Modern Languages Theses: Recent submissions
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The linguistic construction of heroes and villains in the English-language press of Malawi : from totalitarianism to democracy, 1964-2012
(2016-02-01) - ThesisUsing the conceptual metaphors of ‘hero’ and ‘villain’, the study argues that identities of Malawian presidents are not objective socio-constructs but dependent on political systems and newspaper ideology. Anchored ... -
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Making Hamlet German : forms of translation and recreation
(2020-07-30) - ThesisThis thesis examines the retranslation and recreation of Hamlet in Germany in the twentieth and the early twenty-first century by studying the interrelationship of translation studies, adaptation studies and reception ... -
Ideology and resistance in Persian classical poetry : the case of Naser-e Khosrow
(2020-12-02) - ThesisThis research is an attempt to redefine the concepts of ideology and resistance for an Iranian context and analyse their reflections in the Divan of Nāser-e Khosrow (Ca. 1004-1076). Ideology in Persian studies has usually ... -
Dr. Edmund Castell, 1606-1685 : a collection of letters and documents illustrating the misfortunes of Edmund Castell during the production of his Heptaglot Lexicon, mainly transcribed from his cipher-writings
(University of St Andrews, 1933) - Thesis“My object is to present a series of documents illustrating the troubled life of Dr Edmund Castell, one-time chief assistant editor of the ‘London Polyglot’, in its time an epoch-making work of scholarship in Eastern ...