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Osiris Reborn: The Arabic Epic of Sirat Sayf Ibn Dhi Yazan and the Prophetic Königsnovelle (2024)
Book Chapter
Blatherwick, H. (2024). Osiris Reborn: The Arabic Epic of Sirat Sayf Ibn Dhi Yazan and the Prophetic Königsnovelle. In P. Lothspeich (Ed.), The Epic World (189-200). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429286698-17

This chapter explores the intertextual relationship between Sīrat al-Malik Sayf ibn Dhī Yazan (The Adventures of King Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan), a medieval Egyptian popular epic, and the “Prophetic Königsnovelle” (Prophetic “Kings novel”), an Egyptian “dis... Read More about Osiris Reborn: The Arabic Epic of Sirat Sayf Ibn Dhi Yazan and the Prophetic Königsnovelle.

Change and Stasis: Assessing the Influence of Stereotyping and Intertextuality in British Travelogues of late-Qajar Iran: 1880-1905 (2024)
Thesis
Pieper, S. W. Change and Stasis: Assessing the Influence of Stereotyping and Intertextuality in British Travelogues of late-Qajar Iran: 1880-1905. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Tropes and stereotypes played a significant role in the mentalities of the British empire, reducing subject populations to a simplistic list of essential characteristics and thereby denigrating their capacity for change or advancement. While Iran was... Read More about Change and Stasis: Assessing the Influence of Stereotyping and Intertextuality in British Travelogues of late-Qajar Iran: 1880-1905.

An Experiment in New Nepali Studies: Decolonisation, Transculturation, and Everyday Life Between (and Beyond) Nepal and China (2024)
Thesis
Yang, Z. An Experiment in New Nepali Studies: Decolonisation, Transculturation, and Everyday Life Between (and Beyond) Nepal and China. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores the potential contours of new academic bodies of Nepali Studies, and in doing so, questions for whom these bodies of knowledge might be reshaped. It proposes that the current academic discourse of Nepali Studies, with its predomi... Read More about An Experiment in New Nepali Studies: Decolonisation, Transculturation, and Everyday Life Between (and Beyond) Nepal and China.

Maʿrūf al-Karkhī: a renunciant saint in early ʿAbbāsid Baghdad (2024)
Thesis
Ye, Z. Maʿrūf al-Karkhī: a renunciant saint in early ʿAbbāsid Baghdad. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The academic discussions on the Islamic renunciation traditions and the formation of Islamic Mysticism have been progressing since scholars started to apply modern critical research methods by comparing and studying various Medieval Muslim accounts o... Read More about Maʿrūf al-Karkhī: a renunciant saint in early ʿAbbāsid Baghdad.

Cāmuṇḍā’s Glory: Representations of the Fierce Goddess in Purāṇic Literature and Temple Art (2024)
Thesis
Sattler, S. Cāmuṇḍā’s Glory: Representations of the Fierce Goddess in Purāṇic Literature and Temple Art. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Medieval temples across South Asia, particularly in North India, prominently feature a skeletal goddess in the cardinal niches. With hollow eyes, sagging breasts, and fierce attributes, she fearlessly dances upon a corpse and haunts the cremation gro... Read More about Cāmuṇḍā’s Glory: Representations of the Fierce Goddess in Purāṇic Literature and Temple Art.

'Not a bit like "Rain" or "The Letter"'British women in Malaya and Burma between the wars and the pejorative portraits in the works of W. Somerset Maugham and George Orwell. (2024)
Thesis
Taylor, L. M. 'Not a bit like "Rain" or "The Letter"'British women in Malaya and Burma between the wars and the pejorative portraits in the works of W. Somerset Maugham and George Orwell. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

My thesis explores and analyses the lived experiences of British women in the colonies of Malaya and Burma during the interwar years (1918 to 1942). Although much has been written about British women in India both before and during the Raj, those who... Read More about 'Not a bit like "Rain" or "The Letter"'British women in Malaya and Burma between the wars and the pejorative portraits in the works of W. Somerset Maugham and George Orwell..

Im/politeness research – what it says on the tin? (Not quite) (2024)
Journal Article
Pizziconi, B. (2024). Im/politeness research – what it says on the tin? (Not quite). Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture, 20(1), 135-156. https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2023-0066

Several decades of analytical inquiry into linguistic im/politeness have produced a substantial body of research shedding light on its linguistic and social dimensions, but also distinct discursive conventions and terminology. This study turns the sp... Read More about Im/politeness research – what it says on the tin? (Not quite).

