Browsing Literatures, Languages, and Cultures PhD thesis collection by Title
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G.K. Chesterton, the development of allegory
(The University of Edinburgh, 1978) -
Gaelic dialects present and past: a study of modern and medieval dialect relationships in the Gaelic languages
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-11-25)This thesis focuses on the historical development of dialectal variation in the Gaelic languages with special reference to Irish. As a point of departure, competing scholarly theories concerning the historical relationships ... -
Gaelic poetry
(The University of Edinburgh, 1975) -
Galen's De differentiis febrium & De temperamentis
(The University of Edinburgh, 1928) -
Gavin Hamilton, John Balfour and Patrick Neill: a study of publishing in Edinburgh in the Eighteenth Century.
(The University of Edinburgh. College of Humanities and Social Science, 1975-06)Eighteenth-century Scottish bibliography is a vast subject still awaiting exploration. There are, however, some landmarks to look for and guides to employ. I am thinking particularly, in the context of my own interests, ... -
Gender construction and the individual in the work of Mona Caird
(University of Edinburgh, 2006) -
Gender writing : representation of Arab women in postcolonial literature
(University of Edinburgh, 2005) -
Gendered discourse: narrative voices in the novels of George Sand
(The University of Edinburgh, 1997) -
Gendering of aesthetics and politics in contemporary Scottish fiction
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-24)This thesis studies contemporary Scottish fiction by four writers Agnes Owens, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, and Alan Warner, focusing on the problematic position of women characters and feminocentric texts within the ... -
Gendering the marvellous: Strategies of response in Remedios Varo, Elena Garro and Carmen Boullosa
(The University of Edinburgh, 2008)My doctoral research constitutes three case studies dealing with the work of the painter Remedios Varo and the writers Elena Garro and Carmen Boullosa. Their works incorporate a mixed imagery and iconography to which ... -
Genre and gender in translation: the poetological and ideological rewriting of heroine-centred and women-oriented fiction
(The University of Edinburgh, 2009)This thesis examines the impact of poetics and ideology on the French translations of eight contemporary heroine-centred and women-oriented fictional texts (including Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary). Using a ... -
George Crabbe: poet and social critic
(The University of Edinburgh, 1969) -
George Eliot and Romanticism : Romantic Elements in George Eliot's Thought and their Relation to the Structure of her Novels
(The University of Edinburgh, 1972)Romanticism can be seen as a fundamental change in some men's way of looking at the world: meaning was no longer immanent in external reality but derived from the nature of the mind and projected onto the world. As ... -
George Elliot and emancipation: a Turkish view
(The University of Edinburgh, 1957) -
German reception of Romain Rolland and Jean-Christophe 1910-1945
(The University of Edinburgh, 1995) -
German-speaking travellers in Scotland, 1800-1860, and their place in the history of European travel literature.
(University of Edinburgh, 1985) -
Good Morning, Grade One. Language ideologies and multilingualism within primary education in rural Zambia.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-07-02)This practice based PhD project investigates the language ideologies which surround the specific multilingual context of rural primary education in Zambia. The project comprises of a creative documentary film and a ... -
Gottfried Keller's Zuricher noveller
(The University of Edinburgh, 1922) -
“the graciouseste gome that vndir God lyffede”: a reconsideration of Sir Gawain in the Late Medieval Middle English and Middle Scots romance tradition
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-07-02)In Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, King Arthur’s nephew, Sir Gawain, is presented as a troublesome figure whose vengefulness hastens the collapse of Camelot. This characterization is unsurprising in the light of ...