Theses completed / Gender Studies Centre - Dr. Séllei Nóra | Institute of English and American Studies

Eszenyi László: Contrasts and Parallels in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, 1995
Kiss Dóra: Aesthetic Development in the Works of Katherine Mansfield, 1995
Szarka Eleonóra: Women’s Search for Identity in Hardy’s Novels, 1995
Dorkó Dóra: Female Experience in Jean Rhys’s Novel Wide Sargasso Sea, 1996
Lencz Mónika: Narrative Strategies in Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories, 1996
Oláh Szilvia: D. H. Lawrence’s Theory and Shorter Fiction in the Light of Freud’s and Fromm’s Philosophy, 1996
Tóth Tünde: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, 1996
Tóthné Krankovics Ildikó: The Presence of Freud’s Theory of the Oedipus Complex in Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence, 1996
Dipold Lilla: Themes in Hardy’s Shorter Fiction, 1997
Fazekas Attila: Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights: A Rebellion against the Dominant Discourses of the Western European Cultures, 1997
Kalmár György: The Pleasure of Orlando, 1997
Kenéz Adrienn: Splitting of Consciousness: The Female Psyche in Emily Brontë’s and Sylvia Plath’s Novels, 1997
Kéri Henriett: George Eliot’s Moral Views about Egoism and Altruism through the Lots of her Female Heroines, 1997
Nagy Viktória: Male-Female Relationships in the Patriarchal Society of Jane Austen’s World, 1997
Nyíri Éva: Visualisation and the Gothic Paraphernalia, 1997
Porcsalmi Izabella: Frankenstein and Jung’s Theory of the Individuation Process, 1997
Tóth Orsolya: The Mill on the Floss: A Female Bildungsroman and the Interpretation of the Genre, 1997
Csajbók Anikó: Christina Rossetti and the Concept of Victorian Femininity, 1997
Nagy Ágnes: Society and the Fragmented Female Psyche in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, 1997
Follárdt Natália: “Speaking as a Woman”: Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf, 1998
Nagy Ildikó: Brothers and Sisters in 19th-Century British Women Writers’ Works, 1998
Tóth Nárcisz: Representation of Mother-Daughter Bonding in the Works of Female Writers, 1998
Végvári Edit: Who’s Afraid of the Wolves?: Female Figures in Christa Wolf’s Kassandra and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, 1998
Csillingh Erika: The Feminine Condition in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction, 1998
Garai Mónika: The Feminisation of the “Third Genre”, 1999
Homoródi Zsuzsa: Third Stories: Representatives of the Madwoman in Women’s Novels, 1999
Lantos Enikő: Twice-Told Tales: Fairy Tale, Gothic, and Fantasy in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, 1999
Szentgáli Aliz: Awakenings: Roles and Models for Married Women and Their Defiance in Two 19th-Century Novels: Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Theoder Fontane’s Effie Briest, 1999
Gergely Szilvia: Images of Woman, 2000
Kovács Éva: Female Confessions, 2000
Szebeni Edit: Searching for a Female Identity: A Comparison of A. Mitgutsch’s Die Züchtigung and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, 2000
Csatári Annamária: Margaret Drabble’s The Waterfall as Künstlerroman, 2001
Huszti Andrea: Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca: A Jane Eyre Intertext, 2001
Jakab Enikő: Ilness and Family Romance: a Key Motif in Charlotte Brontë’s Novels, 2001
Juhász Andrea: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: A Bicultural Female Künstlerroman, 2001
Kertész Márta: The Domestic Novel: Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, 2001
Jakab Anna-Mária: Reading the Female Body in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, 2002
Bolgár Tamás: Tales of the Mirror: Narration, Narrators, and Narrative in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, 2002
Szénási Emőke: “A Palimpsest of Unheard Sounds”: Female Subjectivity in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, 2002
Garamvölgyi Judit: “The Wet Frontier Between Me and Me”: Siren-songs from the Modernity, 2003
Horváth Borbála: A Critical Review of the Reception of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, 2003
Bencze Kinga: What is in Bridget Jones’s Diary ? — An Analysis of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary from a Sociological Point of View, 2004
Dóri Márta: “Through the Looking Glass”: Looking and Self­-Definition in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, 2004
Katona Julianna: Identical Gynaecologies: Gynaecology and Duality in David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers, 2004
