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Maturing the Old: Sophie's Journey towards Self-Recognition in Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
(2017-11-23)
The proliferation of the Children’s Literature novels by Diana Wynne Jones has converted her into a prominent figure in the fantastic genre. Although several scholars have researched diverse aspects of Jones’s narratives, ...
Comparative Literautre: Religion and Religious Symbolism in the Tale of the Grail by Three Authors
(2017-11-21)
The myth of the Grail has long been recognised as the cornerstone of Arthurian literature. Many studies have been conducted on the subject of Christian symbolism in the major Grail romances. However, the aim of the present ...
Challenging the Coming-Of-Age: Similitudes and Divergences of Contemporary Female Bildungsroman with Traditional Instances
(2017-11-21)
The Bildungsroman is a literary genre that embraces those narratives dealing with the process of formation and self-development of its protagonist, narrating his or her journey from childhood to adulthood. The Bildungsroman, ...
The 2016 presidential candidates and their discourse: a reflection of a XXI century cultural and ideological conflict in the United States
(2017-11-24)
The recent result of the 2016 presidential election in the United States of America has left many of the nation’s experts at a loss for words, immediately following the announcement of the results, professionals from various ...
English as a contact language: Nigerian English as a case study
(2017-11-21)
Throughout the 16th century, the colonial aspirations of the British Empire took the English language to territories where it got in contact with different linguistic realities. These contact situations resulted in new ...
This topic needs researched: special passives in English
(2017-11-24)
This paper is a study of the grammatical construction needs done (formed by need/want/like + past participle) which can currently be attested in a number of English varieties. Despite this relatively widespread distribution, ...
Anthropomorphic Imagery of Animals (Dragons and Horses) in the Works of Michael ende and C. S. Lewis
(2017-11-21)
For several centuries, anthropomorphism has been a common feature used in fantastic literature; our interest in giving animals and objects human traits – clothing them, making them talk – has influenced the arts. Hence, ...
War and cinema in the 20th Century. North and South Korean imagery in the Post-War filmography
(2017-11-24)
This written work attempts to analyse the importance of cinematography in the shaping of ideological ideas in North and South Korea. In order to do that, two movies with similar plots about the Korean War were examined, ...
Scalar Implicatures: a Gricean vs. a Relevance Theory Approach
(2017-11-23)
Griceans have always supported the idea that scalar implicaturesare Quantity-based generalized conversational implicatures (GCI). With the purpose of explaining this phenomenon, they derived their own principles inspired ...
Pre-established Destiny through Patriarchal Forces in Elfriede Jelinek`s Die Liebhaberinnen
(2017-11-23)
The writer Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the Nobel Academy award in 2004, has demonstrated throughout her career how a piece of writing can go deep into people’s consciousness and make them reflect about class injustices and ...