Academic Writing

The Gothic in A Series of Unfortunate Events

Mar 25, 2020 | Academic Writing

Seminar paper by Rok Vahter Unlike the name suggests, the Gothic has fairly little to do with the Gothic peoples. It is, in fact, a clearly modern phenomenon. First, the term attained a wider meaning in art history, mostly to refer to several revivalist movements in...

The Significance of Dreams, Sleeping, and Waking in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

Mar 10, 2020 | Academic Writing

The Representation of the American Dream in The Awakening and Rip Van Winkle Seminar paper by Maja Ina Ruparcic If literary critics were asked to list the sleepiest pieces of American fiction, The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle would...

Attitudes to the Language of the Colonizer in Frantz Fanon and Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Mar 9, 2020 | Academic Writing

Seminar paper by Jure Skubic In this paper, I will take a look at the different perceptions of the language of the colonizer by the colonized. The theoretical basis for this composition will be the first chapter of Ngugi’s book Decolonising the Mind titled “The...