The present paper aims at analysing the theme of transgressions or the crossing of forbidden boundaries in Nella Larsen’s Passing. Due to the fact that hers is the first novel to address the social practice of “passing” ...

When one thinks about the concept of children's literature, many ideas will probably come to mind related to the topic. The literary genre of children’s literature, despite seeming simple from the outside, is more complex ...

Literature on cross-cultural communication has demonstrated that communication breakdowns are more likely to occur among speakers from different cultural backgrounds (Togame, 2016). This led other scholars, such as Bouton ...

Traditional ideas of knighthood and chivalry are often related to the knight’s duty to his overlord—be it a lord or a king—his devotion to his beliefs and to courtly virtues—especially in the courtly love literature. ...

This dissertation briefly explores the Japanese values-based diplomacy from the post-Second World War II period to the present with an emphasis on Shinzo Abe’s diplomatic initiatives focused on “universal values”. The ...

For a relatively small region, home to less than two million people, the linguistic landscape of Northern Ireland is remarkably diverse. This is not the result of chance: the richness of the input to Northern Irish English, ...

African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is one of the most studied varieties of English due to the heated debates that have surrounded this variety over the years. Since the 1960s, research into AAVE has increased ...

Ellen Glasgow and Virginia Woolf are both among the most renowned female authors of the twentieth century. Being their novels labelled as feminist literature, both writers focus their attention on women discrimination on ...

The present paper gives a description of phonetic and morphosyntactic features that make Dublin English distinct from other varieties of Irish English. The English language has been present in Ireland since the twelfth ...

Travel literature has conventionally been concerned with recounting the adventures of courageous men and women in remote locations to encounter their auras and develop as individuals. Nevertheless, Colson Whitehead employs ...