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"All right, then, I'll go to hell": Religious Hypocrisy as the Subjacent Discourse in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(2020-05-20)
The aim of this essay is to analyse the literary elements that Twain utilised as tools to present his sharp critique of religion the institution of slavery and the Southern society which benefited from it. With this purpose ...
Gender Stereotyping in L.M Alcott's Little Women And Its 1949 And 1994 Film Versions.
(2020-05-22)
The present paper aims to analyze two of the films based on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: Little Women (1949) directed by Mervyn LeRoy and Little Women (1994) directed by Gillian Armstrong. In particular, I intend to ...
Different and identical worlds: "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" and "Through The Looking-Glass"
(2022-03-07)
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 ...
Derivation of ironical implicatures by English foreign language learners: do language proficiency and culture play a role?
(2022-03-07)
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 ...
The fall of chivalry: an analysis of the representation of knighthood in George R. R. Martin´s “A Song of Ice and Fire"
(2020-11-24)
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. ...
Japan's values-based diplomacy and the free and open indo-pacific vision
(2020-11-20)
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 ...
Northern Irish English: historical and sociolinguistic developments
(2022-03-08)
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, ...
Sociolinguistic issues on African American Vernacular English (AAVE)
(2022-03-08)
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 ...
Women in the spotlight: feminine characters in Ellen Glasgow's "Virginia" and Virginia Woolf's"To the Lighthouse"
(2022-03-08)
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 ...
Varieties of English: Dublin English
(2022-03-08)
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 ...