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March 2014 - The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings was published yesterday and American Universities came top. Oxford and Cambridge came in at numbers four and five res...

Outline and evaluate the relevance theoretic account of verbal irony, illustrating your answer with examples. What do you take to be the main advantages and disadvantages of this ...

Preface We need to remember... that a film version of a novel is an independent text and should not be judged...by how faithful it is to the `original`: what constitutes as an origin...

'Away from Paris. away from the white' - the use of ascending tricolon is used for dramatic effect, and by being within the first paragraph of the story it sets the tone. It also show...

The aspect of feminism is a focal point in Angela Carter's, 'The Bloody Chamber', with her feminist views being vehemently put forward across every story in the collection. Carter was...

The "dark side" of the human psyche can cover many aspects, and throughout Gothic literature it is expressed largely through sexual desires and the possibility of murder and ending an...

'Measure for Measure' is traditionally known as a problem play, yet some critics believe that it is best described as a tragedy. Isabella is the central protagonist in the play, and u...

Blanche Dubois is the central protagonist in the play, arriving almost instantly seeking her sister`s hospitality. Williams juxtaposes Blanche with her new surroundings, `Her appearan...

When I was younger, I was often perplexed by red teachers` scrawls on my English essays, advising me to go "deeper". I just didn`t understand what was being asked of me. My questions ...

As a child my dreams were to become an architect; as far from literary work as I could be. Books scared me, writing made me fret and spelling gave me nightmares. My parents, frustrate...