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Root canals : identity in Zadie Smith`s White teeth
2007
Masteroppgave i engelsk - Universitetet i Agder 2007
The river potential and the river chronotope : reading rivers in Mark Twain`s the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Cormac McCharthy`s Suttree
2008
Masteroppgave i engelsk - Universitetet i Agder 2008
The life of Tom Marvolo Riddle aka Lord Voldemort : a study of the origin of evil and how it is portrayed in fantasy
2008
Masteroppgave i engelsk - Universitetet i Agder 2008
Hunter S. Thompson and gonzo journalism
2008
Masteroppgave i engelsk - Universitetet i Agder 2008
The silencing of women in westerns : a psychoanalytic, lacanian, and feminist approach
2007
Masteroppgave i engelsk - Universitetet i Agder 2007
From cohesion to thematics in the multimodal situation : the problem of the modal barrier
2007
Masteroppgave i engelsk - Universitetet i Agder 2007
The new England code : controlling female agency in contemporary American tv drama
2008
Masteroppgave i engelsk - Universitetet i Agder 2008 In an attempt to contextualize the DC observations, the overarching super-genre of melo-drama has been given particular attention. The relevance of melodrama is evident as the main ‘corpus’ of the survey, Cold Case, embodies a range of melodramatic traits. Furthermore, as will be seen in Chapters 1 and 3 particularly, melodramatic and Puritan value sets tend to overlap, especially in the attitude towards family. All chapters include analyses of individual Cold Case episodes, and each analysis comes with a description of scenes within the episode written in a slightly more subjective language. This has been done in order to provide the rea…
From scribe to YouTuber: A proposal to teach the History of the English Language in the digital era
2019
The present paper deals with a proposal for enhancing students’ engagement in the course ‘History of the English Language’ of the Degree in English Studies (Universitat de València). For the purpose, the traditional lectures will be combined with a research project carried out by groups of students (research teams) in which two digital tools will be used: electronic linguistic corpora and YouTube. Electronic linguistic corpora, on the one hand, will allow students to discover the diachronic development of certain linguistic features by looking at real data and making conclusions based on frequencies by themselves. YouTube, on the other, is a most appropriate online environment where student…
‘Strange old Italian dresses’: Walter Pater, Victorian fashionista?
2019
This article discusses Aesthetic dress as conceived by Walter Pater. Indeed in “Leonardo Da Vinci” (1869), the unfinished Gaston de Latour (1888-1894?), “The School of Giorgione” (1877) and “A Prince of Court Painters” (1885), Pater mentions and describes dress with special emphasis on details. Such descriptions belong to a series of writings on Aesthetic dress, admittedly a core component of British Aestheticism. Pater’s descriptions should therefore be contrasted to the 1870s portraits of Whistler, and to the 1880s-1890s writings of Whistler, Oscar Wilde and Max Beerbohm, along with the caricatures of Aesthetes by George du Maurier and Sir Leslie Ward. Pater responds by progressively deli…
Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetics of Commitment: the Modern Stigmata of Bereavement
2016
In the 1930s, the lingering absence of God and of a stable reality engulfed the work of the poet Hugh MacDiarmid, leader of the Scottish Renaissance Movement. To counter this void, like many others at the time, MacDiarmid found refuge in communism and nationalism and started to write political and idealist poetry. In his poems, his political idealism comes into being in the association of reality and ideal, symbolised first by Jean and Sophia, the characters of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926), and duplicated later in the fantasised image of Lenin, perfect blending of idea and action. Rejecting Sartre’s denial of the political effect poetry can have, the violence of MacDiarmid’s work…