Modern Languages (School of): Recent submissions
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A study of the use of colour terms in the six major collections of short stories by Horacio Quiroga
(University of St Andrews, 1977) - ThesisThe thesis examines the use Horacio Quiroga makes of colour and pattern related to colour in the six main collections of his short stories. As no previous systematic study of any aspect of Quiroga's style appears to have ... -
So sprach daz Wip : women in dialogue with lover and court in Middle High German and Romance lyrics of the twelfth century and early thirteenth centuries
(University of St Andrews, 1989-07) - ThesisIt is the purpose of this thesis to study a representative group of Middle High German poems, complemented in places by relevant Romance examples, in order to examine the image and position of the woman as portrayed through ... -
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 ...