Sökning: "American English"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 66 avhandlingar innehållade orden American English.
11. Ambiguity at work : lexical blends in an American English web news context
Sammanfattning : The present study investigates the word formation process of lexical blending in the context of written US web news between January 2010–March 2018. The study has two interrelated aims. First, it aims to develop a transparent, rigid, and replicable method of data collection. LÄS MER
12. Mad Pursuits : Therapeutic Narration in Postwar American Fiction
Sammanfattning : Mad Pursuits: Therapeutic Narration in Postwar American Fiction examines three mid-century American novels—J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952), and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963)—in relation to the rise and popularization of psychoanalytic theory in America. LÄS MER
13. In the first person and in the house : The house chronotope in four works by American women writers
Sammanfattning : The house looms large in American literature and plays a significant part in American society and history. This study uses Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope to examine the house in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons (1862), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping (1980). LÄS MER
14. Taken by Stealth : Everyday Life and Political Change in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. Trilogy
Sammanfattning : John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy (1938) tells the story of an erosion of American values and ideals – an ideological shift – during the first three decades of the twentieth century. LÄS MER
15. The Nation Conceived : Learning, Education, and Nationhood in American Historical Novels of the 1820s
Sammanfattning : This study explores the role of learning and education in American historical fiction written in the 1820s. The United States has been, and still is, commonly considered to be hostile to scholarly learning. LÄS MER
