Modern Languages Masters Theses
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Recent Submissions
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Invisibility and fame : Rahel Levin Varnhagen and Jane Austen and the role of letter writing in dismantling the unequal recognition of long eighteenth-century German and English women writers
(2023-11) - ThesisIm Fokus dieser Dissertation sind die britische Brief- und Romanautorin Jane Austen und die deutsch-jüdische Briefautorin, Salonnière und Aktivistin Rahel Levin Varnhagen. Das Schaffen dieser beiden Autorinnen lässt sich ... -
The artist as outsider : a comparative study of James Joyce, André Gide and Thomas Mann : with particular reference to 'A portrait of the artist as a young man', 'Les Faux-monnayers' and 'Dr Faustus'
(1986) - Thesis""The Artist as Outsider" certainly is a very popular subject for literary criticism. Nevertheless, I have chosen it believing strongly that there are two points which I can make and which have not been made before: The ... -
The passive construction być/zostać + V-n-/-on-/-t- in Polish : an aspectual analysis
(University of St Andrews, 2012) - ThesisThe idea that passive sentences are equivalent in meaning to their active counterparts has raised numerous questions among linguists particularly for the last several decades. The main dilemma regarding this relationship ...