Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Wuppertal, course: Postmodern Neo-Slave Narratives, language: English, abstract: 1 Introduction In literary criticism Sherley Anne Williams' novel Dessa Rose is often argued to be "a story of a woman's triumph in a (white) man's world" (Beaulieu 40) and the "story of a woman's passage from slavery to freedom (McDowell 147). The novel, as a postmodern neo-slave narrative, stands as a counter-text to master texts and the slave narratives of the 18th and 19th century and presents "a series of...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Wuppertal (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: Washington Irving was one of the "first notable fiction writers of the American romantic movement" (Keenan 970). His sketch book with tales such as "Rip Van Winkle" "made Irving the first American author to attain an international reputation" (Fender 165). Whereas Irving's prior work, the History of New York (1809) is written in a neoclassical1 tone right in the sense the Age of Reason and...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject History - World History - Early and Ancient History, grade: 1,0, Hawai'i Pacific University, course: Gender & Sexuality in the Classical World, language: English, abstract: Euripides' Hippolytus is the play has been generally acknowledged to be one of Euripides' finest works], both for his skilled reworking of a traditional myth, and for the richness and complexity of its thought and language" (Mills, Euripides 7). The play offers space for various interpretations and especially the character Hippolytus is argued to appear as rather strange,...

Essay from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Wuppertal (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: The British Novel in the Late 18th and Early 19th Century, language: English, abstract: ...] An awful silence reigned throughout those subterraneous regions, except now and then some blasts of wind that shook the doors Isabella] had passed, and which grating on the rusty hinges were re-echoed through that long labyrinth of darkness. Every murmur struck her with new terror ...] (Walpole 61). This passage of Walpole's The Castle...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Hawai'i Pacific University, course: 20th Century Women Writers of Color, language: English, abstract: Nora Zeale Hurston's novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" can be considered "one of the sexiest, most 'healthily' rendered heterosexual love stories in our literature" (Walker, "Zora Neale Hurston" 88). This paper provides information about the outer contexts of the novel, as well as inductive analyses of the novel. The first part of the paper (Ch. 2-5) reveals information about...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Padagogik - Padagogische Psychologie, Note: 1,3, Bergische Universitat Wuppertal (School of Education), Veranstaltung: Soziales Kapital von Schulern, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Laut Petillon (2010) wird dem "Beziehungsgeschehen zwischen Gleichaltrigen ...] fur die Qualitat des Lernens eine herausragende Rolle zuerkannt" (S.794). Dies ist beispielsweise daran erkennbar, dass "in curricularen Uberlegungen ...] die Vermittlung von sozialen Schlusselqualifikationen (z.B. Teamfahigkeit)" betont wird (ebd.). Die "Ausgestaltung einer positiven...