Browsing by Subject "Literature"
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'And the Word was made flesh': the problem of the Incarnation in seventeenth-century devotional poetry
(University of St Andrews, 2012-05) - ThesisIn using the doctrine of the Incarnation as a lens to approach the devotional poetry of seventeenth-century Britain, ‘“And the Word was made flesh”: The Problem of the Incarnation in Seventeenth-Century Devotional Poetry’ ... -
David Mitchell : Slade House
(2016-08) - Journal item -
David Mitchell : The Bone Clocks
(2015-06) - Journal item -
The expression of identity in Equatorial Guinean narratives (1994 - 2007)
(University of St Andrews, 2012-06-21) - ThesisEquatorial Guinea is the only former Spanish colony in Africa south of the Sahara. Consequently, the Spanish-language literature produced by its authors has been resistant to classification in both the fields of Hispanic ... -
Jenni Fagan, The Sunlight Pilgrims
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A liberative imagination : reconsidering the fiction of Charlotte Brontë in light of feminist theology
(University of St Andrews, 2017-06-20) - ThesisThis thesis seeks to show the ways in which Charlotte Brontë’s fiction anticipates the concerns of contemporary feminist theology. Whilst Charlotte Brontë’s novels have held a place of honor in feminist literary criticism ... -
'Looking down time's telescope at myself': reincarnation and global futures in David Mitchell's fictional worlds
(2017-09-08) - Journal articleThis essay explores the trope of reincarnation across the works of British author David Mitchell (b.1969) as an alternative approach to linear temporality, whose spiralling cyclicality warns of the dangers of seeing past ... -
Narrative and the body in uniform : East German military masculinities in Claus Dobberke’s Ein Katzensprung and Jürgen Fuchs’s Fassonschnitt
(2015-01) - Journal articleThis article explores the relationship between body and uniform as one of two competing narratives of masculinity. Literature and film depicting the Nationale Volksarmee of East Germany (NVA) present uniform's narrative ... -
Reading children's books in late eighteenth-century dissenting families
(2000-06) - Journal articleThe eighteenth-century commodifications of childhood and the sciences overlapped in the production of science books for children. This article examines a children's book written by two members of the Unitarian circle around ... -
‘See SCOT and SAXON coalesc'd in one’ : James Macpherson's 'The Highlander' in its intellectual and cultural contexts, with an annotated text of the poem
(University of St Andrews, 2011-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis explores James Macpherson’s The Highlander (1758) in relation to originality, Scottish identity and historiography. It also situates the Ossianic Collections in the context of Macpherson’s earlier poetical and ... -
Theology, imagination and Scottish literature
(St Mary's College, University of St Andrews, 2007-12-1) - Journal articleAlison Jack uses works of Scottish literature, both classic and contemporary, as a way into McIntyre's exposition of faith, theology and imagination in a distinctly Scottish context. -
The Viennese vogue for opéra-comique 1790-1819
(University of St Andrews, 1985) - ThesisIn the mid-eighteenth century, Vienna, like other European cities, began to manifest the influence of modern French culture; In 1752, a troupe of French players was appointed to the Austrian court to entertain the ... -
Words incarnate : contemporary women’s fiction as religious revision
(University of St Andrews, 2011-06-21) - ThesisThis thesis investigates the prevalence of religious themes in the work of several prominent contemporary women writers—Margaret Atwood, Michèle Roberts, Alice Walker and A.L. Kennedy. Relying on Luce Irigaray’s recent ...