Modern Languages (School of): Recent submissions
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Terry's Mexico (1909) and the early tourist guidebook : a case study
(2023-06-16) - ThesisAbstract redacted -
Responding to war: peace activism, WWI literature, and remembrance
(2023-06-16) - ThesisThis interdisciplinary thesis is based on six months of multi-sited fieldwork with the Machine Gun Corps Old Comrades’ Association (MGC/OCA) in the UK and Voices for Creative NonViolence (VCNV) in the UK and the US, and ... -
The Black River Plate : race, history, and cultural memory in Uruguayan and Argentine fiction, 2001-2021
(2022-11-30) - ThesisThe aim of this thesis is to examine the contemporary rise in historical fiction about the Black past of the River Plate region. Unlike Latin American countries such as Mexico which envisioned racial mixture – mestizaje – ... -
Gender, queer imagery and queer visibility in the German Democratic Republic
(2022-06-17) - ThesisIn this thesis, I explore the concept of queer visibility in the German Democratic Republic. I analyse a broad selection of literary and film texts, to ascertain how sexual and gender identities were conceptualised in the ... -
Paul Valéry's politics of hesitation : Europe, myth and the voice of the other
(2022-06-17) - ThesisThis thesis studies Paul Valéry's idea of literary practice and how it relates to the political. To this end, it explores his engagement with the myths of Narcissus and Faust. Valéry is a thinker who contemplates the ...