This 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 ...

This thesis will examine the function of literary techniques in first Falling Man by Don DeLillo (2007) and then The Zero by Jess Walter (2006) and relate it to the classic trauma theory approach by Caruth and contemporary ...

In this thesis, Kenneth Branagh’s film adaptation Murder on the Orient Express (2017) will be analysed to see how it deviates from Agatha Christie’s novel. This thesis aims to provide an answer to the question of how Kenneth ...

The movement of female empowerment of the 1960s was not the beginning of feminism, but it could be construed as the confirmation of an old tradition of thought that was centred on the inequality of women. The second wave ...

This thesis reads and analyses Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith (2002) and Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White (2003) in the light of its portrayals of contemporary anxieties. A specific 21st century anxiety which is ...

This research will answer the question: in what ways does the poetry written by Francis Ledwidge in the wake of the Easter Rising reflect a changing stance on his role as an Irish soldier in the First World War? Guy Beiner’s ...

The novel Oliver Twist is one of Charles Dickens’ most popular works and has been widely criticised due to the use of anti-Semitism in its plot. This criticism has also transferred to the adaptations that were made of the ...

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 ...

This thesis looks at the trope of the Chaste Eccentric Genius trope in Victorian literature to expose the potential-asexuality in Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Arthur Conan ...

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 ...