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: Uchinaa-yamatoguchi, wakaibiimi? En studie i den yngre generationens kunskap kring den egna dialekten på Okinawa, Japan.
(2013-06-27)This essay investigates the relation between “usage” and “hearing” of dialectal words and expressions in the Ryukyu islands, Japan, in this case words and expressions from a mix of Ryukyuan and standard Japanese, so called ... -
Frankenstein, or the Voice of Chaos - A Psychoanalytical Reading of Mary Shelley's Journey Into the Subconscious of a Gifted Mind
(2013-06-27)The aim of this essay is to trace "Frankenstein" back to its origin in an attempt to revisit the creative "chaos" behind Shelley's gothic horror story, in order to unveil a hitherto undiscovered latent meaning that lurks ... -
Commanding the Truth: A Narrative Reading of Ian McEwan's "Atonement"
(2013-06-27)The tension between truth and fiction is central in Ian McEwan's "Atonement", since the main character, Briony, turns out to be both the narrating I and the experiencing I. The aim of this essay is to find out how it is ... -
Addressing Prejudice in Our Multi-Cultural Schools Through Literature: Teaching Robert Swindells’s "Ruby Tanya" with Intercultural Pedagogy
(2013-06-26)Sweden has developed from a mono-cultural country to a multi-cultural country during the last fifty years. People from all over the world coexist in Sweden, which results in prejudice and discrimination, not least in ... -
Widening Gender Norms with Literature: Teaching Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere and Gender in a Sociocultural Language Classroom
(2013-06-26)The aim of the essay is to argue why and how the novel "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman can be used to introduce students to gender issues in an English as a foreign language classroom where sociocultural theory is applied. By ... -
The Myth of the Melting Pot - A Postmodernist Reading of E.L. Doctorow's "Ragtime"
(2013-06-26)In this essay the notion of the melting pot within E.L. Doctorow's "Ragtime" will be examined. In contradistinction to most previous research on "Ragtime", where the greatest focus is put on the American dream, this study ... -
El español - ¿una lengua diversa? Un análisis de las representaciones de distintas variedades de la lengua española en una serie de vídeos para E/LE dirigidos a los niveles de A2/B1 en Suecia.
(2013-06-26)En utbredd diskussion kring vilken spanska som lämpar sig bäst för undervisningen i detta moderna språk ligger till grund för denna uppsats, som syftar till att undersöka vilka olika geolekter som finns representerade i ... -
Los españoles desayunan churros en las plazas. Un análisis de las representaciones de los hábitos alimenticios españoles en dos manuales escolares y un programa de radio de E/LE en Suecia.
(2013-06-26)Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka hur den spanska matkulturen presenteras och förmedlas i två svenska läroböcker samt i ett radioprogram producerat av Utbildningsradion i ämnet Spanska. Syftet är också att ... -
"Oh, Praise the Eternal Justice of Man!" A Feminist Reading of the Monster in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
(2013-06-26)This essay studies the monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from a feminist point of view and sheds a new light on the meaning behind the monster. The aim is to show that the monster - in his development from uninformed ... -
"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 ... -
Don't Panic! A study of the Absurd as an Expression of Anxiety and Existentialism in Douglas Adam's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
(2013-06-26)This essay studies the absurd as expressions of anxiety and existentialism in Douglas Adam's novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"; my thesis is that the absurd is the key to understanding the novel. With the help ... -
Master Chief: True Hero of the War on Terror? How Antiquity's Heroic Character and the Contemporary War on Terror are Apparent in William C. Dietz's "Halo: The Flood"
(2013-06-26)"Halo: The Flood" by William C. Dietz is a novel comprehensively based on a video-game series, which despite its success has attracted only minor attention from scholars during the last decade. In this essay, focus lies ... -
”It’s time to break the rules”, Kvinnligt författarskap i ett postrevolutionärt Egypten
(2013-06-26)Syftet med uppsatsen är att analysera fyra berättelser, skrivna av egyptiska kvinnor och publicerade efter den egyptiska revolutionen, nämligen historierna Aṭwal mimmā yanbaghī och Qiṣṣa shatwiyya av Hanan Elbadawi samt ... -
Prefixet "Bы-" och dess svenska motsvarigheter. En jämförelse av prefixet "Bы-" och partikeln "ut"
(2013-06-25)The aim of this text is to compare the semantic profile of the Russian prefix Bы- with that of the Swedish particle "ut". It follows Janda's categorization of Russian Bы-verbs into semantic groups and compares Swedish ... -
En analys av Hosni Mubaraks sista tal som Egyptens president
(2013-06-25)On the 10th of February 2011 Hosni Mubarak gave his last speech as the president of Egypt, on the following day he resigned the presidency after more then two weeks of violent protests against his rule, and with that his ... -
Det säregna vid uttryck för varseblivning hos Ivan Bunin och hur det översätts med svenska språkmedel
(2013-06-25)Syftet med detta arbete är att med utgångspunkt i Ivan Bunins "Mörka alléer" och Per-Olof Anderssons översättning därav identifiera dessa uttryck för varseblivning, ta reda på vad som karaktäriserar dem och hur de kan ... -
Real Life as a Play on Stage - A Study of Guilt and Shame in Ian McEwan's "Atonement"
(2013-06-25)In the novel "Atonement" by Ian McEwan, questions of guilt, shame and redemption are in focus. The main character Briony Tallis is presented as making up for a crime by working on a novel for 59 years. In this essay the ... -
The Doctor on Screen - Adapting the character of Dr. Watson from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in "Sherlok" and the "Sherlock Holmes" films
(2013-06-12)Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are two of the most recognizable figures in crime literature. They worked numerous cases together; in total, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories and four novels about them. These ... -
Happy Multicultural Land? Reading Zadie Smith’s "White Teeth" as a Critique of Multiculturalism as an Ideology
(2013-04-16)This essay explores the portrayal of multiculturalism in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth in order to show how Smith, rather than as an ideology, depicts it as a reality. Through its characters’ experience as immigrants of different ... -
Germanic and French adjectives in The Canterbury Tales How are etymologically different adjectives used in the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales?
(2013-04-09)The aim of this paper is to investigate how etymologically different adjectives are used in the General Prologue of "The Canterbury Tales". Are etymologically French adjectives used for people of higher society and are ...