Put simply, refraction describes a change in the direction of light or sound due to a change in the medium the light or sound goes through. Writing a Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis means changing the direction of light shed on a particular text or topic, as the theses collected in this volume conclusively show: A dystopian novel is shown to hinge on questions of animal rights; a complex novelistic structure is revealed to have its origins in scientific discourses; a clearly Gothic novel has its foundation in aesthetic Christianity, to outline just some of the topics. All these papers have in common that they take a well-known text or idea and change the angle through which it is read and analysed – and suddenly a rainbow of new insights is created.
Publikationstyp: Sammelband
Sparte: Universitätsdrucke
Sprache: Englisch
Beiträge
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1. Introduction (Seiten 7-10)
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2. Life as an Object of Art: Moral Corruption and Dehumanization in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (Seiten 13-49)
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3. A Comparative Analysis of Leadership Styles in the Magical World of Harry Potter (Seiten 51-94)
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4. Animal Subjectivities and Anthropocentrism in Richard Adams’ Watership Down (Seiten 95-180)
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5. Text and Picture in Three Pairs of William Blake’s Companion Pieces in The Song of Innocence and of Experience (Seiten 183-250)
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6. A Comparative Study of World Heritage Universal Values and National-Local Values (Seiten 251-327)
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7. Concepts of Science in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (Seiten 329-366)