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(2017-07-10)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThis thesis studies and discusses the controversy concerning the extension of the requirements for the Man Booker Prize, a literary prize established in the United Kingdom that is awarded every year to a novel of fiction ... -
(2018-08-15)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurBy investigating the significance of cultural heritage in the portrayal of the villain throughout popular British spy cinema this thesis aims to demonstrate how the villain from Kingsman: The Secret Service is both a ...
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(2018-07-12)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThis 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 ... -
(2018-06-15)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThis 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 ...
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(2018-06-15)Master LetterkundeThis thesis sheds light on the relatively new concept of literary web series and their unique relation with their audience. Theories on transmediality and audience interaction are applied to four literary web series. The ...
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(2018-12-28)Master LetterkundeThe research answers the question: In what way are the issues of race and gender represented in three Harry Potter novels and three Narnia novels, and to what extent are these representations essential to the film adaptations? ...
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(2016-07-12)Master LetterkundeThe status of authorship had been greatly diminished under the influence of poststructuralist theory about the author, which resulted in an authorial loss of control. However, authorship recently seems to have found its ...
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(2017-07-10)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThis paper will evaluate the discussion about the death of the novel from a publisher’s perspective. The question that we essentially try to answer is ‘to what extent are the publishing world and the academic world in line ...
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(2018-06-15)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThis research examined in what way Vera (2011) portrays Englishness and English identity, and what role gender plays in this portrayal. Midsomer Murders (1997) is used as an example of stereotypical Englishness. The aspects ...
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Female Rebels and Role Models: The Construction of Gender Identity in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction (2018-06-15)Master LetterkundeThis thesis examines the portrayal of the gender identity of female protagonists in four young adult dystopian trilogies, namely Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Divergent by Veronica Roth, ...
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(2018-07-10)Master LetterkundeThis thesis examines whether or not feminist dystopian fiction can be seen as a distinct literary (sub)genre. It considers the importance of looking at both internal features of texts and at recognition by the field with ...
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(2018-08-27)Master LetterkundeYoung adult dystopian fiction seems to have combined the genres of utopian fiction and fairy tales as elements from both genres are present in contemporary young adult dystopias and interact with each other. The aim of ...
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(2017-08-30)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurIn this thesis, I examine the function of metanarratives in Doris Lessing's 1950 novel The Grass is Singing, arguing that narratives have an important function as they are used by characters to further their own ...
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(2018-07-02)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurAbstract This thesis concerns the play “The Importance of Being Oscar”, a one man show devised by Micheál MacLiammóir about the life of Oscar Wilde, and focusses on the themes of gender and sexuality and how they are ...
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(2018-07-20)ResearchmastersMy thesis explores the consequences of crisis in British Metamodernist fiction. Metamodernism registers the end of postmodernism and the return to pre-postmodernist or modernist literary conventions. As it has only recently ...
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(2018-06-15)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThis thesis will examine the extent to which Victorian attitudes towards empire and imperialism were present in children’s literature. During the Victorian era, attitudes towards empire and imperialism were not consistent ...
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(2019-06-28)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurKate Bush remains one of the most successful and original British female music artists and is often perceived as a female pioneer. This thesis analyses a selection of her earlier work in order to establish how she represents ...
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(2018-07-02)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThis thesis will analyse the concept of the Anthropocene in post-apocalyptic, young-adult fiction. Specifically, it will look at the effects of the Anthropocene that are present within the novels and the way in which the ...
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(2015-07-03)Master LetterkundeIn deze scriptie wordt het begrip readability (toegankelijkheid of leesbaarheid) onderzocht in de context van het literaire veld. Readability is een begrip dat zowel op een negatieve als positieve manier kan worden gebezigd ...
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(2018-08-30)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThrough the internet and digitisation new publishing strategies in book publishing are needed. One such strategy by the UK publisher Rocket 88 is analysed here. They have released a plethora of books on music, of which ...
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