Modern Languages (School of): Recent submissions

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    • On knowingness : irony and queerness in the works of Byron, Heine, Fontane, and Wilde 

      Kling, Jutta Cornelia (University of St Andrews, 2014-09) - Thesis
      This thesis identifies strategies of queer/irony in the writings of Lord Byron, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Fontane, and Oscar Wilde. Key to the understanding of irony is Friedrich Schlegel's re-evaluation of the concept. The ...

    • Interview: Algo más que un parque 

      Larre Borges, Ana Inés (Brecha, 2012-03-29) - Journal item
      Gustavo San Román, investigador uruguayo radicado en Escocia, resultó el ganador del concurso internacional José Enrique Rodó, con un trabajo sobre la "Influencia y actualidad del pensamiento de José Enrique Rodó".* Brecha ...

    • In search of images : Uruguayan cinema, 1960-2010 

      Tadeo Fuica, Beatriz (University of St Andrews, 2014) - Thesis
      This 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 

      Liston, Andrew Adams (University of St Andrews, 2005-03) - Thesis
      This 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 

      Strauss, Werner (University of St Andrews, 2004-07) - Thesis
      This 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 ...