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“THE QUEEN’S FUCKIN ENGLISH, KEN?” An analysis of the language of Trainspotting
(2018-06-13)
The novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh is a work that has been acknowledged and appreciated for its use of non-standard language since its publication. This essay seeks to find out if this non-standard language is simply ...
SEX AND SUCCESS. A Feminist Analysis of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
(2018-01-19)
Sexuality is an subject area that affects the power relations between genders, where one gender uses sex to subjugate and control the other. Sylvia Plath comments on this use of sexuality in her semi-autobiographical novel ...
Analysis of the political debate on citizenship testing in Sweden and the UK
(2018-06-12)
In recent decades, more and more countries in the Western world have introduced higher requirements on language and civics skills for the granting of citizenship. This tendency has been referred to by Joppke (2007) as ‘the ...
Ascending the Mountains of Madness: the Language and Psychology of H.P. Lovecraft
(2018-03-26)
The horror of Howard Philips Lovecraft’s writing lies within the mentality and psychology of his characters. Since he first became prominent, the main criticism against Howard Philips Lovecraft has been that his writing ...
Jane Eyre: Victorian Women’s Madness Maze
(2018-03-26)
Madness has always been a difficult concept to define as different sorts of behaviors have been considered madness in different times as well as different geographical, social and cultural contexts. In other words, the ...
HETERONORMATIVITY OF THE AMBISEXUAL. A Queer Reading of the Science Fiction Novel The Left Hand of Darkness
(2018-06-13)
The utopian genre exists predominantly in science fiction and has in the twentieth century been extensively explored in feminist literature. Ursula K. Le Guin is considered one of the leading authors in this genre and has ...
Sports of Empire: Squash as Signifier in V.S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River
(2018-06-12)
The protagonist of V.S. Naipaul’s 1979 novel A Bend in the River is an ethnic
Indian living in Africa as part of an expatriate community of traders in the city at the bend in
the river. He sympathises with the Western ...
Rooting for the Bad Guy: Narrative Empathy in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
(2018-01-19)
One of the reasons for feeling an emotional connection with fiction is narrative empathy. Research shows that for narrative empathy to be fully realized, it must compose both reader response and authorial strategies. This ...