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(De)Construction of Gender in the Novels of Louise Erdrich
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Nina Kamenić Louise Erdrich is an important contemporary Native American writer of mixed heritage, known for her peculiar narrative style that employs intratextuality and the use of multiple narrators, presenting the readers with narrative crossovers and the possibility to perceive her fictional world from a variety of perspectives. One of the prominent themes that Erdrich explores in her novels is the perception of femininity and fluid gender identity. Her novels Love Medicine (1984) and Tracks (1988)...
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(Dis)ability in A Song of Ice and Fire: The Lion, the Wolf, and the Kraken
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Dunja Dernej George R. R. Martin is irrevocably one of the greatest fantasy novelists of all time, and his crown jewel is definitely A Song of Ice and Fire. The way he creates and develops his characters is considered to be a revolutionary novelty in literature. Men, women, rich, poor, middle-class, young, old, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, educated, uneducated, maesters, knights, ladies, women warriors, and so on – each has their own place within the Song. What this paper will focus on, however,...
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(In)visible Anglicisms on Croatian Fashion News Websites / (Ne)vidljivi anglizmi na hrvatskim modnim portalima
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Karla Malović A language often resorts to borrowing words from another language to fill in lexical gaps in its lexicon. Having the status of a lingua franca, but also due to numerous advancements in different fields such as technology, medicine, cinema, and others arriving from English-speaking countries, English has become the dominant donor language in the world. The world of fashion, especially in Croatia, is the prime example of the English influence. The aim of this thesis is to examine which...
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(Ne)uslišana ljubav u hrvatskoj pastorali
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Matea Zlomislić U završnom radu pod naslovom (Ne)uslišana ljubav u hrvatskoj pastorali središnji su predmet bavljenja dvije pastorale iz 16. stoljeća. Uspoređuju se Tirena Marina Držića i Komedija I. Nikole Nalješkovića i to u odnosu na njihovu centralnu temu, a to je ljubav. Navedena će tema biti promatrana u kontekstu vremena u kojemu su djela nastala, bit će opisano razdoblje renesanse kao i književni rad dvojice interpretiranih autora. U radu će biti parafraziran i sadržaj obiju pastorala...
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(Pra)slavenski supstrat obredno-običajne kulture Đakovštine
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Katarina Šijaković Iako se nalazi u drugom planu, stara vjera Slavena prisutna je u obredima i običajima koje moderni čovjek prihvaća i njeguje. Tema je ovoga rada utvrđivanje izravnih i neizravnih veza između (pra)slavenske podloge obreda i običaja i obredno-običajne kulture na području Đakovštine. Uz pomoć jezičnog i etnološkog/antropološkog materijala, interdisciplinarnim pristupom, u radu se predstavljaju prežitci praslavenske i staroslavenske predaje i običaja koji su kroz jezik...
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A Match or Mismatch between Teaching and Learning Styles in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the Primary School Level
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Sabina Vukić Language learning styles are the ways learners like to perceive and process new information, while teaching styles refer to the ways teachers like to organize and present that information to the students. There is a variety of teaching and learning styles, which resulted in a number of theories and classifications of the two. Many researchers have established that teaching and learning styles
have an influence on the way teachers and learners behave in the classroom. This paper aims to...
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A Comparative Study of Foreign Language Writing Anxiety Among Croatian Students Majoring in English and German
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Martina Pucelj Writing in a foreign language is often perceived as tedious, complicated and anxietyprovoking. It should therefore not wonder that many researchers have investigated foreign language writing anxiety in order to gain insight into its effect on the student’s foreign language learning experience. The main aim of the present study was to investigate and compare the different types of foreign language writing anxiety among English and German majors in Croatia. The sample consisted of 207...
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A Corpus Study of Partitive Expression – Uncountable Noun Collocations
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Anja Kolobarić This research paper explores partitive expressions not only as devices that impose countable readings in uncountable nouns, but also as a means of directing the interpretive focus on different aspects of the uncountable entities denoted by nouns. This exploration was made possible through a close examination of specific grammar books, but also through a small-scale corpus study we have conducted. We first explain the theory behind uncountable nouns and partitive expressions, and then present...
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A Dystopian Society in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
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Jelena Živić Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel set in a totalitarian theocracy. This thesis analyzes dystopian elements in Atwood’s novel. It explores the Gileadan social hierarchy, emphasizing the imbalance between different social structures in the Republic of Gilead. It describes how the regime uses its power to limit one’s freedom, comparing the Atwood’s work with the classic slave narrative. Additionally, it explores the mechanics of fear in the novel, i.e....
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