Essays Overview

1st Year:

'The Gothic in Northanger Abbey: How setting and character work together to create a parody on the Gothic novel' (Literature)

'Dr. Faustus and the power relationship between Mephastophilis and Faustus' (Literature)

'Tinder Perceptions and the Truth about Tinder Usage' (Language Acquisition)

2nd Year:

'X-bar theory' (Linguistics, Syntax)

'Caleb Williams as a depiction of the late 18th Century' (Literature)

Essay exam - Four Short Essays: 'Caleb Williams and Blake’s notion of mind-forged manacles', 'Wordsworth’s definition of poetry against his poem I wandered lonely as a cloud', 'Gulliver’s Travels as a parody of travel literature, and compared with Robinson Crusoe', 'The Deserted Village and its political message' (Literature)

'Obsession in Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations'(Literature)

3rd Year:

Position Paper: 'Did French words replace perfectly good native ones (i.e. driving them out of the language), or were they merely adding to the riches of the language in the Middle English period?' (Historical Linguistics)

'Free variation of do in Aphra Behn’s The Dutch Lover'(Historical Linguistics)

'Better than real life? TV Speech vs. Natural Speech: A register analysis' (Applied Linguistics)

'Postmodernism and Fragmentation in The Plot Against America' (Literature)