dr hab. Joanna Teske (prof. KUL)
Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych - Instytut LiteraturoznawstwaKatedra Literatury i Kultury Angielskiej
Stanowisko: Profesor KUL
Wypromowane prace dyplomowe
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".