dr hab. Joanna Teske (prof. KUL)

Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych - Instytut Literaturoznawstwa
Katedra Literatury i Kultury Angielskiej

Stanowisko: Profesor KUL

2023

Prace magisterskie
  • The Monistic and Pluralistic Approaches to the Meaning of Life in Contemporary English-Language Fiction
  • Love as the Meaning of Life in Gregory David Roberts' Novels
  • Women’s and Men’s Experience of Life’s Meaning in Contemporary English-Language Fiction and Non-Fiction

2021

Prace magisterskie
  • The Effects of Migration on Migrants' Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's Fiction
  • Presentation of Mental Experience in Contemporary English-Language Fiction and Non-Fiction Featuring Characters Suffering from Schizophrenia
  • Narratorial Self-Commentaries – Their Forms, Content and Functions − in Gillian Flynn's Novels
  • Artificial Consciousness: Mental States of Robots with Artificial Intelligence in English-Language Contemporary Science Fiction Novels

2020

Prace magisterskie
  • The Literary Works of Stanisław Szukalski
  • The Phenomenon of Love in Ian McEwan's Fiction
  • The Theme of Loneliness in Contemporary American Young Adult Fiction
  • The Theme of Love in the Fiction of Graham Swift
  • The Consequences of Climate Destabilisation in English-Language Climate-Fiction Novels
  • Different Perspectives on Suffering and Pain in Contemporary English Language Fiction
  • Experience of Loneliness in Contemporary Experimental Fiction: "Woman's World" by Graham Rawle, "The Unconsoled" by Kazuo Ishiguro, and "The Trick is to Keep Breathing" by Janice Galloway

2019

Prace magisterskie
  • Contemporary Fictional and Non-Fictional Narratives Depicting Violence against Women
  • African and African-American Women Slaves in the United States of the 18th and 19th Centuries in Contemporary American Fiction
  • Irony in Kate Atkinson's Selected Novels
  • The Situation of Eastern Immigrants in British Society in Contemporary British Fiction
  • Euthanasia in Contemporary English - Language Narratives
  • The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain in Contemporary Fiction

2018

Prace licencjackie
  • The Image of Death in Terry Pratchett’s Mort and Reaper Man
  • Mental Aberrations in "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk.
  • Representations of Consciousness in Julian Barnes' Levels of Life
  • Mental Illness of Cosmo Lavish in Terry Prattchett's "Making Money"
  • Julian Barnes’s Levels of life: The Significance of Human Suffering
  • Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger as a Postwar Gothic Novel
  • The Image of Contemporary British Society in "The Cuckoo's Calling" by Robert Galbraith
  • Pat Peoples as an Unreliable Narrator in Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
  • The Neo-Victorian Convention in "Tipping the Velvet" by Sarah Waters

2017

Prace licencjackie
  • Psychic Experiences of the First World War Soldiers in "Regeneration" by Pat Barker and "Strange Meeting" by Susan Hill
  • Focalization in ''The Casual Vacancy'' by J.K. Rowling
  • Suicidal Act in ‘The Sense of an Ending’ and ‘Flaubert’s Parrot’ by Julian Barnes
  • A Portrait of the Psychopath in Filth by Irvine Welsh
  • The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan As a Study of the Child's Imagination.
  • The Problem of Euthanasia in Jojo Moyes' "Me Before You".
  • A Generic Analysis of Broken Music by Sting
  • Ian McEwan’s "Atonement" as a Modern Female Bildungsroman
  • Human Need for Narratives in "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
  • Select Aspects of the Relation Between Literature and Music

2015

Prace licencjackie
  • Embedded Narrative in Postmodern Novel. "Ever After" by Graham Swift.
  • Spatial meanings in 'Levels of Life' by Julian Barnes
  • Moral Ideas in Terry Pratchett's Comic Fantasy "Small Gods"
  • Moral Ideas in "Amsterdam" by Ian McEwan
  • Harry Potter Fanfiction as a Product of Participatory Culture
  • Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson as a Postmodernist Novel
  • Moral Ideas in "The Light of Day" by Graham Swift

2014

Prace licencjackie
  • Elements of dystopia in ''Cloud Atlas'' by David Mitchell
  • "The Unconsoled" by Kazuo Ishiguro: a Study of Obsession
  • The Use of Games in Teaching Vocabulary to Secondary School Teenagers
  • Ian McEwan's Black Dogs: A Study of Evil
  • Moral ideas in The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
  • Self-Narrative as a Means of Developing Self-Consciousness in "Therapy" by David Lodge.
  • (Hysterical)Realism in the Presentation of the Youth in 'The Casual Vacancy' by J. K. Rowling
  • A Generic Analysis of Neil Gaiman's 'Coraline'
  • The Use of Literary Texts in Designing Tasks Developing Reading Strategies in English
  • Moral Ideas in "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes
  • The World’s Origins in J. R. R. Tolkien’s „Silmarillion” Compared with the Book of Genesis
  • Child as a Focalizer in "Pigeon English" by Stephen Kelman

