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 Editors	Impressum, Contents	0
Lovro Furjanić	The Economic Singleton in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis	2
Gracija Horak	Nightmares Are Dreams Too: the Notion of the American Dream in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	10
Ena Hustnjak	The Notion of Race in Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym	17
Ivica Jeđud	Sexual Euphemisms in the English Language	26
Anamarija Miličević	Language and Translation in No Country for Old Men	44
Petar Miočević	Totalitarianism in Interwar Europe and the Alternate World of Orwell's Nineteen Eigthy-Four	53
Barbara Mravunac	Defining Social Science Fiction on The Caves of Steel	62
Manuela Neuwirth	The Good Death: 'Grace Under Pressure' or Escape from the Nada in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” “Indian Camp,” and “The Killers”	76
Adna Oković	A Bakhtinian Reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby	90
Ana Popović and Marko Vrančić	Discourse Analysis of the Media Reports on Edward Snowden's Disclosures	110
Cassy Prskalo	Learners’ Motivation at the University Level: Research in Teaching English as a Foreign Language	135
Petra Pugar	A Marvellous (Hi)story: An Analysis of Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay	162
Smiljana Rakonjac and Anja Stoilković	A Deterioration in the Values of the Original American Dream	180
Julia Schwob	The Development of Cross-Cultural Relationships in Australian Literature After 1950	197
Vesna Tunjić	Preposition Selection by Croatian EFL Learners⎯The Role of Language Transfer	225

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