Masters Dissertations & Portfolios: Recent submissions
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Consenting in the Grey Area: Towards an Ontology of Sexual Consent
The so-termed ‘grey area’ of sexual consent has perplexed culture and critics alike since its initial coinage by journalist Laura Stepp in a 2007 Cosmopolitan article as ‘sex that falls somewhere between consent and denial’. ... -
Roots, Tentacles and Words: The Representation of Animals and the Environment in the Contemporary Works of N. Scott Momaday and Linda Hogan
Scholars claim that the current environmental crisis is of anthropogenic origin: caused by humans. However, it is important to distinguish between the harm that western civilizations and the capitalist system has caused, ... -
An Exploration of Chinese International Students's Perceptions of How Their Identities Change Under the Impact of Covid-19
After the outbreak of Covid-19, there is evidence to suggest that there had been an increase in discrimination against Chinese international students globally. During the pandemic, students were required to follow control ... -
Looking for Lukács: Examining Five GDR Novels in Translation
Certain translations into English published in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Socialist German state that existed from 1949 to 1990, have attracted attention both from translation scholars and literary translators. ... -
A Bloody Success: Mapping the success of #LahuKaLagaan through network analysis
A Bloody Success: Mapping the success of #LahuKaLagaan through network analysis - Nazma Kazani This thesis investigates the narrative agency and connective action of hashtag campaigns by focusing on one hashtag that went ... -
Faith and Suspect: A Comparative Analysis of Lu Xun's A Madman's Diary and Cervantes' Don Quixote from the perspective of madness
Don Quixote and A Madman's Diary are two significant works in the history of world literature, both from literary giants and composed at a similar historical stage, i.e., the period when modernity took place. However, there ... -
Analysing the Textual Variance in Terry Pratchett's The Carpet People
This dissertation analyses the textual variance between Terry Pratchett’s two versions of The Carpet People. The dissertation uses the mixed methodology of close and distance reading to highlight the differences between ... -
Language Variation in Video Games: A reception study on the impact of Anne Bonny’s language variation on the gameplay experience of Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag in English and Brazilian Portuguese
This study aims to identify the reception of the Irish English localisation into Brazilian Portuguese in the video game Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag by analysing the gameplay experience of Brazilian gamers living in Ireland. ... -
Hooked on a feeling Remembering sensory experience to unveil the world in Marcel Proust's Swann's Way (1913) and Günter Grass’ The Tin Drum (1959)
This dissertation analyses the structure of the memory narrative in Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust and The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, through the lens of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology as presented in Ideas I and II. More ... -
Science Fiction and the Sun: The Question of Anthropocentrism in Wells, Tarkovsky and Ishiguro
This dissertation broadly considers the place of humankind in nature. However, given the overwhelming scope of this topic, I have narrowed my focus down to an analysis of anthropocentrism: the assumption of human superiority ... -
Disruption and Maintenance: New Technologies and Dynamics of Access and Display
The dissertation examines the constrains and affordances of new technologies of display in relation to established paradigms of access and display within the culture and heritage sphere. It posits that new technologies of ... -
Memes and Puns in Translation: an MT Evaluation from English into Brazilian Portuguese
This work aims to solve a gap in research in machine translation (MT) of humorous pieces, specifically memes and puns from English into Brazilian Portuguese. The reason for this study is the importance that humor has played ...
