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Dissertation Titles (and link)

Student
Q33406 - English Dissertation (Full Year)
Instagram: Therapy for Millennials? Exploring Mental Health Through Multimodal Metaphor Creation and Appropriation Philippa Mitchell
BA (Hons) English
Displacement, Refuge and Diasporic Identities in Samuel Beckett's Stories and Texts for Nothing.

Phoebe Stafford
BA (Jt Hons) English and French
'There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde': Socio-political engagement and counter-hegemony in Dave's Psychodrama Kathryn O'Connell
BA (Hons) English

Leaving Your Mark (or Matthew, Luke or John): An Investigation into the manorial affix in four Midlands counties.

Elizabeth Wall
BA (Hons) English
Q33406 - English Dissertation (Spring Term)
'Mislike me not for my complexion': Assimilation and Integration in Shakespeare's Othello and The Merchant of Venice

Tahira Rowe
BA (Hons) English

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Module and Essay Titles (and link)

Student
ENGL3013 - English Place-names

Examine the value of place-names as evidence for the history, landscape and especially languages of your chosen area

Meghan Jarvis
BA (Hons) English
ENGL3015 - The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons
A Proto-The Dream of The Rood Tradition? From the Ruthwell Cross to Vercelli Text

Peiwei Wang
BA (Hons) English Language and Literature (2+2) 
ENGL3034 - Oscar Wilde and Henry James
Write an essay exploring BOTH Wilde’s AND James’s interest in ‘personality’ AND/OR ‘the personal’. You might like to consider the extent to which autobiographical writing serves as myth-making or self-defence, and to think about ‘intimacy’ of tone and the ‘subjective’ voice. 

Kari Jacobson
Erasmus Exchange Student from Luther College (Iowa, USA)
ENGL3036 - Songs and Sonnets

All The Light We Cannot See: Light and Sight in Dunbar’s ‘A Ballad of Our Lady’. 

Alice Reading
BA (Hons) English
ENGL3059 - Self and the World
To what extent is Shelley’s Creature in Frankenstein a direct reflection of Milton’s Eve in Paradise Lost? 

Siena Barry-Taylor
BA (Hons) English

 
ENGL3063 - Performing the Nation

'It is important to stress that the meanings associated with national iconography do not stand still. There are frequent struggles over meaning and demands to rethink the status acquired or transmitted by national icons.' To what extent do your chosen plays and performances rework and rethink national iconographies and to what effect? 

 Marguerite Carter
BA (Hons) English
ENGL3067 - Single Author Study  
‘You mustn’t look in my novel for the old stable ego of the character’ (D. H. Lawrence in a letter to Edward Garnett of 5 June 1914, in The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Vol. II, ed. George J. Zytaruk and James T. Boulton [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981], p. 183). Discuss Lawrence’s experimental treatment of character in two or more texts on the module. 

Gregory Walker
BA (Hons) English
ENGL3068 - Gothic Tradition

Rebecca Waldock
BA (Hons) English

 
ENGL3070 - The Viking Mind
A Study of How Descriptions of Physical Appearance Can Affect the Perception of Characters in the Sagas of Icelanders, With a Particular Focus on Eyrbyggja saga, The Saga of the People of Laxardal and The Vinland Sagas

Francesca Hadland
BA (Hons) English
ENGL3072 - Reformation and Revolution
Interrogating God: Donne’s Holy Sonnets and their religious contexts

Annie Peppiatt
BA (Hons) English
ENGL3094 - Language and Feminism
'Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?': a multimodal critical discourse analysis of the presentation of women in feminist artwork.  

Emily Moss
BA (Hons) English
ENGL3097 - Island and Empire
"The White Face of Moreau": Race, Gender, and Animalism In the Literature of the Imperial Campaign

Matthew Thompson
BA (Jt Hons) American Studies and English
ENGL3098 - Advanced Writing Practice: Poetry
Advanced Writing Practice: Poetry

 

Laura Garvin-Gomez
BA (Hons) English with Creative Writing
ENGL3099 - Advanced Writing Practice: Fiction

Advanced Writing Practice: Fiction

 

Phoebe Wade
BA (Hons) English with Creative Writing

 
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