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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 ... -
(2017-06-15)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 ...
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(2017-07-10)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThis 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 ...
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(2021-06-30)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThere has been a decline in the use of postmodern themes and aspects since the 2000’s. According to critics the postmodern values no longer corresponded with those of society. However, does this mean that postmodernism is ...
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(2019-07-05)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurIn 1967, the Beatles released their best-selling album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles have been studied in relation to many different topics, but research on the Beatles in relation to national identity ...
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(2018-06-15)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurIn 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 ...
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(2021-07-19)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurColour-blind casting is becoming more popular in the film industry, but its effect on the representation of people of colour (POC) is still relatively unknown. It is evident that ethnic minorities are heavily under-represented ...
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(2016-07-01)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThis thesis discusses the use of adjectival inflection in Late Middle English to express definiteness. By means of corpus research, using CorpusStudio, five texts from the late 14th century were analysed: “The Parson’s ...
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(2022-06-15)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThe plot of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic early twentieth-century children’s book series Anne of Green Gables underwent several significant changes in its Netflix adaptation titled Anne with an E, directed by Moira ...
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(2019-08-30)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThe 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 ...
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(2016-07-01)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThe topic of this thesis is omniscient narration in late-twentieth and twenty-first-century novels. Narration in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughter-House Five, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Ian McEwan’s Atonement have been analysed ...
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(2022-08-15)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThe Brexit Referendum is settled history, but the long-term effects of the United Kingdom departing the European Union are still developing. Present alongside these ongoing developments are works of art which use Brexit ... -
(2016-08-15)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThis 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 ...
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(2022-07-01)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurLittle Women (2019) is one adaptation among many popular period dramas that appeared on the screen in the last few years. A common theme within these adaptations is that many have some sense of feminism weaved into the ...
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(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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(2017-07-04)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThis 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 ...
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(2022-08-15)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurAny time period can represent the common consensus of its contemporary population, and a literary analysis of 17th to 19th century English works can allow for a systematic approach to understanding revolutionary acts. A ...
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(2019-08-30)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThis thesis will discuss gender bias in the field of English literary awards, focusing in particular on the Man Booker Prize, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Awards between 2000 and 2018. The research ...
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(2020-08-24)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThe 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 ...
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(2022-08-15)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThe thesis looks at the possible connection between anti-Semitic imagery and goblins. In order to establish whether such a connection exists, the historical goblins are analysed, as well as the history of anti-Semitism ...
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