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“I’m not a fucking hoax” – Problemizing Identity, Gender and Corporeality via J.T. LeRoy’s Transgressive Fiction
(Turun yliopisto, 2012)
Tarkastelen pro gradu –tutkielmassani kieltä, diskursiivista valtaa ja voimaannuttamista sekä identiteetin käsitettä yhdysvaltalaisen kirjailijan J.T. LeRoyn lyhytproosan kautta, jonka määritän lajiltaan transgressiiviseksi. ...
Early English Debate Poetry as Conflict Talk
(Turun yliopisto, 2017-12-02)
This study examines conflict-related features in a corpus of English debate poems from ca. 1250–1650. The dataset includes 30 central texts of varying lengths from the medieval and early modern periods. The theoretical ...
Historical appraisal analysis: evaluation of the book in sixteenth-century England
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-12-04)
This dissertation is a study of the evaluation of the book in the English Renaissance. The purpose of the study is to find out what a good book was like in sixteenth-century England, what personal and societal attitudes ...
Paratextuality in Manuscript and Print : Verbal and Visual Presentation of the Middle English Polychronicon
(Turun yliopisto, 2020-05-22)
This study investigates the verbal and visual presentation of text across manuscript and print media through the concept of paratext. The term collectively refers to the various textual and visual elements which surround ...
Adequacy in Finnish Translations of Anglo-American Literature
(Turun yliopisto, 2010-11-22)
Tutkielma käsittelee nykypäivän angloamerikkalaisen kaunokirjallisuuden suomentamista. Tutkimuksessa pyritään vahvistamaan tai kumoamaan hypoteesi, jonka mukaan angloamerikkalaisen kirjallisuuden suomentamistapa on tällä ...
The Philological-Pragmatic Approach : A Study of Language Choice and Code-Switching in Early Modern English School Performances
(Turun yliopisto, 2019-12-05)
In this study I set out to account for certain central aspects of language choice and code-switching. My purpose is twofold: to explain why people use multiple languages within a single discourse or choose to use a particular ...
Quest/ion of Identities in African American Feminist Postmodern Drama: A Study of Selected Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks
(Turun yliopisto, 2016-06-10)
Innovative and unconventional, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks belongs to the continuum of African American playwrights who have contributed to the quest/ion – the quest for and question – of identities ...
Alchemy in the vernacular: an edition and study of early English witnesses of The Mirror of Alchemy
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-05-27)
This study concerns an English-language alchemical work called <i>The Mirror of Alchemy (MoA).</i> I examine manuscript copies of <i>MoA</i> from the 15th to 17th centuries as well as a printed edition from 1597. The main ...
The Forms and Functions of Multilingual Practices in Early Modern School Drama from the King‟s School, Canterbury
(Turun yliopisto, 2012-05-25)
Käsittelen tutkimuksessani monikielisyyden ilmenemistä Canterburyn katedraalikoulun oppilaiden 1600-luvun loppupuoliskolla esittämissä näytelmissä, jotka löytyvät käsikirjoituksesta Lit.Ms.E41 (Canterburyn katedraalin ...
Localization, Frequency, and Functions of Filled Pauses: Five American Politicians’ Use of er and erm in the Talk Show Larry King Live
(Turun yliopisto, 2013-03-04)
Tämän pro gradu– tutkielman tavoitteena oli testata täytettyjen taukojen (er ja erm) esiintymistiheyttä, sijaintia kieliopillisessa rakenteessa sekä funktioita Kjellmerin (2003) korpus-tutkimuksessa. Materiaalina käytin ...