English (School of): Recent submissions

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    • The girls' school story : a re-reading 

      Sneddon, Sarah J. (University of St Andrews, 1998-07) - Thesis
      The very mention of the genre of the 'girls' school story' tends to provoke sniggers. Critics, teachers and librarians have combined throughout the century to attack a genre which encourages loyalty, hard work, team spirit, ...

    • Developments towards a theatre of the absurd in England, 1956-1964 

      Percival, Gary William (University of St Andrews, 1995-07) - Thesis
      In 1961 Martin Esslin created the term 'Theatre of the Absurd' as a working hypothesis, a device with which to make fundamental traits present in the plays of a number of France-based dramatists accessible to discussion ...

    • Revolutions in marriage in the fiction of Henry James 

      Mason, Ashley (University of St Andrews, 2004) - Thesis
      This thesis is an assessment of the representation of romantic and sexual love in the fiction of Henry James. The social conventions of love, namely courtship, marriage, and adultery, are examined in context of the morality ...

    • The dream state : making, reading and marketing contemporary Scottish poetry 

      Fraser, Lilias (University of St Andrews, 2003) - Thesis
      This thesis investigates aspects of the writing, reading, and marketing of contemporary Scottish poetry, suggesting that readers of contemporary poetry are influenced in their reading by marketplace forces as well as by ...

    • Peasant mandarins : four poets negotiating traditions after the Empire 

      Eskestad, Nils (1999-08)
      The aim of this thesis is to examine Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Les Murray and Tony Harrison as important figures in contemporary English-language poetry. Writing in the aftermath of Empire, these four poets are all ...