English (School of): Recent submissions

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    • The presentation of women in early English drama 

      Powell, Melanie Jane Henderson (University of St Andrews, 1988) - Thesis
      This study is a survey of the presentation of women in English drama from 1300 - 1600, and of the relationship between stage views and contemporary attitudes to women during this period. Its purpose is twofold. It sets out ...

    • The structure and rhetoric of twentieth-century British children's fantasy 

      Dixon, Marzena M. (University of St Andrews, 1992-07) - Thesis
      This thesis discusses twentieth century children's fantasy fiction. The writers whose creative output is dealt with include Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Susan Cooper, Pat O'Shea, Peter Dickinson, T.H.White, Lloyd Alexander ...

    • William Robertson Nicoll and the Liberal Nonconformist press, 1886-1923 

      Higgins, Roisin (University of St Andrews, 1996-07) - Thesis
      William Robertson Nicoll (1851-1923) founded the British Weekly in 1886 to exploit the need for a Liberal Nonconformist newspaper. Nicoll became the most important editor of a Free Church journal in the Edwardian period. ...

    • Aspects of action in narrative 

      Morgan, Clark (University of St Andrews, 1993-07) - Thesis
      The purpose of this thesis is to describe the way in which "unified action" functions within stories. Taking Aristotle's Poetics as a point of departure, the first chapter defines unified action as a disturbance, problem, ...

    • Madonna, maiden and martyr : models of femininity in some early works of André Gide and D. H. Lawrence 

      Driskill, Richard T. (University of St Andrews, 1995-07) - Thesis
      This dissertation studies certain similarities between some early Bildungsroman of D. H. Lawrence and André Gide. In Lawrence's Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow, and Gide's L'lmmoraliste and La Porte étroite, the authors ...