Łukasz Borowiec

dr Łukasz Borowiec

Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych - Instytut Literaturoznawstwa
Katedra Literatury i Kultury Angielskiej

Stanowisko: Adiunkt posiadający stopień naukowy dr

2023

Prace licencjackie
  • Loss and Grief in "The Sisters" by James Joyce and "This Thing of Darkness" by Lucia Haynes and Eileen Horne
  • Surreal Elements in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and Its Radio Adaptation
  • The Image of the Devil in Leon Garfield's "The Devil in the Fog” and Its Radio Adaptation
  • Religious Elements in Cassandra Clare's "City of Bones" and "City of Glass"
  • Historical References in George R.R. Martin's "The World of Ice and Fire"
  • Victorian versus Modern Women in Arthur Wing Pinero's ''The Second Mrs Tanqueray'' and Timberlake Wertenbaker's ''The Break of Day''
  • Gothic Elements in Wilkie Collins' "The Haunted Hotel" and Its Radio Adaptation
  • Dystopia and Cyberpunk in "Altered Carbon" by Richard Morgan
  • Experiencing Loss in John Green’s “Looking for Alaska” and Lucy Catherine's “Halfway Here”
  • The Hostage-Captor Relationship in "A High Wind in Jamaica" by Richard Hughes
  • Gothic Elements in Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and Its BBC Radio Adaptation
  • The Impact of Colonisation on Family Relations in Caryl Phillips' "Crossing the River"
  • The Mother-Daughter Relationship in "The Crocodile Bird" by Ruth Rendell
  • Functions of Landscape Descriptions in "A Month in the Country" by J.L. Carr
  • Features of the Dystopian World in George Orwell's "1984" and Its BBC Radio Adaptation

2022

Prace licencjackie
  • Consumerism and Consumption in Caryl Churchill's "Owners"
  • The Concept of Love in William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Steven Berkoff's "The Secret Love Life of Ophelia"
  • Emotional Tensions in Samuel Adamson's "Mrs Affleck"
  • Moral Ambiguity and Crime in Donna Tartt's "The Secret History"
  • The Role of Men in "Call the Midwife" by Jennifer Worth
  • Gothic Elements in Catherine Storr's "Marianne Dreams"
  • Individual versus Society in Lynne Reid Banks' "The L-Shaped Room"
  • Dystopian Spaces in "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Image of Evil in "The Binding" by Bridget Collins
  • Gothic Heroines in the Radio Plays "Night of the Orchid" and "Windover"
  • The "Genius" Podcast as a Spin-off of the Sherlock Holmes Series
  • Marital Tensions in the Radio Plays "The Test" by Peter Whalley and "Black Dog" by Katie Hims
  • Conflicting Perspectives on Witchcraft in Liz Lochhead's "Maleficium" and Abigail Docherty's "Ursula and Boy"
  • Humour and Social Issues in Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and Its Radio Adaptation
  • Amy Beashel's "The Sky Is Mine" as a Trauma Novel
  • Women versus the Mafia in "Bound by Hatred" by Cora Reilly
  • Escaping Maturity in David Eldridge's ''Summer Begins''

2021

Prace licencjackie
  • Unreliable Narration in "The Woman in the Window" by A.J. Finn
  • Image of America in Bob Dylan's Selected Songs
  • The Struggle with Mental Illness in Jacqueline Wilson's "The Illustrated Mum"
  • The Role of the Woman in Viking Times in the Laxdaela Saga and “Gudrun” Radio Drama
  • Animals in J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"
  • The Mother's Death as a Catalyst in Shelagh Stephenson's "The Memory of Water"
  • The Image of Evil in Two Selected Episodes from "The Dark Tome" Series
  • Sound and Silence in Samuel Beckett’s "Waiting for Godot" and Its Radio Adaptation
  • Elements of Fantasy in Selected Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Their Radio Adaptations
  • Female Roles in Michael Cunningham’s “The Hours” and Its BBC Radio Adaptation
Prace magisterskie
  • Contemporary Versions of Motherhood in Liane Moriarty's “Big Little Lies”
  • The Horror of Obsession in Stephen King’s “Misery” and Caroline Kepnes’ “You”
  • The Uncanny Mother-Daughter Bond in Shirley Jackson’s “The Bird’s Nest” and Gillian Flynn’s “Sharp Objects”
  • Women as Victims of Witch-Hunt in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and Kathleen Kent's "The Heretic's Daughter"
  • Claustrophobia and Incest in V.C. Andrews' “Flowers in the Attic” and John Irving's “Hotel New Hampshire”

