Modern Languages (School of): Recent submissions
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Fact and fiction : representations of the Asturian Revolution (1934-1938)
(University of St Andrews, 2002) - ThesisThe purpose of this thesis is to study the literary response to the Asturian Revolution of October 1934. It will be shown that a distinct type of literature emerged reflecting the increasing political and social polarisation ... -
Writers in the service of revolution : Russia's ideological and literary impact on Spanish poetry and prose, 1925-36
(2003) - ThesisThis thesis is a comparative literary study which is conducted by placing the reception of Russian literature in Spain during the period 1918-36 within the context of the interplay of literature and the social and political ... -
Images of adultery in twelfth and thirteenth-century Old French literature
(University of St Andrews, 2003) - ThesisThis thesis examines literary images of masculinity and femininity, their function and depiction in marriage roles and homo-social relationships in the context of crisis: wifely adultery. The study is heavily reliant upon ... -
Bildung and initiation : interpreting German and American narrative traditions
(University of St Andrews, 2003) - ThesisThis thesis is divided into two main parts. The first, comprising the three initial chapters, looks, in chapter one, at the specifically German origins of the Bildungsroman, its distinctive features, and the difficulties ... -
Corsican language status and speaker attitudes - minority language education, polynomia and distanciation
(University of St Andrews, 2002) - ThesisAn interesting language contact situation exists on the French island of Corsica, where French is the official national language but where Corsican, the island's minority language, is also in use and where Tuscan Italian, ...