Items where Subject is "P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism"

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Abdullah, Nurul Farhana Low Bt. (1999). Revenge tragedy and identity. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Al-Janabi, Yousef (2012). The Leavis-Bateson debate: a study of condition, implication, propensity and bad-faith. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Alsubhi, Waleed Obaidallah (2019). A cognitive-pragmatic model for translating intertextual metaphors: a study of translating Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s historical-political trilogy into English. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Ash, Cassandra Kay (2015). Look About You: A critical edition. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Bagnall, Rowland John Caspar (2024). ‘The Incarnate Now’: D.H. Lawrence, the New York School, and the Poetry of the Present and 'Things to Come'. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Banks, Gemma (2018). Impressions of an analyst: reassessing Sigmund Freud's literary style through a comparative study of the principles and fiction of Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, Virginia Woolf & Dorothy Richardson. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Barnes, Charlotte Sophie (2018). ‘Never Forget Your First’ (novel) and violent women: representations of female violence in Muriel Spark’s ‘The Driver’s Seat’, Virginie Despentes’s ‘Baise-Moi’, Gillian Flynn’s ‘Gone Girl’, and C.S. Barnes’s ‘Never Forget Your First’. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Baxter, Michael John Russell (2012). Virginia Woolf and Walter Pater: a reappraisal. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Belfield, Jane (1979). Tarlton's News Out of Purgatory (1590): a modern spelling edition with introduction and commentary. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Bellardi, Marco (2018). The cinematic mode in twentieth-century fiction a comparative approach. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Bingham, Richard William (2020). Digital natives: imagining the millennial in contemporary fiction. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Bose, Sarika Priyadarshini (1999). Women as figures of disorder in the plays of Oscar Wilde. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Bowring, Barbara (2018). From penury to published poet: the cultural journey of Ann Yearsley. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Brooks, Catherine Elizabeth (2017). Morality, equality and national identity in Carmen Lyra's Cuentos de mi tía Panchita. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Buckingham, Daniel Adrian (2022). ‘Licence to tease’: satire and apology in the twentieth-century middlebrow. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Buckingham, Daniel Adrian (2019). “Deadlier than the male”: antifeminist satire in the works of P.G. Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh. University of Birmingham. M.A.

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Carson, Jessie G. (1920). Some aspects of Robert Browning's philosophy of love: with special regard to his theory of the relation between love and knowledge as revealed in Men and women (1885). University of Birmingham. M.Res.

Clarke, Hugh (1947). Charles Dickens' contribution to the social novel: 1836-1850. University of Birmingham. M.Res.

Clifton, Anna Elizabeth (2020). ‘The Haunted Beach’: the coast and the Gothic tradition, 1764-1820. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Colletti, Sean (2020). 'Inferno' and 'Influence Hunger: A Manifesto'. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Collins, Matthew ORCID: 0000-0002-9636-1980 (2020). The Hoole book: a literary-linguistic study of cohesion and coherence in Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Comanducci, Carlo (2011). Metaphor and ideology in film. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Comanducci, Carlo (2016). The wayward spectator. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Donnelly, Sean Daniel (2019). Future girls: revolutionary adolescence in young adult dystopian fiction 2005-2018. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Garafalo, Sanner (2013). ‘Most wonderful!’: a contextual study of twinship in early modern drama and Shakespeare’s plays. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Geary, Matthew Kevin (2016). T. S. Eliot and the mother: ambivalence, allegory and form. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Graham, Dorothy L. (1934). Henry Vaughan, Silurist: a study of his life and writings: his relations to his age and subsequent influence. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Grantham, Brianna Jene (2017). The collection: integrating attachment theory and theories of intergenerational development to write a woman's life. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Greene, Rob (2020). The poetry school of experience. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Grosvenor, Rachel (2017). The second space and a contribution to the narrative of women's literature: themes from the second space - the assumption of autobiographical writing and the label of women's fiction. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Hale, Florence (1920). The influence of Latin drama on Elizabethan drama. University of Birmingham. M.Res.

Hanmer, Rosalind Maria (2011). Understanding lesbian fandom: a case study of the Xena: Warrior Princess (XSTT) lesbian internet fans. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Harding , Joan Naunton (1949). A study of the development of the critical thought of Paul Elmer More. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Harriott, Robin Christopher (2021). The Birmingham group: reading the second city in the 1930s. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Harrison, Arthur Cyril (1920). Robert Southey and his poetry: a critical study. University of Birmingham. M.Res.

Hart, Stuart Anthony (2018). Soteriology in Edmund Spenser's \(The\) \(Faerie\) \(Queene\). University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hartwell, Jonathan William (2004). 'Skill in the construction' dramaturgy, ideology, and interpretation in Shakespeare’s late plays. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hayes, Joanna Louise (2022). 'Forc'd to limb my own Child': Nathaniel Lee's reuse of The Massacre of Paris in The Princess of Cleve and The Duke of Guise. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Hill, Neville V.L. (1949). Some aspects of the style of John Webster : a study of The duchess of Malfi and The white devil. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Holland, Claire (2014). The Chinese fur trade in theatre: Made in China & responsive critical understanding. University of Birmingham. M.Res.

Horn, Paul Matthew Austin (2013). Psychical phenomena and the body in the late novels of Henry James. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Ingham, Anthea Margaret (2011). Algernon Charles Swinburne: the causes and effects of his Sapphic possession. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Irwin, Andrew (2023). A monstrous queer in heteronormative waters: using queer theory to deconstruct the representation of Voldemort’s body in the Harry Potter series. University of Birmingham. M.Res.

