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Recent Submissions
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Popular fiction in France and England, 1860-1875 : convention, irony and ambivalence in the novels of Paul Féval and Wilkie Collins
(2000) - ThesisThis thesis is a comparative study of two popular nineteenth-century writers, Paul Feval and Wilkie Collins, and by extension, of their respective traditions, the Roman-Feuilleton and the Sensation novel. At the same time, ... -
Edition and study (mostly linguistic) of a section of an Anglo-Norman translation of the Bible (14th century) : the Acts of the Apostles in MSS B.N. fr. 1 & 9562
(University of St Andrews, 1955) - ThesisThis Edition and Study of the Acts of the Apostles was undertaken with a view to throwing some fresh light on the problems, linguistic and other, raised by the Anglo-Norman Bible. Although quite often mentioned in books ... -
Genres instables : ludic performances of autofiction in the works of Catherine Cusset, Philippe Vilain, Chloé Delaume and Éric Chevillard
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisAutofiction has been the subject of much critical investigation in France, yet little of this theory extends to contemporary texts. Furthermore, autofictional theory has, until now, neglected the study of ludic performance ... -
Charles Baudelaire's translations of Edgar Allan Poe
(University of St Andrews, 2003) - ThesisAlthough one of the best-known cases of intercultural literary partnership, Charles Baudelaire’s translations of Edgar Allan Poe’s works have been little analysed with a methodology appropriate to Translation Studies. ... -
Marriage and desire in seventeenth-century French comedy
(2015-06-25) - ThesisThis thesis re-examines the role of marriage in the golden age of seventeenth-century French comedy. It reconsiders received wisdom on the subject to challenge acceptance of the final promise of marriage as a dénouement ...
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