The book presents a seminar paper exploring contemporary African-American fiction, highlighting the significance of a particular work that won the 1982 PEN-Faulkner Prize. It delves into the themes, characters, and cultural context of the literature, showcasing its impact and the acclaim it received. Written in English, the paper reflects academic analysis and critical engagement with the text, aiming to deepen understanding of the genre and its contributions to literature.
An Empirical Approach
Based on questionnaire data, this study investigates the influence of native language on linguistic behavior. It explores how language proficiency and usage patterns may vary among speakers, providing insights into the interplay between language and cognition. The research aims to contribute to the understanding of linguistic phenomena by analyzing the responses of participants, shedding light on the complexities of language acquisition and its implications in the field of linguistics.
This seminar paper explores themes in English Language and Literature Studies through a comparative lens, focusing on contrastive linguistics. It presents a detailed analysis of linguistic structures and their implications within literary contexts. The work is graded highly and reflects a thorough understanding of the subject matter, showcasing the author's academic strengths and research capabilities. The paper is part of a course at the University of Jena, indicating a scholarly approach to the study of language and literature.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, 1,3, 5 entries in the bibliography, English, Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince (BP), which was published in 1973, is considered her most successful and brilliant novel by her readers as well as by her critics. Richard Todd describes it as her "closest approach to the 'post-modernist' novel", which is especially in the context of narrative unreliability highly interesting and complex. However, the central theme of this paper concerns the relation between the two writers Bradley Pearson and Arnold Baffin. It will be discussed which function is ascribed to this comparison of the two characters in The Black Prince and to what extent the frequently quoted "artist-saint contrast" of Murdoch's works is applicable to this constellation. Therefore, the first chapter is concerned with Bradley Pearson's account of himself and Arnold Baffin as writers, and to a certain extent with the question of Bradley's narrative reliability as well as - and this is essential - with Arnold's and Bradley's different definitions of the art of writing. The relation between Arnold and Bradley, which is already a topic of the following chapter, will be particularly examined in the last chapter where the focus will be on the discussion about the (hypothetical) artist-saint contrast within The Black Prince. [...]
Die Arbeit untersucht die Entstehung der Moral, die im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch oft auf das individuelle Verhalten fokussiert wird. Besonders im Mittelpunkt steht die Theorie von Lawrence Kohlberg, die sich mit der moralischen Entwicklung beschäftigt. Diese Theorie hat sich über die Jahre weiterentwickelt und ist heute in der pädagogischen und psychologischen Forschung anerkannt. Sie bildet eine zentrale Grundlage für das Verständnis von Ethik und Moralität in der modernen Wissenschaft. Die Analyse bietet tiefere Einblicke in die grundlegenden Fragen der Moral und deren Entwicklung.
Die Studienarbeit untersucht zentrale Aspekte der Erziehungswissenschaft aus einer hermeneutischen Perspektive. Sie analysiert die theoretischen Grundlagen und deren Bedeutung für die pädagogische Praxis. Durch eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Ansätzen wird die Relevanz der Anthropologie für die Erziehungswissenschaft herausgestellt. Die Arbeit bietet einen tiefen Einblick in die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Theorie und Praxis und zeigt auf, wie hermeneutische Methoden zur Verbesserung der Erziehungswissenschaft beitragen können.