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Jackson, Edward William (2018). David Foster Wallace's hideous neoliberal spermatics. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Jeffery, Elizabeth Mary ORCID: 0000-0001-8378-9892 (2021). Minority Shakespeare: a cultural study of translation and performance in Welsh, Euskara, and Te Reo Māori. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Jones, Miranda Alice (2020). Engagements with the pastoral mode in the poetry and plays of Derek Walcott. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Katz, Stephanie E. (2023). Here we go 'Round In circles’: The definition of Circular Narrative as a new narrative typology. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Kay, Laurence H. (1912). Lessing's knowledge and criticism of English Literature. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Kovalenko, Viacheslav (2020). Apollo Breaks His Silence; In defence of theia mania: a preliminary study in the sacred libido of poetry. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Krucon, Eliza Olga (2015). Unwomanly women, unmanly men and disintegrating nations in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Stefan Grabiński's In Sarah's House and Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's The Family Of The Vourdalak. University of Birmingham. M.A.

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Lachmansingh, Sandhya Kimberley (2011). ‘Fashions of the mind’: Modernism and British vogue under the editorship of Dorothy Todd. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Lamrani, Sonia (2023). An Algerian paradox? The emulation of colonial visions through self-Orientalism in postcolonial literature. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Lefaki, Maria (2010). Papadiamantis’ Athenian short stories: social representation and characterization. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Liddell, M.F. (1925). German sea poetry. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Linnemann, Emily Caroline Louise (2011). The cultural value of Shakespeare in twenty-first-century publicly-funded theatre in England. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Luo, Jian (2011). The narrative art of modernist fiction: A corpus stylistic and cognitive narratological approach. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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McGhee, John (2019). How much shall we bet? Defining surreal futures. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Meades, Charlotte (2018). The postdramatic playwright: a critical analysis of strategies for representing reality. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Moden, Rebecca (2012). Illusion and reality in the fiction of Iris Murdoch: a study of The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea and The Good Apprentice. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Moore, Michael (2014). Style and experience as a dichotomy in criticism of the novels of Jean Rhys, Doris Lessing and J G Ballard. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Morrall, Heather (2011). Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage: the superficial or the profound? University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Moster, Brittany (2020). John Middleton Murry's Editorial Practices 1911-1927. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Myers, Amanda Dawn (2016). Self-reflexivity and metafiction in Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Kleitophon. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Nwokocha, Sandra Chinyeaka (2017). Feminism in twenty-first-century Nigerian novels by women. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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O'Connor, Marie (2011). Gissing and unhealth: an analysis of medicine, death, and eugenics in the work of George Gissing. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Over, Jeremy (2020). Light as air: a poetics of wonder in the work of Ron Padgett. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Pearce, Kate (2020). Animal characters and characterisation in science fiction: A scientific contextualist stylistic approach. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Reed, Harriet Anne (2021). A borderline crisis in language: the Calais Jungle, the ‘refugee crisis’ and the changing landscape of humanitarian aid. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Roberts, John Wolfgang (2020). Diffracting (meta)‘fictions’: performativity, neocybernetics, diffraction, and the living practice/s of story through select metafictional novels. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Roberts, Marion (2011). Close encounters: Anna Seward, 1742–1809, a woman in provincial cultural life. University of Birmingham. M.Litt.

Rogers, Jami (2011). Shakespeare and the thirties: representations of the past in contemporary performance. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Sakai, Makoto (2012). Multimodal crime news in Japan and the UK: a study of the interaction between news production and reception. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Schmucker, Dietlinde (2018). Negotiating German victimhood in the American misery memoir. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Shammout, Hekmat (2018). Politics, oppression and violence in Harold Pinter's plays through the lens of Arabic plays from Egypt and Syria. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Sharrock, Elizabeth Anne (2021). Framing Shakespeare: live theatre broadcast paratexts and Shakespearean value. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Stamos, Ioannis (2019). From literary criticism to propaganda: intellectuals, culture, and politics during the Metaxas dictatorship (1936-1940). University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Stamos, Ioannis (2014). Literary criticism and politics: the case of Aristos Kambanis (1883-1956). University of Birmingham. M.Res.

Standen, Alex May (2011). Re-thinking the victim: representations of gender violence in the narratives of Dacia Maraini. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Stephenson, Graham (2012). Stanislavski and postmodernism. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Stoker, Polly (2019). Classical reception in contemporary women's writing: emerging strategies from resistance to indeterminacy. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Stratton, Sarah Louise (2018). More than throw-away fiction: investigating lesbian pulp fiction through the lens of a lesbian textual community. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Tatlow, Helen Jane (2021). Encountering Heinrich von Kleist in the works of John Banville and David Constantine. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Teleioni, Eleftheria (2010). Spain and Kazantzakis’ travel writing. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Tomaselli, Francesca (2023). Power and agency in portrayals of gendered relationships in Regina Di Luanto's Un Martirio (1894) and Memini's L'ultima Primavera (1894). University of Birmingham. M.A.

Toney, Polly (2012). Elizabeth Cook’s Achilles: women’s writing of classical reception and feminism. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Tyler, Daniel James (2012). Federico García Lorca’s ‘impossible’ theatre staged. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

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Vathrakogianni, Aikaterini (2009). Women on Kazantzakis: biography and fiction. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

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Westh, Sara Marie (2020). Authorial intent: a historical survey. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Westmaas, Juanita Anne (2013). Edgar Mittelholzer (1909-1965) and the shaping of his novels. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

White, Joseph (2012). Phoenix: play and critical essay. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Williams, Daniel (2012). The Corrigan brothers. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

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Zhang, Dandan (2018). F. R. Leavis and T. S. Eliot: Literary criticism, culture and the subject of 'English'. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.