2020

Prace licencjackie
  • Narration in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Its CBS Radio Adaptation
  • Gothic Heroine in Selected Short Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
  • Character Relations in L.P. Hartley's "The Go-Between"
  • Portrayal of the Detective Couple in Dashiell Hammett's "The Thin Man" and Its Radio Adaptation
  • An Unconventional Crime Story: Agatha Christie's "Endless Night" and Its Radio Adaptation
  • The Motif of False Identity in "The Second Son" and "The Longest Journey" by Peter Whalley
  • Supernatural Horror in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" and Its Radio Adaptation
  • Elements of Absurd Humour in Selected Episodes of "The Mighty Boosh" Radio Series
  • Portrayal of Women in Thomas Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd" and Its BBC Radio Adaptation
  • Gothic Literature on the Radio: Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" and Its Radio Adaptation
  • Elements of Bildungsroman in Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book"
  • Love versus Depression on the Radio: "Heart" by Mike Bartlett
  • Escaping Maturity in J.M. Barrie's "Mary Rose" and Its BBC Radio Adaptation
  • Representations of old age in selected short stories by Ernest Hemingway.
  • The Significance of Things and Objects in "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
  • Portrayal of Mental Disorders in "All the Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
  • Elements of Bildungsroman in "Sister" by Rosamund Lupton
  • Functions of Space in ''Last Seen Alive'' by Claire Douglas
  • Memory and Memories in "The Things We Never Said" by Ming Ho
  • Aspects of the American Dream in John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" and Its Radio Adaptation
  • Symbolism in "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

2019

Prace licencjackie
  • London's diversity in selected plays from the "Urban Scrawl" online audio drama project
  • The Motif of Escape in 'Troll' by Ed Harris and 'Only You Can Save Mankind' by Terry Pratchett
  • Character relations in Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
  • Victorian morality in G.B. Shaw's "You Never Can Tell" and its BBC radio adaptation
  • "Elements of horror in Stephen King's 'Pet Sematary' and its radio adaptation"
  • The image of Latin American culture in selected children's books published in the USA
  • The figure of male and female detective in Agatha Christie's "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" and P.D. James's "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman"
  • Aspects of Women's Status in Early Modern England in Fantomina by Eliza Haywood
  • The myth of creation in C.S. Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia. The Magician's Nephew" and its BBC radio adaptation
  • Mother-daughter relationship in Vivienne Franzmann's "Ink Deep" and Becky Prestwich's "My Mother's Daughter"
  • Life-defining moments in the radio plays "The Sound of Roses" by Adrian Penketh and "Sleeping Dogs" by Steven Camden
  • Gothic elements in selected episodes from the ''The Man in Black'' series
  • "The motif of madness in B.A Paris's 'Breakdown' and Dave Simpson's 'Nightmares'"
  • The Poetics of the Thriller Genre in Radio Plays "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and "Demon Brother"
  • Elements of psychological thriller in "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn and "The Missing Wife" by Peter Whalley
  • Elements of detective fiction in A. C. Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and its radio adaptation
  • Power struggles in C. S. Lewis's "That Hideous Strength" and its radio adaptation

2018

Prace licencjackie
  • Selected Shakespeare’s plays in BBC School Radio adaptations
  • Obsessions and desires in two radio retellings of fairy tales: "The Red Shoes" and "White Snow" by Frances Byrnes
  • The motif of death in E.A. Poe’s „The Pit and The Pendulum” and its selected radio adaptations.
  • The motif of the main protagonists’ tragic fate in William Shakespeare’s "Macbeth" and Oscar Wilde’s "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
  • Aspects of narration in ''The Katniss Chronicles''
  • Aspects of Interpersonal Conflict in Three Contemporary Radio Plays
  • Aspects of narration in crime radio plays: Tony McHale's "Dead in the Water" and John Dryden's "Scenes from a Crime"
  • Approaches to Traditional Tales in Radio Dramas "The Forgotten" by Hattie Naylor and "Mustard Seed" by Nick Warburton.
  • The motif of revenge in Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" and Joseph Conrad's "Victory".
  • The motif of isolation in "The Shining" by Stephen King
  • The Image of Greece and Greeks in "The Magus" by John Fowles and "The Bull beneath the Earth" by David Calcutt
  • "The vision of the world in Orson Welles' adaptation of H.G.Wells' "The war of the worlds."
  • Feminist literary theory and Margaret Atwood’s "Handmaid’s Tale"
  • Destructive power of love in Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" and its radio adaptation
  • Compensation of Lack of Sight in Tom Sullivan's Autobiography "If You Could See What I Hear"
  • The motif of entrapment in Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" and its radio adaptation.
  • The motif of suicide in the radio plays "doyouwishtocontinue'' and ''Bridge''.
  • Alternative reality in "A Place Called Here" by Cecelia Ahern
  • Metafictional Elements in John Fowles' "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and its Radio Adaptation
  • "Portrayal of mental illness in K.R. Jamison's "An Unquiet Mind" and C. McCormack and M. Haynes's "The Shining Heart".
  • Portrait of the Rebel in Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" and its BBC Radio Adaptation

