Browsing by Subject "Literary Studies: Literature in the Modern Age"
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A Sartrean Perspective on Inertia and Alienation in The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
(2012)The aim of this thesis is to investigate how Sartre’s philosophy can contribute to understanding the way in which the characters experience and deal with inertia and alienation in The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Ōe and The ... -
Being Jane: A Close Analysis of the Modern Cultural Memory of the Person and Author Jane Austen
(2011)When the author Jane Austen is mentioned, the stereotypical image of a quiet, domestic spinster automatically comes to mind. It is this same image that dominates the cultural memory the world has of Austen, whether it is ... -
Central Europe Imagines Central Europe: The Construction of Regional Identity in the Works of Andrzej Stasiuk
(2009)The identity of Central Europe, widely discussed throughout the twentieth century, after the fall of Communism in 1989 remains problematic. Andrzej Stasiuk, one of Polish most acclaimed and influential contemporary writers, ... -
Coetzee, Reve, and the Post-Secular
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Connecting Cultures: Intercultural Dialogue and the Blogosphere
(2008)This thesis discusses the extent to which the Dutch blogosphere can provide a space for intercultural dialogue between Dutch and diasporic identities. Drawing on Habermas' conception of the public sphere and Homi Bhabha’s ... -
Decolonizing Play: An Examination of Ludic Literature
(2011)This thesis examines the usefulness of play as a medium independent concept within literary studies. It is argued that literature can be a form of play in two distinct ways. First, through the freedom within a text, the ... -
Disappearing Migrants or the Impossibility of a European Union
(2012)A ridged policy aimed to exclude non-EU migrants from the European Union can corrode the Union’s foundations. It turns migrants into metaphorical, haunting ghosts and leads to hysterical repression. Also, it causes the ... -
Earthquake in Italy: How Natural Disaster Are Interpreted and Remembered
(2013)This thesis examines the ways in which earthquakes have been culturally remembered in Italy since the massive Messina earthquake of 1908. It starts from the observation that cultural memory studies have focussed on ‘man ... -
Images and Violence in the Poetry of Anthony Hecht
(2013)This paper deals with the production and examination of images in the poetry of Anthony Hecht, in specific relation to the poet’s compulsive presentation of violence. Technical and theoretical matters of image theory are ... -
Narrating the Empire: Nationalism, Memory and Gender in Arab Postcolonial Novel, the Case of Tayyib Salleh’s Season of Migration to the North, Mohammed Berrada’s The Game of Forgetting and Assia Djebar’s L’Amour, la Fantasia
(2008)Re-considering the relationship between Europe and the rest of the world is one of the dominating features in the three novels that I have chosen to analyse in this study: Season of Migration to the North by Sudan’s most ... -
(Re)Claiming Agency in Language: The Case of the Contemporary African American Slave Narrative
(2008)This thesis examines the cultural memory of slavery in the United States of America by considering two recent novels which revolve around the topic of slavery: Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and Edward P. Jones’ The Known ... -
Reading Rape: Toward an Ethics of Responding to Literary Depictions of Suffering and Violence
(2010)This thesis engages with discussions on the ethics of representation and on the ethics of reading, in the context of literary depictions of sexual violence (rape). Through representations of suffering and (sexual) violence, ... -
Talking Transgender: Travelling in a Corporeal Landscape
(2008)In this thesis, in which predominantly Judith Butler’s theory of the performative will be analyzed, the question is: How does transgender fit into an understanding of gender, and of the body as well, that sees both as ... -
The Author As Explorer: Judging Philip K. Dick's Relevance and Value for Discussions on the Faculty of Memory and the Posthuman Condition
(2012)This thesis discusses select examples from Philip K. Dick's fictional oeuvre while attempting to build a bridge to and between three views on the location of the faculty of memory and two views on the posthuman relation ... -
The Grand Narrative 2.0 - Narrativizing Technological Progress
(2011)In this thesis I explore the intimate relationship that exists between technological advancement and narrative. More specifically, this thesis maps, or tests, the contention, most notably put forward by Keith Ansell Pearson ...