The concern of this thesis is to produce an edited, translated and annotated text of a set of fifteen poems composed in the mid-seventeenth century in praise of members of the Ó Domhnaill dynasty of Donegal. The main source ...

The theme of this dissertation is the relationship of textiles to Old Belief, a religious minority formed after the raskol or schism in the Russian Orthodox church in 1666/1667. Within this theme I also investigate the ...

This thesis proposes that a textual equivalent of pictorial anamorphosis exists. Just as a painting or element within a painting may become suddenly visible when it is viewed at an angle, a written text may need to be read ...

In this thesis I want to consider the concept of glück, the German equivalent of Fortuna, in the narratives of the sixteenth century author Jörg Wickram. I will focus on two major themes in Wickram's representation of ...

Much attention has been paid to the complex and frequently antagonistic relationship between Mexico and the United States. These neighbouring nations share the longest border in the world and have had close contact over ...

The prolific body of work which Georges Perec produced in a remarkably short period of time is notoriously heterogeneous (from 1965, the date of publication of his first novel, Les Choses, until his death in 1982, his published ...

This work explores through critical analysis the poetry of the Scamander poets between the years 1918 to 1929, a time during which the group was formed and was most active in pursuing what could be described as a group ...

The present thesis, Lost Letters: Translating Milan Kundera's Czech Fiction, in com paring the Czech, French and English versions of Milan Kundera's first six prose works, proposes that the original Czech language texts ...

This thesis re-examines the treatment of the feminine and of the female literary subject in the works of Hardenberg/Novalis. It contends that, whilst Hardenberg did not approach these themes in a manner wholly revolutionary ...