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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. The revolt of the dolls: a novel and 2. The revolt of the dolls and other small rebellions: a critical introduction to the fairy-tales of Sophie von Baudissin (2021)
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Sampson, E. S. (2021). 1. The revolt of the dolls: a novel and 2. The revolt of the dolls and other small rebellions: a critical introduction to the fairy-tales of Sophie von Baudissin. (Thesis). Keele University

The German nineteenth-century fairy-tale has long been, and remains, largely synonymous with the tales of the Brothers Grimm, particularly in the wider public consciousness. While there is some awareness among the general public of other, contemporan... Read More about 1. The revolt of the dolls: a novel and 2. The revolt of the dolls and other small rebellions: a critical introduction to the fairy-tales of Sophie von Baudissin.

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.

1. How not to get pregnant, 2. Between places: the walking-writing method in rural industrial space (2019)
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Campion, J. (2019). 1. How not to get pregnant, 2. Between places: the walking-writing method in rural industrial space. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414976

This thesis utilises the walking-writing method to produce a work of creative non- fiction that explores the issues of memory, time and queer identity in rural spaces. The body of work about the walking-writing method has covered rural spaces and que... Read More about 1. How not to get pregnant, 2. Between places: the walking-writing method in rural industrial space.

‘Indifferent nature’: a comparative discussion of the production of rural space in the work of Ivan Turgenev and Thomas Hardy (2019)
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Curley, D. A. (2019). ‘Indifferent nature’: a comparative discussion of the production of rural space in the work of Ivan Turgenev and Thomas Hardy. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414216

This thesis seeks to develop a model for the analysis of rural space as a distinct category, through the integration of several of the disparate schools of thought on the subject of space. From the phenomenological to the postmodern a vacuity has lef... Read More about ‘Indifferent nature’: a comparative discussion of the production of rural space in the work of Ivan Turgenev and Thomas Hardy.

Vital texts: democratic intertextuality in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage (1915-1938/67) (2017)
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Pritchett, E. R. J. (2017). Vital texts: democratic intertextuality in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage (1915-1938/67). (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/409157

Pilgrimage (1915-­-1938/67), Dorothy Richardson’s long modernist novel of female consciousness, has a history of mischaracterisation. The first novel to be termed stream of consciousness, Pilgrimage offers an account of New Woman, Miriam Hen... Read More about Vital texts: democratic intertextuality in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage (1915-1938/67).

The woman question in English and Russian literature, 1848 - 1877 (2009)
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Barrett, R. (2009). The woman question in English and Russian literature, 1848 - 1877. (Thesis). Keele University

This is a comparative study of representations of the woman question in nineteenth-century English and Russian literature between 1848 and 1877. Here I examine how the issues of the woman question were reflected in contemporary fiction, focusing upon... Read More about The woman question in English and Russian literature, 1848 - 1877.

Pre-Raphaelite and Working-Class poetry, 1850-1900: an examination of a contiguous tradition
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(2014). Pre-Raphaelite and Working-Class poetry, 1850-1900: an examination of a contiguous tradition

This thesis closes an existing gap within the field of Victorian poetry scholarship, as the relationship between Pre-Raphaelite and working-class poets has yet to be explored in depth by critics, in part because they superficially appear to be dispar... Read More about Pre-Raphaelite and Working-Class poetry, 1850-1900: an examination of a contiguous tradition.

The role of the feminine in masculine cycles of death, rebirth and new life: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Babel, Bulgakov and Pasternak
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Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Babel, Bulgakov and Pasternak

This thesis uses the narrative framework developed by Theresa de Lauretis’ essay ‘Desire in Narrative’ (1984) to shed new light on the development of male and female characters in texts by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Isaac Babel, Mikhail Bulgakov... Read More about The role of the feminine in masculine cycles of death, rebirth and new life: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Babel, Bulgakov and Pasternak.

Biopolitics and postcolonial theatre: a comparative study of Anglophone plays in South Africa, India and Sri Lanka
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Chitra Jayathilake, R. M. (2015). Biopolitics and postcolonial theatre: a comparative study of Anglophone plays in South Africa, India and Sri Lanka

This study interrogates the ways in which biopolitics, as represented in Anglophone theatre from the 1970s to the present day, coerces and regulates postcolonial subalterns within the contemporary socio-political milieu. Using seven plays from three... Read More about Biopolitics and postcolonial theatre: a comparative study of Anglophone plays in South Africa, India and Sri Lanka.

A unified scene? cosmopolitanism in contemporary British and American fiction
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Shaw, K. (2016). A unified scene? cosmopolitanism in contemporary British and American fiction

The twenty-first century has been marked by an unprecedented intensification in globalisation, transnational mobility and technological change. However, the resulting global interconnectedness reveals the continuation of deeply unequal power structur... Read More about A unified scene? cosmopolitanism in contemporary British and American fiction.

Tennessee Williams’ “Plastic Theatre”: an examination of contradiction
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(2013). Tennessee Williams’ “Plastic Theatre”: an examination of contradiction

This thesis proposes a new reading of Tennessee Williams which enables his work to be seen as a cohesive dramaturgy which challenges realist and liberal notions of dramatic space, identity, and time. It examines the biographical and historical origin... Read More about Tennessee Williams’ “Plastic Theatre”: an examination of contradiction.

'Female', 'feminine' and 'feminist' in the work of twentieth-century women novelists
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(1981). 'Female', 'feminine' and 'feminist' in the work of twentieth-century women novelists

A range of critical approaches, popular, feminist and structuralist, to women's writing is examined and the
strengths and weaknesses of each evaluated. On the basis of this discussion, an attempt is made to develop a critical method more appropriate... Read More about 'Female', 'feminine' and 'feminist' in the work of twentieth-century women novelists.