My thesis concerns itself with turn-of-the-twentieth-century America. This time in the development of the American nation distinguished itself with a clash between tradition and modernity, conservatism and progressivism, ...

This dissertation is a contribution towards investigating the themes of authoritarianism, conformity and the search for individual authenticity in American literature, notably, in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet ...

In this dissertation, we will explore the disempowerment of Muslim women in Africa under cultural norms in the narratives of Mariama Ba’ So Long a Letter (1981) and Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero (1983). The culture ...

Research on causal attributions (Weiner, 1974, 1992; Covington, 1992; Graham, 1991, 1994) has shown that students’ perceptions of the causes of their successes and failures will affect their expectations, and thereby their ...

This dissertation proposes to study the tragic hero in Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape in the light of Karen Horney's theory of neurotic pride. It attempts to verify whether Jones - a black character ...

This dissertation is intended chiefly to study Ngugi’s literary response to the Western culture of domination, which manifests itself in a set of hegemonic views about the non-Western communities generally, and the African ...

This dissertation approaches the problem of morality and social responsibility as two related elements which have been a theme treated by many writers, notably in the Western world and Africa. I set out to discuss here two ...

Much research has been done on the inter-influence between the international situation in which the United States lives, and its conduct in both domestic and foreign policies. This dissertation falls into this category ...

This research work entitled A Quest for Happiness is a comparative study of the utopian romances of the English writer, William Morris (News from Nowhere), and his American counterpart, William Dean Howells (A Traveler ...

For many years (1995-2002), the Department of English of the University of Blida witnessed low rates of academic achievement of students preparing an English Degree. An analysis of the second year students' course grades ...