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A canon of collaboration: literary value, student voices and diversity in contemporary studies of literature (2024)
Thesis
Sadler, S. (2024). A canon of collaboration: literary value, student voices and diversity in contemporary studies of literature. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from 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.

“Partial solutions to the menace”: Philip K. Dick and the Politics of Genre (2021)
Thesis
Johnston Jones, R. D. (2021). “Partial solutions to the menace”: Philip K. Dick and the Politics of Genre. (Thesis). Keele University

In an essay published in 1955, titled ‘Pessimism in Science Fiction’, Philip K. Dick posits that science fiction (sf) cannot function as social critique without conveying a tentative utopian impulse: a “partial solution to the menace”. In the unfoldi... Read More about “Partial solutions to the menace”: Philip K. Dick and the Politics of Genre.

A poet prepares: persona, process, and performance in the poetry of Anne Sexton (2020)
Thesis
Bailey, D. (2020). A poet prepares: persona, process, and performance in the poetry of Anne Sexton. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/416235

This thesis represents the first sustained examination of Sexton’s early and unpublished poetry, which was written between 1956 and 1960. Additionally, it also represents the first detailed scholarly attempt to discuss Sexton’s creative practice in r... Read More about A poet prepares: persona, process, and performance in the poetry of Anne Sexton.