Modern Languages Theses: Recent submissions
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A mythology of our own : fanwork as mythopoesis
(2024-12-04) - ThesisThe word ‘myth’ carries both negative and restrictive connotations. In common understanding, a pervasive falsehood, to be debunked in the name of rationality and progress, is often labelled as a myth; in academic discourse, ... -
Towards a neuroinclusive theory of the contemporary : representing the temporality and aesthetics of the contemporary in ten novels of neurodivergence
(2024-06-12) - ThesisSitting at the intersection of literary studies, epistemologies of the contemporary, and disability studies (in many of its declinations), my thesis explores selected novels written in English and French featuring characters ... -
Multispecies ruptures : stories of displacement and human-plant relations from Donbas, Ukraine
(2022-06-17) - ThesisThis thesis explores narratives of displacement from Donbas, Ukraine as a series of multispecies ruptures. Focusing on human-plant relations in oral histories of internally displaced persons (IDPs), it foregrounds ... -
Irregular verbs in German, English and Swedish : vowel-consonant and consonant-vowel sequences, and the spling experiment
(2022-06-17) - ThesisThe research embodied in this thesis is based on Saussurean structuralism, Beedham's 'method of exceptions and their correlations', corpus linguistics, Bybee & Moder's spling experiments and work on irregular verbs by ...