dr Aleksander Bednarski

Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych - Instytut Literaturoznawstwa
II Katedra Filologii Celtyckiej

Stanowisko: Adiunkt posiadający stopień naukowy dr

2022

Prace licencjackie
  • Comic Book Adaptations of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Novels
  • Modern Reworkings of the Tristan and Isolde Legend
  • Medievalism in the Art and Literature of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
  • Tapestries in "The Lady and The Unicorn" by Tracy Chevalier and "The Seventh Unicorn" by Kelly Jones: A Historical Analysis
  • Julia Margaret Cameron's Photographic Visualisation of Alfred Tennyson's "Idylls of the King"
  • Illustrating the Surreal: Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and Its Visualisations
  • Aspects of William Blake's Life and Work in Tracy Chevalier's "Burning Bright”
  • The Figure of Guinevere in "The Guinevere’s Tale Trilogy" by Nicole Evelina
Prace magisterskie
  • The Motif of Jewellery in High Fantasy and Low Fantasy Fiction
  • Ekphrasis in Selected Novels by Virginia Woolf and Selected Victorian Women Writers
  • Modern Bestiaries: Monsters in the Work of J. R. R. Tolkien and Andrzej Sapkowski.
  • Cartographies of Imagination: Maps in Modern Fantasy Literature
  • The Mirror Motif in Gothic and Horror Fiction
  • The Figure of the Artist in Venora Bennett’s Portrait of an Unknown Woman and Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring: A Historical Perspective
  • Visual Adaptations of J. R. R. Tolkien's Fiction

2021

Prace magisterskie
  • Harbingers of Proto-Feminism and the New Woman Movement in Selected Novels by Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy
  • The Story of Arthur as Myth: Contemporary Reworkings of the Arthurian Legend in Literature and Film
  • Representation of Religion in English-language Fantasy Literature
  • Mythology and Folklore in American and European Comics
  • From the Savage to the Comical: Norse Culture in Contemporary English-language Fiction
  • The Motif of Good and Evil in Selected Radio Plays
  • Reworkings of the Arthurian Legend in the 19th and 20th-century English-language Literature

2019

Prace magisterskie
  • The Image of the Antiheroine in William Thackeray's "Vanity Fair", Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Lady Audley's Secret", and Daphne du Maurier's "My Cousin Rachel"
  • The narratives of the American Dream through foodways perspective
  • 19th Century British Women’s Literature and „Chick Literature”. A Comparative study
  • "Celtic Mythology in Comics and Graphic Novels - A Comparative Study''
  • The Role of the Tattoo in Modern English-language Literature and Film
  • British and American Noir. A Comparative Study
  • “The Mind and the Body as symbols of Humanity in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ghost in the Shell. Stand Alone Complex series by Junichi Fujisaku”
  • The Portrayal of the Unmarried Women and Marriage on the Basis of Pride and Prejudice and Emma by Jane Austen and Tess of D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  • Theme of Cupid and Psyche in "The Golden Ass" by Apuleius, "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen and "Until We Have Faces" by Clive Staples Lewis
  • Vampires in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and its Film Adaptations. A Historical Approach
  • ’The Art of Murder’. Relationships Between Art and Crime in Gregory Funaro’s 'The Sculptor', Patrick Suskind’s 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' and Bryan Fuller’s 'Hannibal'
  • The Motif of the Road in "The Dog Stars" by Peter Heller, "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer and "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Concepts of 'Femme Fatale' and 'Fallen Woman': A Comparative Analysis on the Basis of John Fowles' 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' and Daphne du Maurier's 'Rebecca'
  • Representation of Female Folk Tale Characters in "Fables" by Bill Willingham and "The Bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter
  • Fashion in Selected Film Adaptations of Jane Austen's Novels

2018

Prace magisterskie
  • Development of Children from Early Age to Maturity and Social Problems in Charles Dickens's Fiction

2017

Prace magisterskie
  • Cultural Untranslatability in Welsh Literature on the Basis of "How Green Was My Valley" by Richard Llewellyn, "Sheepshagger" by Niall Griffiths, "My People" by Caradoc Evans, and "The White Farm" by Geraint Goodwin
  • Modern Reworkings of Celtic Mythology in Irish and Welsh Popular Culture.
  • Mythological Symbolism in "The Witcher" by Andrzej Sapkowski and "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R.R. Martin
  • Self-image of the Welsh and the Irish on the basis of "Felicia's journey" by William Trevor and "Sheepshagger" by Niall Griffiths.
  • Reworkings of Celtic Mythology in Literature and Popular Culture
  • Irish Immigration to the United States of America in Pursuit of the American Dream. A Study of Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes", Brian Friel's "Philadelphia, Here I Come" and Sebastian Barry's "On Canaan's Side".
  • Literary Reflections of Historical Trauma in Ian McEwan's "Saturday" and Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway"
  • Magic Realism in Latin American and English Language Fiction. A Comparative Study.
  • "All unconscious of their fate, the little victims play." War as Theatre in 'King Rat' by James Clavell, 'The Cruel Sea' by Nicholas Monsarrat and 'The Things They Carried' by Tim O'Brien.
  • Christian Allegory in C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia" and J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings"
  • Self-image of the Welsh in 20th-century Welsh Fiction

