Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft

"... dann wird mein Herz noch größer"

"... dann wird mein Herz noch größer"

"2001: A Space Odyssey" - Das Motiv der Reise in Stanley Kubricks Science-fiction-Film

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1996 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Kultur und Landeskunde, Note: 2,0, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Fachbereich 3 - Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Fach Anglistik/Amerikanistik), Veranstaltung: "The Blue Highways: Reisen durch beide Amerika im 20. Jahrhundert", WS 1995/96, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Jeder hat schon einmal in irgendeiner Form eine Reise angetreten, sei es eine Erholungsreise, eine Abenteuerreise, eine Pilgerreise oder eine Bildungsreise. Die wachsende Tourismusbranche zeigt, dass die Zahl der Reisenden (oft zu immer exotischeren Zielen) Jahr für Jahr zunimmt. Warum birgt die Vorstellung, für eine gewisse Zeit aus dem gewohnten Umfeld auszubrechen, eine Faszination, der man sich nur schwer entziehen kann?Der amerikanische Regisseur Stanley Kubrick griff 1968 *das* klassische Motiv der Reise, die Odyssee, wieder auf und setze es mit seinem Science fiction Film "2001: A Space Odyssey" in den modernen Kontext der Weltraumfahrt. In der vorliegenden Arbeit soll an Hand von "2001" die Darstellung der "Reise" als Symbol für den Lebens- oder Entwicklungsweg des Menschen analysiert werden. Das Ziel der Arbeit ist, die bleibende Faszination am Thema der Reise (und zu reisen) zu ergründen, die eng verbunden ist mit dem Phänomen, dass Kubricks Science fiction Film auch nach fast 30 Jahren nichts von seiner Aussagekraft eingebüßt hat.

"A Clockwork Orange". The presentation and the impact of violence in the novel and in the film

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne (Institut für Anglistik), course: Novels and their film adaptations, language: English, abstract: After the release of Stanley Kubrick's film version of "A Clockwork Orange" in 1971, Anthony Burgess's original novel of 1962 and the film were obstinately criticised to be senselessly brutal and it was (and is) said (until today) that both Burgess and Kubrick glorified violence with their works. Although in "A Clockwork Orange", a lot of different themes are dealt with - for example politics, music, art or themes of philosophical nature - the violence in the book and on screen are the most concerned about things when critics write about "A Clockwork Orange". But not only critics, also 'normal' readers (or viewers) regard the violence to be the most remarkable thing about the whole book (or movie). One simply has to look at the website of the internet-bookstore 'Amazon' (www.amazon.de) to see that the main part of the readers' reviews for the book by Anthony Burgess comment on the violence and the brutal crimes committed by the story's protagonists: Alex DeLarge and his 'droogs'. It is interesting that most of the readers that commented on the book also gave a statement about Kubrick's film adaptation. It looks like the whole discussion about violence in "A Clockwork Orange" really first came up when Stanley Kubrick's movie version hit the theatres.But why this violence? Does it stand for itself? Are rape and murder obeyed fetishes of Burgess and Kubrick? Or is there something more in the story, that makes it indispensable to present violence in the extreme way Burgess and Kubrick did? This text will explain the function and the intention of presenting violence in "A Clockwork Orange". It will show the differences between the way of presenting violence in the original novel and the film version and why author and director decided to portray the protagonists' brutality in unlike ways, including the impact they have on the reader and the viewer. This text will conclude that in the novel and the film version, violence in "A Clockwork Orange" serves to discuss other and more important themes included in the story.