2013

Prace licencjackie
  • Borders of Cognition in "Jacob's Room" and "Between the Acts" by Virginia Woolf
  • How Far Can the Narrator Go Before He Becomes a Character Himself? Discussing Terry Pratchett's "Reaper Man".
  • Unreliable Narration in "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes
  • ''It Had Been I Who Was The Fool'': The Victim and The Victimizer in Sarah Waters' "Affinity" and "Tipping The Velvet"
  • Childhood Relationships and Adult Conflicts with Others in Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Unconsoled"
  • Realistic, Modernist and Postmodern Narrative Techniques in Thinks… by David Lodge
  • Art and Life in Virginia Woolf's "Between the Acts"
  • Literature as a Way to Create Life and Alter Reality in Ian McEwan's "Atonement".
Prace magisterskie
  • The Image of Woman in the Fiction of Contemporary British Female Novelists
  • The Functions of Storytelling in Jeanette's Winterson Fiction
  • Portraits of Women in Contemporary Postcolonial British Fiction

2012

Prace magisterskie
  • The Concept of Evil in the Fiction of Niall Griffiths, Irvine Welsh and Patric McCabe
  • The Image of Man in Historiographic Metafictions by John Banville
  • The Journey of Self-Discovery in Contemporary British Fiction
  • Post-Colonialism in Niall Griffiths's Fiction

2011

Prace magisterskie
  • Romance and Its Transformations: from Realism ("Waverley" by Walter Scott) through Modernism ("The Alexandria Quartet" by Lawrence Durrell) to Postmodernism ("Possession" by A.S.Byatt).
  • Magical Realist Representation of Women in Salman Rushdie's Early Fiction
  • Elements of the Gothic convention in Ian McEwan's recent novels. Enduring Love, Atonement, Saturday
  • The Representation of the Body in Ian McEwan's Fiction
  • Contemporary British Fairy Tales for Adults: Angela Carter's "The Magic Toyshop", Jeanette Winterson's "Sexing the Cherry" and Graham Swift's "Waterland".
  • Female Bildungsroman in Patriarchal Society: E.M. Forster's "A Room with a View" and Virginia Woolf's "The Voyage Out"
  • An Artist and the World-Communion Versus Conflict: In the Fiction of John Fowels, Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Function of Storytelling in Jeanette Winterson's "Powerbook" and "Lighthousekeeping".
  • An Analysis of Focalization in the Early Fiction of John Fowels
  • The Picaresque Tradition in Contemporary British Literature: the Fiction of Angela Carter
  • Echos of Anglo-Irish Relations in Select 20 th Century Irish and English Novels
  • Pre-Feminists vs. Post-Feminists - Portraits of Women in the Fiction of Jane Austen and in Chick Lit.
  • The Contemporary British Campus Novel: "Emotionally Weird" by Kate Atkinson and "On Beauty" by Zadie Smith
  • Dream Convention in Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Unconsoled".
  • The Representation of the Absolute in the Novels of David Mitchell: "number9dream" and "Cloud Atlas".
  • Platonism and Neoplatonism in J.R.R. Tolkien's writings: "Mythopoeia", "Ainulindale", "Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth"
  • The Theme of Atonement in Ian McEwans's "Saturday", Graham Swift's "The Light of Day" and Kazuo Ishiguro's "An Artist of the Floating World"
  • Child As Focalizer in Contemporary British Novels: "Atonement" and "The Cement Garden" by Ian McEwan and "Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit", "Lighthousekeeping" by Janette Winterson

2010

Prace licencjackie
  • Image and Text: Millais's "The Bridesmaid" as the cover of John Fowles's "The Ebony Tower"
  • The Shell-Shock Phenomenon of World War I: the Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker.
  • Different Facets of Autobiography in "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie.
  • "Blind Faith" by Ben Elton- a Modern Version of "Nineteen Eighty-Four": The Danger of Totalitarian Systems.
  • Para-normal experience in William Golding's "Lord of the flies": Simon and his vision
  • The English-Welsh Tensions in Niall Griffiths's "Sheepshagger".
  • The Beauty of Art and Humanity: "On Beauty" by Zadie Smith
  • "Boundaries. Desire.": Chinese-Box Structure in Jeanette Winterson's "The Powerbook".