Grzegorz Maziarczyk

dr hab. Grzegorz Maziarczyk (prof. KUL)

Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych - Instytut Literaturoznawstwa
Katedra Literatury i Kultury Amerykańskiej
Stanowisko: Profesor KUL

2022

Rozprawy doktorskie
  • The Technological Unconscious in Contemporary Fiction in English

2020

Prace magisterskie
  • Film adaptation as modernization: the case of The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
  • Horror in Stephen King’s fiction: comparison of selected novels with their film adaptations
  • Clive Staples Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: comparison of the novels and their film adaptations
  • The protagonist's attempts at self-realization in "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne and "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy as well as their film adaptations
  • The dual nature of serial killer: an analysis of Dexter books & TV series
  • Film Adaptations of Post-apocalyptic Fiction
  • "The Great Gatsby" on the silver screen
  • Representation of death penalty in "Dead Man Walking" by Helen Prejean and " The Green Mile" by Stephen King as well as their film adaptations

2018

Prace magisterskie
  • The Concept of Borders in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction: Blood Meridian, All The Pretty Horses and The Road
  • Film Adaptations of Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter Novels
  • The analysis of Dan Brown's Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code and their filmic adaptations.
  • How to preserve the story in modern times: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptations.
  • Modern Film Adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Classic Sherlock Holmes Novels.
  • Jane Austen on the Silver Screen: Transpositions versus Critical Adaptations of Pride and Prejudice
  • Elements of robinsonade in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Andy Weir's The Martian and their film adaptations
  • Representation of the Tudor dynasty in selected novels, films and TV series.
  • The concept of fidelity in James Dashner's novels and their film adaptations: The Maze Runner and The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials
  • Solving a puzzle - different ways of misleading the reader in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl and their movie adaptations
  • The representation of borders in Luís Alberto Urrea's books
  • The problem of violence in the Old West as portrayed in the novels and film
  • Film adaptations of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and C. S. Lewis’ the Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • The changing image of America seen through the eyes of Native Americans portrayed in selected works of Sherman Alexie
  • Representation of Native Americans in Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes's Lakota Woman and the film Smoke Signals
  • Post-westerns in modern literature and culture: The Hateful Eight by Quentin Tatrantino, The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King and Call of Juarez
  • The motif of the American Dream in Ben Carson's Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story and Chris Gardner's Pursuit of Happyness, and their film adaptations.
  • Representation of psychological problems in selected novels and their film adaptations.
  • Film adaptations of legal thrillers by John Grisham: "The Firm" and "The Pelican Brief"

2017

Prace magisterskie
  • Representation of cannibalism in contemporary American culture
  • Adapting Literary Genres for Computer Games
  • Intertextuality in Matthew Pearl's historical crime novels
  • Dead bodies in stories of Ambrose Bierce
  • Representation of single women in the literature of New England.
  • The representation of Salem witches in American culture
  • Walt E. Disney’s Legacy - from Animating Pictures to Shaping American Mythology
  • Aestheticization of the Serial Killer in American Literature and Visual Media: the Case of Hannibal Lecter

2016

Prace magisterskie
  • Film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
  • REPRESENTATION OF SLAVERY IN FICTION AND FILM
  • From scary to funny - the image of zombie in literature, films and video games in 20th and 21st centuries
  • Representation of setting and characters in the BBC adaptation of the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake
  • Fidelity in the film adaptations of Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
  • Fidelity in film adaptations of the Harry Potter series.
  • Orwellian Motifs as Reflected in Contemporary Culture
  • Film adaptations of John Steinbeck's novels: Of Mice and Men and East of Eden
  • Representation of women in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and "Mansfield Park" and their film adaptations
  • Representation of relations between siblings in American literature and film
  • The Representation of Vampires in the Past and Today: Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' and Charlaine Harris' 'The Southern Vampire Mysteries' and their film adaptations
  • The Motif of Split Personality in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Their Film Adaptations.
  • Fidelity in film adaptations of "The Vampire Chronicles" by Anne Rice
  • Film adaptations of "The Shining"and "Carrie" by Stephen King
  • The Evolution of Fantasy from J. R. R. Tolkien's ‘The Lord of the Rings’ to George R. R. Martin's ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’
  • Depiction of the classical detective in literature and film and his evolution, from Dupin, Holmes to Marlowe
  • "The position of a woman in a relationship in literature and film."
  • From a barbaric monster to a sweet bloodsucker - the image of a vampire in fiction and film.
  • Multiple Personality Disorder in Film Adaptations of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Sybil by Rheta Schreiber Flora, and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
  • J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpieces in motion. Fidelity in the film adaptations of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings"
  • A transhumanist vision of omnipotence and a new superhero model in literature and film
  • Film adaptations of The Hound of the Baskervilles and A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Representation of death penalty in contemporary American novels and their film adaptations.