"A Forest Walk" - The Concept of Nature in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Scarlet Letter"

Examination Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Marburg, language: English, abstract: Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of America's most noted and highly praised writers, and a key figure of US literature. His works have contributed to the national identity and can be found in almost any curriculum of North American Literature Studies worldwide.Being a direct descendant of Massachusetts Bay colonists, the Puritan era of 17th and 18th century New England served as a lifelong preoccupation for Hawthorne and inspired many of his best-known stories. Hence, in order to understand the author and his works, it is crucial to apprehend the historical background from which they arose. Awareness of both the Puritan legacy in Hawthorne's time and their Calvinist beliefs, which contributed to the establishment of American identity, serves as a basis for fathoming the intention behind Hawthorne's writings. His forefathers' concept of wilderness was an important part of their religious life, and in many of Hawthorne's tales, nature can be perceived as an active agent for both plot and moral message. Therefore, it is indispensable to consider the development behind the Puritan perception as well as the prevailing opinion on nature during the writer's lifetime.Seclusion, nature, and Puritanism are constantly recurring topics in both the author's life and works, wherefore particular attention is paid to these. To be familiar with Hawthorne's relation to nature, his ancestors, and religion in general is essential in order to understand the vast amount of symbols that can be found in his stories.The second part of this paper analyzes two of the author's most eminent and esteemed works according to the use of nature symbolism and the underlying moral intention. By depicting various images within "Young Goodman Brown" and The Scarlet Letter, the author examines to which extent they correspond to historical facts and Hawthorne's emphasized characteristic features. The comparison of the two works focuses on the didactic lesson Hawthorne tried to include in all of his works and will thus provide an in-depth understanding of the author's intentions and his utilization of both Puritanism and nature perception.

"A great butler": the unreliable narrator in Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day"

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Würzburg, language: English, abstract: In Kazuo Ishigurös The Remains of the Day the first person narrator Stevens, a butler on the verge of retirement, undertakes a journey to meet - for what is likely the last time in their lives - his former coworker and love interest Miss Kenton. At the same time, he tries to come to terms with his past by reexamining his memories of his life at Darlington Hall, the choices he made and the values he had. Throughout his account it becomes increasingly obvious that Stevens¿s narration cannot be trusted completely. His comments on, and interpretation of, past events in his life and his portrayal of himself and others in his tale expose him as an unreliable narrator. However, his attempts to deceive himself and others are possibly the most interesting and telltale aspect of the narrative. After all, "the use of an unreliable narrator draws attention to a character¿s psychology." Paradoxically, the narrator reveals most about himself and his life when he is trying to obscure the truth.

"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" from the Perspective of Literary Anthropology

"A Raisin in the Sun". Is working hard enough to achieve one's American Dream?

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Duisburg-Essen, course: A Survey of American Literature, language: English, abstract: This term paper deals with the play "A Raisin in the Sun" and how the concept of the American Dream appears in the play. It will be discussed if working hard is enough to reach one's American Dream. The play is written by Lorraine Hansberry and published in 1958. It takes place in the south of Chicago where the Younger family lives and consists of five people from three different generations. Head of the family is Lena, who is mostly called Mama, right after her we got her son Walter Lee, who will be presented in the main part of this term paper. Besides, there is Walter's wife Ruth and their son Travis. The last member of the Youngers is Walter's sister Beneatha. Mama embodies the first generation and is quite traditional. Ruth, Walter and "Bennie" represent the second generation, whereas Travis is the only child in the third generation. The family has been living in America in the fifth generation and has got African roots. It can be said though that Walter, Bennie, Ruth and Travis are less traditional than Mama and identify with the American way of life.The whole family shares a small apartment in a ghetto and living together is difficult as everybody has got his or her own desire, Dream and point of view about certain topics. Especially Walter Lee expects a lot from life and the reader sympathizes with him. Misunderstood by his family Walter wants to live a better life and represents the concept of the American Dream of a person wanting to "rise from rags to riches". Walter dreams of an office job and really dislikes being a chauffeur for a white person. He wants his son to go to the best schools and to get the best education as possible. Furthermore, he also wants to spoil his wife and get himself a nice car. But why does he fail? Why does nobody in his family support his idea of raising an own business, namely opening a liquor store? Beneatha is not even surprised about Walter's failure. These questions shall be answered in the main part of this paper. Moreover, I quickly want to present the concept of the American Dream, especially focusing on the Dream of "Upward Mobility".

