Literatures, Languages, and Cultures, School of: Recent submissions
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Contemporary poetic cinema through the lens of traditional Chinese poetics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-08-15)This thesis investigates the aesthetics of contemporary poetic cinema by Alexander Sokurov, Wong Kar-wai and Terrence Malick within a framework of ancient Chinese theories of poetry. I compare these theories to some other ... -
Musical performativity in the early twentieth-century piano novels by E. M. Forster, Thomas Mann and Virginia Woolf
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-08-07)This thesis concerns the depiction of female piano performance in the novels at the dawn of the twentieth century, focusing on Thomas Mann’s “Tristan” (1903), E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View (1908) and Virginia Woolf’s ... -
Rewriting the life of an “ultra-radical”: Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-08-07)This thesis focuses on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s portrait of Margaret Fuller in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852). More specifically, it centres on the chapters “IV. Visits to Concord” and “V. Conversations in ... -
'A way of life': practising place in the small press
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-07-28)This thesis is a study of place in the practice and publications of three small presses: Moschatel Press, Coracle Press and Corbel Stone Press. Practice is central to my approach, both in situating place as something ... -
Journeys in the postcolonial city: re-imagining spatial politics in Paris and Brussels
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-07-19)This thesis examines how recent artistic and political interventions by activist groups in Paris and Brussels are re-mapping legacies of disavowed colonial crimes, notably the legacy of the 17th October 1961 massacre of ... -
Time in the literary constructions of self, love, and fate in Honglou meng
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-07-11)This thesis primarily aims to explore the role temporal aspects play in the narrative constructions of personal experience in the eighteen-century full-length Chinese novel Honglou meng紅樓夢 (the Story of the Stone or Dream ... -
Language-use patterns and ideologies among graduates of Scottish Gaelic undergraduate degree programmes in Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-06-23)Scottish Gaelic has been consistently taught in the Scottish higher education system since 1882. By the mid twentieth century, the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Glasgow had all established Celtic departments ... -
Irritative modernism and its stoic patients: free indirect narration of illness in British modernist literature
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-06-22)‘Illness’ has been discussed in British literary modernism almost exclusively in the medical sense of the word. Especially concerning authors who battled with chronic illnesses, criticism tends to narrowly circumscribe the ... -
Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin: a sociopsychological survey of urban, Southern Nigeria
(The University of Edinburgh, 2001-11-07)Pidgins and creoles are hybrid languages that evolve from situations of language contact ( e.g. slave trade); creoles are traditionally regarded as pidgins that have acquired native speakers. Since the 1960s, the ... -
Translating heteroglossia in contemporary Scottish fiction into German: the case of Ian Stephen’s 'A book of death and fish' from theoretical and practical perspectives
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-06-14)This thesis investigates the translation of linguistic variation from theoretical and practical perspectives, using the case of contemporary Scottish prose fiction where the use of different regional and social dialects ... -
Development of Scottish bagpiping in former British colonies in the Far East
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-06-07)This thesis examines the development of bagpiping and bagpiping culture in former British colonies in the Far East, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. While the bagpipe is considered a Scottish national instrument, ... -
W. G. Sebald's emblematics: opaque images of broken rebellion
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-18)This thesis represents perhaps the first extensive study of allegorical imagery in general, and emblematics in particular, across the œuvre of W. G. Sebald (1944-2001). In so doing, it seeks to place Sebald in a long, ... -
Margery Kempe's words: an examination of register and vocabulary in the context of autohagiography
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)This thesis examines the use of vocabulary in the Book of Margery Kempe, as a means of exploring register in the context of autohagiography. It analyses the way in which Margery ascribes words to different protagonists ... -
Gothic engagements in contemporary Scottish and postcolonial fiction
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-04-21)This thesis contributes to the debate on Scotland’s postcolonial connections, adopting a transnational and comparative approach to examine the ways in which contemporary Scottish and postcolonial literatures engage with ... -
Distribution of distributivity in syntax and discourse
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-29)In this thesis, I will explore the semantics of overt distributors and investigate how it interfaces with syntax and discourse. The main claims are as follows. (1) a. Syntax-semantics interface: Denotations of quantifiers ... -
Young Eco's library: mass culture and interpretive freedom in the Fascist period
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-07-12)This thesis carries out an in-depth study of Umberto Eco’s novel The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004) and highlights its contribution to two fundamental yet inadequately explored aspects of Eco’s oeuvre: its links ... -
Values and attitudes in the Early American 9/11 novel: representing the terrorist, the 'war on terror', and the reactions to 9/11
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-15)The 9/11 novel has already enjoyed extensive scholarly interest in the previous decades, and while the earlier research has offered some great insights, it has focused on a rather limited set of novels, revolved around ... -
Okanagan story and Women in the woods: a critical reflection on pioneer women and their legacy in Canadian literature
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-14)AN OKANAGAN STORY: A NOVEL Historian Mike Dunbar is at a crossroads in his career: it’s publish or perish. He chooses publish, his subject: Scottish Settlers in the Okanagan, British Columbia, a fertile valley in the ... -
Sticky stories: affect and Biblical myth in women’s speculative fiction, 1970-2020
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-08)A regular feature of feminist speculative fiction, a world threatened by disease, climate change, war or political regime, often provokes its characters to feel nostalgic about a romanticised past or hopeful about an ... -
Syntactic change during the anglicisation of Scots: insights from the Parsed Corpus of Scottish Correspondence
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-02)Variation and change in syntax is particularly challenging to measure quantitatively, as such investigation requires syntactically annotated (parsed) corpora; a parsed digital corpus allows for retrieval of all instances ...
