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Essays Written During
a Short Residence in Leiden

Auteur

Edwin Visser <br>and Thomas Bötticher

Uitvoering
Paperback
Reviews
4,7 / 5 (3 reviews )
Prijs
23 ,99
Verzending
Gratis verzending in Nederland en België
Levertijd
Twee tot vijf werkdagen
(Nederland en België)

Samenvatting

This book contains 30 accessible essays dealing with a broad range of subjects; from philology to linguistics, and from literature to films. The essays were written by Bötticher and Visser during their three year Bachelor study of English Language and Culture at the University of Leiden. As the authors grow more, and more comfortable with writing arguments, the essays become increasingly convincing, witty, inventive, and above all entertaining. This bundle invites you into the world of student scholarship: a world of reason, knowledge, imagination and discovery...

Over de auteur

Edwin Visser: "I was born in 1989 in Rotterdam. During my study at Leiden University, I developed a specific interest in philology which I combined with my love for films in my bachelor thesis." Thomas Bötticher: "I was born in 1986 in Beverwijk, reside in Uitgeest, and studied at Leiden University where I gained further knowledge of literature, films, and mythology and came in contact with philology. These topics are found in my essays."

Productinformatie

ISBN
9789460899430 / 978-94-608-9943-0
Uitgeverij
Boekscout
Verschijning
23-12-2010
Taal
Nederlands


Uitvoering
Paperback
Pagina's
320
Formaat
12,5 x 20 cm
Illustraties
Nee

Inkijk

Some parts of the text lashes out against men, both in what is said and in the actions of men. One should not forget that the text is written by a woman and that, although all the narrators are male, "the woman writer is given the opportunity to intervene from within" which is "entwining the differently gendered primary and secondary voices of female author and male character" (Schoene-Harwood 9) and therefore "[t]he voices of the Monster, Victor and Walton are not male, but ‘male’" (Schoene-Harwood 10). It could very well be that when Victor says that "misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other’s blood" (Shelley 71), it is actually Shelley who complains about the behaviour of men. The Monster, who specifically chooses man instead of mankind like he does in other speeches, says the following: [T]ell me why I should pity man more than he pities me? You would not call it murder, if you could precipitate me into one of those ice-rifts, and destroy my frame, the work of your own hands. Shall I respect man, when he contemns me? Let him live with me in the interchange of kindness, and, instead of injury, I would bestow every benefit upon him with tears of gratitude at his acceptance. But that cannot be; the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union. Yet mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery. (Shelley 119)

Reviews (3)

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door J. de Graaf op 28-03-2013
Een leuk boek! Ik heb in het verleden Engels gestudeerd, en dit bracht mij terug naar mijn studenten tijd.

Baldadig en wetenschappelijk in één!! Leuk, leerzaam, en ook een beetje nostalgisch!
door Linh Choi op 17-11-2014
Leuk initiatief! Ik zit er nu ook aan te denken om mijn papers te verzamelen en te printen..
door Richard Numan op 23-09-2021
Een mooie bundel essays die een verdiepende inkijk geeft in de rijke Engelse literatuur!