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H. Rider Haggard, Theophilus Shepstone and the Zikali trilogy: A Revisionist Approach to Haggard’s African Fiction (2016)
Thesis
Simpson, K. C. S. H. Rider Haggard, Theophilus Shepstone and the Zikali trilogy: A Revisionist Approach to Haggard’s African Fiction. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/978289

The history that H. Rider Haggard writes about in his imperial adventure romance fiction is neither collusive nor consensual with the Zulu who are often the focus of his novels. He writes a complex colonial narrative that characterises the Zulu as a... Read More about H. Rider Haggard, Theophilus Shepstone and the Zikali trilogy: A Revisionist Approach to Haggard’s African Fiction.

Representations of Feminist and Lesbian Consciousness and the Use of Subversive Strategies in Selected Poetry of Isabella Jane Blagden (2016)
Thesis
Gordon, S. R. (2016). Representations of Feminist and Lesbian Consciousness and the Use of Subversive Strategies in Selected Poetry of Isabella Jane Blagden. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/453489

The purpose of this study is to recover and revise the contribution made to women's writing by the English minor novelist and poet, Isabella Jane Blagden (1817-1873), who was the centrifugal force of an influential literary and artistic milieu in Ita... Read More about Representations of Feminist and Lesbian Consciousness and the Use of Subversive Strategies in Selected Poetry of Isabella Jane Blagden.

Between the Cracks: Theme, Screenwriting and Visual Structure (2016)
Thesis
Crawford, D. N. (2016). Between the Cracks: Theme, Screenwriting and Visual Structure. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/453033

This research explores the manual approach to screenwriting and finds that the element of theme is not examined with the same analytical focus as other primary elements, plot, character and story. Its properties remain mysterious and discussion of it... Read More about Between the Cracks: Theme, Screenwriting and Visual Structure.

Marginalisation Vs. Emancipation: The (New) Woman Question in Dollie Radford’s diary and poetry (2016)
Thesis
Azhar, H. J. (2016). Marginalisation Vs. Emancipation: The (New) Woman Question in Dollie Radford’s diary and poetry. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/452895

This thesis sheds light on Dollie Radford as one of the talented women writers whose work is still insufficiently acknowledged by contemporary studies because of the lack of extant information about her life. LeeAnne Richardson, Ruth Livesey, and Emi... Read More about Marginalisation Vs. Emancipation: The (New) Woman Question in Dollie Radford’s diary and poetry.