Patchwork: Words to Works

These are written counterparts of a selection of the papers that were originally presented at our first conference, Words to Works in May 2016.

They are all published as a part of a topical issue of our department’s student journal, Patchwork, so you may find all of them on the Patchwork website as well: https://patchwork.ffzg.unizg.hr/.

You can download the entire issue in PDF here.

The EditorsImpressum, Contents0
Lovro FurjanićThe Economic Singleton in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis2
Gracija HorakNightmares Are Dreams Too: the Notion of the American Dream in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas10
Ena HustnjakThe Notion of Race in Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym17
Ivica JeđudSexual Euphemisms in the English Language26
Anamarija MiličevićLanguage and Translation in No Country for Old Men44
Petar MiočevićTotalitarianism in Interwar Europe and the Alternate World of Orwell's Nineteen Eigthy-Four53
Barbara MravunacDefining Social Science Fiction on The Caves of Steel62
Manuela NeuwirthThe Good Death: 'Grace Under Pressure' or Escape from the Nada in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” “Indian Camp,” and “The Killers”76
Adna OkovićA Bakhtinian Reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby90
Ana Popović and Marko VrančićDiscourse Analysis of the Media Reports on Edward Snowden's Disclosures110
Cassy PrskaloLearners’ Motivation at the University Level: Research in Teaching English as a Foreign Language135
Petra PugarA Marvellous (Hi)story: An Analysis of Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay162
Smiljana Rakonjac and Anja StoilkovićA Deterioration in the Values of the Original American Dream180
Julia SchwobThe Development of Cross-Cultural Relationships in Australian Literature After 1950197
Vesna TunjićPreposition Selection by Croatian EFL Learners⎯The
Role of Language Transfer
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Impressum:

Conference Proceedings
October 2016
ISSN 1849-7780

ORGANIZER OF THE CONFERENCE
English Student Club X.a.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Nina Kovačić
Ivica Jeđud
Tena Jurišić
Karla Kurotić
Nina Matejčić
Dajana Novak
Ana Popović
Sunčana Sinković

PUBLISHER
Patchwork Student Journal

EDITORS
Ana Popović, Dorotea Sinković

EMAIL:
patchwork.anglistika@gmail.com