Literatures, Languages, and Cultures PhD thesis collection: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Marvellous real in the Middle East: a comparative study of magical realism in contemporary women’s fiction
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-17)Magical realism has been studied extensively in relation to Latin America and subsequently in other parts of the world, yet the Middle East has not received adequate attention in academic scholarship. This PhD study examines ... -
Understanding intra-governmental collaboration and governmental reorganisations in China’s local food safety regulation from 2013 to 2019
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-16)Intra-governmental collaboration is considered in the current literature to be one of the principle reasons for China’s food safety problems. There are two gaps in the existing studies of intra-governmental collaboration ... -
Famine, fever, flood, and conquest: the impact of natural disasters on the ninth-century rise of the Vikings in the Carolingian Empire according to the Royal Frankish Annals, the Annals of Xanten, the Annals of St Bertin, and The Annals of Fulda
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-03)Events characterised as “natural disasters” now had an impact on early medieval Europe (c. AD 476-1054), but previous attempts to measure said impact have been hindered by ambiguous terminology. This study reviews the ... -
Class act or class dismissed?: The 1930s and working-class culture & identity
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-01)This thesis responds to the question of what it means in practice to bring the terms class, culture, and identity together; and is, in effect, a rejoinder that asks: ‘Should we bring them together?’ In short, the answer ... -
Queer spies in British Cold War culture: literature, film, theatre and television
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-02-23)This PhD thesis investigates how male homosexuality has been represented in British spy fiction from the 1950s to the 2010s in multiple media: literature, film, television and theatre. Due mainly to the betrayal of the ... -
Now es that tyme for ever gone”: exploring memory in select Middle English Arthurian romances c. 1300- c.1500
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-30)This thesis explores the ways in which memory was understood, explored, and deployed in the Middle English Arthurian romance corpus. Drawing on a broad range of texts, from the so-called “popular” romances on the one ... -
Our weekday preachers': humor in Victorian literature (1828-1868)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-07)This thesis investigates the use of humor in realist Victorian novels published between 1828– 1868. The main hypothesis of this project is that the novelists of this time period rely on humor as a powerful tool not just ... -
Autofiction as a political act: the use of the self in Bret Easton Ellis, Michel Houellebecq, and Walter Siti
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-07)Since its first appearance on the back cover of Serge Doubrovsky’s 1977 novel Fils, the term autofiction immediately attracted the interest of many French critics and writers. Critics such as Philippe Lejeune, Philippe ... -
Intermediality and interculturality in Jose Juan Tablada's poetry: East Asian culture and the 'visual turn'
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-07)This thesis investigates two key themes in the Mexican writer José Juan Tablada’s (1871 - 1945) poetry: intermediality between poetic text and visual art, and interculturality between cultures of East Asia and Mexico. ... -
Terrorism and realism in contemporary Italian literature: the victim as a literary character and a cultural paradigm
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-07)This thesis explores the idea of victimhood in Italian literary representations of terrorism, looking at its relationship with realism. More specifically, I focus on the period of Italian political terrorism in the ... -
Geolinguistic variation of Hebridean Gaelic: the role of nominal morphology
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-07)This thesis investigates the geographical variation of inflectional markers used in noun phrases by speakers of Scottish Gaelic. I focus on the traditional vernacular and therefore the data represent the speech of older ... -
Reading, talking and playing literature: community literary practices of the UK Russian-speaking diaspora
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-07)This thesis is an ethnographic study of the Russophone community literary life in Britain focusing on the Waterstones’ Russian Book Club (WRBC), the largest book club of its kind in the country. The WRBC began its ... -
Early modern blush: bodies and boundaries c.1590-1700
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-07)This thesis contains four case-studies on the blush in four different genres — narrative poetry; drama; sermons; and epic poetry. My aim is to preserve the idiosyncrasies and conventions of how each genre treats the ... -
You must believe in spring, and Subverting causality: repetition and readers in Muriel Spark’s work
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-07)You Must Believe in Spring is a bildungsroman that follows three days of Shahed’s life in Egypt. Set in the near-future – early 2030’s – it deals with themes of revolution, alienation and privilege. Being a disciple ... -
Poetry of sight: literary contexts of the Mahāyāna imaginaire
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-07)This thesis is a study of the visually spectacular aspects of Mahāyāna sūtra literature, and closely related Buddhist Sanskrit materials, from the 1st century BCE to the 4th / 5th century CE approximately. While the early ...