2014

Prace magisterskie
  • The image of Native Americans in James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans", Michael Blake's "Dances with Wolves" and their film adaptations.
  • The Portrayal of Women in 'A Song of Ice and Fire' by George R.R. Martin and Its Television Series Adaptation
  • Film adaptations of Charles Dickens' novels: "Great Expectations", "Oliver Twist" and "David Copperfield".
  • The Transfiguration of Homo Sapiens: Posthumanism in Literature and Film
  • “Male-female relations in post-war British radio drama.”
  • "Representation of Contemporary Sport in Literature and Film."
  • "Different approaches to film adaptations of comic books."
  • Stephen King's horror novels and short stories and their film adaptations
  • The motifs of crime and detection in literature and film
  • Representation of drug addiction in Irvine Welsh's "Trainspotting", Hubert Selby's "Requiem for a Dream" and their film adaptations.
  • “Symbols, allusions and hidden meanings in the television series Lost”
  • Different visions of a vampire in Bram Stoker's "Dracula", Ann Rice's "Interview with the Vampire" and their film adaptations.
  • Musicalization in contemporary African-American fiction and poetry: jazz and blues aesthetics in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" and Langston Hughes' "Montage of a Dream Deferred"
  • Film adaptations of war novels: Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, James Jones’s The Thin Red Line and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.
  • Monstrosity in horror fiction and film: Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", its film adaptations and Vincenzo Natali's "Splice".
  • „Young Vampires’ Clothing: Salem's Lot by Stephen King, Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice and Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (film adaptation)"
  • Film adaptations of Graham Greene's novels "Brighton Rock" and "The Third Man" as film noir.
  • Oliver Parker's Wilde
  • African-Americans and racism in literature, film and music.
  • Representation of female friendship in literature and film: Toni Morrison’s Sula, Fannie Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (and its film adaptation) and Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise.
  • National and Individual History in Salman Rushdie’s and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Fiction.
  • Tim Burton's Style of Adapting
  • Star Wars as high fantasy
  • The representation of women in the Bronte sisters` novels and their film adaptations: Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.
  • Fidelity in the film adaptations of Pride and Prejudice and Emma by Jane Austen.
  • Film Adaptations of John Fowles’s novels: "The Collector" and "The French Lieutenant’s Woman".

2013

Prace magisterskie
  • Future Imperfect: Cyberpunk Visions of the World in Films and Video Games
  • The Concept Album as a Form of Intermediality
  • Unreliable Narration as a Defamiliarizing Device in Fiction and Film
  • Typography as a Defamiliarizing Device in "Double or Nothing" by Raymond Federman, "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski and "House Mother Normal" by B. S. Johnson
  • Metareference in Literature and Film
  • J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” across Media.

2012

Prace magisterskie
  • Robert Coover's Reworking of Classic Fairy Tales
  • Musicalization in contemporary African- American fiction: G. Jones' "Corregidora", T. Morrison's "Jazz"
  • Cut and paste literature: Collage in selected novels and graphic novels
  • The Southern Woman in Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind", Fannie Flagg's "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe", Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" and Their Film Adaptations
  • The Cthulhu Mythos and Lovecraftian Themes in Literature and Film.
  • Transhuman elements in fiction, films and video games
  • Unreliable narration in Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", Sylvia Nasar's "A Beautiful Mind" and Jonathan Nolan's "Memento Mori" and their filmic adaptations
  • The Portrayal of Native Americans in Literature and Film
  • Pastisz w Literaturze i Filmie
  • Film Adaptations of Contemporary British Novels about the Victorian Era

2011

Prace magisterskie
  • From Fiction to Film: The Development of Dystopian Genre in Anglophone Cultures.
  • Departures from Linearity in Contemporary Anglophone Narrative Fiction and Film.
  • Film Adaptations of Jane Austen's Novels: "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park" and "Emma".
  • Stanley Kubrick's Style of Adapting.
  • Extreme Narration in Fiction and Film.
  • The Adolescent Narrator in Anglophone Verbal Narratives and Their Film Adaptations.
  • Dissociative Identity Disorder in Anglophone Novel and Film.

2010

Prace licencjackie
  • Alfonso Cuarón's modernized version of "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens.
  • Francis Ford Coppola's Adaptation of "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo.
  • The character of Count Dracula in F.W.Murnau's "Nosferatu", Tod Browning's "Dracula" and Francis Ford Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula".
  • Milos Forman's adaptation of "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey.
  • Representation of Middle-earth in Peter Jackson's film adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings".
  • Two Adaptations of Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
  • James Ivory's Adaptation of "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro.
  • Two Film Adaptations of Herbert George Wells's "The War of the Worlds".
  • Stanley Kubrick's Film Adaptation of Anthony Burgess' "A Clocwork Orange".

2009

Prace magisterskie
  • Julian Barnes' World of Dialogue.

2008

Prace magisterskie
  • Oneiric aspects of contemporary fiction in English.
  • Mythical aspects of contemporary literature in English.
  • Dystopian dimensions of contemporary fiction in English.
  • Hysterical Realism in Contemporary Fiction in English.
  • Mythical Quests in Contemporary Fiction in English.
  • Hybridity in Salman Rushdie's "Shame", "Midnight's Children" and "The Ground Beneath' Her Feet".

2007

Prace magisterskie
  • (Post) Modern Confessions: First-Person Narration in Contemporary British Fiction.

2006

Prace magisterskie
  • The Protagonists' Struggle with Space in Jeanette Winterson's Fiction.
  • Representation of History in Graham Swift's Fiction.
  • Elements of Ecriture Feminine in Jeanette Winterson's Fiction.
  • The Motif of Distorted Communication in Coetzee's Fiction.
  • Intermingling of Professional and Personal Selves in Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day", Graham Swift's "Waterland" and Julian Barnes' "Flaubert's Parrot".
  • The Motif of Acceptance in Tim Winton's Fiction.
  • Transgression of Ontological Boundaries in Contemporary British Fiction.
  • Unreliable Narration in Contemporary British Fiction.
  • The Motif of Loneliness in Fiction of J.M. Coetzee.
  • The Motif of Twins in Contemporary British Fiction.
  • Main Motifs of Julian Barnes' Fiction.