Modern Languages (School of): Recent submissions
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The formation of a European identity through a transnational public sphere? The case of three Western European cultural journals, 1989-2006
(University of St Andrews, 2009-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis analyses processes of discursive European identity formation in three cultural journals: Esprit, from France, the British New Left Review and the German Merkur during the time periods 1989-92, and, a decade ... -
Translating Brecht : versions of "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder" for the British stage
(University of St Andrews, 2009-11-30) - ThesisThis study analyses five British translations of Bertolt Brecht's 'Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder'. Two of these translations were written by speakers of German, and three by well-known British playwrights with no knowledge ... -
A diachronic study into the distributions of two Italo-Romance synthetic conditional forms
(University of St Andrews, 2009-06-23) - ThesisTwo distinct conditional paradigms are available to speakers of Italian, derived from the Latin periphrases cantare habui/cantare habebam. The aim of this thesis is to describe and explain their patterns of attestation in ... -
The specificity of Simenon: on translating 'Maigret'
(University of St Andrews, 2009-06-23) - ThesisThe project examines how German- and English-speaking translators of selected Maigret novels by the Belgian crime writer Georges Simenon have dealt with cultural and linguistic specificity, with a view to shedding light ... -
El final de El astillero
(2003) - Journal articleThe novel El astillero (Buenos Aires 1961), by Juan Carlos Onetti, provides two alternative endings, which have inspired a number of interpretations. The present article provides a reading based on the tension in the novel ...