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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"2005 Literary Studies"”.
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Mural visions: viewing histories in the works of Michael Ondaatje
… thesis seeks to challenge traditional notions of literary interpretation by examining the interaction between visual and verbal representation in literature. To this end, I critically examine several elements of visual culture in the literary works of poet/novelist Michael Ondaatje and seek to …
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The arcane and the ordinary: an exploration of patriarchy and the postcolonial in the writing of Beth Yahp, Catherine Lim and Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
This thesis critically examines the work of Beth Yahp, Catherine Lim and Shirley Geok-lin Lim. Particular emphasis is given to four texts. The first is Beth Yahp's The Crocodile Fury, the second is Catherine Lim's The Bondmaid, the third is Catherine Lim's The Teardrop Story Woman, and the final …
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A knowledge of spirit and flesh: a novel and exegesis exploring the numinous feminine, the interior journey and sites of resistance within a patriarchal world
The thesis comprises the novel 'A Knowledge of Spirit and Flesh', and an exegesis that locates the novel within three major theoretical strands - female spirituality, the 'interior journey' and ecriture feminine - and shows their relevance to the novel. Knowledge of Spirit and Flesh is set in …
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The Sixties - the lived experience
… is dealt with extensively in the Australian literary canon but I discovered in my initial literary search that, while some fiction made oblique references to the period and there were some literary works by Vietnam veterans, very few novels or memoirs told the story of the Sixties from a …
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An anarchy of man: Cartesian and post-Cartesian representations of the self in selected Western literature
This Master of Arts thesis is in two parts: a novel, An Anarchy of Man, and an exegesis which places the novel in relation to philosophical concerns about the self and the way those concerns are portrayed in selected works of Western literature. The novel is set in Canberra and Sydney and tells the …
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Matrices and mavericks: a Kristevan analysis of the poetry of Shelley
Kristeva, in her work, Revolution in Poetic Language, analyses nineteenth-century avant-garde poetic texts as exemplars of the manifestation of the otherwise repressed semiotic chora. This thesis involves an analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetic texts in a similar critique. Shelley's poetry, …
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Mary Gaunt: a biography
If a nation's story is told by the weaving together of the strands of individual lives, the biographies of its achievers, then the story of Mary Gaunt adds an important thread of colour and interest to the tapestry of Australia's identity. Born on the Victorian goldfields in 1861, she grew up in …
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i = Galois : a fictional biography of the French mathematician Evariste Galois (1811-1832) : together with a methodological introduction and select bibliography
The project seeks to fuse mathematics and literature by presenting a fictional biography based on the French mathematical prodigy Evariste Galois (1811 -1832). After thoroughly researching and reading all the English sources, together with translations of material in French, it was found that most …
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Landfall: reading and writing Australia through climate change
This creative writing thesis begins with the premise that climate change poses critical outcomes for the Australian continent, and asks what the consequences of this are as the precariousness of Australia’s future in relation to climate change continues to gather pace. Comprising a novel (70%) and …
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Is that what you’re wearing? Gender diversity in contemporary fiction, a novel and exegesis
… of gender diverse characters within mainstream literary texts are an under-researched area from a creative writing standpoint. Is That What You’re Wearing? Gender Diversity in Contemporary Fiction, A Novel and Exegesis is a creative writing doctoral thesis which critically interrogates the …
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The problem of the poetic revolutionary
… of the dynamics by which intertextual literary practices can gain critical and transformative traction in their sociocultural context. From an introduction considering recent debates about the cultural politics of parody, pastiche, and intertextuality allied to avant-garde practice, the …
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The writing and research of the novel 'The Shaded Side'
The purpose of this project has been to research and write the novel The Shaded Side and a critical commentary. The novel is based on the fictitious events that take place in an Australian tuberculosis sanatorium in the 1940s. The story locates and reflects the consequences of relationships, …
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Male and female relationships in Australian fiction 1917-1956
My purpose in this study is to examine a number of Australian novels which portray love relationships between men and women, and to suggest some reasons for the quality of these relationships as fictionally depicted. Traditionally, Australian culture has been male dominated, therefore, central to …
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River's edge (a young adult novel) : an investigation of youth suicide and its relationship to the struggle for the meaning of human existence
The high incidence of violent suicides by young males is well documented. But why does a young man choose death? Why does he choose darkness over light? My thesis investigates by way of a novel, the problem of youth suicide and its relation to the meaning of human existence. There were two …
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Dead cars in Westall: a narrative exploration of multicultural migrancy, postcolonial sexuality and commodity culture in cosmopolitan Melbourne
Dead Cars in Westall is a collection of interlocking narratives, examining the everyday practices of multicultural migrancy, postcolonial sexuality and commodity culture in the cosmopolitan global/local nexus of Melbourne. These narratives are supported by postmodern and poststructuralist …
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We too shall be mothers : her story, our story, history: feminism and postmodernism in the contemporary historical novel
… of Avignon and Vienna. Secondary sources include literary theory, novels, and newspaper reviews, as well as historical monographs and works of religious philosophy and autobiography.
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Pathos : a metaphoric exploration of cannibalistic, gluttonous and consumptive impulses in fiction writing
For the purposes of this exegesis, I focus on three specific aspects of my self ― cannibalism, of self (autophagia) and others, gluttony and consumption ― and demonstrate how these three nouns, when used as metaphors, operate within fictional writing, by examining them in relation to my thesis …
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Who am I and why? : pressures on the writing self
… to the central research questions, plus a literary-critical study of issues of identity and function pertaining to writers of literary fiction and poetry. The broad thematic concerns for the subject matter of SNAPSHOTS are personal and societal notions of identity: perceptions regarding the …
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Sport, games, women and warriors: an historical and philosophical examination of the early Irish Ulster cycle
This thesis identifies the early Irish Ulster Cycle of tales as a rich source of information relating to the nature and significance of sport-like activity in the ancient world. Taking the tales of the Ulster Cycle as its data, this thesis adopts a method of analysis which combines aspects of …
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Searching the silences of war : a creative and theoretical exploration
Searching the Silences of War: A Creative and Theoretical Exploration consists of two parts: Part One, the creative component Finding Sophie, is a young adult novel and Part Two, Searching the Silence, is the accompanying exegesis. Both the novel and the exegesis explore the Anzac myth’s impact on …