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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"PN Literature (General)"”.
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The construction of Anglo-Indian spaces in middlebrow works of Raj fiction, 1880-1914
… Croker have since fallen into obscurity with the general reading public and as a source of academic inquiry. This thesis readdresses this oversight through a reading of women-authored works of Raj fiction, a field of colonial literature that this thesis identifies as being fiction produced between …
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Semi-Peripheral Realism: Nation and Form on the Borders of Europe
… attention within the burgeoning field of world literature. As a transitional space between the core and the periphery, the semi-periphery is particularly sensitive to the economic, social and cultural uneveness of the world-system, making it invaluable for understanding the transformations and …
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‘Over the Kite Path’: A novel and dissertation on the development of narrator and narrative voice.
… the novel’s place within the fields of literature and creative writing and compared my work – and my working practice – with other authors, in order to help me understand and analyse how my narrative voice had developed. As a result of this analysis and research, my novel has an original …
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Business matters: legal structures, roles, people, and places of the nineteenth-century press - a case study of George Newnes Limited
This thesis breaks new ground in the study of nineteenth-century print culture, periodical studies, and media studies by drawing attention to the mutability of the legal structures underpinning the press. It adopts a multi-dimensional, chronotopic, geospatial approach to legal frameworks that …
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Dress as metaphor in diasporic fiction
… with how shifts in style, as presented in literature, reflect and inform transitions in social structures in South Asia, and its diasporic communities, in the aftermath of colonialism and in the contemporary context of transnationalism. Writers examined span the colonial period to the …
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The presentation of education in the literature of the modernist period: 1890 – 1939
… classics and translations of classics voiced a generalised regard for learning as a good in its own right. These modernists occupied and refashioned this landscape by producing works which offered readers what they wanted whilst at the same time querying the tenets of the school system, …
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An exploration of plagiarism: the perceptions of senior nurses in the context of professionalism and patient care
The incidence of plagiarism in higher education has increased over the decades as assessment strategies widened and moved away from pure examinations (Ober, Simon, Scott and Elson, 2013). This has repercussions especially in nursing, where nurses are required to be honest and have professional …
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The relationship between the Aristotelian, Newtonian and holistic scientific paradigms and selected British detective fiction 1980-2010
This thesis examines the changing relationship between key elements of the Aristotelian, Newtonian and holistic scientific paradigms and contemporary detective fiction. The work of scholars including N. Katherine Hayles, Martha A. Turner has applied Thomas S. Kuhn’s notion of scientific paradigms …
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The Germanic toponymicon of Southern Scotland:place-name elements and their contribution to the lexicon and onomasticon
… to the onomasticon and lexicon of Britain generally and Scotland specifically. By building a corpus of the Germanic place-names so far identified in the south of Scotland, and interrogating this data in the light of recent onomastic scholarship, a wealth of material has been uncovered, …
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Case studies of academic writing in the sciences: a focus on the development of writing skills
… such a study is a systematic-functional one. The general research methodology is established around two main axes, one linguistic, and the other statistical. To conduct a longitudinal survey focusing on thematic changes, it was necessary on the one hand to set up clear and unambiguous linguistic …
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Ramshackle, a novel, and microbursts and topologies, lyrical essays
This PhD consists of a novel, Ramshackle, and a book of lyrical essays, microbursts and topologies. Anne Carson talks about Joan of Arc’s answers at her trials, sentences spoken such as ‘The light comes in the name of the voice’, which Carson describes as ‘a sentence that stops itself. Its …
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The PUWP's preferences in the contemporary Polish novel, 1959-1985
… Party's cultural programme. Chapter 2 provides a general cultural background of the period, describing the development of the term 'committed literature', which was most frequently used by writers and politicians in their deliberations on the nature and direction literature was to take. This …
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'His own privacý: Frederic Manning: a critical and historical analysis
… therefore justifying him a notable places in literature. The reasons given for that previous estimate are considered, and countered. The study commences with an introductory chapter briefly covering the main events in his life, particularly in relation to his literary development. Then follow …
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Scottish and international themes in the work of Edwin Muir and Neil M. Gunn
Abstract available p. i-iv
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Scottish Gaelic women's poetry up to 1750
The intention of this work was not to provide a detailed study of all the poems composed by women up to 1750, but rather to find the threads which linked them to each other. These threads are mainly thematic, although others, such as the songs connected with a story, cross a thematic range while …
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The wanderer: peregrinations in eldritch regions
… is doubtful his disappearance would have come to general notice, had it not been for the singular circumstances surrounding it. Gripped by horrible fascination, I read on. 'More Things in Heaven...' is a strange, difficult, and at times abstruse work, filled with occult erudition and containing a …
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Theories of translation and their applications to the teaching of English/Arabic-Arabic/English translating
The vital role which English continues to play in international communications and the growing impact of the Arab Nation on world affairs have created a demand for English-Arabic/Arabic-English translators and interpreters. Consequently, this has prompted educational authorities in Arab Countries …
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Writing Terror: Representations of Terror and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Fiction
… fiction often concentrate on US and European literature, while some scholarships aim to expand the field to cover transnational novels as well as broaden the themes, scope and cultural diversity of this field. This thesis looks at novels that have not received much critical attention within …
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The Clearance at Arichonan 1848; a collection of poetry - reading and writing to diffraction
The Clearance at Arichonan, 1848, is the main body of creative work for this research project, it was produced after working in collaboration with artist and lecturer in architecture, Adrian Evans, (Huddersfield University) for the In the Open exhibition at the Institute of Arts (IOA), Sheffield in …
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