Modern Languages (School of): Recent submissions
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Pierre Reverdy : lyrisme de la réalité. Poétique du visuel
(University of St Andrews, 2013-06) - ThesisThis thesis aims to provide the first complete study of the poetics of Pierre Reverdy, who, although famous and influential during his lifetime, has not been widely published or researched. This thesis hopes to change this, ... -
Humour as political resistance and social criticism: Mexican comics and cinema, 1969-1976.
(2012-06-21) - ThesisThis research focuses on the study of Mexican comics and films from 1969 to 1976. It uses the language of humour to understand how these media expressed contemporary social and political concerns. After reviewing theories ... -
The pronunciamiento in nineteenth-century Mexico : the case of Jalisco (1821-1852)
(University of St Andrews, 2012-06-21) - ThesisThe pronunciamiento was a political practice with its origins in early nineteenth-century Spain. It was a form of political petitioning usually undertaken by coalitions of military and civilian actors to make demands against ... -
Creation and marginalisation in women’s writing in mid-twentieth-century Uruguay : the case of Concepción Silva Bélinzon’s poetry
(University of St Andrews, 2012-01-20) - ThesisThis thesis explores how women’s writing in mid-twentieth century Uruguay enables a reconsideration of the intertwined hegemonic practices of literary canon formation and national identity in this seminal period. Within a ... -
A description of 'aspectual' phenomena in Arabic
(University of St Andrews, 1986) - ThesisThe present work is mainly concerned with a description of the morphological and syntactic analyses of the predicative aspectual phenomena in Modern Standard Arabic using Axiomatic Functionalism as its theoretical ...