Browsing Thesis, B.A. (English) by Title
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Factors affecting written corrective feedback online: a tertiary level scenario
(Brac University, 2021-06)This study has focused on the teacher’s insights regarding the factors affecting giving written corrective feedback in online teaching. This research included different private and public universities of Dhaka city to see ... -
Factors influencing secondary school English teachers’ inclination towards private tutoring in English
(Brac University, 2020-09)In recent times educational researchers have given attention to Private tutoring in English (PTE) due to the overwhelming prevalence of PTE in Bangladesh. Some studies have explored the factors influencing students’ ... -
Factors influencing the Bangladeshi submitted to the department of English and in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree indigenous students attitude towards learn second language in Dhaka
(BRAC University, 2016-08)This research attempts to find out the various factors influencing the process of learning Bangla as a second language in different communities. Around 50 indigenous students living in Dhaka city have been selected to ... -
Factors of language shift from chakma to bengali: A study on the Chakma-speaking people
(Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2013-12)Language shift has become a common phenomenon in the countries where there is more than one speech community. In such countries the dominant language gradually engulfs the minor languages. As Bangladesh comprises different ... -
The failure of the American dream : The Great Gatsby
(BRAC University, 2014-12)American Dream has distinctive implications for diverse individuals. To some, it implies that one can accomplish whatever one wants through living this dream which will take one to his/her desired objectives. To others, ... -
The fairy tales of oscar wilde and the gain of suffering
(BRAC University, 2012-04)This thesis aims to study the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde and draw a conclusion as to why he incorporated so much pain, suffering, sadness and death in his stories. In other words, my aim was to study the "gain of suffering ... -
Fallen” to new women: reflection on the social condition of women in light of modernist expression in the novels of Virginia Woolf and Kate Chopin
(Brac University, 2022-01)The main focus of my thesis is that I want to analyze the situation and the position of women in the society of late 19th and early 20th century in light of modernist expression and how the then society shaped women’s lives ... -
Family and sexuality in Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party and The Homecoming
(BRAC University, 2018-04)This dissertation seeks to explore the themes of family and sexuality among the characters in Harold Pinter‟s The Birthday Party (1922) and The Homecoming (1965). Harold Pinter is a modern British dramatist (1930-2008) ... -
Female misrepresentation in selected peripheral pieces: glimpsing into Native Son, Beauty is a Wound and The Lonely Londoners
(Brac University, 2022-05)Women have been used as accessories in different novels and play for a long time. The female characters have been serving the role of mute or passive speakers in different literary pieces. Most of the time, they were ... -
Female space in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea: a search for sanctuary within incarcerating spaces
(BRAC University, 2018-08)Space is a persisting concept in literature since “all literature is in space, regardless of its thematic developments”. Introductorily, this dissertation looks at our perception of space, and it also explores the idea of ... -
Feminist space in magical realism: coexistence of magic and feminist tropes in Joanne Harris’ Chocolate and The Lollipop Shoes
(BRAC University, 2019-04)This thesis is an opportunity to explore the significance of magical realism beyond its conventions. Within the post-colonial perspective, the concept of magical realism may express feminist notions through the blend of ... -
Feminization, construction and re-construction of madness: intertextuality between Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
(Brac University, 2019-12)Even though men didsuffer from mental illness theirs was considered a disease that required to be cured while madness or deviant behavior in women was considered something demonized, wicked and dangerous. The aim of my ... -
Film and postmoden culture
(BRAC University, 2014-12)The relationship between postmodernism and film within the scope of visual culture is threefold: the form and style of a film can be postmodern, the subject matter of a film can be postmodern, and the way of film is ... -
Flight behaviour and the hungry tide on environmental crisis and the retelling of place
(BRAC University, 2015-08)The environmental crisis is not necessarily a new concern in literature. Pre-modern writings have responded to the crisis in a variety of ways, from the anthropomorphic deification of environmental phenomena to Romantic ... -
The formation of the African American community in the United States
(BRAC University, 2012-12)The literature of the Diaspora is particularly interesting in the contemporary world as more and more people come to find themselves voluntarily or involuntarily displaced. Displacement is the material reality of ... -
Fostering of critical thinking skills through reading text
(Brac University, 2020-09)This study explored how the strategies of critical thinking skills have been implemented by the participants while reading an English reading text. This strategy of the implementation of critical thinking skills can be ... -
From adolescence to awakening: portrayal of the ‘urban child’ in Charles Dickens’ novels
(BRAC University, 2016-08)The aim of this paper is to show the representation of the themes of urban childhood in Victorian Literature and the intricate dynamics that lies between family, children and the society. ‘Coming of Age’ genres were ... -
From fairy tales to disney movies: gender roles and stereotypes then and now
(BRAC University, 2016-08)This thesis studies classic fairy tales of the seventeenth, eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries by Charles Perrault, the Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Andersen to observe how gender stereotypes and gender roles ... -
From Patriotism to Disillusionment: Mapping shifting tone in British War Poetry
(Brac University, 2020-12)First World War, also known as Great War, had an emphatic impact in shaping the literary genre called War Poetry that sketched veracious picture of the modern technological warfare to the world. The war poems written by ... -
From texts to films: adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and Great Gatsby across the 20th and the 21st centuries
(BRAC University, 2016-11)Literary adaptation has reached a new dimension specially from the postmodern era. The process of adaptation has gone through many technical and aesthetic changes over the last few centuries. And the changes vary from the ...