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1. "A perfect Elysium and the residence of a divinity": a social analysis of country houses and policies in late seventeenth and eighteenth century Scotland

Hale, Caroline Inness,

Archaeology, the study of people in the past through their material culture, recognises the potential of space and the built environment to create and transmit social statements. Country houses were d...

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http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3201/

2. "All the World's a Stage": William Blake and William Shakespeare

MacPhee, Chantelle L.,

Shakespeare's presence in Blake's poetry has been virtually unrecognised by scholarly criticism except, of course, for Jonathan Bate's groundbreaking work of 1986. Bate has had no major successors, so...

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http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3467/

3. "Complete with missing parts": modernist short fiction as interrogative text

Hunter, Adrian C.,

This thesis examines modernist short fiction in English from the 1890s to the 1980s, with particular reference to works by James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett and Donald Barthelme. The term ...

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http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3204/

4. "Das Lebend'ge will ich preisen" : from Ästhetik to Humanität : a comparative study of Byron and Goethe with special reference to Don Juan and the West-östlicher Divan

Allan, Shona Millar,

This comparative study of Byron and Goethe seeks to explore the idea that there may be a far more fundamental similarity between the mode of writing of these two poets than has been noted to date. Alt...

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http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1185/

5. "Destructive but sweet": cigarette smoking among women 1890-1990

Eliot, Rosemary Elizabeth,

Despite the vast literature surrounding tobacco use, there is little work looking at the question of smoking among women in a historical context. The work which has been done on women and smoking has ...

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http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1091/

6. "Doing Well": an initiative to improve depression care.

Smith, Michael J.,

Aim: The aim of this thesis was to describe the service use, clinical outcomes and prescribing change associated with the implementation of a complex intervention designed to improve care for people w...

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http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2233/

7. "Few know an earl in fishing clothes": Fish middens and the economy of the viking age and late norse earldoms of Orkney and Caithness, Northern Scotland

Barrett, James Harold,

This thesis studies the origin and role of wealth in the Viking Age (late 8th to 11th century) and Late Norse (11th to 15th century) earldoms of Orkney and Caithness, northern Scotland. It has four ai...

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http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1342/

8. "Impudent scribblers": place and the unlikely heroines of the interwar years

Perriam, Geraldine,

The central focus of this thesis is the storytelling of place and the place of storytelling. These elements comprise the geoliterary terrains of narrative, the cultural matrix in which texts are sited...

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http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2515/

9. "Lessons will be learned"?: an investigation into the representation of 'asylum seekers'/refugees in British and Scottish television and impacts on beliefs and behaviours in local communities

Donald, Pauline Sarah Moore,

This thesis examines media representations and audience reception processes through a detailed study of media reporting and public understandings of asylum and refugee issues. It is based on sixty int...

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http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3628/

10. "Nothing that is not Zeus" the unknowability of the Gods and the limits of human knowledge in Sophoclean tragedy

Liapis, Vayos,

In the present thesis the author professes to offer neither a systematic account of Sophoclean theology (if indeed there is such a thing) nor a study of the epistemological problem per se in Sophoclea...

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http://theses.gla.ac.uk/615/

1. "A perfect Elysium and the residence of a divinity": a social analysis of country houses and policies in late seventeenth and eighteenth century Scotland

2. "All the World's a Stage": William Blake and William Shakespeare

3. "Complete with missing parts": modernist short fiction as interrogative text

4. "Das Lebend'ge will ich preisen" : from Ästhetik to Humanität : a comparative study of Byron and Goethe with special reference to Don Juan and the West-östlicher Divan

5. "Destructive but sweet": cigarette smoking among women 1890-1990

6. "Doing Well": an initiative to improve depression care.

7. "Few know an earl in fishing clothes": Fish middens and the economy of the viking age and late norse earldoms of Orkney and Caithness, Northern Scotland

8. "Impudent scribblers": place and the unlikely heroines of the interwar years

9. "Lessons will be learned"?: an investigation into the representation of 'asylum seekers'/refugees in British and Scottish television and impacts on beliefs and behaviours in local communities

10. "Nothing that is not Zeus" the unknowability of the Gods and the limits of human knowledge in Sophoclean tragedy

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