"Achieved Unity of Meanings" vs. "A Galaxy of Signifiers"

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: Good, University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine" (Anglistics), course: Contemporary Literature Theory and Criticism, language: English, abstract: "Criticism, is the overall term for studies concerned with defining, clasifying, analysing, interpreting, and evaluating works of literature."1 What I'm going to analyze in this work is not criticism, but "theoretical criticism". Theoretical criticism proposes a theory of literature, in the sense of general principles, together with a set of terms, distinctions and categories , to be applied to identifying and analyzing works of literature, as well as the "criteria"2 by which these works and their writers are to be evaluated. Since the 1970s there has been a flood of writings, Continental, American and English, proposing diverse nove l and radical forms of critical theory. Why do we need criticism? In order to understand texts or to give them the "right interpretation"3. But can one speak about a right interpretation? In order to find a plausible answer to this question, I will focus on two of the most important modern literary theories, namely New Criticism, defined as "an achieved unity of meanings"4 and Deconstruction as "a galaxy of signifiers"5, comparing the two ones by means of the consulted essays on New Criticism and Deconstruction.But before comparing the two theories, I will first introduce you into the meaning and features of both theories, presenting you some of the most important critics and their essays and critical theories referring to New Criticism and Deconstruction. I will dedicate the last two units of my paper to an ample comparison between New Criticism and Deconstruction, showing you, that there are both similarities and differences to find in the two theories, and that in spite of all the differences, the former survives in the last one. Moreover, I will point some personal conclusions concerning my own point of view to the topics mentioned above.

"Address to Congress" by Woodrow Wilson. Context around 1917

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject American Studies - Literature, University of Würzburg (Philosophisches Institut - Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft), course: Hauptseminar, language: English, abstract: When Wilson turned to the Congress on the second of April in 1917, he aimed to announce that political agreements and the relation to Germany were under dire threats. Only four days later, on the sixth of April 1917, the United States passed a war resolution that declared the entry into the Great War. The war had already been ongoing since 1914, when America eventually joined in 1917, however, there was no end in sight. The entry of America caused a massive change in the course of the war, but, apart from this, the participation in the war marked a significant step towards the pursuit of world power in American history. Wilson requested a declaration of war against Germany in his speech Address to Congress because only the congress was granted to declare war as the constitution from 1789 had determined. He was aware of the fact that the Government, the Congress as well as the whole nation was not in favour of a war those days. Therefore, he used genius methods and technical brilliance to convince the Congress to engage in the war. On the basis of his persuasive speech he achieved to change America's attitude towards the war. Aristotle once formed an outline on how to master persuasion that is called symboleutikon and aims to give speakers a sort of framework for their speeches on the one hand. On the other hand, it defines concrete principles of how persuasiveness can be attained through speech. It consists of three major persuasive appeals called ethos, pathos and logos whose deployment is inevitable in persuasive communication. According to Aristotle's outline, ethos is used to give insight in the speaker's credibility and reliability. Pathos refers to an appeal to emotion, to evoke emotion and to move the audience. His last term logos describes the use of reason, logic and the use of evidence.

