Browsing Department of Languages and Literatures / Institutionen för språk och litteraturer (2009-) by Title
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A Biblical Reading of William Wordsworth’s Poem Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
(2016-03-14)This paper examines in depth the concepts of childhood and immortality in William Wordsworth’s poem Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood in light of the biblical allusions presented in the ... -
'A Bizarre Mirror Version of the Real World': Modernity in Three Mythic Fiction Novels by Emma Bull, Keith Donohue and Tad Williams.
(2016-09-26)Traditionally, fantasy literature has often been suspicious of modernity, typically portraying rural, pre-industrial communities as threatened by the destructive forces of modernisation. However, it has been suggested ... -
A corpus-based study of Amplifiers in American English A study of the differences between amplifiers most frequently used in the different registers in the Corpus of Contemporary American English
(2017-10-19)Abstract: This study aims at exploring the most frequently used amplifiers in American English by using the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The focus is to investigate amplifiers with regard to two ... -
A dissertation on philosophising women, edited with introduction, translation and commentary
(2014-02-17)The objective of the present study is to produce a reader-friendly edition and translation of, and commentary and introduction to the dissertation Exercitium Academicum Mulieres Philosophantes Leviter Adumbrans (Uppsala ... -
A FREUDIAN PERSPECTIVE ON COLONIALISM IN HEART OF DARKNESS
(2015-10-14)This essay argues that Joseph Conrad wrote Heart of Darkness in order to shed light on what terrible crimes were committed in the colonies and what horrible things man is capable of. Further the essay attempts to show ... -
A Genre Analysis of Contemporary Celtic Music: The Revival of the Traditional Ballad
(2019-04-02)This is a genre study in linguistics of which the sole purpose is to identify and categorise common conventions within lyrics from the genre Celtic music. Previously, there have been no dedicated or conclusive studies on ... -
A Lexical Analysis of Contemporary Medical Terms in Japanese
(2014-02-24)Medical terminology is an important subset to any language, and completely indispensable to oral and written communication in healthcare related professions. There is also a known divide between technical medical vocabulary ... -
A Linguistic Introduction to the Discursive Conventions of Twitter
(2013-06-12)This paper provides an inductively-derived overview of some of the pertinent linguistically-related, empirically-observable discursive phenomena to be found on Twitter, a pupular microblogging site use do publish and ... -
A Literary Analysis of Stephenie Meyer’s "Breaking Dawn" from a Gender Perspective: Female Emancipation or False Liberation?
(2011-06-28)This essay takes as its starting point John Stephens’ schema of masculine and feminine traits. The main character in Breaking Dawn, Bella and Edward, will be analysed according to Stephens’ description of masculine and ... -
A Magic Carpet Trip to the Children’s Books of the Middle East -Discovering the voice of Arabic children’s books of today
(2011-09-06)In spite of the great literary ancient past of the Middle East, the Arabic children’s book of today is still in its infant stages of development, facing many challenges. This essay initially touches on some of these ... -
“A man-hating lesbian feminist”: a study of the collocations of the word feminist
(2011-03-29)The use of sexist language reveals a great deal about a society´s attitudes towards women. Studies have previously shown that the English language holds far more negative and pejorative terms for women than for men. This ... -
A modern shining princess. An intertextual analysis of the transformation of Princess Kaguya and the Okina from Taketori Monogatari in Reiko Shimizu's manga Kaguya Hime.
(2014-03-04)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the intertextual relationship between the classic Japanese folktale Taketori Monogatari and the Japanese comic (manga) Kaguya Hime that is based on the folktale. Focus lies in ... -
"A Mysterious and Wonderful Thing": Transformative Encounters in Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden"
(2013-06-26)"The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a story about a young girl's encounters with nature, animals, people, and ultimately God, in a rural Yorkshire setting - it is a story about coming alive with the world on ... -
“A New Black Woman” Discussing Gender and Race Norms using Sula in the EFL Classroom Alejandra
(2015-02-10)Abstract: The aim of this study is to examine the possibility of using Sula, by Toni Morrison, as a pedagogical resource in the EFL classroom in order to raise students' critical thinking and an awareness of gender and ... -
A Relationship to Death: An Examination of William Shakespeare´s Hamlet
(2014-02-18)Hamlet is an extraordinary play, which is full of deception, drama, intrigue, melancholia and death. This essay will examine Hamlet´s relationship to death in selected acts, scenes and soliloquies from the play. The purpose ... -
A Sea Change. An Examination of the Imagery in Chopin's The Awakening
(2014-02-06)The Awakening is Kate Chopin's tale of a woman seeking her individuation and selffulfillment in a male-dominated society – it is a novel about female emancipation. The aim of this essay is to examine the imagery in The ... -
A Swedish Perspective on Japanese as a Third Language. The Effects of English as Second Language
(2021-03-15)Higher Japanese language studies in Sweden are exclusively taught through English textbooks. Previous research within the field of third language (L3) acquisition has studied the effects of mediating languages on L3, but ... -
A TALE OF FOUR TOWNS AND ENGLISH The Role of English in the Linguistic Landscape of Sweden
(2020-09-08)The purpose of this study is to expand the corpus of linguistic landscape (LL) in Sweden. However, unlike previous studies, which have typically focused on the main cities, this study explores the central parts of four ... -
A Thread Of Manipulation & Staged Chance. An interpretation of Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy
(2010-06-17)This essay makes sense of a confusing book that resists interpretation by putting the three novels in the trilogy into context with one another. The main idea is that they are all one and the same story told from different ...