Semantron 25 Summer 2025

Contents

Part one

The varieties of meaning

2 The ‘middle - caste’ of post -colonial literature: post-colonial class dynamics and the psychology of western superiority ARISTOU MEEHAN

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Women in the films of Pedro Almodóvar ALESSANDRO MACCHI

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Perceptions of the city in English and French literature PETER HELLER

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Interpreting Goya’s black paintings through mythological references ROBIN SAMUEL

20 Greece through classical antiquity: Byron and the distorted prism in Childe Harold’s pilgrimage and Don Juan BRUNO LYKIARDOPOULOS

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Gender and the divine in early Archaic Greek poetry THEO MULAKI

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To what extent can music pre-1970 be termed ‘punk rock’? THOMAS PURVIS

49 Life as cyclical in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ELLIOT COULSON

Part two

Substance and theory

54 The structure, synthesis, and potential applications of mechanically interlocked molecules GEORGE CROALLY

59 Putting enzymes on pause: structural prediction and biochemical characterization of Alternaria Alternata Cdc14 phosphatase for antifungal inhibitor design ELAAB TSEGAYE

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Government solutions to the prevalence of ultra-processed food in modern diets SAMUEL BETANCOURT CORTES

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