Browsing Thesis, B.A. (English) by Title
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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 ... -
From ‘Fallen woman’ to ‘New woman’ in victorian novels: Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Bronte & Kate Chopin
(BRAC University, 2017-12)Pedagogical assumptions of feminism have made great strides over time and after passing through three waves have today reached a point where women can claim to have sovereign identities as members of a society independent ... -
Futile Epiphany: James Joyce’s Dubliners Trapped in Routine
(BRAC University, 2013-12)While observing the trapped routine life of James Joyce‘s Dubliners, this paper aims to explore why the characters were unable more challenging life. Their obedience towards Irish social and religious values always restrained ... -
The futile struggle for self-determination in Naipaul's protagonists
(BRAC University, 2013-08)The paper is an attempt to study V.S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men, Guerrillas and A Bend in the River through the lenses of some of the most prominent postcolonial thinkers like Frantz Fanon, Homi K. Bhabha , Simon Gikandi and ... -
Gender and speech style: context Bangladesh
(BRAC Univeristy, 2018-04)This study attempts to analyze conversation and find out if gender influences speech style in Bangladesh. Here, the focus is on, politeness, interruptions (the way speakers change, switch topics and speaker control), ... -
Gender discourse in english language teaching (ELT) coursebook
(BRAC University, 2018-08)Learning a second language can be crucial for many. In this stage the textbook becomes one of the most important aspects of the target language. However, in a country like Bangladesh where the necessity of learning English ... -
Gender equality in Rokeya's writing
(BRAC University, 2013-04)This thesis looks into the notion of gender equality and its reflection in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s writing. It analyzes the meaning and importance of gender equality, types, causes and consequences of gender inequality ... -
Gender roles in historical reformation
(BRAC University, 2015-08)Gender Roles in Historical Reformation is a study of Orhan Pamuk’s memoir Istanbul : Memories and the City from a transnational- postmodern feminist perspective. In the memoir, the theme of melancholy is very much prevalent. ... -
Gender roles in war: Zweiter Weltkrieg’s (World War II) homefront against battlefront in a woman in Berlin
(Brac University, 2022-01)During the hindmost months of the Second World War in 1945, as the Russian army closed in on Berlin and the war was weeks away from an armistice, one anonymous citizen of Berlin decided to keep a personal journal to ... -
Gender, class, and politics in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls
(Brac University, 2022-05)Theatre has always been a platform for expressing what cannot be expressed through mere words coming out of one’s mouth. From the beginning of theatre, playwrights have tried to bring out issues concerning love, betrayal, ...