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“A self in process”: contemporary biofictions of Virginia Woolf
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-25)This thesis studies the presence of Virginia Woolf as the protagonist-subject in a sudden plethora of contemporary biofictions published within decades or so from the end of last century. The main hypothesis of this research ... -
Representations of girlhood trauma in Aotearoa, New Zealand literature written by women
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-20)In “Representations of Girlhood Trauma in Aotearoa New Zealand Literature Written by Women”, I investigate the way literary genres affect trauma-telling and how culturally sensitive forms of trauma-reading allow girl ... -
Black culture and appropriation in the American novel from 1960 to the present day
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-18)This thesis examines how the work of six American novelists engages with some of the key questions and arguments associated with contemporary debates and controversies surrounding the subject of appropriation in the context ... -
Manifestation: masculinity on the female body in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-17)At the end of Michael Shapiro’s highly influential Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage (1996) was an appendix comprising a “Chronological list of Plays with Heroines in Male Disguise” from 1570-1642 (221). This ... -
Dream, fantasy, and illness: exploring the carnal imaginary
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Obeying the (unjust) ruler: tracing a political ideology in the hadith corpus
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-13)Within Sunni political discourse is the question of one’s relationship with the state and more specifically, the ruler. The majority opinion upholds a quietism requiring obedience to the ruler, even if he is unjust. ... -
Exophonic word and image relations in the work of Yoko Tawada, Vladimir Nabokov and Bruno Schulz
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-13)This thesis explores the relationship between exophony and intermediality in the works of Yoko Tawada, Vladimir Nabokov and Bruno Schulz. All three authors refer to and incorporate images into their texts, while also ... -
Edith Wharton and queer history at the fin de siècle
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-21)What does it mean to think of Edith Wharton (1862-1937) as a decadent writer? In this thesis I suggest that, from the very beginning of her career, Wharton was a writer far more engaged with European literary decadence ... -
Tafsīr of Sufyān al-Thawrī (d. 161/778): a study of its provenance, sources, methods, and topics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-21)The aim of this thesis is to enhance our understanding of the contributions of Sufyān al-Thawrī (d. 161/778) to the field of early Qurʾānic exegesis through a detailed study of exegetical traditions attributed to him ... -
China’s city diplomacy and legitimacy: a Shenzhen story
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-09)As cities have become a significant sub-state feature in world politics since the latter part of the twentieth century, their diplomacy has played an important role in general diplomacy in promoting global governance and ... -
Contextualising liveness: digitally distributed, digitally mediated and digitally located theatre in Edinburgh and Berlin, 2017-2019
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-25)‘Liveness’ is a contested and often controversial term within theatre and performance studies. It is commonly used to describe sensations related to immediacy, spontaneity, unrepeatability, and co-presence, and often ... -
'A place in the mind': the anatomy of space in the works of Maeve Brennan
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-23)This thesis anatomises the elements of space in the works of Irish-American author Maeve Brennan, using four key spatial paradigms. It considers the effects of space – physical and conceptual – within Brennan’s body ... -
Listening as a creative musical practice: a new perspective on Luigi Russolo's L'Arte Dei Rumori
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-22)In 1913, the Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo published a manifesto entitled “L’arte dei rumori” (The Art of Noises) thus laying the foundations for a musical revolution that he would definitively formulate in his ... -
'I out-live them': the creation of out-living selves and textual layering in the Nineteenth-century writing, speeches, and storytelling of six African American women
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-21)This thesis examines the writing, speeches, and storytelling of six African American women: Jarena Lee, Maria Stewart, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Charlotte Forten, and Anna Julia Cooper. The theoretical approach ... -
'Work at the language-face': linguistically innovative poetry in and against the Anthropocene
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-15)In an essay published in 1979, Wendy Mulford describes linguistically innovative poetics as the rupture of sedimented habits of language-use; ‘to produce meaning across and in defiance of the repressive codes of everyday, ... -
Satire in the neopicaresque novel: the committed poetic in European and American picaresque fiction 1942-1962
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-10-04)The picaresque genre was a formative influence on the development of the novel in Western literature from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Previous research has suggested that there were significant new currents ... -
Roof of the world
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-09-06)The Roof of the World: a story collection. The Roof of the World illuminates the struggles of explorers, expats, refugees, tourists, and others who don’t feel at home in the world or in their own bodies. Ambition and ... -
Representations of home and belonging in fiction of the Scottish north
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-28)This thesis attempts a shift in the valuing of narrative sources, moving ethnographic writing and research toward a more subjective, emotive, imaginative sphere. While Scottish ethnology and folklore studies are no strangers ... -
Snow: chronotope and 'The Universe' in the novel
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-22)"Snow" opens with Anja MacLeod, a Southern Baptist from Guilford County – and her fiancé, Isaac Mashke – a Southern Jew – uprooting from the wintery Carolinas and heading for Edinburgh, Scotland. When family tragedy prevents ... -
Poetry as testimonio: writing human rights in Alicia Partnoy
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-16)This thesis studies the poetry of Alicia Partnoy (Argentina, b. 1955) as a form of testimonio. Partnoy is a survivor of disappearance, imprisonment and torture during the 1976-1983 dictatorship in Argentina. She was forced ...
