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The Notion of Chance in the Narratives of Jack London and R. L. Stevenson
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Iva Škunca Both Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson are famous for a variety of literary work they produced in a relatively short time span. As we can establish a link between the two vagabond authors who both sought an escape from the routine and the conventions of the societies they only seemingly belonged to, we can also establish a connection between some of their most brilliant works, mainly those characterised by elements of adventure fiction. This paper deals with the most prominent themes...
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The Notion of Innocence in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw and its Film Adaptations
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Lucija Stambolija This thesis will analyse the portrayal of innocence in Henry James’s 1898 Gothic novella, The Turn of the Screw, and its two film adaptations: The Innocents (1961), directed by Jack Clayton, and The Turn of the Screw (2009), directed by Tim Fywell. The aim of the thesis is to examine the concept of innocence in its broader late Victorian context and its uses in late Victorian Gothic literature, and to compare it to its uses in contemporary film adaptations. The analysis will be carried out...
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The Notions of House and Home in Donal Ryan's the Spinning Heart and the Thing about December
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Selma Elkasović This thesis discusses two contemporary Irish novels:The Spinning Heart (2012)and The Thing About December (2013). Focusing on the two protagonists of these novels, Johnsey Cunliffe and Bobby Mahon, this thesis examines how the notions of home, house, hospitality and hostilitychange in the context of the economic boom and crash that Ireland experienced at the beginning of the 21st century.
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The Outlooks on Confessional Poetry
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Karla Tea Komar The main aim of this thesis is to present the Confessional school of poetry starting by introducing its historical and social background of the late 1950s and 1960s Cold-War America and continuing with the development of the Confessional mode in the literary history. Hence, it will be necessary to define the term and point out its central features. Apart from the theoretical part I will examine the four most prominent poets – Robert Lowell, Jon Berryman, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. What...
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The Poetic Vein of Marianne Moore
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Anđelina Mikačić This paper is an attempt to encompass Marianne Moore’s poetic vein through six of its idiosyncracies; precision and diligence, imaginative recreation of reality, prosody resistant syllabic, gentle humour, human essence and painstakingly engendered poems. The introduction brings forth her life and activist experience. The forthcoming chapters draw upon the structure and reception of her poetry. The significance of Moore’s mentorship and continued commitment to prose and translation is...
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The Poetic Vision of William Blake's "Songs of Innocence" and "Of Experience"
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Ingrid Šporer The aim of this paper is to bring forth and explore the poetic vision of William Blake's Songs of
Innocence and of Experience. More specifically, the primary focus of this paper will be on
portraying William Blake as an artist whose works are poetically complex and need to be read in
accordance with his illustrations, because they function as a whole. The paper will also give an
introduction into the Romantic period, exploring its most important representatives, as well as their
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The Relationship between Colour Perception and Colour Expression in the Lexicon through the Prism of Cognitive Linguistics
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Marta Vučković Colour is an astonishing phenomenon integral to human experience that constitutes our notion of the objective reality. Throughout the years, colour has gained its privileged position as a subject of thorough and varied scientific scrutiny that paved the way to a comprehensive theoretical scope regarding colour semantics and colour vision. The aim of this paper is to probe the notions regarding the domain of colour whilst elucidating the given phenomenon from a perspective of cognitive...
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The Relationship between Wilde and Nietzsche's Literary Philosophy: When Morality and Aesthetics Collide
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Veljko Vuković Oscar Wilde and Friedrich Nietzsche marked the modernist era in the fields of literature and philosophy respectively. Their literary philosophies revolve around the idea that art and morality are two separate fields of inquiry, with the latter having no right to seep into the former. Criticizing the traditional norms of morality in writings, these two modernist figures revolutionized not only popular and scholarly outlook on aesthetics, they influenced the trajectory of art development....
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The Representation of Family in Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield" and "Hard Times"
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Mirela Babić David Copperfield and Hard Times are Victorian-era novels written by Charles Dickens. This paper sets out to juxtapose the representation of family in the two novels with the real-life situation in 19th-century Britain and to discover whether Dickens presents us with the family as the nucleus of one‟s life, or as the possible cause of one‟s problems. Firstly, the historical background is provided, followed by the depiction of family in historical sources, representation of author‟s...
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The Role of English in Communicative Practices of Croatian Adolescents: a Sociolinguistic Analysis
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Franjica Haramija The English language is present everywhere today, so it is also part of a daily life of many people
living in Croatia. Social media and technological advances have allowed English to become one
of the most widely spoken languages in the world. As adolescents are social group that is strongly
influenced by contemporary trends, including using English in their everyday life, the aim of this
B.A. thesis is to discover in what ways English affects Croatian adolescents and to provide a
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