Translation as Decolonization: Nyerere, the Bible and Shakespeare (2024)
Thesis
Li, J. Translation as Decolonization: Nyerere, the Bible and Shakespeare. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

As the first president of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere has enormously influenced the politics, economy, and culture of the country. Beside his well-known identity as a politician and poet, he was also an important literary translator. The subject of this... Read More about Translation as Decolonization: Nyerere, the Bible and Shakespeare.

The Poet of Hope (2024)
Thesis
Koch, S. The Poet of Hope. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis analyses contemporary poetry focusing on the theme of migration from a woman’s perspective. The poems are interpreted using close-reading methodologies, focusing on selected motifs such as hope and nostalgia. The thesis will trace innovat... Read More about The Poet of Hope.

Linguistic Variation in Kipemba (2024)
Thesis
Hamad, Y. S. Linguistic Variation in Kipemba. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Kipemba is one of four varieties of the Zanzibar Swahili cluster, spoken on the Island of Pemba by approximately 500,000 people. Kipemba has been understudied and under-documented for decades, resulting in a substantial shortage of linguistic literat... Read More about Linguistic Variation in Kipemba.

Invisible Cities in Japan: Fluid Resonances in Architecture and Literature (2024)
Book Chapter
Cervelli, F., & Dellacasa, C. (2024). Invisible Cities in Japan: Fluid Resonances in Architecture and Literature. In E. Baldi, & C. Schwartz (Eds.), Circulation, Translation and Reception across Borders: Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities around the World (211-227). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003293996-14

Filippo Cervelli and Claudia Dellacasa begin their chapter “Invisible Cities in Japan – fluid resonances in architecture and literature” with the evocative and meaningful cover image of avant-garde artist Ikeda Tatsuo of the first Japanese edition of... Read More about Invisible Cities in Japan: Fluid Resonances in Architecture and Literature.

Flexibility and Constraints in Lexical Meaning Construction in Mandarin Chinese: with Special Reference to Chinese Four-character Idioms and Their Parodic Constructions (2024)
Thesis
Li, L. Flexibility and Constraints in Lexical Meaning Construction in Mandarin Chinese: with Special Reference to Chinese Four-character Idioms and Their Parodic Constructions. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Lexical meaning in communication is often underdetermined and requires pragmatic enrichment for full interpretation. This thesis examines how four-character Chinese idioms and their parodic variations are interpreted within the framework of relevance... Read More about Flexibility and Constraints in Lexical Meaning Construction in Mandarin Chinese: with Special Reference to Chinese Four-character Idioms and Their Parodic Constructions.

Obtrusive Chineseness: Self-Translation and the Politics of Writing in Diaspora, 1930s-1970s (2024)
Thesis
Wang, K. Obtrusive Chineseness: Self-Translation and the Politics of Writing in Diaspora, 1930s-1970s. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This is a study of three twentieth-century authors who wrote extensively about China while living in diaspora. These were Eileen Chang 張愛玲 (1920-1995), Robert van Gulik 高羅佩 (1910-1967), and S. I. Hsiung 熊式一 (1902-1991). Despite their obvious... Read More about Obtrusive Chineseness: Self-Translation and the Politics of Writing in Diaspora, 1930s-1970s.

A multivariate analysis of the structural variability of existential noun phrases (2023)
Journal Article
Akinlotan, M. (2023). A multivariate analysis of the structural variability of existential noun phrases. Moderna Språk, 117(3), 155-174. https://doi.org/10.58221/mosp.v117i3.13033

The literature on there-existential construction (e.g. ‘there are no graves, son’) is extensive, especially those showing the complexity involved in its internal structure, meaning and interpretation. Whereas very little is known about its internal s... Read More about A multivariate analysis of the structural variability of existential noun phrases.

Pre-Service EFL Teachers’ Knowledge and Beliefs about Developmental Dyslexia: Implications for EFL Teacher Training (2023)
Journal Article
Atar, C., & Amir, A. (2023). Pre-Service EFL Teachers’ Knowledge and Beliefs about Developmental Dyslexia: Implications for EFL Teacher Training. Language teaching and educational research, 6(2), 160-175. https://doi.org/10.35207/later.1296792

This study aims to analyse the misconceptions, knowledge, and knowledge gaps of 176 Turkish pre-service English as a foreign language teachers about dyslexia which is a prevalent developmental disorder. The data were collected at eight different univ... Read More about Pre-Service EFL Teachers’ Knowledge and Beliefs about Developmental Dyslexia: Implications for EFL Teacher Training.