Literatures, Languages, and Cultures PhD thesis collection
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Thread and blood: the fabrication of female devotion in medieval english literature
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis explores the representation and development of female devotion through textiles in medieval English literature. Drawing from a broad range of texts that can be termed as “devotional” narratives (including lives ... -
Most difficult and least glamorous: the politics of style in the late works of Nadine Gordimer
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Much of the established scholarship on Nadine Gordimer regards her as a chronicler of the injustices of apartheid, as scholars like Stephen Clingman and Dominic Head describe her mature works as writing ‘history from the ... -
From novel to network: digital intertextuality in twenty-first-century fiction and fanfiction
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Literature has never existed in isolation, from other texts, from the circumstances of its creation or from effecting change. While the prominence of the novel form is partly responsible for the idea that works of literature ... -
Profitable reading of newspapers: Thomas Hardy and mass media culture
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-26)This thesis examines the ways in which the development and repercussions of the evolving nineteenth-century newspaper and periodical press, and the mass media culture it generated, can be found exemplified in the works ... -
Becoming woman in the land of women: investigating the paradigm of the individual versus the collective in contemporary feminist utopianism
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Studies in feminist utopianism have demonstrated how this literary current provides fertile ground for critiquing masculine hegemonies and imagining new ways of being. A central aspect of recent feminist debates, which ... -
Empire on which the Sun Sets: Europeans and non-Europeans in Robert Southey's Works on Latin America and the Caribbean
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis examines the portrayal of the encounters between Europeans and non Europeans of the American continent in the works of Robert Southey. The thesis argues that Southey’s representations of European/non-European ... -
Chilean film festivals: promotors of film culture and cinephilia in Chile
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis addresses the role of film festivals in Chile in creating, promoting, and consolidating film culture in Chile since its first initiatives emerged in the 1950s to the end of the 2010s. This thesis focuses on the ... -
The ghosts that visit us as we dream and Figurative homelands: second-generation immigrant experiences in North American contemporary poetry
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)The Ghosts That Visit Us as We Dream is a poetic manuscript that observes my family’s immigration from Tanzania to Canada. The poems are voiced from a variety of familial perspectives to capture how identity reforms ... -
Transgender gaze, neoliberal haze: the impact of neoliberalism on trans female bodies in the anglophone global north
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis analyses the impact of neoliberalism on trans female bodies, in recognition of a warning by trans studies scholar Dean Spade that identifies how “activists and theorists have tended to miss the vital connection ... -
Leftist-Sadrist alliance: social movements and strategic politics in Iraq
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis explores the formation of the leftist-Sadrist alliance that won Iraq’s May 2018 national elections. It argues that this cross-ideological social movement coalition was neither a case of two groups always ... -
'Fair copies?’ Titus Oates and the forging of literary politics in Seventeenth-Century England
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)In recent decades a resurgent History of the Book has helped to challenge the idea that the printed page is one constituted by words alone. Similarly, for all its critical indeterminacy the methods of New Historicism ... -
Bite of Taiwan culinary intimacy in contemporary Taiwanese food narratives
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis examines the trope of intimacy in an array of food narratives – including prose essays, novels, autobiographical accounts, travelogues, and pictorial books – published in Taiwan since the 1990s. By focusing on ... -
Devour Everything and ‘A Landscape of Mutability and Ferocious Life’: Mark Doty and Jo Shapcott’s poetics of illness
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)Devour Everything is a collection of poetry written and collated over a period of three years, in which I explore a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: illness and bodily frailty, suppressed female voices, ... -
Deconstructing Chinese online community: users' participation in Bilibili live stream channels
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)Current studies of the Chinese Internet and society describe Chinese Internet users’ activities as the mobility transferred from the offline to the online world. They also regard the Chinese Internet and Communication ... -
The history and doctrines of the Karrāmiyya sect with special reference to ar-Rāzī's criticism
(The University of Edinburgh, 1970-06)The objective of this thesis is the study of the history and doctrines of one of the Muslim sects namely the Karramiyya sect, with special attention made to Fakhr ad-Dln ar-RazI's criticism of the sect's doctrines and ... -
Nickie-Ben's Close and The Devil loves Scotland: Devil influence in Scottish history and literature, and Nickie-Ben's Close
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-29)The novel Nickie-Ben's Close is a magical realism bildungsroman that takes the existing Devil archetype and reimagines him in a story set in modern-day Edinburgh, Scotland. Through the first person perspective of our ... -
Language provision in Scottish public services: inclusion in policy and in practice
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-29)Increased international mobility has resulted in language planning initiatives by a range of different actors in Scotland, in order to respond to the growing linguistic diversity of the population and to promote greater ... -
Lunfardo and gendered discourse: creation and analysis of a linguistic corpus of tango lyrics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-29)This thesis explores the question of how language is used to construct gender in tango lyrics, and it specifically examines lunfardo cultural markers and explores the ways in which these contribute to gendered discourse ... -
Cinema and Heidegger: the call to being in Ozu, Antonioni, Tarr
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-22)In close dialogue with Martin Heidegger’s early ontology (Being and Time, 1927) and his metaphysics (“What is Metaphysics?”, 1929; Introduction to Metaphysics, 1935), this thesis argues that cinema offers a privileged ... -
Nostalgia re-written. Boris Akunin's Fandorin project and the detective (re-)discovery of Empire
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-15)Since his rise to fame in 1998, Boris Akunin has become a household name on the post-Soviet book market. Temporarily, he also became one of the leading voices in Russia’s liberal opposition movement to the Putin regime. ...