"Affirmative Action"-Programme in den USA nach 1945

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Kultur und Landeskunde, Note: 1,7, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Begriff "Affirmative Actions" beschreibt verschiedene Antidiskriminierungsmaßnahmen, welche eine aktive Teilnahme von Minderheiten am gesellschaftlichen Leben in vielen Bereichen der Gesellschaft ermöglichen soll. Diese Maßnahmen können unterschieden werden in verschiedene Ausbildungsprogramme, welche die Verbesserung der beruflichen Qualifikation von Minderheiten vorsieht. Im Bildungsbereich, speziell dem der höheren Bildung, wurden mit Hilfe von Affirmative Actions so genannte Quotenregelungen geschaffen. Diese hatten ein der Bevölkerungszusammensetzung entsprechende Präsens von Minderheiten in Institutionen wie Schulen, Colleges, Universitäten oder Unternehmen zum Ziel. Um diese Quotenregelungen zu erfüllen, wurde zu Beginn das gängige Leistungsprinzip um einen Studienplatz teilweise außer Kraft gesetzt, was in der amerikanischen Gesellschaft zu großen Debatten und Kontroversen führte. Im Laufe der Zeit kam es zu einigen Gerichtsverhandlungen und Gesetzesveränderungen, welche immer wieder die Frage aufwarfen, wie Gerechtigkeit im Bildungswesen herzustellen sei, ohne dabei eine neue Ungerechtigkeit entstehen zu lassen. Affirmative Actions unterlagen also einem laufenden Wandel sowie einer dauernden Anpassung an veränderte wirtschaftliche, soziale und politische Verhältnisse. Wie sich im Laufe der Jahrzehnte herausstellte, war mit dem verstärkten Zugang von Minderheiten an Colleges und Universitäten das Problem erheblicher Leistungsunterschiede zwischen Minderheiten und der Mehrheitsbevölkerung noch lange nicht gelöst. Die Schwierigkeit, einen Hochschulabschluss zu erlangen oder die Herkunft aus bildungsfernen Elternhäusern, waren nur einige von zahlreichen Problemen, welche das Leben von vielen Minderheiten erschwerte. Aus diesem Grund entwickelten sich verschiedene Initiativen und Programme, welche die Integration von Studenten mit Migrationshintergrund erleichtern sollte. In der folgenden Arbeit soll auf einige dieser Programme eingegangen werden. Außerdem soll der Einfluss von Veränderungen in der Gesetzgebung zu Affirmative Actions in den 1990'er Jahren am Beispiel der Wahl der Universität als auch der Veränderung von Zulassungskriterien aufgezeigt werden.

"Alice in Wonderland" and the Victorian Age. A Portrayal of the Female Characters in Lewis Carroll's Novel

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Education Ludwigsburg, language: English, abstract: In recent times, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" became known through the film adaptation by Tim Burton. However, the following work revolves around the original, the novel published by Lewis Carroll in 1856. This period is known as the Victorian age, during which Queen Victoria reigned and expanded Britain's sphere of power. Various influences and numerous inventions changed people's lives.A keyword in this regard is the Industrial Revolution, the foundations of which were laid several decades earlier but came to full realization in the nineteenth century. These achievements transformed British society in a way that had never happened before. People increasingly moved to the cities, and new professions developed. The situation of children also changed because until then, they were seen more as miniature adults who had no needs or desires. What Rousseau had initiated decades earlier was now being implemented in the Victorian era: children were granted a world of their own. Although one cannot compare this understanding with the view of childhood today, it nevertheless represented progress for adolescents of Victorian Britain.In this time of change, Lewis Carroll wrote his fairytale-like children's novel, in which a Victorian girl named Alice dives into a dream world and experiences all kinds of adventures. Throughout the story, she faces many characters and creatures that are still strongly reminiscent of the patriarchal system of that time. This process is significant since, during that period, the understanding of childhood evolved, and the role of girls, in particular, started to transform.This term paper deals with the expectations placed on women and girls in the Victorian era and examines how female characters behave in the novel. The question to be addressed is: How does Lewis Carroll portray the female characters, especially Alice, in his novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and to what extent are these literary figures shaped by the Victorian age?

