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From flesh to fiction : the visible and the invisible in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Eudora Welty and Elizabeth Bowen.
(2006)
Our ways of thinking modernism and its legacy are imprinted with the pattern of an
opposition, a struggle between two sets of extremes: objective and subjective; form
and feeling; mechanistic and organic; mind and body; ...
Epic legacies: Hindu cultural nationalism and female sexual identities in India 1920-1960
(2009)
The thesis investigates the cultural interventions of Hindu nationalist, C. Rajagopalachari (CR), by
offering a close reading of his re-tellings of the Hindu epics, The Mahabharata (1951) and The
Ramayana (1956). It ...
Reading acts of narrative appropriation: four instances of fraudulent memoir
(2009)
This thesis examines acts of narrative appropriation, the telling of purportedly‘authentic’ life stories by those for whom the stories are not theirs to tell. This
misuse or subversion of genre - the discipline of historical ...
Sisters to Scheherazade: Revisioned Histories of Gender and Nation in Postcolonial African and Asian Women's Literature
(2005)
Traversing geographical boundaries and cultural locations, and using a comparative, crosscultural
framework, this thesis examines and critiques a selected range of women's
writings from postcolonial Africa and Asia. It ...
The life and works of James Miller, 1704-1744, with particular reference to the satiric content of his poetry and plays.
(1979)
James Miller was born the son of a Dorset rector in 1704. He
was himself ordained, but acquired no benefice until just before his
early death, probably because of a scathing portrayal of the Bishop
of London in one of ...
The manuscript miscellany in early Stuart England : a study of British Library Manuscript Additional 22601 and related texts
(2007)
This thesis is an intensive study of a manuscript miscellany dating from the early years
of the reign of James VI and 1: British Library Manuscript Additional 22601. Compiled
by someone who had close links to the court, ...
Company culture: information, scholarship, and the East India Company settlements 1660-1720s
(Queen Mary University of London, 2010)
I explore how knowledge was created and circulated in and between the settlements of the early English East India Company. I aim: to demonstrate connections between scholarship and early colonialism; to highlight the role ...
The reduction of metaphysics and the play of violence in the poetry of Wallace Stevens
(Queen Mary University of London, 2010)
The thesis demonstrates how Wallace Stevens' poetry utilises pre-Socratic philosophy in overcoming post-Kantian dislocation from the 'thing-in-itself'. I initially consider Stevens’ poetry in terms of Hans-Georg Gadamer's ...
Back and forth: the grotesque in the play of romantic irony
(2009)
This thesis examines the dramatic implications of the grotesque in Romantic
aesthetics, particularly in relation to its poetics of plurality. There have been few
studies exploring the drama of the Romantic grotesque, a ...
"Art for the sake of life" : the critical aesthetics of Vernon Lee.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2009)
This thesis explores the critical aesthetics of Vernon Lee (Violet Paget 1856-1935) and
the ways in which her theory of aesthetic harmony informed these studies. Arguing for a
more inclusive view of her interest in ...