English Theses: Recent submissions
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The subtle ether : writing into the 'space between'
(University of St Andrews, 2017-04-24) - ThesisThe ether was proposed by Enlightenment natural philosophers as an undetectable substance filling the space between the stars, that held them in place and supported the propagation of their light across space. In The ... -
The textuality of friendship: homosocial hermeneutic exchanges in early modern English drama
(University of St Andrews, 2018-12-07) - ThesisMy thesis argues that textually embedded intimacy and exclusivity between men opens up ethical problems concerning the use of education and persuasive powers—the ability to reconfigure vice as virtue, to argue a case for ... -
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Voices in the clangour : the Second World War through the eyes of selected women writers in Britain and Italy
(University of St Andrews, 1997) - ThesisSince early times, many women have been aware that their vision of war is one of the elements marking their difference from the opposite sex. The Greek poetess Sappho was the first to express clearly the fact that the ... -
Studies in the element-order of selected works of Aelfric
(University of St Andrews, 1992-07) - ThesisThis thesis provides a descriptive study of element-order (or word-order) within clauses in a corpus drawn from Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies and Supplementary Homilies. A sample of 11,543 clauses has been analysed, divided ...