Modern Languages (School of): Recent submissions
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In search of images : Uruguayan cinema, 1960-2010
(University of St Andrews, 2014) - ThesisThis thesis investigates fifty years of Uruguayan cinema in order to revisit the relationship between cinema and nation, at a time in which transnational flows are putting into question the concept of nation and, more ... -
The ecological voice in recent German-Swiss prose
(University of St Andrews, 2005-03) - ThesisThis thesis seeks to investigate the ecological theme in German-Swiss prose of the last thirty years. The role of nature has understandably always been significant in Swiss literature. In a nation that has eked out its ... -
The representation of male figures in the fiction of Irmtraud Morgner
(University of St Andrews, 2004-07) - ThesisThis study describes and analyses the treatment of male characters in the work of the East German author, Irmtraud Morgner. The main focus of the thesis is on Morgner’s handling of masculinity in relation to her treatment ... -
The portrayal of childhood in German fiction from Keller to Carossa
(University of St Andrews, 1947) - ThesisThe middle of the 19th century marks a stage in the development of childhood portrayal in German literature. But to take Keller as a starting point rather than Gotthelf, is to recognize in the former the deliberate ... -
Popular fiction in France and England, 1860-1875 : convention, irony and ambivalence in the novels of Paul Féval and Wilkie Collins
(2000) - ThesisThis thesis is a comparative study of two popular nineteenth-century writers, Paul Feval and Wilkie Collins, and by extension, of their respective traditions, the Roman-Feuilleton and the Sensation novel. At the same time, ...