Almási Csilla: The Problem of Creation: An Analysis of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and George Eliot’s “The Lifted Veil”, 2004
Zakariás Flóra: Fatalism and Determinism in Thomas Hardy’s Novels, 2005
Kolarovics Teréz: Mirroring Bodies and Texts — Michael Cunningham’s The Hours and its Intertetxts, 2005
Varga Emese: Schizophrenia: ‘The Perfect Literary Symbol for the Female Condition’
in the Novels of Janet Frame and Sylvia Plath, 2005
Nagy Alexandra: Swallowing Mirrors – Mirrors and Others in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, 2005
Erdei Nóra: “The Erotic Beyond”: Sexuality in Emily Dickinson’s and Christina Rossetti’s Poetry, 2005
Szabó Erika: „The Relation of Women’s Fashion to Art”, 2005
Gergely Nikoletta Éva: Epistemology, Rhetoric and Power in Sigmund Freud’s ‘Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria’ (‘Dora’), 2006
Hegedűs Melinda: Psychic Mirrors in Women’s Writing, 2006
Schottner Ágnes: The Shadow of the Ruse Fossette – Lucy Snowe’s Shadow-Like Character in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, 2006
Bánki Ágnes: The Possibilities of Integration and Reintegration Into Society in Marie de France’s Lais, 2007
Tóth Eszter: The ‘Other’ Woman in the Attic in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, 2007
Papp Réka: The Female Body in Feminist Fiction, 2007
Krakkó Eszter: Charlotte Brontë’s Novels: Inviting the Picturesque, 2007
Papp Barbara Judit: Emily Jane Brontë’s Gondal Poems as a Gothic Story, 2007
Veres Ibolya: Physical Illnesses and Mental Diseases in Connection with Marriages in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma, 2007
Kovács Blanka: The Other Face of Fairy Tale Heroines: Alternative Heroines in the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, 2008
Barna Tibor: Oleanna: Feminism, Postmodernism and Political Correctness, 2008
Sanyó Olívia: Redefining Gender Relationship and Identity in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, 2008
Tóth Krisztina: Női tes(z)t-ábrázolásmódok Tóth Krisztina novelláiban, 2008
Kristóf Júlia: The Feminine the Ruler – The Masculine the Tender:
The Gender-Shift in Emily Brontë’s Gondal Poems, 2008
Agócs Andrea: Three Generations of Women – A Three-Generation Woman: Stephen Daldry’s The Hours, 2009(BA)
Antal Adrienne: Villette: A Quest for Self-Definition, 2009
Bata Györgyi: Gender Changes in “The Lifted Veil” and in Orlando, 2009
Diviki Dóra: Esther’s Doubles in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar 2009
Fenyősy Márta: Colours as Means of Understanding the Process of Going Mad in Wide Sargasso Sea, 2009
(BA)
Mladoneczki Laura: Flower Symbolism in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop, 2009 (BA)
Pavletits Orsolya: The Double Discourse on Victorian Womanhood and Sexuality for a Contemporary Perspective, 2009
Szűcs Péter: Confused: Postfeminism and Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’ Diary, 2009
(BA)
Vígh Mónika: International Relations in the Women’s Suffrage Movement in New Zealand, 2009
Hermann Ildikó: The New Woman at the Fin de Siècle: Fact or Fiction? 2009
Szabó Ildikó: Other Bodies – The Representation of Disabled Female Bodies, 2009
Baji-Gálné Oláh Ibolya: Bildungsroman in the Shadow of Madness in Daphne du Maurier’ Rebecca and Alfred Hitchcock’s Film Adaptation, 2010
Benedek Nikolett: Artistic Representation in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, 2010
Estók Anna: Modern Urban Heterotopias–Modern Urban Phenomena and Their Representation in Literature and in Films in Connection with Space, 2010
Lőrincz Bianka: The Function of Seasons in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, 2010
Muszka Zsuzsanna: The Intertextual Connection Between Lessing's The Grass is Singing and Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country, 2010
Szabó Emőke: A Comparative Analysis of Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones’s Diary, 2010
Szabó Orsolya Zsuzsanna: Just Turn It Around:The Osbournes and The Osbournes as Images and Storytellers of Gender, 2010
Szalóki Zsuzsanna: The “Uncanny” and the Gaze: Nature as the Embodiment of Repressed Contents in Conrad’s Heart of Darknes and in Lessing’s The Grass is Singing, 2010
Tar Adrienn: Trauma and Confusion in Women’s Lives, and the Failure of Psychiatry in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, 2010
Bacskó Barbara: (magyar szak) A hisztéria mint a női szubjektum elvesztése a Jane Eyre-ben és a Széles Sargasso-tengerben 2010
