This thesis will look at the representation of crime in the Sherlock Holmes stories of the nineteenth century, and that in the BBC’s series Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes. The aim is to answer the ...

Previous research on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Pronominal Reference (Binding Theory) has focused on early language development of ASD children. However, not much is known about the ability to interpret binding ...

Oral proficiency can be tested in various ways. Students of English at Radboud University are assessed in pairs during a discussion and are assessed with the CEFR. Although the CEFR is useful and effective as an assessment ...

The literary and visual arts have had significant influences on each other, especially in shaping dominant values of gender and sexuality, which reflect the ideologies of Western patriarchal rule. The American writer Sylvia ...

In the fifty years between the movements, race relations in the United States changed and racism took on new forms. Not only that, the role of women and the LGBTQ+ community in these movements also changed. This thesis ...

This thesis seeks to answer the question how the temporal narrative structure contributes to an interpretation of the author’s life in rock memoirs Bit of a Blur, The Road Beneath my Feet and Things the Grandchildren Should ...

This thesis examines the Man Booker Prize for Fiction’s branding since the Booker Foundation’s announcement to include all English fiction published in the United Kingdom in the award. Scholars have overlooked the opportunity ...

This research will deal with newspapers and their columns on Brexit from January 2015 up till December 2016. The newspapers that will be discussed are The Guardian and The Daily Mail and their columnists John Crace and ...

The aim of this research was to investigate how power and politeness are operationalised in the two strongly authority-ridden contexts The Great British Bake Off and its Dutch counterpart Heel Holland Bakt, and to examine ...

Reviews of various contemporary British novels contain distinctive characteristics associated with modernism as well as direct references to the literary movement or the historical period. The reception of Ali Smith’s two ...