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Dogs, gophers, ants, and frogs pop in and out of Steinbeck’s literature, and while they might escape unnoticed at a first glance, these animals serve a significant role to the storytelling. The question is what purpose animals serve in some of Steinbeck’s short novels. I argue that animals in the six novels primarily serve the purposes of mirroring characters and emphasising depth, empathy, and co

Sarah Waters is an acclaimed author of several bestselling and award-winning novels. The existing body of research on Sarah Waters’ novel The Little Stranger has been valuable and mostly engages with and suggests a correlation between class and the hauntings taking place at Hundreds Hall. Some scholarly research has also explored the unreliable narration of the novel by focusing on different theme

Carmilla (1872) is a foundational gothic novella that explores female intimacy, monstrosity, and transgression within a patriarchal context. While widely recognized for its depiction of same-sex desire and subversion of Victorian gender norms, the story also reveals a deeper network of violence that sustains social and gendered hierarchies. However, critical attention has often focused more on Car

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) can be read as a protofeminist text and a radical novel for its time, as it confronted the lack of maternal rights and protection for children. In this paper I discuss the portrayal of motherhood, and the factors that empower and restrict Helen. Using Sarah Lewis´s Woman´s Mission (1839) and her contemporary views of maternal duty, this paper explores the complex

Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn and Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” are two famous American works of literature that, although similar in theme and published around the same time, have never been studied together. This thesis examines resistance and agency in the two selected works by leaning on previous work by scholars such as Raymond Olderman and his concept of the w

The narrative of domestic fiction frequently depicts a woman’s search for domestic bliss, as a mother, wife, and homemaker. Shirley Jackson has often contested this narrative by portraying female characters who, through uncanny manifestations of repressed desires and fears, go against these norms. ‘The Deamon Lover’ (1949) and ‘The Tooth’ (1949) present two female protagonists, who are confronted

Due to their representation of the Western myth, Native Americans, and women, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s semiautobiographical Little House novels have been a topic of debate since their publication between 1932 and 1971. However, scholars have overlooked the role the domestic education of girls plays in Wilder’s novels. The domestic education can be seen as a method for conveying myths of the Western

Under 1900-talets första hälft användes retroaktivt verkande skattelagstiftning återkommande i tider av krig och krigsfara för att inbringa mer pengar till statskassan. 1979 lades ett principiellt förbud mot retroaktivt verkande skattelag till i regeringsformen i 2 kap. 10 § andra stycket regeringsformen. Paragrafen innehöll dock undantag från förbudet, bland annat i tider av krig, krigsfara och sDuring the first half of the 20th century, retroactive tax legislation was used repeatedly in times of war on the European continent. 1979, however, a ban of retroactive tax legislation was written in to the Swedish constitution. The ban came with two exceptions, among them an exception from the ban when used for “particular reasons” (Swe: särskilda skäl) in times of “war, danger of war or strong

Villkorlig frigivning infördes i svensk rätt 1906 för att möjliggöra en kontrollerad övergång från fängelsestraffets frihetsberövande till livet i frihet. Reglerna var då fakultativa och endast tillämpliga för långtidsdömda. Sedan 1906 har institutet om villkorlig frigivning successivt utvidgats och utgör idag en huvudregel som ska ske efter två tredjedelar av avtjänat fängelsestraff, dock tidigasParole was introduced into Swedish law in 1906 to enable a controlled transition from imprisonment to life in freedom. Initially, the rules were discretionary and applicable only to long-term prisoners. Since 1906, the scope of parole has gradually expanded and now constitutes the general rule, allowing release after two thirds of the prison sentence has been served, though not earlier than 30 day

This essay examines the role of class in Sally Rooney’s novels Normal People (2018) and Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021). The critical response to Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People has focused on several aspects of the novel, such as how class and gender are portrayed and identity formation in recessionary Ireland, whereas literary criticism on Beautiful World, Where Are You has focused on o

Ray Bradbury is one of the most influential American writers within speculative fiction. Critics has mostly focused on his science fiction novels, but he has a series of books that through nostalgia and fantastical elements have described a part of America, both specific and universal. The three novels Dandelion Wine, Farewell Summer and Something Wicked This Way Comes have together shaped Green T

Conventional methods of pea protein extraction are resource-intensive, involving multiple purification steps that remove co-existing components such as starch. In contrast, we investigate how minimally processed yellow pea protein extracts that retain residual carbohydrates form thermally induced gels. Contrast-variation small-angle neutron scattering, rheology, and differential scanning calor

Detection of toxic hexavalent chromium in soil, groundwater, industrial effluent, etc., is of significant interest. We demonstrate the electrochemical detection of Cr(VI) using a surface-engineered mesoporous carbon-based material. The mesoporous carbon-based material is obtained by the controlled pyrolysis of a homogenous mixture of Fe and Co complexes of hydrolyzed collagen. The as-synthesized m

The production cross sections of D0, D+, and Λc+ hadrons originating from beauty-hadron decays (i.e. non-prompt) were measured for the first time at midrapidity in proton–lead (p–Pb) collisions at the center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of sNN = 5.02 TeV. Nuclear modification factors (RpPb) of non-prompt D0, D+, and Λc+ are calculated as a function of the transverse momentum (pT) to investigate

Psychiatric disorders are highly heritable and polygenic, influenced by environmental factors and often comorbid. Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWASs) through consortium efforts have identified genetic risk loci and revealed the underlying biology of psychiatric disorders and traits. However, over 85% of psychiatric GWAS participants are of European ancestry, limiting the applicabil

BACKGROUND In patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI), therapies that could further reduce the risk of adverse cardiovascular and metabolic outcomes are needed. METHODS In this international registry-based, randomized, double-blind trial, patients without prior diabetes or chronic heart failure, presenting with acute MI and impaired left ventricular systolic function, were randomly assigned

Liquid-phase ammonia, a carbon-free alternative fuel, is increasingly being considered for improving overall efficiency, reducing system complexity, and lowering costs across various thermal applications such as engines, gas turbines, and burners. However, the physical properties of ammonia are far from usual carbon-based fuels as it is prone to flash boiling upon injection. Therefore, experimenta

Introduction.Kraft black liquor is a side-stream produced during the kraft pulping process containing lignin, hemicelluloses and cooking chemicals. The stream is usually evaporated and burned in the recovery boiler to recover the cooking chemicals and generate energy. The mill is, however, often/sometimes limited by recovery boiler capacity, and removing some of the lignin from kraft black liquor