Browsing by Subject "Literatuur vandaag"
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A Detached Search for Connection: The Role of Affect and Contemporary Society in Millennial Women’s Fiction
(2022)This thesis investigates the role of detachment in fiction written by authors from the millennial generation (born 1981-1996). This is a highly relevant subject, as detachment from the self, others and society inhibits ... -
A Hypermodern Quest for Simpler Times: Book-jumping into Children’s Classics
(2021)The book-jumping trope, in which a character from one book jumps into another book, has been used in children’s literature increasingly often since the start of the twenty-first century. Simultaneously, scholars like Gilles ... -
A Serious Thesis About (De)Stigmatizing Things: A Research into Destigmatizing Mental Illness through Narrative and Community Created by Jenny Lawson’s Blog and Memoir Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
(2020)With stigma of mental illness still present all over the world, this thesis aims to research how a memoir on mental illness can help in destigmatizing the dominant narrative on mental illness. It does so by looking at the ... -
Agnès Varda between 2017 and 2019
(2019)In 2017, Agnès Varda, French film director, was awarded an honorary Oscar, in addition to her documentary, Faces Places, being nominated for Best Documentary feature at the Academy Awards. She graced the cover of the Winter ... -
'Alles is water' - Over de relatie tussen het water en de Nederlandse identiteit in drie hedendaagse speculatieve romans waarin klimaatverandering een rol speelt
(2021)Tussen Nederlanders en het water bestaat een bijzondere relatie. Deze wordt geconstrueerd, bevestigd en versterkt door literatuur, zo onderzocht Lotte Jensen in Wij tegen het water. Jensen onderzocht de relatie tussen de ... -
American Jewish Foodways in Modern Literature: Navigating Old World and New World Identities
(2020)This study is an exploration of the usefulness of food studies for mainstream literature studies. Through a case study of American Jewish foodways it is demonstrated how literary analysis could benefit from analyzing food. ... -
An Analysis of the Innovations in Three Recent Gender Nonconforming Picture Books
(2020)With the rising interest in and representation of LGBTQ+ people, more gender nonconforming picture books are being published and are gaining in popularity. Studies of older gender nonconforming picture books have offered ... -
An Existentialist Analysis of Gao Xingjian and the Globalization of Existentialism
(2022)The pre-exile dramaturgy of Chinese writer Gao Xingjian is indicative of Chinese dramatist experimentation flourishing in twentieth-century China. Even though his dramatist work has been broadly researched, the existential ... -
Analysing the Impact of Social Media on the Publishing Industry: The Disruption of Darnton’s Model of the Communications Circuit of the Book
(2020)The publishing chain has remained relatively the same since the invention of the printing press. Robert Darnton’s model of the communications circuit of the book, which tracks how intellectual property circulates, has been ... -
Between Three Worlds: Time, Space, and Otherness as Interstices of Resistance in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl (2005) and Diana Evans’ 26a (2005)
(2023)This study looks at two novels, Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl (2005) and Diana Evans 26a (2005), as examples of Black womxn’s postcolonial gothic fiction. It aims to ascertain how these works, as examples of the increasingly ... -
Beyond Textuality and Back: Gurinder Chadha’s Literary Adaptation Bride & Prejudice as a Product of The Adaptation Industry
(2022)“Beyond Textuality and Back: Gurinder Chadha’s Literary Adaptation Bride & Prejudice as a Product of The Adaptation Industry” considers how the Adaptation Industry and an audience-focused approach to Bride & Prejudice can ... -
Bij hoog en laag. Secularisering in relatie tot modernisering in vier romans uit vier generaties Nederlandse literatuurgeschiedenis
(2017)De secularisatiethese gaat ervan uit dat veranderingen in religiositeit en religieus gedrag uitgelegd kunnen worden aan de hand van culturele en sociale veranderingen in een samenleving, die religie meer of minder plausibel ... -
Brexlit: Its ‘Bleak Humour’ and the Response it Elicits in the Face of Brexit
(2020)This thesis takes into consideration a selection of novels by British authors, written and published since the Brexit referendum in 2016. In an attempt to analyse the ways in which the fledgling genre known as ‘Brexlit’ ... -
Challenging the Classification of Literature: Crossing Linguistic Borders with the Heteronymic Speaker
(2022)The current organization of Literature must be questioned and reexamined. Classifying literary works according to their language and/or the nation the author belongs to is outdated. It ignores the increasingly complex ... -
Coetzee's Interpellations
(2017)Coetzee’s novels, Waiting for the Barbarians and Elizabeth Costello, portray a complex interaction with ethical conflicts. The ethical conflicts in Coetzee’s novels are deconstructed using a close reading based on Althusser’s ... -
Contemporary female-centred dystopian fiction An analysis of Naomi Alderman’s The Power (2016) and Leni Zumas’ Red Clocks (2018) compared to Margaret Atwood’s canonical The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
(2018)This thesis aims to analyse two contemporary female-centred dystopian novels, namely Leni Zumas’ Red Clocks (2018) and Naomi Alderman’s The Power (2016) and compare them to Margaret Atwood’s canonical The Handmaid’s Tale ... -
Contesting New Zealand's Past: Postmemory, Transgenerational Trauma and the Implicated Subject in Māori Renaissance Literature
(2020)This thesis investigates the ways in which literature of the Māori Renaissance functions as postmemory work, in engaging with transgenerational trauma and the implicated subject. The writing of both the Early and the Later ... -
De manier waarop lichamen beschreven worden in de hedendaagse literatuur
(2019)Het uiterlijk speelt een belangrijke rol in maatschappelijke discussies. En een ‘mooi’ lichaam wordt steeds vaker gelijkgesteld aan een slank, gezond en sportief lichaam. Schoonheid is bij uitstek iets dat erg discoursafhankelijk ... -
Decreasing Teenage Readership Rates in Lithuania: Exploring Causes and Suggesting Solutions
(2022)Over the past years, Lithuania has faced a dramatic decrease in teenage readership rates, urging a circumstantial investigation of the causes. Previous research has explored the issue only by interviewing teenagers themselves ... -
Deus Ex Vagina
(2017)Een onderzoek naar de Manic Pixie Dream Girl in de hedendaagse Nederlandse literatuur.Casussen: Naamloos (Pepijn Lanen) Lieve (Ronald Giphart) en IJstijd (Maartje Wortel)