Kiros Eszter: Goels and Tricksters in Jesus’ Matrilineage 2010
Filep Éva: The Role of Women’s Magazines in Creating Ideal Females 2010
Németh Ágnes: Virginia Woolf and the Problem of Language 2010
Bussy Adrienn: Bridget Jones’s Diary as a Text of the Subcultural Phenomenon 2011 (BA)
Tógyer Eleonóra The Self As The Other In Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride 2011 (BA)
Bozsó Georgina: Strings of Autocracy: From Fairy Tale to the Fear of the Unknown in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop 2012 (BA)
Sulyák Alexandra: The Function adn Significance of Spatial Metaphors in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights 2012 (BA)
Agócs Andrea: What Shall we Do with Our Soldiers? Representations of the Shell-Shocked Soldier in Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier and Sarah Waters’s Little Stranger 2012 (MA)
Fenyősy Márta: Madness Through Water Symbolism in Janet Frame’s Faces in the Water 2012 (MA)
Setét Réka: “Tell me where it hurts”: The Traumatic effects of Story-Telling in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin and Barbara Vine’s Dark-Adapted Eye 2012 (MA)
Szalóki Zsuzsanna: The Mother-Daughter Relationship in Fairy Tales by Contemporary Women Writers 2012 (MA)
Farkas Szabolcs: Reading Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out as a Female Initiation Story 2013 (BA)
Kulcsár Lili: The Development of Cultural and Masculine Identity in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia 2013 (BA)
Sugár Gabriella: ‘Buried Alive’: The Treatment of Trauma and Repression in Villette 2013 (BA)
Szigeti Magdolna: The Description of Weather and Landscape on the Moorland in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights 2013 (BA)
Szilágyi Bella Brigitta: Gaze and ‘Surveillance’ in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette 2013 (BA)
Gellér Marianna: Women as Powerful and Monstrous: The Witch, the She-Devil and the Femme Fatale in Literature and Film 2013 (MA)
Kicsák Erika: Victorian Paintings as Immensely Rich Sources for Analysing the Emergence of the New Woman from the Role of the Obedient Middle-Class Housewife 2013 (MA)
Nyári Ákos: Sexism as an Issue in Video Games 2014 (BA)
Borsos Gabriella: The Female Body in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction: Objectification and Alienation of the Body 2014 (MA)
Péter Zsuzsa Flóra: Of Monsters and Mothers 2014 (MA)
Juhász Dóra: ‘The name of governess […] was a mere mockery’: The Historical and Social Position of the Victorian Governess 2015 (BA
Lakatos Ildikó: Fairy Tales and Independent Female Heroines in Jane Eyre and ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’ 2015 (BA)
Mezősi Rita: The Experience of Womanhood: A Comparison of Jane Eyre and Mrs Dalloway 2015 (BA)
Szenes Marianna: The Performance of Femininity in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland 2015 (BA)
Sugár Gabriella: Formations of Madness and Femininity in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted and Janet Frame’s Faces in the Water 2015 (MA)
Szilágyi Bella Brigitta: ’A place to hide in’- Space and Trauma in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight 2015 (MA)
Tóth Edit: Twisting Gender Roles: Femininity and Masculinity in Agatha Christie’s Early Miss Marple Novels 2015 (MA)
Katkó Vivien: The Representation of Hegel's Theory of Freedom and His Notion of the Master and the Slave in Jane Eyre 2016 (BA)
Orsó Nikolett: Untypical Victorian Gender Constructions in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 2016 (BA)
Tófalvi Katalin: The Possibilities of Embroidery and Textile Techniques within Contemporary Conceptual Art 2016 (MA)
Weidisch Edit: ‘You thought to disgrace me, did you, by running away and turning [an] artist’: A Woman as an Artist in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 2016 (MA)
Korompai Flóra Luca: Jane Eyre’s Escape from the Perspective of Victorian Expectations About Women 2017 (BA)
Juhász Dóra: “Last Night I Dreamt I Went to Thornfield Again": Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca as Jane Eyre’s Intertext 2017 (MA)
Szenes Marianna (joint supervision with Dr. Marianna Gula): “This is the Place of Betrayal": Memorialising the Irish Magdalen Laundries in Galway 2017 (MA)
Szűcs Orsolya: Sexual and Textual Androgyny: Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and A Room of One’s Own 2107 (MA)
Fehér Dóra: “My Imagination is the Body’s": A Kristevan Interpretation of Female Embodiment in The Waves 2107 (MA)