Kashulskaya, Elisabeth(Hannover : Leibniz University Hannover, English Department, 2024-05)
Horror contains all the necessary ingredients for an enticing read: its startling, oftentimes unprecedented elements and imagery manage to produce suspense within a fixed framework that ensures separation between a fictional ...
Amann, Leonie(Hannover : Leibniz University Hannover, English Department, 2024-05)
Disability studies is a comparatively new field within literary studies, focusing on the portrayal of disabilities in literature and the complex connotations, perceptions, and systems of oppression associated with it. This ...
Parrondo, Claudia Alea(Hannover : Leibniz University Hannover, English Department, 2024-05)
This article studies the use of Affect theory in relation to the notion of hyperobjects to explore if the latter can help transform complex environmental processes into culturally comprehensible concepts. Taking the notion ...
Lienhard, Alissa(Hannover : Leibniz University Hannover, English Department, 2024-05)
This article examines how Alice Oseman’s novel Loveless employs both metafiction and autofiction in its narration to establish queer joy. Metafiction hereby connects to romance tropes that are both employed by and reflected ...
Zabe, Niklas(Hannover : Leibniz University Hannover, English Department, 2024-05)
Often cast aside as a mere advertisement, a vapid illustration of sound, music video has received little scholarly attention to date. However, especially in the 1980s, the art form enamored entire generations of adolescents, ...
Product quality is critical to the competitiveness of manufacturing companies facing complex challenges such as shorter product life cycles and competition that has shifted from customers competing for products to manufacturers ...
Lienhard, Alissa(Hannover : Leibniz University Hannover, English Department, 2023-12)
As a scholar of film, one can sometimes struggle with writing about film, as one never quite captures on paper what is seen on the screen. One way to overcome this problem is to find new ways to engage with films academically, ...
Ak, Kerem(Hannover : Leibniz University Hannover, English Department, 2023-12)
A science fiction novel that tells the story of an astrobiologist father and his neurodivergent son and cunningly unveils wrongdoings of mankind in nature.
Fender, Lukas(Hannover : Leibniz University Hannover, English Department, 2023-12)
Books are at the center of our studies. We read them, we analyze them, and some even write them. But what tells you that a book is a good book? You are right, literary prizes. At least according to the organizations who ...
Alkhatib, Eiman; Fender, Lukas; Hille, Jessica; Lienhard, Alissa; Lim, Jia Shen; Tomasic, Marielle(Hannover : Leibniz University Hannover, English Department, 2023-12)
The editorial board of In Progress did not meet during the summer break, so there is a lot of catching up to do. We quickly realized that apart from vacations and term papers, we all had one thing in common: we consumed ...
Wachsmann, Carolin(Hannover : Leibniz University Hannover, English Department, 2023-12)
From chronically online to a baby born with “Elephant Man” syndrome – a woman’s life is turned upside down as she has to reconsider her priorities in life.
Poljanskij, Christine(Hannover : Leibniz University Hannover, English Department, 2023-12)
This article examines gender roles and relations in the young adult novel Twilight (2005) by Stephenie Meyer, utilizing the structuralist anthropological theory of the exchange of women as the basis of kinship introduced ...
Fender, Lukas(Hannover : Leibniz University Hannover, English Department, 2023-12)
Using the Indian Residential School (IRS) system as an example, this paper examines the internet as a decolonial site. To do so, I will draw on decolonial concepts as well as ideas from spatial theory. Through the analysis ...
Wachsmann, Carolin(Hannover : Leibniz University Hannover, English Department, 2023-12)
The British Empire and imperialism are crucial parts of Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion. To investigate how the novel represents and purports imperialism, this paper combines a structuralist with a postcolonial approach and ...
In this paper, the challenge of identifying high-value applications of quantum computing is examined. Although quantum computing holds enormous potential, it requires significant investments and development efforts. ...
Hilbrands, Sofie(Hannover : Leibniz University Hannover, English Department, 2023-12)
This video essay discusses how storytelling in film differs from storytelling in book and highlights how The Prisoner of Azkaban translates emotions from book to screen through cinematic devices.