2017

Prace licencjackie
  • Isolation and Loneliness in Charlotte Brontë’s “Villette” and its BBC radio adaptation.
  • Elements of Dystopia in Divergent by Veronica Roth
  • Functions of sound effects in Orson Welles' radio adaptation of "The War of the Worlds" and Ed Hime's "Obey the Wave"
  • Characters' struggle with memories in "Come to Grief" by Hannah Vincent and "The Blind Man" by Alfred Hitchcock"
  • The portrayal of women in Anne Brontë's "Agnes Grey" and its BBC radio adaptation
  • Representations of the post-apocalyptic world in Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" and “Galaxy News Radio: The Adventures Of Daring Dashwood!
  • Aspects of love in selected contemporary radio plays
  • Memory, time and space in "The Dark Tower" by C.S. Lewis and "Bracing for the Sting of the Dark Tower" by Peter Gruenbaum
  • Elements of Celtic mythology and folklore in Melissa Marr's "Wicked Lovely" and David Calcutt's "The Otherworld Child"
  • "The portrayal of the femme fatale in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by John Keats and "IOU" by Jaden Clark : A comparison."

2016

Prace licencjackie
  • The Image of Prison in Bang Up by Sarah Hehir
  • Intertextuality in "Vampirella" by Angela Carter
  • Aspects of Tradition and Culture in Atching Tan: A Gypsy Wife by Dan Allum
  • Radiophonic representation of fear in Season 1 "We're Alive" by Kc Wayland".
  • The motif of parting in "My Life Is A Series Of People Saying Goodbye" by Dan Rebellato.
  • "Characters' choices in the radio adaptation of Marnie by Winston Graham."
  • Modifications of A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh series in selected animated adaptations by Disney
  • Images of Gods in "Alpha" by Mike Walker and "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
  • Football ideology in Red Star Newport by Paul Jenkins.
  • Images of ghosts in selected plays from the BBC 'The Man in Black' series
  • The Concept of Evil In the Radio Adaptation of Lord of The Flies by William Golding
  • The Motif of Exclusion in "Kicking the Air" by Christine Murphy.
  • Aspects of characterization in "Blue Glory" by Hayley Squires

2015

Prace licencjackie
  • Relations among homeless people and their families in Tony Teardrop by Esther Wilson
  • Temptation as a Trap in the Radio Play "The Devil's Violin" by Lucy Rivers
  • Aspects of deafness in Early Warning by Richard Monks
  • The Process of Coming of Age in the Radio Drama "The Man with Wings" by Rachel Joyce
  • Womanhood vs. Girlhood in the Radio Drama "Educator" by Haley Squires
  • The Motif of Journey in ''The Hitchhiker'' by Lucille Fletcher
  • Radiophonic representation of Vampire in BBC Radio production of Bram Stoker's Dracula
  • The Search for Self-Identity in the Radio Play "Rock me Amadeus"
  • The Motif of Death in the Radio Drama "When the Night Has No Right to Be King" by John Lynch
  • Insanity as an Escape to Alternative Reality in the Radio Drama "The Shining Heart" by Conor McCormack and Matt Haynes
  • Means of Expressing Humour on the Basis of the Radio Drama 'When I Lived in Peru' by Andrew Viner
Prace magisterskie
  • Archetypes that People Live by in Selected Plays by Christina Reid and Marina Carr
  • Biblical Motifs In Selected Modern Rock Operas
  • Aspects of Violence in Selected Modern British Plays
  • Fantasy and Science Fiction in Contemporary British Radio Drama
  • Representations of War in Selected Modern British Plays
  • Elements of Naturalism in selected plays by H. Pinter and J.B. Priestley.
  • The Poetics of Plays by Sarah Kane - Theory, Application, Effect
  • The Role of History in Selected Modern British Radio Plays
  • Representations of Educational Process in Selected Modern British Plays
  • Gothic Elements in Selected Modern British Radio Plays
  • Manifestation of Emotions in Selected Modern British Radio Plays

2014

Prace magisterskie
  • Fears and Anxieties of Male Characters in Selected Plays by Steven Berkoff. A Psychoanalytical Approach.
  • Manifestations of Female Independence in Modern British Drama on the Example of Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls", Rona Munro's "Bold Girls" and Barrie Keeffe's "My Girl".
  • The concept of death in William Shakespeare's Hamlet and its adaptations.
  • Representations of violence in modern British drama: Harold Pinter 'The Homecoming', Sarah Kane 'Blasted' and Mark Ravenhill 'Shopping and Fucking'. A psychoanalytical approach.
  • "Women's Emancipation and Female Characters in Selected Post-War British Plays."
  • The Space of Home in British Plays of the 1960s: "The Caretaker" by H. Pinter, "Live Like Pigs" by J. Arden, "Chicken Soup with Barley" by A. Wesker. A Semiotic Approach.