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Individual and systemic factors as a cause for emotional detachment in Dutch novels of the millennial generation
Nedvědová, Tereza ; Krýsová, Anna (advisor) ; Phillips, Anna (referee)
Tereza Nedvědová Individual and systemic factors as the cause of emotional alienation in Dutch novels of the millennial generation Abstract This bachelor thesis deals with individual and systemic factors that cause emotional alienation in Dutch novels of the millennial generation. It is based on the theory of the book Affectieve crisis, literair herstel by Hans Demeyer and Sven Vitse, where the cause of alienation is identified as the dysfunctional world and late capitalist society. This work complements the theory by defining another category of causes, namely individual factors that affect the characters on a personal level. It uses novels representing the Dutch generation of millennials, Gebrek is een groot woord by Nina Polak and De avond is ongemak by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, the latter having been awarded the International Booker Prize 2020. These novels appear in the corpus of Demeyer and Vitse but their interpretation needs to be supplemented by individual factors. The study analyzes the causes of emotional alienation on systemic and individual levels and points to the importance of interpreting the motifs of the text, which would not be considered if one were to follow only the theory of Demeyer and Vitse. This work thus draws attention to the complexity of the individual's experience, who faces...
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THE REPRESENTATION OF MASCULINITY AND FEMININITY IN THE HAGUE NOVELS BY LOUIS COUPERUS
Phillips, Anna ; Krol, Ellen Jacoba (advisor) ; Praamstra, Olf (referee) ; Honings, Rick (referee)
Univerzita Karlova Filozofická fakulta Ústav germánských studií Filologie-germánské jazyky a literatury REPRESENTATIE VAN MANNELIJKHEID ENVROUWELIJKHEID IN DEHAAGSE ROMANS VAN LOUIS COUPERUS REPREZENTACE MASKULINITY A FEMININITY VHAAGSKÝCH ROMÁNECH LOUISE COUPERUSE THEREPRESENTATION OF MASCULINITY ANDFEMININITY INTHE HAGUE NOVELS BY LOUIS COUPERUS Abstract in English Anna Phillips Vedoucí práce: doc. dr. Ellen J.Krol 2018 1 Abstract in English This dissertation examines masculinity and femininity in what are referred to as the 'Hague novels' of Louis Couperus: Eline Vere, The Books of the Small Souls (De boeken der kleine zielen), and Old People and the Things that Pass (Van oude menschen, de dingen, die voorbijgaan…). The following research questions were asked: 1) In what ways are masculinity and femininity represented in the Hague novels of Louis Couperus? 1) Are these representations of the masculine and the feminine diametrically op- posed, and if so, in what ways does the opposition manifest? 2) Do the representations of masculinity and femininity in the individual Hague novels differ? If so, how? The research method is theoretically grounded in views of masculinity and femininity common to the 'fin de siècle' period (1878-1914) in which the Hague novels were published, and which forms the setting of...
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Gender Aspects in the Novel Eva by Carry van Bruggen
Jankovská, Marie ; Sedláčková, Lucie (advisor) ; Phillips, Anna (referee)
in English This thesis focuses on the construct of gender in the modernist novel Eva by the Dutch authoress Carry van Bruggen in relation to the individual human subject. The goal of this thesis is to analyse how is gender constructed in the book and how this construct influences the psychic development and decision making of the main character, a woman named Eva. The answer to the main research question What role does the construct of gender play in the life of the main character of the novel Eva? was reached with the help of the discourse analysis, namely the post-structuralist discourse analysis using the deconstructive reading. The thesis is at the same time theoretically anchored in the post-structuralist feminist literary criticism. The theoretical part therefore draws on the ideas of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Judith Baxter and Judith Butler. As an inspiration for the discourse analysis itself served the discourse analysis dealing with the gender identity that was carried out by Kateřina Zábrodská in 2009. The first step in the analysis stage was to identify the relevant passages of the novel that inform what does it mean to be a man or a woman. The comments on these passages focus on the individual claims about gender, they formulate what kind of duties and limits these discourses...
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