dr Jerzy Skwarzyński

Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych - Instytut Językoznawstwa
Katedra Historii Języka Angielskiego i Translatoryki
Stanowisko: Adiunkt posiadający stopień naukowy dr

2025

Prace licencjackie
  • The Implied Author and Authenticity in Charles Bukowski's Short Stories
  • The Horror of Trauma: Depictions of Sexual Assault and Psychological Recovery in Stephen King's "The Library Policeman" and "Big Driver"
  • The Depiction of Female Revenge in “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl
  • Isolation as a Tension-Building Device in “Wendigo” by Algernon Blackwood
  • The Influence of Focalisation on the Potential Reception of “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell
  • The Depiction of Ethical Choices through Focalisation in "The Body Snatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Loss of Female Potential in “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield
  • Uses of Time and Memory in “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver
  • The Role of Narrative Structure in the Characterisation of the Protagonist in Shirley/Jackson’s "The Daemon Lover"

2024

Prace licencjackie
  • Emotional Landscapes: The Reception of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman among Polish Students of English Philology
  • The Crime of Memory in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving - The Significance of the Headless Horseman in the Context of Traumatic Past
  • The Framing of House Elves in the “Harry Potter” Series by J. K. Rowling – A Marxist Analysis
  • What Makes a Monster? The Gothic Monsters in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde and “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley
  • Liberation or Alienation? The Influence of Tradition and Community on Stephen Dedalus in “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” by James Joyce
  • Contemporary Response to the Depiction of Mental Disorders in "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Absent Fatherhood: On Hanwells in Zadie Smith's Prose
  • Subversion in Detective Fiction of the Golden Age: An Analysis of Selected Works by Agatha Christie
  • A Comparative Analysis of the Hero's Journey in the Dystopian Worlds of "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and "The Hunger Games" trilogy by Suzanne Collins
  • Unfolding the Downfall: An Analysis of Self-Destruction in “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

2023

Prace licencjackie
  • A Comparative Analysis of the Translated and Original Versions of Selected Mythology-Inspired Poems by Zbigniew Herbert
  • ”The Feminine in Fantasy - the Portrayal of Arwen, Éowyn and Galadriel in “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien”
  • The Corrupting Potential of Unearned Overwhelming Power – A Case Study of “Death Note” by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
  • Violence Hidden in Language, Setting and Music of Anthony Burgess’s "A Clockwork Orange"
  • The Literary Archetype of a Criminal Profiler in August C. Dupin Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Influence of 9/11 Attacks on American Rap Lyrics
  • The Power of Literary Fiction to Influence Reality - A Case Study of “The Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie
  • Christian Motifs in the Portrayal of a Tragic Character – A Case Study of Sméagol from “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Image Of Weak Romantic Relationships in the Lyrics by Ariana Grande - A Case Study
  • Bullying from the Perspective of the Victim and the Perpetrator as Portrayed in the Novel "Seven Days" by Eve Ainsworth
  • Southern Womanhood in Fannie Flagg's "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"
  • The Relationship between an Author and Their Characters - A Case Study of the Harry Potter Saga by J.K. Rowling and Her Online Paratexts
  • The Uses of Memory in Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway"

2022

Prace licencjackie
  • “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” - a comparison of the structural changes between the novel and its film adaptation
  • Depiction of women in the Polish and English proverbs
  • Comparison of depicting historical events in Władysław Szpilman's autobiography “The Pianist” and its film adaptation
  • Audiovisual mistranslations - a case study of the subtitled Polish version of the TV series "Friends"
  • Aestheticism and moral relativism in Oscar Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and its two Polish translations
  • Influence of political correctness on the reception of art – contemporary interpretations of the novel “Peter Pan” by J. M. Barrie
  • Feminism in the world of “The Witcher” – a comparative analysis of female characters in “The Witcher” novels by A. Sapkowski and its Netflix adaptation
  • Portrayal of women from the perspective of the Gothic aesthetic in the novel "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë
  • Adjusting the cultural background of a TV format to suit the new recipients - a comparison of the American and Polish versions of "The Nanny"
  • Manifestations of the American Dream in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and its film adaptation by Baz Luhrmann