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1. The Transition: a novel. 2. The space allowed to women in selected contemporary male-authored texts: a critical essay (2025)
Thesis
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. Retrieved from 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)
Thesis
Crawley, S. M. 1. Fixed Link 2. Isle of Sheppey mudscapes: an ecocritical-creative response. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from 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.

1. Franklyn’s Dog, 2. Trauma fiction : Enforcement, healingand the role of the perpetrator (2023)
Thesis
Cassam, S. J. (2023). 1. Franklyn’s Dog, 2. Trauma fiction : Enforcement, healingand the role of the perpetrator. (Thesis). Keele University

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.

1. Modern English. 2. The regenerating city: space, hauntings and youth culture in the post-millennial Manchester novel (2021)
Thesis
Gufar, S. (2021). 1. Modern English. 2. The regenerating city: space, hauntings and youth culture in the post-millennial Manchester novel. (Thesis). Keele University

My thesis investigates space, hauntings and youth culture in Manchester with two projects: a novel and a critical dissertation.

The novel is a coming-of-age story that takes place in Ashton-under-Lyne. Modern English explores the experience of gro... Read More about 1. Modern English. 2. The regenerating city: space, hauntings and youth culture in the post-millennial Manchester novel.

Toi: a novel (2020)
Thesis
Coquaz, A. L. N. (2020). Toi: a novel. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis explores two sets of relationships: “mother tongue”/second language and mother/daughter.
My novel acts these out simultaneously: my main characters are a mother and a daughter and the tensions between them are played out in their relatio... Read More about Toi: a novel.