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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"820 English & Old English literatures"”.
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Analysis of Literary Devices in Selected Novels of Severine Ndunguru
… Also the writer succeeds in employing the English language to present these literary devices, and these literary devices show their usefulness in the thematic part of the novels. The analysis of these works offers a contribution to the existing knowledge in the way literary devices are …
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Workers' playtime: an enquiry into the relationship between Paris May '68 and the development of British political theatre 1968-1978
This thesis examines how and why the revolutionary political and aesthetic theories articulated throughout Paris May’68, influenced the formal development and political struggles of British Political Theatre between 1968-1978. In particular, the thesis traces how the radical philosophy of the …
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Reading suburban narratives
This thesis discusses London suburban-set fiction as enacting a key semiotic problem of modernity: how the individual must interpret, make sense of, and inhabit a particular locality. By semiotic here I mean the individual's drive to capture external reality, to read and constitute a sense of what …
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Imaginal response: an adaptation of Jung's "active imagination" into a mode of responding to archetypal images in Shakespeare's Hamlet
This thesis follows the standard structure of a psychological dissertation. The first chapter introduces 'imaginal response', offering an outline of this enquiry, its aims and procedures. The second chapter reviews the literature relevant to this subject, and offers a theoretical/conceptual basis …
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Teachers’ constructions of creativity in secondary English: who gets to be creative in class?
This thesis examines English teachers’ constructions of creativity in three different schools. The investigation is of interest because of the importance given to creativity by English teachers and the contested, shifting role it plays in English teaching and education as a whole. It differs from …
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Poststructuralism, postmodernism and British academic attitudes: with special reference to David Lodge, Malcolm Bradbury and Gabriel Josipovici
… poststructuralism has penetrated the teaching of English in British Higher Education. The second surveys the Methuen New Accents series.
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A materialist and intertextual examination of the process of writing a work of children's literature
This thesis comes under the terms of Clause 3.2 in the booklet Research Degrees, Regulations and Notes for Guidance for the University of North London where it is stated that 'A candidate may undertake a programme of research in which the candidate's own creative work forms, as a point of origin or …
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At home in the metropole : gender and domesticity in contemporary migration fiction
This thesis looks at a selection of novels by diasporic writers which engage significantly with the domestic sphere and its associated practices in their narratives of migration to Britain from postcolonial spaces. Employing a feminist postcolonial approach to works by Buchi Emecheta, Monica Ali, …
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Memoirs of a taboo : a novel. Volume 1 -- Women in pre- and post-Victorian India : the use of historical research in the writing of fiction. Volume 2
This practice-based creative writing doctorate supports the creation of a novel that is in part, historical fiction, based on research focusing on the discrepancies in the perceived status of women between the pre-Victorian and the postmillennial periods in India. The accompanying component of the …
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D.H Lawrence's mysticism : a study of Lawrence's metaphysics in 'Women in Love' with reference to Mawalana Rumi and other Persian Sufi masters
This study is an attempt to compare and contrast D. H. Lawrence’s writings and Persian mystic poet and jurist Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi’s poetry. Particular attention is given to the theme of love in Lawrence’s writings and the degree to which his mystical views with regard to sexual love become …