This thesis analyses three translations of Annie M.G. Schmidt’s Jip and Janneke – Rose Pool translated them as Mick and Mandy in 1961, Lance Salway as Bob and Jilly between 1976 en 1980, and David Colmer as Jip and Janneke ...

Even though the idea of a constant quality in the oeuvre of an author is recurrent in several literary theories and analyses of Samuel Beckett's work in particular, Jérôme Meizoz' concept of internal posture has not yet ...

The 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 ...

This thesis aims to demonstrate how Indigenous female authors represent the traumas suffered from Canadian government policies between the early days of the Confederation of Canada and 1996. That year signifies the closure ...

Brasyl and The Dervish House by Ian McDonald and The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi are science fiction novels with postcolonial themes, specifically part of the cyberpunk subgenre. Jennifer Langer and Adam Roberts argue ...

This thesis analyzes the presence of homosexuality in American drama written in the 1930s-1960s: The Children's Hour (1934) by Lillian Hellman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) by Tennessee Williams, and The Boys in the Band ...

The political memoir has remained a problematic matter in the field of life writing, with its liminal position between reality and fiction resulting in them being difficult to analyse. This thesis attempts to resolve ...

This thesis aims at exploring in what way three contemporary novels, C by Tom McCarthy (2010), A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride (2013), and How to Be Both by Ali Smith (2014), can be seen as “Metamodernist”. ...

Two theatres in Dublin, the Abbey, created after a merger in 1904, and the Gate Theatre, founded in 1928, have aimed, from their inception, to perform avant-gardes plays. In scholarship, the Abbey Theatre is generally ...

This thesis examines the narrative strategies and methods available to authors of children's fiction on the Holocaust to balance their differing interests of truthfully educating their readers about the subject, while not ...