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 ...

This 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...