Debijlesprinses

Samenvatting van Ethics in the Second Degree: Trauma and Dual Narratives in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated by Francisco Collado-Rodriguez.

Een samenvatting van een paar hoofdstukken uit het boek Het Leven van Teksten van Kiene Brillenburg-Wurth en Ann Rigney

Een samenvatting van het hoofdstuk The Sixteenth Century uit The Norton Anthology of English Literature

Part I (50%): This section consists of 10 factual questions which test your knowledge of medieval historical, cultural and literary context.

Comitatus, as well as its failure, in Beowulf and a similar principle of loyalty in the stories of Jonah, Abraham and Daniel in the Bible form good comparison. This is because the poem and the religious stories show some interesting corresponding elements. Comitatus refers to “the epic or heroic tradition of the Germanic peoples” (Markland 341) and can, then, not be found in the Bible. An equivalent principle, like loyalty, is very widespread in the Bible, though. To support this statement, ...

The protagonists in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and in Shakespeare’s The Tempest are both engaged with magic. Although both Prospero and Faustus have this interest in magical powers, their final fates differ greatly. To show that Prospero and Faustus differ in terms of ultimate fate, their destinies have to be compared. Passages from both The Tempest and Doctor Faustus are used to show what the protagonists’ final fates are. On top of that, some verses of the Bible are used to show that both ...

It is obvious that the concept of sentimentalism is present in Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey, with regard to the title of his work. About three decades after the publication of Sterne’s novel, Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark was published. It is not surprising that her work also contained sentimentalism, as this was the major literary genre in eighteenth-century England. According to William Reddy, the concept of senti...

Jimmy Porter, one of the main characters in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger, is explicitly angry throughout the whole play. In the play, many causes of Jimmy’s anger become clear, due to the way he behaves, reacts, and feels. For example, “the snobbish materialism of a middle class whose organization of Society has left no niche for his intelligence, talent, and imagination, and has forced him instead into the humiliating role of shopkeeper” (Huss 20), “the ridiculous, hypocritical, ...