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Wizarding Idioms in Harry Potter Books and Their Croatian Translations
Wizarding Idioms in Harry Potter Books and Their Croatian Translations
Daniela Huseinović
Readers throughout the world have been astounded by the "Harry Potter" book series. A story about a magical world, that has its own culture, traditions, and most importantly, language form. Wizarding idioms are idioms that were created by the author, especially for Harry Potter’s magical world. These idioms were taken from actual English idioms with the same meaning, indicating their genuine origin. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, an idiom is a phrase that is specific to a certain...
Wolf Durians "Kai aus der Kiste" und die gleichnamige Verfilmung Guenter Meyers. Ein Vergleich
Wolf Durians "Kai aus der Kiste" und die gleichnamige Verfilmung Guenter Meyers. Ein Vergleich
Sabine Wengert
In dieser Diplomarbeit wurde Durians Kinderbuch Kai aus der Kiste mit der gleichnamigen Filmadaption Meyers verglichen und interpretiert. Die Art der Adaption des Films ist die Adaption als Illustration, d. h. man versucht dem Inhalt des Buches treu zu sein, dennoch sind Differenzierungen zwischen dem Film und Buch vorhanden. Deshalb ist das Ziel dieser Arbeit herauszufinden, inwiefern diese Differenzierungen in diesen beiden Werken vorhanden sind. Der Film wurde in 46...
Woman's Question in Contemporary British and American Female Literature as Represented by Doris Lessing's "The Golden Notebook" and Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"
Woman's Question in Contemporary British and American Female Literature as Represented by Doris Lessing's "The Golden Notebook" and Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"
Tihana Kovač
The aim of this paper is to present the female literary tradition and the circumstances of its development. The first part of the paper is concerned with the historical background of the female literary tradition, as well as with representations of women in literature. Each chapter elaborates on a certain historical period, naming in this way the most important features of each literary period. The second part of the paper is concerned with the analysis of two literary works written by...
Women Characters in A Game of Thrones
Women Characters in A Game of Thrones
Ivana Varga
A Song of Ice and Fire is a saga written by George R.R. Martin and was made famous when it was adopted into a HBO show titled as the first book in the series, Game of Thrones. Given its popularity and worldwide recognition, it is a wonder that so few scholarly studies have been done on the novel and so this paper will attempt to rectify that. This paper focuses on the female characters because of their importance to the plot but also because they point out George R.R. Martin’s contribution...
Women Characters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey
Women Characters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey
Andrea Laban
At the time when Jane Austen lived and worked, being a female novelist was not appreciated, therefore she never gained acknowledgment during her lifetime; nowadays, she is considered to be one of the most prominent names in English literature. She is known for her distinct social commentary, e.g. her novel Sense and Sensibility mirrors the patriarchal English society of the early nineteenth century and provides an impeccable insight into the position of women, who were at the time deprived...
Women Characters in the Harry Potter Series/Ženski likovi u Harry Potter serijalu
Women Characters in the Harry Potter Series/Ženski likovi u Harry Potter serijalu
Filip Šustić
This paper presents the analysis of the female characters from the Harry Potter series. The analysis of the characters is based on their personalities, roles, their development throughout the novels as well as the way in which they reinforce or subvert typical female stereotypes. The first chapter defines stereotypes, female stereotypes, and explains the dynamics of sex-roles. In the second chapter, the emphasis is put on the young witches who all develop and change greatly as the story...
Women Characters in the Works of Agatha Christie
Women Characters in the Works of Agatha Christie
Ana Vukelić
Agatha Christie is generally considered a conservative and traditional writer who wrote formulaic detective novels with two-dimensional and stereotypical characters. For this reason, during most of the twentieth century, her novels have been dismissed for lacking intellectual and literary value, and her women characters overlooked by feminist critics because of her conservative Victorian values. This paper will, firstly, look into the history of the detective and crime genre to situate...
Women and Class in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Women and Class in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Lorena Šeda
Women and social class have been a reoccurring topic for many authors over the centuries, including a renown American novelist Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Born in 1896, Francis Scott Fitzgerald left his mark in literature as one of the most famous American authors of the twentieth century to date. Although he achieved limited success during his lifetime, today he is widely regarded as an exceptional author, who earned his success by writing novels and short stories in the 1920s. In his works...
Women and Identity Search in Speculative Fiction
Women and Identity Search in Speculative Fiction
Tihana Najdert
Search for identity is a common occurrence, especially in the lives of adolescents, so it is no wonder it frequently occurs in works of speculative fiction as well. The theme of soul-searching appeals to both adolescents and adults who are on the journey to actualise themselves as individuals, making it an always relevant subject. The period of adolescence is characterized by the extended need for establishing an identity that will serve as a solid basis for adulthood that awaits them....
Women and Society in Literature of Georgian and Victorian England: A Case Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Women and Society in Literature of Georgian and Victorian England: A Case Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Ana Vukelić
Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley are arguably the most important female writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, while Wollstonecraft is one of the most significant contributors to the women’s rights movement, with some of her ideas expressed in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman being referenced in the modern-day laws about the rights of women. This paper will analyze the life and work of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, focusing mostly on their most...
Women in Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Novel versus Kenneth Branagh's Film
Women in Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Novel versus Kenneth Branagh's Film
Jelena Pataki
This paper explores how Mary Shelley used the unprecedented motif of male procreation to both acurrately describe and harshly criticize the unfavourable position of women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Inspired by Mary Wollstonecraft, her mother and also one the earliest feminist writers, Shelley depicts the inevitable negative outcomes of the strict gender division in the society. This meant that the public sphere of life was regarded as the male realm, while the private or...
Women’s literature in the 19th century
Women’s literature in the 19th century
Kathrin Majić Mazul
The paper discusses the impact of female authors in the nineteenth-century who used literature as a medium to incite changes in the unjust position of women in the society. The paper’s focus is on two women writers, Charlotte Brontë, whose novel Jane Eyre demonstrated the obstacles women had to overcome in order to gain independence and equality before entering marriage, and Kate Chopin, whose heroine in The Awakening experienced a shift in her attitude towards the role of a mother and a...

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