"American History X". Overcoming Racism in Prison

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Rostock (Institut für Anglistik/ Amerikanistik), course: Prisoners and Prisons in the U.S., language: English, abstract: The theme of racism outside and inside a prison and how to personally overcome this racism as a victim as well as a perpetrator are major themes of the anti-racist movie"American History X". The life of incarcerated people and how it influenced them is often portrayed in TV series or films which are mostly made to entertain the populace rather than to educate or raise awareness about the problems that arise within the displayed topics, and for that stereotypes and juxtapositions are used as well as certain methodsand means of film making. This paper looks at exemplary scenes of "American History X" with emphasis on how some means of film making are used to display the life-changingexperiences that main protagonist Derek Vinyard encounters while being incarcerated.Today more than two million people of the United States of America are incarcerated in prisons; serving a sentence for a crime they have committed. The experience each inmate makes individually can have an immense impact on their behaviour and mind-set in and outside prison walls. Prisons in general function as public institutions which should, at the very best, try to help the inmates to "find a lawful, economically stable place" in a community and in society after their time spent in prison (Fleisher and Decker 1-2). Incarcerated people not only have to deal with the limitations of their freedom and privacy, often they also encounter racism and racial segregation by officers and other inmates. According to Philip Goodman, "it is the interaction between the inmate and officer in which categorization is born, and that makes racial categorization and segregation possible" (762).

"And it's all there" - Intertextual Structures, Themes, and Characters in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" Series

Diploma Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Martin Luther University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: With the growth in popularity due to series like Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles and the motif's recurring presence in cinematic adaptations of Stoker's Dracula as well as various TV formats public interest has never ceased to the present day. As the most significant characteristic of the vampire is its being multi-faceted and changing, its potential to be also of great intertextual value can be thereupon considered. Consequently, it can be assumed that Meyer's tetralogy clearly evokes these instances of intertextuality through the adoption of patterns and themes that have already proved productive in earlier literary works. However, in Meyer's work these sources are remarkably extended and sometimes even altered as she relies to a large part on her pretexts to tell her narrative and construct a postmodern vampire figure. In order to achieve a comprehensive analysis it is necessary to incorporate all four volumes - Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn - of the Twilight series in the discussion. Meyer's just recently published work The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella will only engage a marginal part of the analysis as it largely concentrates on the subplot of Eclipse, hence not being particularly significant for the main events of the story. On the other hand, Meyer's Midnight Sun, although until the present day a yet unfinished and unpublished manuscript, is of great importance for the subsequent analysis. Meyer dwells on a number of themes, structures, and characters that have intertextual potential. One can distinguish between pretexts that are apparently marked in Meyer's work and sources that only bear non-literal intertextual references. Pretexts that are overtly marked and are thus explicitly intertextual in the Twilight series are: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice, Bram Stoker's Dracula as well as Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice,Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park. A number of other pretexts are only covertly marked as they point back to literary traditions or character types. Pretexts that are implicitly marked are: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Die Braut von Korinth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel, John Keats' Lamia, Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling, Lord Byron's Manfred as well as Roman Polanski's movie adaptation of Rosemary's Baby.

"And the air vibrates with the silver sound". Anna Barbauld's Poetry

This book provides a contribution to the critical revaluation of Anna Barbauld's poetry. In particular, its purpose is to analyse the language of Barbauld's poems, namely, their style, their lexical choices and their rhetorical structure. Whereas the first stage of the book is a consideration of Barbauld's rhetoric as applied to her political poetry, the second and longer phase is a stylistic study of the poetry of domestic, scientific, religious and aesthetic subject. Finally, this study demonstrates that Barbauld's verse offers conciliation between the sphere of concrete domesticity, intended both as familial sociability and, latu sensu, the obedience to the values of political and social cohabitation, and the private realm of dreaminess, where the poet retires to meditate, to escape from mundane ordinariness, and to find expression for the diversions of her fancy.

