Modern Languages (School of): Recent submissions
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The 'pronunciamiento' in Yucatán : from independence to independence (1821-1840)
(University of St Andrews, 2011-06-24) - ThesisUnique to nineteenth-century Spain and Central America, the pronunciamiento can be interpreted as an act of insubordination against ruling authorities, which included a written document with a list of complaints or demands. ... -
Perspectives of the River Plate around the time of Rosas : an analysis based upon the personal correspondence, private memoirs and published accounts of British settlers, as well as works by creole authors
(1996) - ThesisThis thesis draws inspiration from the emergence of cultural studies as an academic pursuit, in addition to the current renewal of interest in the relationship between literary works and their socio-cultural milieux, to ... -
The theme and poetic function of space in Theodor Fontane's works
(University of St Andrews, 2010-06) - ThesisThis thesis proposes a new view of space in Theodor Fontane’s writing as both a mode of literary expression and an object of literary inquiry: space serves a poetic function and is a thematic concern. The research draws ... -
The Arabic verb : form and meaning in the vowel-lengthening patterns
(2010-06-24) - ThesisThe research presented in this dissertation adopts an empirical Saussurean structuralist approach to elucidating the true meaning of the verb patterns characterised formally by vowel lengthening in Modern Standard Arabic ... -
'Pour garder l'impossible intact' : the poetry of Heather Dohollau
(University of St Andrews, 2009-11-30) - ThesisThis dissertation offers the first extended study of the work of the Welsh-French poet Heather Dohollau, whose substantial œuvre in French, published since 1974, has recently received international critical recognition. ...