Modern Languages (School of): Recent submissions
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The image of the moon in Goethe's works
(University of St Andrews, 1968-06) - Thesis -
The faculty of perception in the early narratives of Hartmann von Aue : with special reference to secular morality and penitential practice
(University of St Andrews, 1997-06) - ThesisThis thesis was conceived in response to the recent controversy in Hartmann scholarship concerning the existence of a psychological progression in Hartmann's characters. Whilst the majority of scholars argue that a progression ... -
The passive construction być/zostać + V-n-/-on-/-t- in Polish : an aspectual analysis
(University of St Andrews, 2012) - ThesisThe idea that passive sentences are equivalent in meaning to their active counterparts has raised numerous questions among linguists particularly for the last several decades. The main dilemma regarding this relationship ... -
Subsective gradience in 2nd participles : an aspectual approach to adjectival passives and attributive participles in English
(2018-01-23) - ThesisThis study investigates the adjectival passive, in accordance with Beedham’s (2005, 1982) analysis of the passive as an aspect, with the caveat that telicity is an optimal, not sufficient, condition. The affinity of the ... -
The temptation of the reader : the search for meaning in Boris Akunin's Pelagia Trilogy
(2016-01-01) - Journal articleThis article discusses the games that Boris Akunin's Pelagia trilogy (2000–03) plays with the reader's attempts at interpretation and meaning-making. Most critics agree that detective fiction in this ‘whodunnit’ mode is a ...