English (School of): Recent submissions
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'The ethics of art' : incarnation, revelation and transcendence in the aesthetics and ethics of George Eliot and M.M. Bakhtin
(University of St Andrews, 2003) - ThesisThis thesis offers an analysis of George Eliot's aesthetics and ethics from the interdisciplinary perspective of literature and theology. I examine the role that religious motifs play in Eliot's "ethics of art," and argue ... -
Shakespeare, gender and the rhetoric of excuse
(University of St Andrews, 2003) - ThesisThis thesis attempts to provide an historicised account of excuse-making strategies in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature. This issue is considered, broadly, in the light of the pervasive influence of rhetoric ... -
Dickens and the unreal city : the metropolitan symbolism of the mystery story
(University of St Andrews, 2002) - ThesisLondon is not only a backdrop in the novels of Charles Dickens. Its workings both conceal truth of various sorts from characters and push it into the open. This thesis claims that it is the primary symbolic means by which ... -
White screen, black masks : Othello and the performativity of race on stage and screen
(University of St Andrews, 2003) - ThesisThis thesis attempts to expose stereotypologies of black African skin as performed on the Shakespearean stage and before the Shakespearean camera. My research engages with a number of Tudor/Stuart travel narratives and ... -
A deeper "Well of English undefyled" : the role and influence of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry : with particular reference to Hopkins, Pound and Auden
(University of St Andrews, 2002) - ThesisThis thesis challenges the assumption that Chaucer is the father of the living English poetic tradition. Nobody would deny that poetry existed in a form of English before the fourteenth century, but it is commonly assumed ...