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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 ...
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 ...
Cultural and textual properties in the translation and interpretation of allusions. An analysis of allusions in Dorothy L. Sayers’ detective novels translated into Finnish in the 1940s and the 1980s
(Annales Universitatis Turkuensis B 330Turun yliopisto, 2010-12-10)
<b>Kulttuuriset ja tekstuaaliset tekijät alluusioiden kääntämisessä ja tulkinnassa. Alluusiot Dorothy L. Sayersin 1940- ja 1980-luvuilla suomennetuissa salapoliisiromaaneissa</b>
Väitöskirja käsittelee alluusioiden ...
Narrating Deliverance: The Literary Double in the Writing of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Bharati Mukherjee
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-02-24)
This dissertation studies the literary double in contemporary fiction by three Bengali American writers: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Bharati Mukherjee. The main focus is on examining what is expressed ...
Exploring Agency in the Construction of a Translated Character Narrative: A Multiple-Case Study on Early Sibelius-Related Translations into Finnish
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-06-10)
This dissertation explores the application of the sociological narrative theory in
Translation Studies, with a focus on the Finnish translations of texts related to
Finland’s national composer, Jean Sibelius. Drawing on ...
Gendered sexual violence and complicity: A Postcolonial study of selected works by J. M. Coetzee
(Turun yliopisto, 2024-08-24)
Colonial expansionism has a legacy with continuing effects in the modern era, and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee’s works are nuanced fictional responses to that legacy. In this dissertation, I analyse the trajectory of the ...