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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

This 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 ...

This study focuses on the use of author surrogacy in the novels Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis and Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee. It addresses the connection between their use of author ...

This paper will evaluate the discussion about the death of the novel from a publisher’s perspective. The question that we essentially try to answer is ‘to what extent are the publishing world and the academic world in line ...

Deze scriptie analyseert drie van Virginia Woolfs romans—The Voyage Out (1915), To the Lighthouse (1927) en Between the Acts (1941)—in de context van de twee wereldoorlogen. Het is een vergelijkend onderzoek dat zich richt ...

People can be defined by the non-limitative categories of age, race, class, and/or profession. These categories can be subdivided in male and female gender, a divide which is traditionally linked to the sex of its subject. ...