"At Swim-Two-Birds" de Flann O'Brien e a tradição literária irlandesa

"Auch ich bin Amerika" - Der "American Dream" in Gedichten Langston Hughes

"Belated" Shakespearean Mosaics

"Big Brother is Watching You": Strategien der Kontrolle und Überwachung in ausgewählten englischen Dystopien

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 2,0, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik / FB 10), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit werden Strategien der Kontrolle und Überwachung in drei klassischenDystopien der englischen Literatur erforscht. Am ergiebigsten wird die Überwachung in den modernen englischen Dystopien thematisiert.Der Erforschung der Kontrollstrategien in dieser Arbeit liegen Herbert George Wells' The Time Machine (1895), Aldous Leonard Huxleys Brave New World (1932) und George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) zugrunde da sie die Überwachungsthematik besonders prägnant illustrieren und sich von der utopischenTradition abgrenzen. Meine These lautet, dass die ausgewählten Dystopien als Archetypen der Dystopiebezeichnet werden können, da sie gattungshistorisch bedeutsam sind. Bezüglich der Überwachung wird die These untersucht, dass BNW eine latente Kontrollethematisiert, mittels derer der Weltstaat eine bessere Welt vortäuscht, die faktisch dieBürger versklavt, wohingegen die Partei in 1984 eine terroristische und sichtbareÜberwachung illustriert und Macht zum Selbstzweck ausübt. Bezüglich TMwird die These diskutiert, dass TM keine vorsätzliche Kontrolle wie in BNW und 1984,sondern eine auf evolutionärer Basis fußende Überwachung veranschaulicht, demzufolgeder Mensch nicht die Krone der Schöpfung bleiben muss. Bezüglich der Sexualität wirddie These untersucht, dass in BNW und 1984 Sexualität als Unterdrückungsmittelbeansprucht wird, wohingegen Sexualität in TM nicht als Kontrollinstanz, sondern dernatürlichen Selektion dient.Im zweiten Kapitel dieser Arbeit wird die Utopie als Gattung definiert und die Dystopie als auch die SF von der Utopie abgegrenzt, wobei erklärt wird, warum BNW und 1984 als Dystopien und TM dagegen sowohl als SF als auch als Dystopie gelten kann.Im 3., 4. und 5. Kapitel werden die Kontrollstrategien in TM, BNW und 1984 diskutiert, wobei eine Zusammenfassung des Werkes, eine Rezeption des Forschungsstandes sowie die Sexualitätsthematik berücksichtigt werden.In der Forschungsliteratur sind vor allem BNW und 1984, aber auch Wells' Werke,bedingt durch ihre Analogien oft Gegenstand eines Vergleichs. Im sechsten Kapitelwerden die Resultate bezüglich der Untersuchung der Kontrollstrategien und derSexualitätsthematik kontrastiert. Abschließend werden im siebenten Kapitel die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit kritisch rekapituliert, gefolgt von einer persönlichen Evaluation.

"Black Elk speaks, doesn't he?" - Facts and Fiction of an Autobiography

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, Free University of Berlin (John-F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien), course: Ethnic (Post) Modernism and the Invention of Ethnicity, language: English, abstract: These introductory words, printed in the appendix of the novel itself, give a very clear and critical insight into the topic of Black Elk Speaks by author John G. Neihardt. Largely considered to be an autobiographical narration, it has become one of the most famous books dealing with the story of individuals of Native American origin. Following the tradition of so-called "as-told-tö stories (Georgi-Findlay 1997, 385), it is the story of the Lakota holy man Black Elk, who told it to the author John G. Neihardt who transcribed it and wrote it down. The story, and its categorization as autobiographical, claims authenticity, and was widely regarded to be an accurate report of Native American life among the tribe of the Oglala Lakota and their culture. Even today, the book is still considered to be one of the first works of Native American literature. (As a matter of fact, the book is listed in the chapter "Indianerliteratur" (Native American Literature) in Hubert Zapf¿s "Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte".) Even though it was written down and published by a person of Euro-American background, the story itself is considered to be uniquely Native American in content. But how authentic is the story, how much of what Neihardt wrote down was fact, and what was actually his own interpretation or even literary freedom that he took to serve certain stereotypes and make the story more appealing for the audience which it was aimed at?

"Blade Runner" and the Cyberpunk Narrative. Is Cyberpunk a Dystopian Narrative or a Genre of its own?

