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Revolution in pain(t): a semiotic reading of Chinese Cultural Revolution propaganda posters and female motivated violence (1966-1968)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)This thesis focuses on visual imagery and culture from Maoist China by exploring new methods for interpreting the propaganda posters from the Chinese Cultural Revolution (CR) through a linguistic-based methodology. In ... -
Digital découpage: reading and prototyping the material poetics and queer ephemera of the Edwin Morgan scrapbooks, 1931-1966
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)My thesis takes as its object of study sixteen scrapbooks compiled between 1931 and 1966 by Scots Makar Edwin Morgan (1920-2010), which are currently housed in the University of Glasgow Library Special Collections. I focus ... -
Conforming to invisible principles: the significance of meta-physical beliefs for the Heian-period episteme and their articulation in social and political relations
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)The Heian period (794-1185) is often associated with rampant meta-physical forces, such as vengeful spirits (onryō 怨霊), which represented the consequences of political manoeuvrings and intrigue in the form of bodily ... -
Masculinity politics in post-Soviet Russian fiction: from Viktor Pelevin to Aleksandr Prokhanov
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)Following the turn of the millennium, masculinity became an important lens through which social, cultural and political dynamics in contemporary Russian society could be studied. The debate on masculinity in post-Soviet ... -
Translating Catalan cinema: the functions of multilingualism and their representation in subtitling
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)Subtitling norms and guidelines have traditionally encouraged a strategy of invisibility, whereby subtitles are so unobtrusive that the viewer forgets they are reading them. This strategy has become entrenched in the ... -
Diversity of religions in the eyes of Ayatollah ʿAbdullah Javadi and Professor Mahmud Mustafa Ayoub
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)Abstract: The question of religions diversity and the related issues of validity, truth and salvation can have a great practical impact on our life in the modern closely-knit global society and can help improve or ruin the ... -
“Prized by the tourist”: souvenir books in Victorian Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)Scotland has been a popular tourist destination for over two centuries, with an intensely romantic reputation that persists to this day. This thesis argues that in the mid-Victorian era, this reputation was developed and ... -
From little acorns: trees and wood in Middle English romance
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-29)Trees occupy a paradoxical place in the genre of Middle English romance. They are central to romance narratives, but their ubiquitous presence is almost completely overlooked by the genre’s protagonists, and has been ... -
Light and the lens: streams of damaged consciousness in post-crash Irish modernist fiction
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)This thesis examines the state of Irish literature since the 2008-9 financial crash. I contend that, whilst a supposedly mature Realism was the dominant mode of Irish writing during the ‘Celtic Tiger’ years of economic ... -
Horror of personality: exploring the gothicisation of mental illness in American fiction of the long 1950s
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)This thesis examines the gothicisation of mental illness — specifically, disorders of personality — in American fiction, as illustrated through four popular novels written in the long 1950s. In so doing, this thesis aims ... -
Condition of music and Anglophone influences in the poetry of Shao Xunmei
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-28)Shao Xunmei (1906-1968), a Chinese poet, publisher and translator, has long been marginalized by contemporary criticism. His unique poetics, especially when it comes to the condition of music in poetry, remains largely ... -
The crusades in Arabic poetry up to the death of Nur-ad-din
(The University of Edinburgh, 1970)The poetry of our period depicts this Muslim attitude very strongly. In almost every poem addressed to Zanki, Nur-ad-Din and Saladin we find this urge to recover"al-Bayt al-Muqaddas" (the hallowed house) by using the ... -
People, places and texts: re/presenting Islam in Edinburgh, Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-18)Of Britain’s 2.8 million Muslims, nearly two-thirds originate from South Asia, primarily Pakistan and Bangladesh, with the remainder from North Africa, East Europe and South East Asia. Much of the scholarship on Muslims ... -
Study of Hugh MacDiarmid’s In Memoriam James Joyce
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-07)This thesis is a study of the ways in which Hugh MacDiarmid’s long poem In Memoriam James Joyce incorporates material from various source texts. It argues that In Memoriam’s use of citation is a response to the changing ... -
Modernist theatre, theatricality and twentieth-century physics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-08)For all of their many differences, Gertrude Stein, Bertolt Brecht, and Samuel Beckett have in common the fact that they have each exerted a significant influence upon the way in which theatre is both conceived of and ... -
Affective spaces: trajectories of migration in Scandinavian and German transnational narratives (2011-2017)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-09)This thesis comparatively examines literary representations of lived migrant and postmigrant experiences in different contemporaneous contexts and from a multiplicity of perspectives. Published between 2011 and 2017 and ... -
Private stage: a study on Chinese printed drama by Bai Wei and Yuan Changying, 1922-1936
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-06-29)Play-reading is a modern phenomenon, as, traditionally, drama relied on oral transmission from master to students to be passed on. Following the rapid growth of drama publication in early Republican China, play-reading ... -
Reassessing Karen Blixen’s Gengældelsens Veje/ The Angelic Avengers: a novel challenging gender, totalitarianism and colonial practices
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)The aim of this thesis is to challenge Gengældelsens Veje/The Angelic Avengers’ (GV/AA) marginalisation in Karen Blixen’s work, by offering a comprehensive and multidimensional reassessment of this text. The thesis ... -
Liyuan Opera Lizhiji: new materials, stories and insights
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)Lizhiji, or Legends of Lychee, is the most important work of the Liyuan Opera, a vernacular local opera prevalent in southern Fujian and eastern Guangdong provinces which is representative of the region’s performing arts ... -
Tweed: a design and cultural history 1828–2014
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-27)Anderson, Fiona. Tweed. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Tweed undertakes an in-depth analysis of the design and cultural history of these fabrics from their initial development in Scotland in the 1820s to 2014. This ...
