Past Theses in Fantasy

These were the MA theses inspired by our course of Fantastic and Fantasy in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, supervised by conf.dr. Adrian Oțoiu

Also check out the other lists of past theses: on Fairy Tales, on Animal Tales, on Minority and on Crossover Fiction.

YearStudentTitleLink
2012Babici AndreiIn the MInd of the Modern Creator of Fiction: J.R.R. TolkienBA
2013Roxana Weisz
Petrovan
The Sparky Gentle Giant:
Understanding and Defending Roald Dahl
cover
2013Daniel FerneThe Stone Table Sacrifice As The turning point in The Chronicles of Narnia
2013Cosmin PopTheological Symbolism in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
2014Adelina OrosIdentity, the Double, and the Other Mother
in Coraline by Neil Gaiman
cover
2015Maria Marchiș
Lendel
The World of David Walliams.
Children Redeemed by Humour and Grotesque.
cover
2015Georgie PeterRoald Dahl and the Writing Factory.
Tremendous Ways of Keeping Children Fascinated
cover
2015Maria DrimușJoc, subiectivitate și trădare. Traducerile în română ale BFG de Roald Dahl. BA
2015Daniela EmberRemote Children [in Five Children and It and Mary Poppins]
2019Diana Semeniuc ȚifracThirteen Papery Layers.
Irony, Metafiction, Incongruity, in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
2020Selena AcquiEkphrasis Undone:
A Visual Journey in Ransom Riggs’
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
cover
2020Mariana OrosKatherine Arden’s Winternight Trilogy
2021Petre ȚipleaGeorge MacDonald and the Journey to Reconversion in “The Princess and Curdie ”
2022Anca Muscali
Șmuleac
Guiding the Act of Imagination in
George McDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin
2022Iulia Șanta
Marchiș
Formula magică din spatele traducerii.
O analiză pe Witches de Rolad Dahl.
2021Demeter TimeaStrong Women and I.
Dracula and As I Darken Trilogy.
2022Irina Bankoș (Pop)Brave Characters and Magic in
Colin Meloy’s Wildwood
2022Emanuela NegruInnocence Changed into Experience in
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials
2023Petre ȚipleaGeorge MacDonald
and the Journey to Reconversion
in The Princess and Curdie
2024Eduard BohonyiDivine Echoes and Blood in Tides:
Wandering through the fictional landscape of Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan
2024Gabriel ArdeleanFrom Escapism to Para-escapism in Fantasy Literature
2024Dragoș Ionuț
Bora
Alterations of Fantasy in
M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman
2024Ulici AndaThe Differences between Fantasy an Science Fiction from Harry Potter to Doctor Strange
(with Dr H. Nașcu)
2025Dragoș ChișThe Teachings of Fear.
Horror and Children’s Literature.
2025Adriana ApatiMythopoesis and Engineering in His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.
2026Sara VeleaThe Monsters Among Us:
How Monsters Depict Fear And Reflect Morality In Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
cover

Also check out the other lists of past theses: on Fairy Tales, on Animal Tales, on Minority and on Crossover Fiction.

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