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The American Presidential Inaugural Speech as Genre

“The text must clearly declare itself as belonging to a known genre or type.” (J. A. BURROW)Discuss in relation to any domain of language. The titular quotation is tak...
Sarah

Reader/author theory

[W]e are as separate from ourselves as other people (Adam Phillips).Discuss. The separation of the self, from the self and from others, is a preoccupation across Phillips w...
Sarah

GRAPHIC NOVELS AS PASTICHE

GRAPHIC NOVELS AS PASTICHEJameson sees pastiche as a practice that arises from the "disappearance of the individual subject" and the "unavailability of the personal style". Postmod...
Sarah

Performativity, Power Plays and the Postcolonial Body

Performativity, Power Plays and the Postcolonial Body: applying Butler s consideration of materiality and identity to Kincaid, Cliff and Dangarembga s novels. You know, darling, ca...
Sarah

Speaking Shakespeare: Complexities and Complicities in Controlling Community through Conversation

Speaking Shakespeare: Complexities and Complicities in Controlling Community through ConversationThe Oxford English Dictionary contains two over-arching results defining the noun â...
Sarah

Social Anxieties in Shakespeare’s Imagined City Spaces

Social Anxieties in Shakespeare s Imagined City SpacesAdam Hansen notes that it is due to the factors and conditions of London at the time of his writing that Shakespeare s pla...
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“But It’s Not Shakespeare”: (De)Constructing Aspirations of Authenticity, from Irving to Granville Barker

But It s Not Shakespeare : (De)Constructing Aspirations of Authenticity, from Irving to Granville BarkerProductions of Shakespeare are regularly met with complaint against t...
Susan

Silhouettes and sadness: Ishiguro’s use of light and dark in The Remains of the Day.

As the title suggests, The Remains of the Day examines the last stretch of the protagonist s life. Time, and the opportunities life presents, are referenced through the seasons, tim...
Susan

Shock and awe in Othello: an exploration of the exclamatory ‘Oh!’

Othello is a tragedy full of shock, bemusement, and peripeteia. In Iago, Shakespeare has created a character whose contempt for virtue results in all the main characters either dyi...
Adnan

Quantum Computers

The next step in computational powersComputers keep getting faster with each passing year but our hunger for speed is insatiable. We have come a long way: from computers that take up ...