This thesis analyzes Michael Cunningham s novel The Hours (1998) and Stephen Daldry s film adaptation The Hours (2002) in relation to the novel s intertextual elements. This is not something that is easily done as the ...

THE ENGLISH VILLAGE IN JANE AUSTEN S NOVELS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON EMMA SUMMARY Two Enduring symbols of Englishness are the English village and Jane Austen s novels. Even though I believe that Jane Austen s overriding ...

The cognates English TAKE and Norwegian TA are both frequently occurring verbs found to express several different meanings in a range of syntactic environments. The main aim of this thesis is to describe these multifunctional ...

The thesis takes a closer look at the foundation course in English with particular interest in textbook activities.The main objective is to see if and to what extent changes in the syllabuses are reflected in the types of ...

In this thesis V. S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival (1987) and David Dabydeen’s Disappearance (1993) are analysed as accounts of the postcolonial search for identity. Both novels tell stories about main characters who ...

The aim of the thesis (Desperately) Seeking the Early Modern Self: The Self, Subjectivity, Modernity and Representation in Shakespeare s Hamlet is to explore the Early Modern self in Hamlet. A host of neo-Marxist new ...

This thesis discusses Beryl Bainbridge s historical novels The Birthday Boys and Every Man for Himself. The first novel concerns itself with Captain Scott s fatal South Pole expedition and the latter with the sinking of ...

This thesis explores fairy tale elements in a selection of Oscar Wilde’s works, to a large extent based on a list of thirty-one fairy tale functions introduced by the Formalist Vladimir Propp. The works studied are the ...

This thesis, titled Travel to the Threshold , presents a close reading of Graham Greene s The Lawless Roads (1939), an account of a journey he undertook through Mexico in 1938. Greene describes Mexico of the period as ...

I have chosen to compare Laurence Sterne's Book 7 of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey because I found it challenging that several critics have referred to the two texts as quite similar, even to the extent that ...