The theme of Englishness in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and Julian Barnes’ England, England
| Thesis title in Czech: | Téma „angličanství“ v románech Kazua Ishigura The Remains of the Day a Juliana Barnese England, England |
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| Thesis title in English: | The theme of Englishness in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and Julian Barnes’ England, England |
| Key words: | Englishness, national identity, traditions, habits, irony, Ishiguro, Barnes |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2012/2013 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL) |
| Supervisor: | doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned by the advisor |
| Date of registration: | 17.12.2012 |
| Date of assignment: | 24.06.2013 |
| Date and time of defence: | 12.09.2013 00:00 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 28.06.2013 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 12.09.2013 |
| Course: | Diploma Thesis (OSZD004) |
| Opponents: | PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. |
| References |
| Featherstone, Simon. Englishness: twentieth century popular culture and the forming of English identity. Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
Rogers, David; McLeod, John. The revision of Englishness. Manchester University Press, 2004. ENGLISH F. J. Contemporary British Fiction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. |
| Preliminary scope of work in English |
| The aim of the work is to show aspects of Englishness as one of the main themes of English-written postcolonial and postmodernist literature. The theoretical part of the work deals with general introduction of Englishness and its modern understanding. The practical part’s focus is to explore and compare the two approaches to the theme of Englishness in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro and England, England by Julian Barnes. |