Browsing Masters Dissertations & Portfolios by Title
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A Bloody Success: Mapping the success of #LahuKaLagaan through network analysis
A Bloody Success: Mapping the success of #LahuKaLagaan through network analysis - Nazma Kazani This thesis investigates the narrative agency and connective action of hashtag campaigns by focusing on one hashtag that went ... -
A comparative analysis of two writing styles: Latin American magical realism represented by García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Chinese hallucinatory realism represented by Mo Yan's Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
In 2012, Chinese writer Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His work differs from traditional socialist realism but draws on the writing techniques of many world literature, including Latin American magical ... -
A new social media conscious approach to Celebrity Translators: a case study of Italian influencer Francesca Crescentini aka Tegamini
This work aims at providing a different contemporary perspective on Celebrity Translators in the context of modern society immersed in social media and influencer culture. The main research question is can influencer ... -
A Study of the Translation into Spanish of Dialects and Accents in Brendan Kennelly's The Florentines and The Crooked Cross
This dissertation aims to create one accent and one dialect in Spanish by translating the dialects and accents found in Brendan Kennelly´s novels The Crooked Cross and The Florentines. I will look at various scholars and ... -
An Argument for Regenerative Shaming Through Its use in Holocaust and American Lynching Memorials
There is a global memorial culture around the memorialization of victims of mass tragedies, but these people are dead, so then what is the goal of these radically expensive monuments? This research explores the means by ... -
An Exploration of Chinese International Students's Perceptions of How Their Identities Change Under the Impact of Covid-19
After the outbreak of Covid-19, there is evidence to suggest that there had been an increase in discrimination against Chinese international students globally. During the pandemic, students were required to follow control ... -
Analysing the Textual Variance in Terry Pratchett's The Carpet People
This dissertation analyses the textual variance between Terry Pratchett’s two versions of The Carpet People. The dissertation uses the mixed methodology of close and distance reading to highlight the differences between ... -
At the crossroad of unexplored paths: cultural back-translation and fantasy
Cultural back-translation is the translation into language B of a text written in language A that takes its cultural basis from culture and language B. The peculiar translation trajectory involves a cultural return that ... -
Between Playfulness, Trauma, and Autofiction: Postmemories of Childhood in Dictatorial Argentina and Chile
This dissertation explores the dynamic between postmemory, trauma, playfulness, and autofiction in The Rabbit House by Argentinian writer Laura Alcoba and Space Invaders by Chilean writer Nona Fernández. Since the early ...