2015

Prace magisterskie
  • The Evolution of Kunstlerroman on the Basis of "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood, "Atonament" by Ian McEwan and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce.
  • The Figures of Sherlock Holmes, James Bond and Comic Book Heroes in the Light of Modern Mythological Theories
  • Representation of the 19th Century Woman in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White
  • The Concept of Ecriture Feminine in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Terry Johnson’s Hysteria.
  • Triangular Relationships in Harold Pinter's The Collection, Old Times and Ashes to Ashes.
  • Evolution of the Epistolary Novel on the Basis of Pamela by Samuel Richardson, Rites of Passages by William Golding and Where Rainbows End by Cecelia Ahern
  • Archetypes and Mythology in Fantasy Fiction: A Study of J. K. Rowling`s "Harry Potter" Series
  • The Evolution of High and Low Fantasy in British Literature
  • Morality and In-Yer-Face Theatre in Selected Plays by Mark Ravenhill
  • Images of Motherhood in Modern British Drama of the 1980s and 1990s on the Example of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, Harold Pinter's Moonlight and Matrin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane.
  • Representations of Bombay as a Neo-Baroque City in Contemporary Indian-English Fiction
  • Integration and Disintegration of Scottish Identity in Walter Scott's "Rob Roy" and Irvine Welsh's "Trainspotting".
  • The Figure of the Monarch and the Blending of Gender in William Shakespeare's Plays and Virginia Woolf's "Orlando"
  • Functions of Props in William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice and King Richard III. A Semiotic Approach.
  • The Reflection of Victorian Society in Selected Plays by Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw
  • Vision of Art in the Works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
  • Crossing Moral Boundaries: The Carnivalization and the Grotesque in Alan Warner’s "Morvern Callar" and Niall Griffiths’s "Kelly + Victor"

2014

Prace magisterskie
  • Speaking with the dead. A New Historicist approach to "Feet in chains" by Kate Roberts and "The Life of Rebeca Jones" by Angharad Price.
  • Modern sequels to Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice": Emma Tennant's "Pemberley" and P.D. James's "Death Comes to Pemberley”.
  • Whoever you invented invented you too: rhetoric of absence in “Morvern Callar” by Alan Warner
  • Broadening and Trespassing the Ghost Story Canon in Selected Works by Sheridan Le Fanu, Montague Rhodes James and Algernon Blackwood
  • Reconstructing the Fantasy Genre: Neil Gaiman's 'The Sandman'
  • Visions of Scotland in Scottish Romanticism and Alan Warner's Fiction
  • The Sources of Inspirations of J.R.R. Tolkien's 'A Elbereth! Gilthoniel'
  • Entropy of Meaning: Transtextuality in Will Self's The Book of Dave
  • Female Identity in Selected Works of Aphra Behn and Ann Radcliffe
  • Christianity, Mythology, and Arthurian Legends in "The Space Trilogy" by C. S. Lewis.
  • The Detective Figure in Selected Works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and Agatha Christie. A Comparative Study.
  • Patients, Doctors and Illnesses: Medicine in Victorian Literature.
  • Reworkings of the Viking Warrior in Modern Culture
  • The Road of the Woman from Confinement to Freedom in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop
  • The Motif of 'The Madwoman in the Attic' in Jean Rhys' 'Wide Sargasso Sea', Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre' and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'.
  • Magical Realism as a Postcolonial Strategy in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Ben Okri's The Famished Road and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
  • Portrayl of the American West in Selected Novels by Nicholas Evans

2013

Prace magisterskie
  • The Theme of War Trauma in British 20th Century Fiction
  • Portrayal of the English in Niall Griffiths's "Sheepshagger", Julian Barnes's "England, England" and Kate Fox's "Watching the English"
  • Aspects of Solitude in Anita Brookner's Fiction
  • Hero and Fertility God. Archetypal Aspects of the Male Figure in “Morvern Callar” by Alan Warner, “The Light of Day” by Graham Swift and “Kelly+Victor” by Niall Griffiths
  • Dystopian Visions in Modern British Fiction
  • Synthesis of Arts. The Interplay of Music and Literature in Selected 20th century English-Language Novels
  • Different Aspects of English Humour in David Lodge's "The Small World", Sue Townsend's "The Cappuccino Years", and Jasper Fforde's "The Eyre Affair"
  • Mythological And Literary Inspirations In Fanatasy Literature On The Basis Of J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord Of The Rings"
  • Preserving Cultural Identity in Selected Novels by Monica Ali and Zadie Smith
  • Portrayal of Wales in Dylan Thomas's Works
  • The Theme of Immigration in Monica Ali's Brick Lane, Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet and Hanif Kureishi's My Beautiful Laundrette
  • The Vision of a Woman in Doris Lessing's Fiction.
  • The Vision of a Woman in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Mona Caird's The Daughters of Danaus.
  • Visions of the Post-apocalyptic World in Contemporary British Fiction
  • Intertextuality as a palimpsest in Jasper Fforde's “Thursday Next” series

