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Analysing the narrative possibilities of interactive film from a practical perspective (2025)
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Yang, S. Analysing the narrative possibilities of interactive film from a practical perspective. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1111051

This thesis, combining an extended essay and a creative project of equivalent length, explores the narrative possibilities of interactive films. It focuses on the potential of alternative plotlines to explore the ‘what-if’ story in the parallel unive... Read More about Analysing the narrative possibilities of interactive film from a practical perspective.

Unbecoming Gentlemen: Idleness, Occupation, and Masculinity, 1760-1820 (2025)
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Hardiman, E. R. Unbecoming Gentlemen: Idleness, Occupation, and Masculinity, 1760-1820. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109990

This thesis explores the subject of elite masculinity in the late eighteenth century. Specifically, I focus on the discussion of, and resistance to, normative conceptions of genteel masculinity and how efforts to refashion and reimagine those dominan... Read More about Unbecoming Gentlemen: Idleness, Occupation, and Masculinity, 1760-1820.

Rewriting lives: reading, sociability, and authority in women’s literary biography, 1780-1820 (2025)
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Stanbridge, E. Rewriting lives: reading, sociability, and authority in women’s literary biography, 1780-1820. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109729

This dissertation assesses the contributions of three biographers – Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821), Anna Seward (1742-1809), and Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) – to the development of British life-writing in the period 1780-1820. This examination of th... Read More about Rewriting lives: reading, sociability, and authority in women’s literary biography, 1780-1820.

Cutting matters: collage poetics and politics in feminist experimental poetry (2025)
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Merrydew, A. J. Cutting matters: collage poetics and politics in feminist experimental poetry. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109501

Despite the increasing prevalence of collage experiments by feminist poets since the twenty-first century, the use of such methods to shape feminist politics in poetry has not been widely researched. The limited research on collage aesthetics often p... Read More about Cutting matters: collage poetics and politics in feminist experimental poetry.

The emotional history of the gothic novel, 1790–1810 (2025)
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Jones, T. D. The emotional history of the gothic novel, 1790–1810. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109368

This thesis examines the role of emotions in a selection of Romantic-period gothic novels: Matthew Lewis’s The Monk, Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian, Charlotte Smith’s The Old Manor House, Regina Maria Roche’s Children of the Abbey, and Charlotte Dacre’s... Read More about The emotional history of the gothic novel, 1790–1810.

1. The Transition: a novel. 2. The space allowed to women in selected contemporary male-authored texts: a critical essay (2025)
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Smith, R. W. C. 1. The Transition: a novel. 2. The space allowed to women in selected contemporary male-authored texts: a critical essay. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109354

This project aims to creatively reclaim a literary space for women as the victims of male violence, and to critically examine the space women have been allowed in recent maleauthored literary works. The creative component, The Transition, is an inter... Read More about 1. The Transition: a novel. 2. The space allowed to women in selected contemporary male-authored texts: a critical essay.

1. Fixed Link 2. Isle of Sheppey mudscapes: an ecocritical-creative response (2024)
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Crawley, S. M. 1. Fixed Link 2. Isle of Sheppey mudscapes: an ecocritical-creative response. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1018726

This critical-creative dissertation explores memory, loss, and the past, present and futures of the mudscapes of the Isle of Sheppey, to enquire how the mudscapes can speak to contemporary issues around the current global environmental crisis. Mud, a... Read More about 1. Fixed Link 2. Isle of Sheppey mudscapes: an ecocritical-creative response.

Military to civil transition: a critical and creative writing analysis of the experience of British Army veterans. Punching Out: A Novel (2024)
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Fergus Geofrey Newlands, S. Military to civil transition: a critical and creative writing analysis of the experience of British Army veterans. Punching Out: A Novel. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1018552

This research explores the experience of Military to Civil Transition (MCT) for British Army veterans during the period 2000-2020. I propose that there is a common flow to the experience such that it can be articulated as a process map.

The first... Read More about Military to civil transition: a critical and creative writing analysis of the experience of British Army veterans. Punching Out: A Novel.

King Arthur in British Literature, 1660-1815 (2024)
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Blaney, A. L. King Arthur in British Literature, 1660-1815. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/956346

This thesis explores the literary afterlives of the Arthurian legend across the long eighteenth century by examining the ways in which reworkings of Arthur intervene in debates about historiography, gender, class, and national identity.
Commencing... Read More about King Arthur in British Literature, 1660-1815.

A canon of collaboration: literary value, student voices and diversity in contemporary studies of literature (2024)
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Sadler, S. A canon of collaboration: literary value, student voices and diversity in contemporary studies of literature. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/885039

Intense competition for students and financial support in a market-led, businessorientated academic context, as well as adverse political fallout from the ‘canon wars’ and ‘culture wars’ of the early 1990s has resulted in the Arts and Humanities need... Read More about A canon of collaboration: literary value, student voices and diversity in contemporary studies of literature.

