Modern Languages (School of): Recent submissions
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Dialogues of historicity and horizontalism in post-Crisis Argentine narratives
(University of St Andrews, 2018-12-07) - ThesisThis doctoral thesis examines how historicity and horizontalidad emerged as the pre-eminent cultural discourses in the period following the 2001 economic crisis in Argentina, reflecting a sea-change in individual and ... -
Cultural specific phenomena in classical Arabic phraseology : a case study on the works of Ibn al-Khaṭīb
(University of St Andrews, 2019-06-27) - ThesisThe thesis is a study on classical Arabic phraseology on the basis of prose works by Lisān ad-Dīn Ibn al-Khaṭīb (d. 776/1374). It reinvestigates the linguistic concept of a phraseme from a theoretical perspective and adopts ... -
Masculinities in contemporary German-language literature : strategies of evasion
(University of St Andrews, 2017-06-22) - ThesisIn the quest for a positive alternative male gender identity (anti-hegemonic masculinity), this thesis explores the representation of masculinities in contemporary German-language literature (focusing on Austria) by ... -
The artist as outsider : a comparative study of James Joyce, André Gide and Thomas Mann : with particular reference to 'A portrait of the artist as a young man', 'Les Faux-monnayers' and 'Dr Faustus'
(1986) - Thesis""The Artist as Outsider" certainly is a very popular subject for literary criticism. Nevertheless, I have chosen it believing strongly that there are two points which I can make and which have not been made before: The ... -
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(University of St Andrews, 2016-06-23) - Thesis