malta, 2018)

  This work follows the definition of Brenda Cooper in her work 'Magical Realism in West African Fiction : Seeing with a Third Eye', in that magical realism unites the paradoxes of opposites that are experienced by the magical ...
• Mythologisation of Superman : an exploration of the persisting modern myth and its function 

  Cassar Laudi, Mark (University of Malta, 2018)

  This dissertation attempts to place the great American comic book hero, Superman, amongst other significant mythological figures by utilising Joseph Campbell's monomyth and the structure of the hero's journey. Furthermore, ...
• Rhetoric, propaganda and the quest for truth in George Orwell’s work 

  Calleja, Rebecca (University of Malta, 2018)

  This dissertation explores the manifestation of rhetorical language and truth in George Orwell’s work. By demonstrating such concepts in his novels and essays, the writer aims to cast a light on the persuasive and influential ...
• Representations of Americanness in selected novels by Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway 

  Bonello, Shanice (University of Malta, 2018)

  The primary scope of this dissertation will be to highlight the Americanness of the authors evident in one of their novels. The texts to be analysed are Henry James’s 'The Portrait of a Lady', F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 'The ...
• The devil in the details : a cultural and psychological study of Satan in ‘Paradise lost’ and ‘The Master and Margarita’ 

  Beach, Christina (University of Malta, 2018)

  The aim of this dissertation is to analyse the concept of Satan in different cultures and time periods. The works I chose to deal with are John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' and Mikhail Bulgakov's 'The Master and Margarita' as ...

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