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The concept of creativity in Georges Florovsky’s thought
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article discusses the meanings of “creativity”—tvorchestvo—as we encounter it in Georges Florovsky’s thought, first and foremost in his magnum opus Ways of Russian Theology (1937). Tvorchestvo had by this time become ... -
Conceptual metaphors in Ukrainian primeministers’ discourse involving renewables
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-12-30)This qualitative study is aimed at elucidating conceptual metaphors associated with renewable energy sources (further referred to as ‘renewables’) in Ukrainian prime ministers’ (PMs) political discourse. The material derives ... -
Conciencia migratoria y educacion chilena
(Master thesis, 2013-11-20)Resumen - Sammendrag Hay verdades que están profundamente arraigadas difíciles de remover. Estas se petrifican y sobre ellas se van estableciendo otras que pretenden formar un sólido fundamento. Con el tiempo llegan a ... -
Constructed identities A Chronotopic reading of The Great Gatsby, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and Mad Men
(Master thesis, 2016-05-18)This thesis aims to explore how the past figures in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925), Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955), and in the AMC series Mad Men (2007-2015), written by Matthew Weiner. ... -
Constructions of a Life: (Be)Longing and (Dis)Location in the Autobiographical Writings of Edward Said, Eva Hoffman, and Ihab Hassan
(Master thesis, 2009-12-04)This thesis will examine the autobiographical writings of Edward Said, Eva Hoffman and Ihab Hassan, and the main objective will be to study how their individual experiences of cultural translocation shape their narrative ... -
Contested utopias: Language ideologies in Valerii Votrin's Logoped
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Contesting the Rural Idyll in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford
(Master thesis, 2015-05-15)This project examines the rural idyll genre in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford. Several literary critics refer to Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford as a rural idyll' narrative. In consequence the novel is considered to pertain to ... -
Continuity of Texts: Metafiction in a Cortazar Short Story and its Swedish Translation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article analyzes the Swedish translation of the short story Continuidad de los parques, written by the Argentine author Julio Cortázar and translated into Swedish by the translator Jan Sjögren. This short story is an ... -
"The Contrails Streaked Cleanly in the High Sky" An Ecocritical Reading of Don DeLillo's White Noise and Underworld
(Master thesis, 2012-11-20)This thesis will examine the articulation, significance, and changing notion of the environment in two novels by the American author Don DeLillo: White Noise (1985) and Underworld (1997). This thesis will read DeLillo's ... -
A corpus-based study on the evolution of There: Statistical analysis and cognitive interpretation
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Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English conversation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study examines the pragmatic functions of fuck among British English teenagers in casual conversation in two youth language corpora from the 1990s and 2010s. It applies a corpus-pragmatics approach to explore how the ... -
La correlation temps-espace dans l’oeuvre romanesque de Mongo Beti. Parcours chronotopique de Ville cruelle, Perpétue et Branle-bas en noir et blanc
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-12-06)This work is an exploration of Bakhtin’s chronotope in the novel of the Cameroonian writer Mongo Beti, whose pen has relentlessly been exposing, for nearly half a century, the abuses of colonialism and neo-colonialism on ... -
Court Trials ... in Egypt
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Creencias y actitudes lingüísticas acerca de las formas de tratamiento en Nicaragua
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-06-01)The aim of this study is to describe and interpret the attitudes of Nicaraguans towards the use of the pronouns of address, based on a mentalist theory of language attitudes study. To reveal the attitudes, I present a ... -
Crisis and Infantilization in the Technological Landscapes of Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952), J.G. Ballard's Crash (1973) and Dave Eggers' The Circle (2013)
(Master thesis, 2015-11-27)Literature has a long history of articulating the dangers as well as the possibilities for human life in confrontation with technology. Among the literatures expressing these concerns we also find Player Piano (1952) by ... -
Cuba fue diferente. El derrumbe del socialismo euro-soviético visto desde el Partido Comunista de Cuba (1989-1992 y 2013)
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-04-28)The Collapse of European-Soviet Socialism (1989-1991, “the collapse”) created a profound socio-economic crisis in Cuba, and also had a strong political-ideological impact on this Caribbean nation. Many observers ... -
A Culinary Quest : Peruvian Women Entrepreneurs in Southern California Negotiating Gender, Home, and Belonging
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-05-21)A complex context of reception shapes culinary business ownership among Peruvian immigrants in Southern California. In the United States, Latinxs are often negatively portrayed as undocumented, poor, and criminals, and ... -
Curzio Malaparte nelle opere Kaputt e La pelle
(Master thesis, 2017-06-15)Abstract Questa tesi di master esamina la figura di Curzio Malaparte in quanto autore, narratore e protagonista nelle opere Kaputt e La pelle. Analizza come la presenza del personaggio Malaparte influenza la lettura e la ...