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Culture, Humour, and Subtitles: The Translation into English of Ocho Apellidos Vascos
(2021)
[Abstract] This work aims atanalysingthetranslation into English of theSpanish filmOcho Apellidos Vascos, focusing on its difficulties as a comedy and its challenges regarding culture-specific items (CSIs). ...
Uzbek students learning English as a foreign language: Error analysis using corpora
(2021)
[Abstract] he current study analyzes various types of errors that occur in IELTS academic writing essays by learners of English as a foreign language with the first language being Uzbek.A corpus of overall 40 written ...
“Property, and a Valuable Property”: A Study of Disposability, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Slaves in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer
(2021)
[Abstract] The social, political and racial tensions that have been questioning the actual social equity in the United States of America lately, epitomized by the Black Lives Matter movement, seem to require an interpretation ...
Under His Eye: Power and Gender Performativity in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake
(2018)
[Abstract] This Master‘s thesis engages in a comparative analysis of two characters from two different novels by Margaret Atwood: Offred, from The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Oryx, from Oryx and Crake (2003). This comparative ...
Spaces of Memory: Performing Identity in Travels in the Scriptorium
(2019)
[Abstract] As Michel Foucault said in his text Of Other Spaces, ―the great obsession of the nineteenth century was, as we know, history‖ (22). Although with the turn of the century this obsession has been gradually diluted, ...
Creative Muse: the young female artist and the role of arts in women's Künstlerromans
(2017)
[Abstract] This Master's thesis provides a comparative analysis of the portrayal of the woman artist in Willa Cather's The Song of The Lark, Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban and Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street ...
Drowning Sorrows Away: An Analysis of Alcohol Consumption in Two Chick Lit Novels
(2023)
[Abstract] The present Master’s degree final project analyses the alcohol consumption
pattern of Bridget Jones and Eleanor Oliphant, two chick lit heroines set in two decades
apart. As alcohol is often less stigmatized ...
Sue the Patriarchy: Analysing the “Mary Sue” Trope and Its Many Problems
(2023)
[Abstract] As women have slowly but surely inserted themselves within traditionally male
fields, problems regarding their contributions have repeatedly arisen in patriarchal
attempts to boycott their efforts. The ...
“This World Is Rotten”: An Analysis of Eco-Fascist Discourse
(2023)
[Abstract] The 20th century saw the birth and replication of a new, dangerous ideology:
fascism. Over the past century, it has led to a variety of subtypes, one of which interests
us specially: ecofascism. This ...
Of Trees and Women: Ecofeminist Memoirs by Wangari Maathai and Vandana Shiva
(2023)
[Abstract] This master’s thesis analyses the memoirs of two prominent ecofeminist writers-activists,
Wangari Maathai and Vandana Shiva, to demonstrate the connections between the form, content,
and message of their ...