Modern Languages (School of): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Psychology, gender and EFL writing : a study of the relationship between Saudi students' writing performance and their attitudes, apprehension and self-efficacy
(2017-06-22) - ThesisIt has long been accepted in the field of EFL teaching and learning that writing in a foreign language by learners is a complex practice that involves not only cognition, but also psychology. With this in mind, in the ... -
Journeys beyond binaries : storytelling and polyphony in the narratives of Gabriella Ghermandi, Igiaba Scego, Ubax Cristina Ali Farah and Amara Lakhous
(2015-10) - ThesisIn the last two decades, in media and political discourses, Italianness has been increasingly represented as a homogeneous and compact entity, which is intruded on and contaminated by immigrants. In this study, the binary ... -
François Villon in English : translation and cross-cultural poetic influence
(2014) - ThesisThis thesis argues that François Villon becomes a significant, but overlooked, influence in the tradition of English poetry, and that this influence reveals itself in translations, adaptations, and responses to his work. ...