The present thesis focuses on the two most recent novels written by the critically acclaimed author Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time (2016) and The Only Story (2018). At the point of writing these novels have received ...

Het levenloze vrouwelijke lichaam gold in de negentiende-eeuwse Westerse kunst als een van de belangrijkste inspiratiebronnen. In deze periode verschenen er talloze geromantiseerde representaties waarin het lichaam van een ...

After WWII, the way people lived changed drastically in both the United States and the Netherlands. In the United States, the end of the war meant an influx of veterans looking for a place to start their families outside ...

Representation of minorities in American politics has grown over the years and diversity is larger than ever. Since the midterm elections in 2018, representation for the largest ethnic and racial minority groups, African ...

Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate the effect of the Dutch expectation-managing discourse particle eigenlijk on predictive processing during incremental language comprehension. Subjects read ...

In de nasleep van de Tweede Wereldoorlog was het voorlichtingsbeleid van de Nederlandse autoriteiten, het Militair Gezag (MG) en het Kabinet Schermerhorn-Drees, onderhevig aan debat. Mede door de negatieve connotatie die ...

Although abundant scholarly research has been conducted into nearly every aspect of the life and works of Alexander Pope (1688-1744), the collections of his correspondence that were published in the 1730’s have been largely ...

In an attempt to revive the experimental investigation of language attitudes, this thesis employs methodologically innovative elicitation techniques to extract language attitudes with respect to four varieties of English: ...

Primair progressieve afasie (PPA) is een neurodegeneratieve aandoening. Ondanks het groeiende aantal studies is deze aandoening minder bestudeerd dan vasculaire afasie. PPA omvat een drietal erkende subtypes met name: de ...

In this communication focused study, the effects of message framing and outcome-relevant involvement on privacy concerns of new technologies are explored by an experimental survey. The new technology of drones is applied ...