Modern Languages (School of): Recent submissions
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Forging diplomacy abroad and at home : French festival culture in a European context, 1572-1615
(2019-06-27) - ThesisThis doctoral thesis is the first to examine the attempts of the late Valois and early Bourbon rulers of France to make strategic use of festival culture for maintaining national and international relat ... -
The Ateneo Mexicano : the cultural constellation of mid-nineteenth century Mexico, 1840-1850
(2019-06-27) - ThesisThis thesis is about a forgotten group, made up of the leading Mexican intellectuals and politicians of the 1840s, who put aside their different party interests and came together, to form the Ateneo Mexicano, an educational ... -
Metaphors of suffering : the representation of the homosexual and the lesbian as social and discursive constructs in Spanish peninsular narrative texts, 1970-2000
(University of St Andrews, 2006-06-23) - ThesisStudies of the homosexual and lesbian as he/she is represented in Spanish peninsular narrative texts of the twentieth century have spoken mainly of the silence that surrounds these particular identities and space and ... -
Opening up the archive : memory, identity and historical fiction in Uruguay (1988-2011)
(University of St Andrews, 2019-12-04) - ThesisThis thesis examines the representation of key events from the nineteenth century in five Uruguayan historical novels published in the aftermath of the country’s recent dictatorship (1973-85). It answers the following ... -
The Zapatista discursive war : literary subversion in Subcomandante Marcos' writings (1994-2017)
(University of St Andrews, 2019-06-27) - ThesisThis doctoral thesis argues that Subcomandante Marcos’ appropriations of existing textual material, whether they take the form of quotations, allusions, parodies or remixes, are key to the discursive war waged in the ...