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"Writing Back" - How non-Western authors represent postcolonial identity in literature
"Writing Back" examines and compares how non-Western authors tell the story of the harmful impact of British colonialism on post-colonial conflict and displacement in two of the most ethnically diverse and highly populated ... -
Social Network Analysis and the Dynamics of Love in Early Modern Drama - Digitally Visualising Love Interactions in the Works of William Shakespeare
This thesis combines the fields of social network analysis and early modern drama in order to gain new perspectives on the dynamics of love-based interactions in the works of English playwright William Shakespeare. Using ... -
Flipping It Further: A Feminist Retranslation of 'Bonjour Tristesse' by Francoise Sagan
The feminist translation movement grew out of a hive of feminist activity in the 1970s and 1980s in France, the US and Canada. Women writers at this time pounced on the Derridean reassessment of the stability of meaning ... -
Virtual Genfūkei: The Internet as Originary Landscape in Three Born-Digital Literatures
Digital folklorists and ethnographers have engaged with the advent of the internet age in various ways, but few scholars have approached the internet from the perspective of literary analysis to address its function as a ... -
An Argument for Regenerative Shaming Through Its use in Holocaust and American Lynching Memorials
There is a global memorial culture around the memorialization of victims of mass tragedies, but these people are dead, so then what is the goal of these radically expensive monuments? This research explores the means by ... -
The #CommunityArchive is Trending: An Analysis of the Affordances and Limitations of Social Media as Community Archives for Collective Memory in the Public Sphere
The dissertation examines the community archive’s effectiveness in a social media context in terms of accessibility, transmission, and sustainability among other factors that deal with archival functions and goals. The ... -
The Weight of Words: Italian Translation, Adaptation, and Effective Words in Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats…
Abstract Being able to translate emotions is at the very least a titanic task. It is almost impossible to translate the emotional drive that an actor conveys to his audience based on the words of a script. The aim of this ... -
Dining Etiquette Culture between Northwest Europe and Northeast China in Cross-Cultural Communication
Various dining etiquettes reflect various dining cultures, and various regions have their own dining cultures. Due to globalization, the world is getting closer and closer today, understanding different dining cultures is ... -
On the Threshold of Jewish Identity: Tracing Postmodern Notions of Liminality and Gendered Memory in the Memoirs of Elie Wiesel and Ruth Klüger
This dissertation explores the postmodern notions of liminality and gendered memory in the memoirs Night (Elie Wiesel) and Still Alive (Ruth Klüger), and how they influence the construction of individual (and collective) ... -
Notti Magiche? Can football narratives shape the idea of a uniform Italian nation and identity? A thematic investigation.
This thesis argues that football and sport can constitute a national identity, and Italian identity in particular. With an overview of scholarship on Italian football history, nation building, sports sociology and Italian ... -
Expressions and Functions of Disgust: The City, the Self and a Solution in Art – A Comparative Analysis of Jean Paul Sartre's La Nausée and Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf
Modernist culture has engaged with the uncertainty and disillusionment of the interwar years in various ways. Among the explosion of modernist culture and its ensuing ambiguities and discontents, Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf ...
