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The City and Multicultural Identity in Zadie Smith’s Novels
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Melisa Rumora This diploma paper demonstrates how issues of mixed race/non-British identity, racism, class, and multiculturalism are linked to contemporary urban setting in Zadie Smith’s novels White Teeth (2000), On Beauty (2005), NW (2012), and Swing Time (2016). In the light of Edward Said’s Orientalism, the paper attempts to show how Smith’s novels largely portray non- British / mixed-race / multicultural identity as the ‘Other’. Focusing on immigrant and/or biracial protagonists mainly from...
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The Classification of Phraseological Units in the Musical ‘Hamilton’
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Ivana Kruhoberec This paper deals with the classification of phraseological units that can be found in the musical Hamilton. For the purpose of this paper, the songs from Act I, 23 songs in total, have been analysed. As presumed, a large number of phraseological units were found in the lyrics of the songs which was written in R’n’B and hip-hop style. All of the PUs were extracted and then classified according to Sabine Fiedler’s classification, which she proposed in her book called English Phraseology:...
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The Comic in Samuel Beckett's Plays Waiting for Godot and Footfalls
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Filipa Kljajić This thesis deals with the comic in Samuel Beckett's plays Waiting for Godot and Footfalls, more precisely with analysing the ways in which Beckett was developing certain structures and techniques at the peak and at the end of his career, especially when it comes to the comic elements that are traditionally considered to be characteristic of Beckett. Following the brief overview of the socio-historical context of the 20th century, existentialist philosophy, as well as use of language and...
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The Concept of Place in the Works of H. P. Lovecraft
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Marija Perković The paper deals with the concepts of space and place in selected works of the
American author Howard Phillips Lovecraft (novellas At the Mountains of Madness and The
Shadow Over Innsmouth and short stories “The Shadow Out of Time”, “The Call of Cthulhu”
and “The Colour Out of Space”).
As a base for the analysis, the phenomenological approach to place was taken, more
specifically the ideas of John Agnew and Tim Cresswell, who proposed the transition location
– locale – sense...
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The Concept of “Fallen Men” in Penny Dreadful
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Jelena Lončar This paper addresses the concept of “fallen men” during the Victorian era, which has been neglected to some extent due to the attention given to the restrictions placed on women. The analysis focuses on the various types of transgressions committed by the three main protagonists of the television series Penny Dreadful. Since it is neo-Victorian fiction with Gothic and detective elements, the series is an appropriate source for such an analysis. The paper begins by discussing these...
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The Construction of Identity and Beauty in Toni Morrison’s Novels
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Danijela Bradarić For decades, Toni Morrison has been one of the most prominent African American writers, whose lifelong dedication mirrors in redefining the laws of (in)equality via rich literary opus. By analyzing her novels The Bluest Eye and A Mercy, this thesis’ primary aim is to explore the construction of the black identity in relation to the concepts of trauma, ugliness and dominant beauty standards. The historic construction of the black identity as investigated by Toni Morrison is being...
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The Decline of the Irish Family in Edna O'Brien's "The Country Girls Trilogy"
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Marin Modrić The aim of this paper is to attempt to demonstrate how contemporary Irish writer Edna
O'Brien represents the decline of the Irish Catholic family in her Country Girls Trilogy (The
Country Girls (1960), The Lonely Girl (1962), and Girls In Their Married Bliss (1964)). The
introductory chapter will focus on facts which show what life in Ireland was like and how the
system carefully kept everyone in their place. The following chapters will focus on the Irish
family and Catholicism, detailing...
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The Difficult American Dream and its Wake in Gatsby
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Viktorija Izabela Obrovac An exploration of F.Scott Fitzgerald’s contradictory references to the American Dream in his Jazz era work The Great Gatsby which possibly represents both the corrupted and the initial uncorrupted American Dream - in addition to analyzing the possible sustainability of the American Dream through consumerism and the use of mass marketing. In depth character analyses are used to demonstrate Fitzgerald’s theories as they relate to amassing wealth as a means to social success. This work also...
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The Effects of Reading Fiction on the Reduction of Prejudice: The Case of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Novels
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Doris Ercegović J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels left an enormous impact as one of the greatest successes in the history of literature. The wizarding world reminds the readers of our own, with different stigmatized groups and prejudices. According to a recent study (Vezzali et al. 2015), young people who have read the Harry Potter books, and identify with Harry as the main protagonist, have more positive attitudes towards the minority groups. Furthermore, many studies show that reading fiction can...
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The Effects of Verbal Anchoring on Emotional Responses of Young Adults
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Antonija Palčić Language is a tool for emotional expression and various research suggests that language is being used for persuading purposes when emotions are concerned. As such, language is being used in advertising to influence consumers and their opinions on advertised products. This thesis investigates the relationship between language and emotion in order to identify the way language influences emotional responses in young adults through using language methods such as verbal anchoring, positive and...
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The Evolution of the Female Lyric 'I' in Sylvia Plath's Poetry
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Tihana Micarakis This MA paper sets out to explore the evolution of the female lyric ‘I’, its role and importance in the selected poems by Sylvia Plath. It attempts to show how Plath’s lyric persona is in constant search of her own identity embodied in various roles she assumes: patient, daughter, wife, mother, and poet. The paper demonstrates how the images of mirror and mirroring, as well as doubling, play an important role in the lyric persona’s quest for true self. In Plath’s earlier poems we...
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The Evolution of the Haunted House
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Nikolina Šarac The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate the changing forms that the haunted house trope has taken in different literary periods. Moreover, the focus will be on the influence of various time-dependent factors, such as changes in social changes and norms that have left their imprint on the haunted house subgenre. The selected works provide a valuable insight into different eras, and a suitable basis for analysis. The Castle of Otranto, regarded as the first gothic novel, can also be described...
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