The performance and politics of memory-work in contemporary documentary film: transforming violent pasts (2024)
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Housby, K. E. The performance and politics of memory-work in contemporary documentary film: transforming violent pasts. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/674606

This thesis investigates the dynamics of ‘memory-work’ in contemporary documentary films that deal with painful pasts involving violence. The analysis will focus on four recently produced documentary films. Memory-work in this thesis is understood as... Read More about The performance and politics of memory-work in contemporary documentary film: transforming violent pasts.

Part 1 - Scenes from the Storm Andrew Jackson - The Road to the Presidency A Drama. Part 2 - The Story of the Storm: Issues of History, Genre, and Truth in Scenes from the Storm (2023)
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Mousinho, G. A. Part 1 - Scenes from the Storm Andrew Jackson - The Road to the Presidency A Drama. Part 2 - The Story of the Storm: Issues of History, Genre, and Truth in Scenes from the Storm. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/597519

‘Andrew Jackson, I am given to understand, was a patriot and a traitor. He was one of the greatest of generals, and wholly ignorant of the art of war. A writer brilliant, elegant, eloquent, and without being able to compose a correct sentence, or spe... Read More about Part 1 - Scenes from the Storm Andrew Jackson - The Road to the Presidency A Drama. Part 2 - The Story of the Storm: Issues of History, Genre, and Truth in Scenes from the Storm.

Music and sound in the Japanese 'ghost' film: cultural representation and transformation (2023)
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Bayley, H. S. M. Music and sound in the Japanese 'ghost' film: cultural representation and transformation. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/530058

This thesis examines the role of music and sound in Japanese ‘ghost’ films. Scholarship on contemporary Japanese horror cinema often examines culture-bound descriptions of spirits. Such discussion typically revolves around tensions between, on the on... Read More about Music and sound in the Japanese 'ghost' film: cultural representation and transformation.

Understanding process of management control changes in hybrid organisational contracts (2023)
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Zaidi, U. Understanding process of management control changes in hybrid organisational contracts. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/517966

Motivated by controversial public and private sector hybrid organisational relationships and, more broadly, by repeated calls regarding control and management of hybrid organisational relationships, this thesis is concerned with the understanding pro... Read More about Understanding process of management control changes in hybrid organisational contracts.

1. Franklyn’s Dog, 2. Trauma fiction : Enforcement, healingand the role of the perpetrator (2023)
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Cassam, S. J. 1. Franklyn’s Dog, 2. Trauma fiction : Enforcement, healingand the role of the perpetrator. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/517995

This thesis aims to explore current and emerging trends within trauma fiction and the criticism surrounding it. The thesis consists of a novel, Franklyn’s Dog, that focuses on the protagonist, Jon, and his attempts to overcome and move beyond the tra... Read More about 1. Franklyn’s Dog, 2. Trauma fiction : Enforcement, healingand the role of the perpetrator.

Business leases and energy efficiency: improvements, dilapidations, implied terms and lease renewals (2023)
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Western, J. D. Business leases and energy efficiency: improvements, dilapidations, implied terms and lease renewals. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/518078

This thesis considers the two distinct areas of landlord and tenant law and building energy efficiency for older refurbished commercial buildings. Market forces are unlikely to help solve the split incentive problem by themselves. After explaining th... Read More about Business leases and energy efficiency: improvements, dilapidations, implied terms and lease renewals.

Evolutionary computing in sound synthesis and interactive algorithmic composition (2023)
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Brook, M. G. Evolutionary computing in sound synthesis and interactive algorithmic composition. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/524017

Interactive genetic algorithms (IGAs) present an intriguing and productive way to explore problem space in creative applications and a variety of work has been carried out in this area. This thesis explores the potential for the application of IGAs t... Read More about Evolutionary computing in sound synthesis and interactive algorithmic composition.

Archbishop William Laud and the Early Stuart Church, 1633–1645 (2023)
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Newall, J. T. Archbishop William Laud and the Early Stuart Church, 1633–1645. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/425843

Archbishop William Laud has attracted the historical attention of scholars ever since the seventeenth century, but no work has tried yet in any detail to assess his relationships with the major figures of the English court and administration. This th... Read More about Archbishop William Laud and the Early Stuart Church, 1633–1645.

Cosplay: Community, hierarchy, and the Acafan methodology (2023)
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Skentelbery, D. Cosplay: Community, hierarchy, and the Acafan methodology. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/425829

Cosplay is the act of dressing and performing as a character from popular media and is typically associated with fan conventions. The academic study of gender-play cosplay (explicit play with gendered codes) has framed cosplay as a socially transform... Read More about Cosplay: Community, hierarchy, and the Acafan methodology.