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The Economy of Sex, Gender and Love in Sally Rooney's Novels
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Ema Rupčić This thesis will explore the concept of sex, gender, and love in Sally Rooney’s novels Normal People and Conversations with Friends. Moreover, it will explore the basic characteristics of capitalism and postmodernism outlined by Jameson (1984) and Fisher (2009), and will illustrate how key issues in today’s capitalist society directly and indirectly influence and shape the psyches and choices of Rooney’s characters by examining them through the Lacanian terms: the big Other, the father...
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The Encoding of Motion Elements in Croatian
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Ema Žufić The thesis reports on the most common strategies native speakers of Croatian use for encoding Motion and Path in their descriptions of motion events. The first analysis entails the following elements: the speakers' lexicalization of Motion and Manner in two situation types, boundary-crossing and boundary-reaching/non-boundary crossing, respectively; the frequencies of the verb types used; and the extent to which they segment the Path across the abovementioned situation types. The second...
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The Encoding of Static Spatial Relations in Croatian and in English
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Lucija Gašparac This thesis will present empirical evidence on the spatial meanings of the Croatian prepositions ‘na’ and ‘u’ and compare them to their English equivalents, as well as relate the findings to the existing body of research. A total of 32 items was chosen chosen from the BowPed picture series in order to analyse spatial expressions (predominantly prepositions) used to encode various types of static topological relations. The participants who took part in the study (31 NSs of Croatian)...
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The Evolution of Free Will in Frank Herbert's Dune
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Filip Galeković The topic of free will is a very complex one, no matter what context one might put it in. In contemporary terms, its existence is as of yet undecided, and it is unclear whether we will ever be able to offer a satisfying conclusion to the matter. What we can do, however, is to discuss free will in a more easily digestible frame of reference, like that of Dune. Being a science-fiction novelist, Frank Herbert had the opportunity to play around with a number of interesting topics, and it is my...
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The Facets of Dickens's Savage Comedy
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Mislav Ružić Charles Dickens, a prolific Victorian writer and social critic, operated with varied literary devices in his works to reflect the Victorian-age mores. An era marked by fervent changes in the lifestyle, impact of the Industrial Revolution, inequalities between the social classes motivated Dickens to conceive his singular authorial perspective. While employing an array of literary techniques to breathe life into his characters, comedy prevailed as an incumbent piece of the complex Dickensian...
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The Formative Years of El Greco in Venice and Greece: Tradition, Influences and Innovation
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Sarah Sharpe The paper aims to delineate certain issues on the nature of influence in the early works and practice of El Greco. It briefly looks at the cultural context within which he painted during his formative early period in native Crete, and later his brief sojourn in Venice, which was to leave a lasting impact on the work he produced throughout his entire career. The specific historical, and subsequently cultural environments, of Crete and Venice contributed greatly to the heterogeneous and often...
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The Frequency of Anglicisms in the German News Magazine Der Spiegel
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Doris Mesaroš This study examined the frequency of anglicisms in the German news magazine Der Spiegel. The aim of the research, which was based on 25 articles from the year 2014/2015, was to determine in which category of news genre occurs the highest number of anglicisms and which are the most frequent types and word classes of anglicisms. At first a theoretical background, including the definition, the history, types, integration and usage of anglicisms was covered, followed by the research on the...
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The Gothic Literary Complex in Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights"
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Božica Božoki Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, a novel written in the Victorian era, nowadays is considered a classic, though it was controversial when first published in 1847. In her writing, Brontë was influenced by the Gothic genre, expanding the Female Gothic and establishing the New Gothic genre. The use of gothic elements in Wuthering Heights is abundant, and although it evoked terror in the readership, it, nonetheless, conveyed a strong message. This paper places Brontë’s novel in the...
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The Gothic Novel Rhetoric of Fear
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Katarina Fabijanić The rhetoric of fear is a complex notion that incorporates the theory of the fantastic narrative as well as the techniques of subversion in literature. Its primary goal is to evoke distress and fear in the reader in order to make him question the truth behind the dominant ideology and to challenge the notion of absolutist perspectives of the reality. To achieve this, it employs the rhetorical figures of paradox, transmutation and metonymy, to name a few, along with the narrator‟s...
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The Haunted Mind: Translating Shirley Jackson
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Elly Benčić This Master’s thesis focuses on the translation of three American Gothic short stories from the genre of American Gothicand written by Shirley Jackson. The aim of this paper is to accurately translate and analyze these classic short stories and to provide solutions to the possible issues that arose during the process of translation. The thesis includes abrief introduction into the topic and the author, and a general theoretical background on short stories and the genre of Gothic. The main...
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The Impact of Allen Ginsberg's Howl on American Counterculture Representatives: Bob Dylan and Patti Smith
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Vlatka Makovec This thesis sets out to explore the influence exerted by Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl on the poetics of Bob Dylan and Patti Smith. In particular, it will elaborate how some elements of Howl, be it the form or the theme, can be found in lyrics of Bob Dylan’s and Patti Smith’s songs. Along with Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and William Seward Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, Ginsberg’s poem is considered as one of the seminal texts of the Beat generation. Their works exemplify the same traits,...
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The Impact of Colorism on the Lives of African American Women
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Romana Kuharić In this M.A. thesis I will present and explore the issue of colorism and the way it impacts the lives of African American women. The origins of colorism – oppression based on skin tone and physical features – can be traced back to the times of slavery, when lighter-skinned slaves were preferred and given easier tasks than slaves whose skin was darker. Skin tone, hair texture, facial features, and other factors on the basis of which colorism is executed will be explored, as well as many...
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