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How to ride like a cowgirl : A study on the types of euphemistic language used by sex educators on the social media platform TikTok
(2024-03-27)
The topic of this thesis is the euphemistic language use of sex educators on the social media platform TikTok. The aim is to observe what the types of euphemistic language used to avoid the removal or limitation of content ...
“You must come with me, loving me, to death” : The Queer Monster in Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla
(2024-04-22)
In this thesis, I study the notion of the queer monster presented in Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla (1872). Known as the progenitor of the lesbian vampire trope, Carmilla is one of the cornerstone works of Gothic ...
The Haunting Past: Exploring Jude’s Trauma and Identity in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life
(2024-04-22)
In this thesis, I scrutinize Hanya Yanagihara’s novel A Little Life (2015) from psychoanalytic approach, focusing on trauma and identity studies. I apply Cathy Caruth’s trauma theories and draw insights from Erving Goffman’s ...
Female Adversity: An Exploration of the Oppressive Gender Norms in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
(2024-04-22)
This thesis investigates the multitude of ways in which the contemporary gender norms facilitate female suffering in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. Through the lens of feminist literary theory, I aim to examine how detrimental ...
Love Kills and Dies : Oscar Wilde’s Poetic Meditations of Mortality
(2024-04-22)
This thesis studies the themes of love and death in Oscar Wilde’s (1854–1900) poems, including “Requiescat” (1881) and “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” (1898). Through close reading, the thesis examines how the poet employs ...
“Vanity […] I Was Determined to Sleep It Away” : Exploring Identity in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation
(2024-04-22)
In this thesis, I examine Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018) from the perspective of postfeminism. I assess how pervasive the postfeminist ideology is especially in connection with neoliberalism. ...
“Wait is she Black?”: Unsuccessful Racial Passing in Tiffany D. Jackson’s The Weight of Blood
(2024-04-23)
In this thesis, I analyse Tiffany D. Jackson’s young adult novel The Weight of Blood (2022) as a neo-passing narrative that interrogates and problematises the neoliberal colour-blind ideology and the idea of post-racial ...
The Sportswashed Games : A Qualitative Analysis of the Responses to the 2022 FIFA World Cup Related Scrutiny
(2024-03-21)
The 2022 Qatar World Cup has been one of the most recent and apparent examples of sportswashing. The thesis inspects the responses to the criticisms arising from the FIFA 2022 Qatar football World Cup. These criticisms are ...
The Use of Contradictory Framing in International Conflicts : Frame Analysis of Statements Regarding the Israel-Palestine Conflict
(2024-04-11)
In this Bachelor’s thesis I examine how language is used to present conflict situations according to the speaker’s political interests and ideologies. I examine this through the Israel-Palestine conflict. My materials ...
Unveiling Intersectionality in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre: Gender, Class and Religion
(2024-04-23)
In this thesis, I examine intersectionality in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre (1847). I utilize
intersectional feminist theories to study the effect of multiple social factors such as gender,
class, religion, wealth, ...