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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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(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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(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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(2021-08-25)Master LetterkundeThis thesis explores how the public has responded to authors J.K. Rowling and Lionel Shriver, who have become the subject of public controversy, and what this response tells us about the current conceptions about the author. ...
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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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(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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(2021-08-15)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThis 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 ...
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(2016-08-15)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThe Asian Values debate instigated by Lee Kuan Yew has had a significant influence on Singaporean society and its literature. This research looks at the novels of Catherine Lim and Dave Chua, Little Ironies: Stories of ... -
(2020-11-04)Master LetterkundeThis thesis researches the professional reception of graphic novels and uses Bourdieu’s field theory to determine whether the graphic novel’s position in the literary field has changed since the 1980s, when the term “graphic ...
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(2016-07-10)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThe 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 ...
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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 ...
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(2018-08-15)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThis 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 ...
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(28-06-28)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThree years after the Brexit referendum, Britain still has not left the EU and is utterly divided. The academic field is highly interested in the causes and consequences of the referendum and a new literary genre has ...
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(2016-07-01)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThis thesis examines how British identity is represented in the Man Booker Prize shortlists and winners. Through a quantitative analysis, it discusses the occurrences of identities among the authors and novels represented ...
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(2016-08-26)Master LetterkundeThis 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 ...
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(2016-07-01)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThis research explores Yevgeny Zamyatin's We (1924) and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), examining and comparing their contents in an ecocritical light, with an emphasis on the ecocritical notion of apocalypse. This ...
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The Cinema and Its Prey: Modernism in Adaptations of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" and "Mrs Dalloway" (2018-06-15)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurThis thesis aims to find out how modernist elements of Virginia Woolf’s novels Orlando: A Biography (1928) and Mrs Dalloway (1925) have been adapted to film in Sally Potter’s adaptation Orlando (1992) and Marleen Gorris’s ...
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(2021-06-30)Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuurBoth the voice of Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre and the voices of coloured women during the #MeToo movement have been silenced due to their race and gender, and they only received a voice after their silence was perceived to ...
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