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Detecting the Self and the Other: Violence and Nation Building in Postmodern Crime Fiction
(2020-07-20)
The growing number of publications on the relationship between crime literature and nationality or ethnicity demonstrates the close connection between these topics. The spectrum of studies ranges from the classic detective ...
The Functions of Literature: A Diachronic Perspective on the British Novel on Terrorism from the Victorian Fin de Siècle to the Present
(2020-04-15)
Modern terrorism emerged over 150 years ago. It not only wreaked havoc on individuals and societies and inspired widespread fear of future attacks, but also triggered a myriad of fictional responses by writers and film-makers, ...
Raising Environmental Awareness via Literature: Perceptions of Nature and the City in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary British Poetry
(2020-02-06)
This dissertation examines the connections between various poetic representations of our spatial surroundings and their development over time by analyzing selected examples of nineteenth-century and contemporary British ...