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This creative and critical doctoral dissertation engages contemporary Scots language writing and theory, developing an antinational approach to European minority languages. In a double methodology, creative practice informs and develops critical research, and critical research shapes and directs creative practice. Part One, Deep Wheel Orcadia, is an Orcadian science fiction verse novel. Written in the Orkney language, a form of Scots, the poetry imagines a future space station as a utopian ...

This thesis studies the cultural function that the short story anthology has fulfilled and continues to fulfil in relation to discourses of gender developed in the last forty or so years. Its central claim is that the unique formal properties of the genre have allowed it not only to respond to or represent changing ideas of gender identity and politics over this period of time, but also, more importantly, to influence and shape these ideas. Through a focus on some of the most culturally relev...

The genocide against the Tutsi destroyed the social fabric of Rwanda, and its traumatic and violent consequences have received much attention amongst researchers. Yet less attention has been paid to stories of positive change. Alongside reconciliation at a national level, individual stories of resilience have emerged. This contribution aims to move beyond the dominant narratives of the genocide by examining the themes of resilience and post-traumatic growth in the contemporary testimonies of ...

First paragraph: In the second part of Don Quixote (1615) Miguel de Cervantes’s eponymous hero plumbs the depths of the miraculous cave of Montesinos. What the Don sees underground is wondrous indeed: a crystalline palace, an alabaster hall, and finally a marble tomb of exquisite craft, upon which lies not a carved figure, but preternaturally preserved flesh and bones. Don Quixote’s vision in the cave is important for all sorts of reasons. For one thing, it is an early, and remarkable, episod...