English (School of): Recent submissions
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Gaelic mythology and identity in modern Irish and Scottish literature (1880-1916)
(2024-12-03) - ThesisThis thesis considers how Gaelic mythology was repurposed by Irish and Scottish writers during the Irish revolutionary period as a tool for nation building, with particular focus on texts ranging from the 1880s up to the ... -
The eco-philosophical poem : enacting ecological theory through a formal poetics
(2024-12-03) - ThesisThe following thesis investigates why eco-philosophy and eco-poetry should be studied and read concurrently. Specifically, it demonstrates how eco-poetry formally enacts foundational eco-philosophical theories and processes ... -
John Keats and aspects of Christianity, 1600-1821
(University of St Andrews, 2024-06-11) - ThesisThis thesis explores the poet John Keats’s engagement with Christianity from three primary areas of interest. In my introduction I acknowledge existing scholarship on Keats’s religious stance, and explain my methodology ... -
The biopolitics of ectogenesis in modern and contemporary anglophone literature
(2024-06-11) - ThesisEctogenesis is a theoretical artificial reproductive technology (ART) that entails gestating a mammalian embryo in an artificial or external womb. The term was coined in 1923 by J. B. S. Haldane, his neologism borrowing ...