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Wuppertal (Anglistik), course: Narrating Los Angeles, language: English, abstract: The reference "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe" marks one of the most iconic monologues in movie history. It perfectly describes the confusing life within a dystopian future from the perspective of a being whose existence is a comment on life itself. Replicants, artificial life, flying cars, dirty streets, confusing architecture and big corporations fill the narration of "Blade Runner", often claimed as the showpiece of the art form of cyberpunk. What is cyberpunk? What is cyber? What is punk?This seminar paper will examine the origins of the cyberpunk narrative by amplifying its roots, the dystopian scenario. Furthermore the dystopian roots within the utopian narrative will be specified.Using the example of Ridley Scott's 1982 movie "Blade Runner" the significance of the city of Los Angeles within the cyberpunk narrative will be examined and the importance of the classic hard-boiled detective crime fiction will be put into contrast to Scott's visionary image of 2019 Los Angeles.Is cyberpunk just another version of the dystopian narrative or is it a genre on its own? Is the narration within the cyberpunk universe still relevant or is the cyberpunk era already over?By examining possible roots of the cyberpunk narration within the hard-boiled crime fiction of the 1920s and 1930s, a connection to Scott's "Blade Runner" is tried to be reasoned.

"Blasted", "Phaedra's Love" and "Cleansed". Reading Love, Faith and Hope in Sarah Kane's Plays

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2.3, University of Bonn (Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie), course: Contemporary British Drama, language: English, abstract: In this paper, Sarah Kane's debut play "Blasted", alongside her proximate plays "Phaedra's Love" and "Cleansed", will be discussed in order to explore the nature of the plays concerning their subject matter. Among these plays, "Phaedra's Love" is the only one that is based on a model and therefore not utterly Kane's content. The story is written loosely after Seneca's version of the Phaedra myth, in which a tragedy arises because the title character falls in love with her royal stepson. Beyond the thematic discussion, the question whether the subjects Sarah Kane connects her plays with are presented in a positive or negative way will be issued in the paper. If there is love in the plays, in how far is it satisfying for the characters? And does strong faith really promise a hopeful ending? In order to answer these questions, the paper is divided into two parts, starting with a short theory chapter, that follows this introduction and provides a brief introduction to in-yer-face theatre in general. Subsequently, one finds the main part of the paper, which consists of three sub-chapters and includes the analysis of each of the named plays. A conclusion of the findings will round the paper off.

"Bloody Sunday" and its evaluation in the press

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1.3, University of Regensburg (Institut für Amerikanistik und Anglistik), course: "Sunday, Bloody Sunday...": Roots, Present State and Literary Evaluation of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, language: English, abstract: In my paper which has the topic 'Bloody Sunday and its evaluation in the press' I intend to give a chronological summary of the events preceding and following Bloody Sunday in order to frame the historical background. Furthermore is it my purpose to show how the British Press, in particular The Times and The Observer, cope with this topic immediately after it occurred. Next I will analyse how the British and the Irish press deal with the anniversaries of the occurrence. In this case I will concentrate on The Irish Examiner, The Irish Independent, The Telegraph and The Guardian. Finally I will compare their representations in the next item.

"Bond, James Bond". A Cultural and Political Approach at the Depiction of a Global Hero

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,7, Free University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: James Bond. There is hardly a person in the Western world who has never heard of the almost mythical secret agent; who has never seen at least one movie or heard the famous quotation "Bond. James Bond". The secret agent, originally invented by the British author Ian Fleming has almost become something like a brand: there is just one Bond out there. Or, in this case seven. Ever since Ian Fleming published the first novel starring who would become the world's most famous spy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, there have been many different interpretations of the character that actually is James Bond. The factors that played a major role in this matter were dependant on a number of different aspects. Even though it is undisputable that, in the case of the movies, one of the factors is always the actor, there are a number of different aspects to be taken into consideration: cultural and historical ones.