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 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 ...

This 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 ...

This BA thesis demonstrates how contemporary British fiction represents the divergent experiences of diasporic subjects and perspectives on multicultural communities in contemporary London. I have used Monica Ali’s Brick ...

This research aims to answer the following question: “What are the various arguments raised by professional readers within the academic debate about the state of the novel and how do they compare to the book consumption ...

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. ...

Even though Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations was published roughly 150 years ago, it still has a great impact in literature today. An example of this is the 2006 novel Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. The novel uses Great ...