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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"PR Llenyddiaeth Saesneg"”.
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A Cloth of Sounds
A collection of poetry exploring how life might have been for the workers and their families in the woollen mill towns and villages of Ceredigion. Inspired by the Victorian mill in my valley and the lives of the people who once lived in my mill worker's cottage.
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Humans and Representations of AI in (Science) Fiction
… I am interested in the concept of SF and the representation of AI in two classical SF novels and two contemporary texts which will be referred to as rather-SF. The primary text used are Isaac Asimov’s The Naked Sun, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ian McEwan’s Machines …
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ÆlfricBata’s Colloquia: Reassessing an Eleventh-Century Latin Textbook
… for the teaching of Latin. There are two printed editions of the text, first by Stevenson (1929) and Gwara & Porter (1997), both of which take an editorial approach to the text that is not represented in the materiality of the manuscript, particularly in where different dialogues start and …
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Spenser’s Prothalamion in Context
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Figuring Disability and Illness: D. H. Lawrence’s Masculine Somatology
… In so doing, the thesis contributes a fresh approach to Lawrence studies while at the same time fostering critical and creative reflections on the relatively new field of literary disability studies. Chapter 1 considers the relevant debates and developments within the field. Drawing on …
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Braids of Song Gwead y Gân
… collection of stories that acknowledges the preciousness of culture; in particular, the music, which is both able to cross different linguistic boundaries and to breach those between melody and language itself. The stories are shared through four intertwined narrative strands in a mixture of …
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Hearing Voices, Telling Tales: An exploration of the move from page to stage in the work of Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch 1998 - 2018
… Redbeck, 1998) which was winner of the Redbeck Press 1997 Pamphlet Competition, my first full-length collection, Rockclimbing in Silk (Bridgend: Seren, 2001) for which I was awarded an Arts Council Bursary, my second collection Not in These Shoes (London: Picador, 2008) which was shortlisted for …
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Marital love in Jane Austen: a Peircean analysis of Lady Susan and Pride and Prejudice
… she was a part. Because her stories generally present a series of married or courting character couples, they lend themselves well to analysis as a set of different but related representations of marriage. This dissertation uses the semiotic categories of Charles S. Peirce to analyze the …
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Life,love and loss (under a few trees)
… will be into how other poets have approached each of my three themes. In my critical essay I intend to demonstrate this research condensed to an examination of the theme of loss. I have chosen this theme as I believe it to be the most complex and difficult to convey, despite being …
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“Hot shoes" – a novel (selections and summaries and a critical paper Canadian truth and reconciliation :settler-invader, damage, and trust. DAMAGE, AND TRUST
… differed greatly. Although the Aboriginal view promised more for future harmony and environmental health, the encroaching non-Aboriginal view with its stress on colonialism, “progress” and consumption took command. Two segregated streams of literature developed, the non-Aboriginal one dominant. …
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The jackal's wedding.
… of Avonford are revealed, and the mystery of the protagonist morphs into something more worrying as she assaults and robs a male, immigrant bar worker on a canal boat. As the parallel road trips unfold we see the balance of power between Miss Meyer and Joules shift. Despite her greater age and …
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Containment and creativity.
In offering a collection both of poems and short prose fiction, my intention is to demonstrate my exploration of certain motifs and poetics across the two genres, specifically in respect to my core discussion of the creative interaction of structure and imagination. I am interested in how the …
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Turning.
… urge to migrate and explore, how that urge was expressed in my own family and life, and how it relates to a sense of place and belonging. Apart from the opening poem, the poems are arranged chronologically, and begin with two glimpses of nineteenth century ancestors, one imaginary, the other …
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The Ungovernable Governess:The Figure of the Governess in the Victorian Sensation Novel of the 1860s.
… the ungovernable side of femininity. The primary focus will be on the female protagonist in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret, Wilkie Collins Armadale, Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Behind a Mask,’ and Ellen Wood’s East Lynne.1 The effects of the moral and social climate of the …
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The possibility conditions of narrative identity.
… is narrative identity theory, i.e. the proposition that our sense of self is structured like a story. The imputed advantage of narrativity identity is that it enables great coherence and guidance to our complex lives composed of multiple and often conflicting inner impulses and social …
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Shakespeare's Portrayal of the Celtic Nations of Scotland and Wales and the Changing View of Ancient Britain
… the verbatim source for British history, with a preference for seeing the civilising influence of classical Rome. This then is a watershed period for the relationship between England and its Celtic neighbours, and the writings of Shakespeare can give us an indication of how this change was …
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A Misfit Mythology: Hanes Taliesin in English Literature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
… century frequently cited Taliesin as the preeminent bard of Wales, Hanes Taliesin (HT)—particularly the Elphin section—was overshadowed by popular and academic engagement with other traditional tales. Irish and Welsh legends sparked plays, novels, and poetry, but HT had (in the English …
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Anthony Powell: bibliography and aspects of publishing history
The thesis is presented in two parts. The second part is the authorised, descriptive and enumerative bibliography of the works of the English novelist Anthony Powell (1905-2000). A first version of the bibliography was published in 1993, and was placed on a short-list of three works in 1994 for the …
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