All Outputs (6)

A Compositional Exploration of Auditory-Visual Synaesthesia (2023)
Thesis
Anderson, C. A Compositional Exploration of Auditory-Visual Synaesthesia. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

This thesis is an autoethnographic exploration of how my music composition practice is influenced by my auditory-visual synaesthesia. I perceive music as coloured and textured shapes – ‘photisms’ – in my mind’s eye. There are few first-person account... Read More about A Compositional Exploration of Auditory-Visual Synaesthesia.

Shaping Deaf/Hearing alliances in the workshop’s temporary space: a critical ethnographic account from a hearing researcher’s perspective on the Deaf Heritage Collective (2023)
Thesis
Discepoli, M. Shaping Deaf/Hearing alliances in the workshop’s temporary space: a critical ethnographic account from a hearing researcher’s perspective on the Deaf Heritage Collective. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

The MRes thesis takes its area of research enquiry from a Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) funded project, The Deaf Heritage Collective, which aimed to create significant working relationships between Scotland’s Deaf Community and the cultural sector... Read More about Shaping Deaf/Hearing alliances in the workshop’s temporary space: a critical ethnographic account from a hearing researcher’s perspective on the Deaf Heritage Collective.

Robert Louis Stevenson: The Mediation of Literary Reputation and the Advent of Modernism (2023)
Thesis
Milne, D. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Mediation of Literary Reputation and the Advent of Modernism. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

This thesis seeks to place Robert Louis Stevenson as an important contributor to the emergence of Modernism. In exploring this, the thesis suggests that Stevenson’s contribution to literary Modernism has frequently been overlooked due to several crit... Read More about Robert Louis Stevenson: The Mediation of Literary Reputation and the Advent of Modernism.

A Space of Time: The Evolution of a Screendance Practice (2023)
Thesis
McPherson, K. A Space of Time: The Evolution of a Screendance Practice. (Thesis by Publication). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3175350

A Space of Time: the evolution of a screendance practice explores the relationship between making, writing and teaching as a model for developing screendance. It is a portfolio submission in which the accompanying thesis examines and expands upon the... Read More about A Space of Time: The Evolution of a Screendance Practice.

'The dreadful tides of a new and incomprehensible life': Rural Modernity and Watchfulness in Early Twentieth-Century Scottish Women’s Writing (2023)
Thesis
Duncan, H. M. 'The dreadful tides of a new and incomprehensible life': Rural Modernity and Watchfulness in Early Twentieth-Century Scottish Women’s Writing. (Thesis). Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3175165

This thesis provides a detailed study of the work of three Scottish women writers of the interwar period (Willa Muir, Lorna Moon, and Nan Shepherd) to review their individual responses to one critical aspect of rural modernity: widespread watchfulnes... Read More about 'The dreadful tides of a new and incomprehensible life': Rural Modernity and Watchfulness in Early Twentieth-Century Scottish Women’s Writing.

‘Abjection hurts’: Race, class, gender, and the demand for a contemporary reworking of the Kristevan abject (2023)
Thesis
Margiotta, C. ‘Abjection hurts’: Race, class, gender, and the demand for a contemporary reworking of the Kristevan abject. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

This thesis examines Julia Kristeva’s theory of the abject, as outlined in Powers of Horror (1980), through the lens of contemporary American literature, considering the potential problems with the Kristevan abject and the ways in which contemporary... Read More about ‘Abjection hurts’: Race, class, gender, and the demand for a contemporary reworking of the Kristevan abject.