Browsing Department of Foreign Languages by Subject "Genre"
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Escaping Expectations: A Close Reading of Edward P. Jones' The Known World through Tropes of the Neo-Slave Narrative
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)This thesis explores why Edward P. Jones' novel The Known World is consitsently classified within the neo-slave genre. In the first chapter of this thesis, I look at how the tropes of education and religion are treated in ... -
Finding its place: Reading the Squatter and the Don through genres
(Master thesis, 2013-05-15)María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's novel The Squatter and the Don (1885) is a historical romance novel that is set in California at the end of the 19th century. It describes the struggle over land between Californio landowners ... -
Genre-Based Approaches and the International Baccalaureate Diploma English Exam Paper 2
(Master thesis, 2019-12-04)There are relatively few examples of genre-related text analysis on academic high-stakes English written exams. Of those that are written, discourse analysis and corpus studies are often used as tools to measure genre-related ... -
"One foot in this world and one foot in that": Woman Hollering Creek and the bildungscomposite
(Master thesis, 2008-12-15)In this thesis I discuss the genre of Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek. I argue that the book is what I here call a bildungscomposite," that is, a hybrid genre with elements from both the Bildungsroman and the short ...