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Book review: Mcintyre, D. & Walker, B. (2019) Corpus stylistics: theory and practice. Edinburgh University Press
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The Hoole book: a literary-linguistic study of cohesion and coherence in Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur
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Animal characters and characterisation in science fiction: A scientific contextualist stylistic approach
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‘Small Hands Do Them Because They Must’: examining the reception of The Lord of the Rings among young readers
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This project explores how the reception of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings by younger readers differs from the understanding of the novel preponed by scholarship. A questionnaire and two activities were used to assess the reception of thirty young readers. The data set created from these responses was then compared to the current understanding of Tolkien’s work among scholars, as determined by a lengthy literature review. While several of the traditional aspects of a thesis for an English PhD are maintained, the study also employs methods and analysis from other fields. In this way, the study is unique and, perhaps, groundbreaking in its approach to reception studies. The specific areas of investigation are young readers’ understanding of the genre, characters, and setting of The Lord of the Rings. By examining the ideas that young readers have about genre, this project provides commentary on the impulse critics have to confine texts to easily-defined categories. By analyzing young readers’ response to characterization, this project confronts the assumption that children have a simplistic reading of characters. Finally, by discussing young readers’ interpretation of setting, this project validates the environmental and ecological concerns of this young readership. The narrow aim of the project is to fill a gap in Tolkien reception studies by examining the response of readers younger than eighteen, and thereby improve understanding of J.R.R. Tolkien’s readership. The larger goal of the study is to confront and reexamine the assumptions of literary scholars and critics. This study demonstrates the disconnect between much of the scholarly conversations about fantasy literature and the lived experiences of young readers. It gives voice to a population that is underrepresented in scholarly conversations, and it supports the idea of more inclusive and diverse critical discussions.
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PN0080 Criticism; PR English literature
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URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/81312/
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/81312/1/2020SheltonPhD.pdf
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Defying and defining the darkness: Translating French memories of the Holocaust
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Defying and defining the darkness: Translating French memories of the Holocaust
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Book Review: Gómez-Jiménez, E.M. & Toolan, M. (Eds.) (2020) The Discursive Construction of Economic Inequality: CADS Approaches to the British Media
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Por una geopolitica feminista de la traduccion : escritoras (gallegas) traducidas en el mercado editorial britanico
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Castro, Olga. - : Universitat de Barcelona * Grup de Recerca Consolidat sobre Estudis de Traduccion y Multiculturalitat, 2020
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A cognitive-pragmatic model for translating intertextual metaphors: a study of translating Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s historical-political trilogy into English
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The (un)becoming-Scot: Irvine Welsh, Gilles Deleuze and the minor literature of Scotland after Scotland
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GENRE AND LANGUAGE: DEFINING TEMPORAL, PHYSICAL AND NON-PHYSICAL SPACES IN SPECULATIVE TECHNO-DYSTOPIAN FICTION
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Little Monsters: Anxiety, Austerity and the Monstrous Child in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child
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Then the Cicadas Sang: a novel and two essays on translingual writing
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An Analysis of Key Ideas of Deconstruction through Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis
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