This thesis examines the difference in representation of Native Americans and white American settlers in six American western films from 1911 to 2017. Where it might be reasonable to think that the...Show moreThis thesis examines the difference in representation of Native Americans and white American settlers in six American western films from 1911 to 2017. Where it might be reasonable to think that the position of the Native American in the eyes of the general American public is ameliorated, the events of 9/11/2001 might prove this not to be the case.Show less
This thesis takes a look at three texts that were written in a time when dementia had not yet become the focus of the attention it has been amassing these past years. Two of these texts are from...Show moreThis thesis takes a look at three texts that were written in a time when dementia had not yet become the focus of the attention it has been amassing these past years. Two of these texts are from England and one of them from the Netherlands, and they all, will be argued, contain depictions of dementia. These texts were written in a time when dementia was still seen, more or less, as a normal part of ageing, and even if dementia is never explicitly mentioned in either of the texts, by comparing these texts and the descriptions therein with contemporary medical literature about the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) it will be shown that the behaviour as it is described in the texts warrants a qualification of the described behaviour as being a depiction of dementia. This analysis will also include the depiction of the attitudes surrounding the described behaviour as collateral evidence for the qualification of the behaviour as dementia. It will further be shown that these representations of the disease in all three cases have a function beyond a mere depiction of a developing process, and that through the ways in which the descriptions are shaped, the process I designate as dementia becomes a metaphor for an underlying topic. For this, use will also made of an analysis of how in contemporary fiction dementia is represented and used.Show less
Articulating child consciousness poses authors with a double bind. Can children’s language be applied by adult authors to grasp the consciousness of a child? And can an adult still grasp and...Show moreArticulating child consciousness poses authors with a double bind. Can children’s language be applied by adult authors to grasp the consciousness of a child? And can an adult still grasp and emulate a consciousness that he himself has evolved beyond? This thesis analyses whether the portrayal of child consciousness in a selection of English Modernist fictional works is successful.Show less
