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The Search for Reality in Philip K. Dick's VALIS and The Exegesis
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Dino Lončar In his novels and stories, Philip K. Dick is preoccupied with the question: “What is real?” and at one point, his literary and biographical interests merge. Namely, on 2 March 1974, after a visit to the dentist due to which he was under the influence of sodium pentothal, Dick had a mystical encounter with what he calls VALIS: a higher and more rational mind that “invaded” his. This single experience was the spark which would lead Dick on a long and painful writing journey of over...
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The Shaping of Identity in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Novels and Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy
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Ana Šovagović In addition to being interesting and educational, Children's and Young Adult literature frequently also has a psychological and emotional role for their readers. When having problems or doubts in life, (young) people tend to escape their world by reading books and imagining themselves in another universe. In their novels, J. K. Rowling and Veronica Roth made up two fantasy worlds for the readers to escape to: the Harry Potter universe and the imaginary, dystopian post-war Chicago...
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The Spread of English in the British Isles
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Valentina Roso The English language changed a lot since the first contact with the Romans in 43 B.C.E. and it is still changing today. When they left the British Isles, Romans left behind Latin, which later was of great importance to the English language, giving that many words we use today have Latin origin. After the Romans, Germanic tribes migrated to the British Isles, shaping England and starting the period of Old English. In 1066 England is invaded again, this time by the Normans, who brought French...
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The Story of Pied Piper in the Works of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and Robert Browning
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Jula Dakić Fairy tales are stories that aim to entertain and teach children valuable life lessons. One such fairy tale would be the story of the Pied Piper. Most people know the following version of the story. Once upon a time, rats were plaguing a town. The citizens were at their wits’ end trying to figure out how to get rid of them. Then, one day, a man comes to the town offering them help in exchange for a certain sum of money. The town agrees to the bargain and the man enchants all the rats by...
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The Symbol of the Female Ghost in Toni Morrison's Beloved
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Antonija Bičvić Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved is both a neo-slave narrative and a ghost story. With supernatural elements mixing in with everyday life of former slaves, Morrison writes about the experiences of African Americans who had to deal with traumas of slave life even when free. The story unravels in two timelines, with the main plot set in the present and constantly interrupted by fragmented memories. Those memories are usually marked with trauma, and give readers further insight into the...
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The Topic of Consumerism in Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho
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Danijela Šarić With the ever-increasing focus on capitalism and materialistic values in Western society,
emerged a new appreciation for Bret Easton Ellis’ third novel, American Psycho. A cult classic
in both book and film format, this cultural phenomenon does an outstanding job of creating a
unique perspective on consumerism and the ways in which it affects humans both on an
individual and societal level. Therefore, the main focus of this paper is the topic of
consumerism in American Psycho....
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The Uncanny in H. P. Lovecraft's Short Stories
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Saška Petrović The Necronomicon is a collection of short stories by Howard P. Lovecraft, a renowned author of the horror genre and pulp fiction. Being such a prolific author of the horror genre, this paper will show that Lovecraft’s works are interspersed with various elements that give his writing an uncanny touch: specific architecture, representation of the Other, temporal displacement, imitation, and anxiety. After introducing the concept of the uncanny, the paper reviews horror as a genre and...
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The Use of Adjective+Noun Collocations by English Non-Native and Native Writers: A bigram-based study
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Benjamin Lovrić The correct and fluent use of phraseological units, such as idioms, collocations, or phrasal verbs is what differentiates the native from the non-native speaker. The present study focuses on the use of collocations, more specifically on adjective + noun bigrams by non-native English writers. This study is based on the analysis of two corpora, one consisting of 80 essays written by Croatian undergraduate students of the English language and literature, and the other consisting of 32 essays,...
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The Use of Narratives in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Young Learners: Teachers' Perceptions and Practices
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Petra Bence The present paper focuses on the use of narratives as a teaching method in the young learners' EFL classrooms. It investigates the ways in which narratives can be incorporated into the lesson plans, the range of criteria for their appropriate selection and the positive effects they have on the individual learners and the classroom community. A theoretical overview of teaching narratives was offered in the first part of the paper and the additive effect of its application was tested in a...
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The Use of Tenses in British and American English
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Sara Steiner American and British English are the best known and the most frequently used varieties of the English language. They differ in many aspects: pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar. The starting point for this work was the difference in the use of Past Simple and Present Perfect with particular time adverbials (yet, since, just, never, recently) in these two varieties of English. Previous research showed that speakers of American English prefer Past Simple with the above mentioned time...
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