2012

Prace licencjackie
  • Human and Artificial Intelligence in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • Breaking Barriers: The Role of Woman in Niall Griffiths's "Kelly+Victor"
  • Representation of Welsh society in Caradoc Evans's "My People"
  • Dragons in modern English-language fantasy literature
  • Aspects of Myth in C.S. Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia"
  • Aspects of Postcolonialism in Niall Griffiths's "Sheepshagger"
  • The Portrayal of Woman in The Mabinogion
  • The impact of C. S. Lewis`s philosophical and religious views on "Space Trilogy"
  • The Representation of Gender in Dystopia „The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
  • Narrative techniques in Agatha Christie's "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" and Andrew Grieve's television adaptation of the novel
  • Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea" as a Postcolonial Novel
  • The Representation of Woman in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  • "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien as a Darker Version of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
Prace magisterskie
  • Wizje nawiedzonych domów we współczesnej powieści grozy na podstawie "The Mist in the Mirror" i "The Woman in Black" Susan Hill oraz "The Little Stranger" Sary Waters.

2011

Prace magisterskie
  • Real and magical space in J. K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" cycle
  • Between the Idyllic and the Absurd: the Portrayal of France in Peter Mayle's "A Year in Provence" and Stephen Clarke's "A Year in the Merde"
  • Recreation of myths and fairy tales in "American Gods", "Coraline" and "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
  • The Problem of Alienation in Anita Brookner's Fiction
  • The Representation of the Family in Laura Hird's "Born Free", Nick Hornby's "How to be Good" and Rachel Trezise's "In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl"
  • Gothic Elements in "The Fifth Child" by Doris Lessing and "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield
  • Evolution of the Spy Figure in British Spy Fiction on the Basis of "From Russia With Love" by Ian Fleming and "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold" by John Le Carré.
  • Search for identity in selected novels by Colm Toibin
  • The Representation of Victorian Society in Michel Faber's "The Crimson petal and the White"
  • The Dark Side of Childhood: Representations of the Child in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies", Susan Hill's "I'm the King of the Castle" and Toby Litt's "Deadkidsongs".
  • The Image of the Child in Novels by Susan Hill "I'm the King of the Castle", Toby Litt "deadkidsongs" and Iain Banks "the Wasp Factory"

2010

Prace magisterskie
  • Visions of Morality in the Selected Works of Graham Greene.

2009

Prace magisterskie
  • Images of the Child in Selected Novels by Ian McEwan
  • Love as the way to salvation or damnationin selected works of Graham Greene.
  • Imperialist Ideology and its negative impact on the colonizer and the colonized on the basis of Joseph Conrads's "Heart of Darkness" and Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"
  • Different kinds of relationships between family memebers on the basis of "Man and Boy" and "Man and Wife" by Tony Parsons and "Born Free" by Laura Hird
  • The Nature of Violence in Selected Novels by Niall Griffiths.
  • Search for Identity in A. S. Byatt's Selected Fiction.
  • Parents - Children Relationships in Selected Novels by Joanna Trollope and Rachel Trezise.
  • The selected novels by Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle as an inspiration for computer game designers.
  • The Church of England and its Vision of Family as Portrayed in Selected Works of Joanna Trollope and Anthony Trollope.
  • The influence of colonialism on African beliefs on the basis of The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Things Fall Apart by Achebe.
  • Different types of toxic relationships in "Kelly + Victor" by Niall Griffiths, " Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov and " Bridget Jones's Diary " by Helen Fielding.
  • Elements of Surrealism and Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson and Leonora Carrington.
  • Rave generation's quest for identity on the basis of " Trainspotting" by Irvine Welsh, "The Beach" by Alex Garland and "Grits" by Niall Griffiths.
  • The role of the setting in "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier, "I'm the king of the castle" by Susan Hill and "The woman in black" by Susan Hill.
  • Traditional fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault and their modern equivalents by Angela Carter
  • The chronotope as the interactions between time and space on the basis of "Mrs. Dalloway " and "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf and "The Hours" by Michael Cunningham .
  • Evolving Western Civilisation of the eighties and nineties of the twentieth century and its impact on young Europeans presented in selected novels by A. Warner, I. Welsh and T. Davidson
  • Broadening and Trespassing the Detective Novel Canon in Selected Novels by P.D. James and Peter Ackroyd