Literatures, Languages, and Cultures PhD thesis collection
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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 ... -
Desegmentalization: towards a common framework for the modeling of tonogenesis and registrogenesis in mainland Southeast Asia with case studies from Austroasiatic
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-15)Suprasegmental contrasts of tone and register are commonplace phonological phenomena among the languages of Mainland Southeast Asia and its periphery (MSEA) (Matisoff 1990, 2001). Insofar as we have come to understand the ... -
Nackian narratives: storytelling and ideology within Scotland's traveller communities
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-14)This thesis examines the storytelling traditions of one of Scotland’s most iconic yet underrepresented ethnic minorities, known to officialdom and the wider population as ‘Travellers’. The originality of the thesis ... -
Constructing aesthetics: reassessing Vygotsky’s early works in the context of the Russian modernist theatre
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-09)Lev Vygotsky has produced a significant yet largely understudied body of work in aesthetics, which focuses primarily on theatre and literature. This work was presented in several pieces of writing composed mainly in the ... -
Examining romanticism: English studies and the emergence of close reading, 1904-1930
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-09)This dissertation focuses on the relationship between literary studies and Romanticism during the years following the foundation of the Merton Chair of English Literature at Oxford, in 1904 up to 1930, with the rise of ... -
Retelling Karbala: a literary analysis of key plays of the Iranian Taʿziyeh repertoire
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-05-23)The Iranian taʿziyeh tradition commemorates the martyrdoms of Ḥusain b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭāleb and his supporters at Karbala in 61 AH /680 CE. It includes a largely anonymous cycle of plays, the main episodes portraying the ... -
Doctrine of Iʿjāz al-Qurʾān: Al-Ūdwī’s theory and contribution as found in the first chapter of his Nūr al-Īqān bi Iʿjāz al-Qurʾān
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This dissertation is a study of the theory of Maulānā Muḥammad Ismāʿīil b. Maulānā Nabī Bakhsh al-Ūdwī, a respected South Asian Sindhī scholar (d. 1391/1970) with regard to the doctrine of iʿjāz al Qurʾān as found in the ... -
Human body in Chinese American diasporic novels set during China’s war with Japan, 1937-1945
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Voicing trauma: ungraspable idea and comprehensible presentation In Arnold Schoenberg's String Trio, Op. 45 and A survivor from Warsaw
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-04)Discussions surrounding musical meaning and traumatic memory both focus on the ineffability of their subjects, the fact that words and concrete narrative structures will never capture the inner reality of musical ... -
Supernatural crossing in Republican Chinese fiction, 1920s–1940s
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-23)This dissertation studies supernatural narratives in Chinese fiction from the mid-1920s to the 1940s. The literary works present phenomena or elements that are or appear to be supernatural, many of which remain marginal ... -
Unsettled minds: reframing health and wellbeing in contemporary indigenous literatures
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-21)This thesis explores representations of health and wellbeing in Indigenous literature published between 1990 and 2019. With an awareness of how discourses of “healing” have been instrumentalised by settler colonial ...
