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Consumerism and the crisis of postmodern identities in White Noise, Fight Club and You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
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Valentina Šestak This Master's thesis aims to present the main aspects of the ideology and the phenomenon of consumerism as discussed in the work of Jean Baudrillard, and explore the idea that postmodern identities are predominantly constructed through consumption. Thanks to the technological development and profusion of mass media, the logic of consumption now rules almost all spheres of life, from personal desires and identities to interpersonal relationships etc., and it has lead to the creation of a...
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Consumerism in Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking
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Tanja Bućo The author in this paper elaborates the postmodern view of the consumer society using Mark
Ravenhill's play Shopping and Fucking as a representative text. The play depicts modern
environment under the influences of consumerism and capitalism. The paper analyses the
features of the modern sociey, such as an excessive consumption, materialism, exploatation of
the human body, loss of protection and identity, explaining the causes and consequences of
the arrival of consumerism. It also analyses...
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Contemporary Irish Society in Dermot Bolger’s The Journey Home and Emily’s Shoes
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Ana Jurjević The aim of this final paper was to analyse contemporary Irish society as presented by Dermot Bolger in the novels The Journey Home (1990) and Emily's Shoes (1992). The selected novels are analysed within the context of the representation of national and religious identity which is rapidly changing in Irish urban centers in the second half of twentieth century. This final paper focuses on personal, cultural and social reasons for the crisis of identity as well as the declining influence of...
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Contemporary Portrayals of Race in Disney Animated Movies
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Leona Krznar his master’s thesis explores the complex topic of race and racial stereotypes in Disney movies. Given Disney’s significant impact on societal values and ideals, the representation of race in the studio’s films is crucial. The thesis focuses on the Renaissance and Revival eras, analyzing changes in the portrayal of racial and ethnic differences to determine if racial inclusivity has become more prominent. The paper is divided into three sections: the studio’s history, an explanation...
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Contrastive Analysis of the OED Microstructure
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Sandra Janković The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a descriptive historical dictionary which is based on a growing collection of citations. Its three major editions – the OED1 from 1933, the OED2 from 1989 and the OED3 from 2017, provide the users with an insight into the English language development. Dictionary microstructure, which is the internal structure of individual entries, in the OED follows the same pattern in all editions – spelling first, followed by pronunciation, word class, usage,...
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Contrastive analysis of idiomatic expressions with body parts in English, Croatian and Italian
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Antonia Bašić The topic of this final thesis is contrastive analysis of phraseological units referring to different body parts in English, Croatian and Italian. The first part of the thesis deals with general idea of phraseological units while the second part occupies with analysis and classification of PUs. Body parts that are being analyzed are: ear(s), eye(s), finger(s), feet, hand(s), head, heart, leg(s), nose and tongue. The thesis is concluded with the table according to the degree of equivalence:...
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Conversational Implicatures in the TV Series 'Friends' and 'Only Fools and Horses'
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Sara Oreč This MA thesis deals with Paul Grice’s Co-operative principle, its conversational maxims and the flouting of these maxims. For the effective communication to be achieved, the speakers have to observe four conversational maxims by providing truthful, sufficient and relevant statement, which carries only literal meaning. However, very often these maxims tend to be violated and there are several ways of doing so, but in this paper the focus is on the case of flouting the maxims. This paper...
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Correctio u doba Karla Velikog
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Šime Krešimir Zeko Europa kakvu je mi danas poznajemo počiva na temeljima zapadne kršćanske kulture i mentalitetu koji su svoju karakterističnu notu dobili upravo u vrijeme Karla Velikog i njegove reforme koja je obuhvatila sve sfere života i slojeve društva u pokušaju obnove Rimskih institucija. Correctio je dio pokreta Karolinške renesanse, a odnosi se na ispravke crkvenih liturgijskih i doktrinalnih knjiga, pokušaj obnove Rimskog Carstva na zapadu kroz obnovu institucija, pismenosti, nauka te...
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Creating Dystopia: Comparative analysis of the novel The Handmaid’s Tale and the television adaptationn
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Monika Boban This paper deals with the comparative analysis of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale and creator Bruce Miller’s 2017 TV series, and aims to describe and present changes in dystopian elements in both versions. Aside from the dystopian theory and the examination of political atmosphere, which greatly influenced the genre, this paper also gives an overview of the theory of adaptation used in the analysis of the TV series. The analysis includes topics such as changes of...
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Critical Race Theory and Rap Music: Analysis of Tupac Shakur, Dead Prez and Kendrick Lamar's Discography
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Dolores Perković Rap music has been around in this form for more than fifty years. However, this music genre has reached its peak in the 1990s due to the activistic nature of this music: fighting against the racial injustice, as well as the socio-historical context of the 1990s American society: racism reached its peak with murders of innocent Black individuals, percentage of incarcerations, racial profiling and police brutality towards black communities. This paper tries to analyze rap music and some...
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Critical Utopia in the Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin
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Silvija Gusić Janjić The aim of this diploma thesis is to analyse the notion of critical utopia in two novels of Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by applying Tom Moylan’s views on critical utopia described in Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination (2014) as our theoretical background. The focus lies on exploring gender, sexuality and aspects of ambiguous utopian societies. We discover different ways in which Le Guin depicts a genderless...
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Crkva Sv. Stefana u Golubiću kod Knina
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Dolores Perković Crkva Sv. Stefana u Golubiću primjer je sakralne građevine koja je u hrvatskoj znanosti iz više opravdanih, ali i neopravdanih razloga bila godinama zanemarivana. Ozbiljnije zanimanje za nju počelo je objavom jednoga predromaničkog spolija ugrađenog u prag južnih bočnih vrata crkve, pa se može reći da njegovo publiciranje predstavlja početnu točku u buđenju interesa za njezino istraživanje, a doprinijelo je i postupnom rastu svijesti o njezinoj iznimnoj kulturno-historijskoj...
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