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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"School of Communication and the Arts"”.
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The Way South Vietnamese Pronounce English
Chapter 1 describes the subjects and the investigation procedure including the recorded interviews and equipment used. It also outlines the ten pronunciation lessons that were given. Chapter 2 is a short account of the phonemes of Australian English. Chapter 3 is an account of the phonemes of …
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Marxist theories of imperialism : evolution of a concept
Over the course of the twentieth century and into the new millennium, critical analysis of imperialism has been a feature of Marxist thought. One of the salient concerns of Marxist theorising of imperialism has been the uncovering of the connections between the capitalist accumulation process and …
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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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The anonymous portrait: a creative and critical investigation of diaspora, portraiture, subjectivity
This thesis proposes a viewing of portraiture through the conceptualisation and consciousness of diaspora. The thesis is divided into two sections: a creative body of original artwork and a supporting exegesis. The practice-based part of the thesis presents collective, non-essentialised portraits …
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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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Severance packages: a crime paranormal novel and exegesis focussing on the electronic and digital publication of creative writing
This Master of Arts project comprises a novel, Severance Packages, written for electronic and digital publication, and an accompanying exegesis that contextualises the novel in relation to its genre and to the emerging field of electronic and digital publication in Australia.
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My ornament : writing women's moving, erotic bodies across time and space : a novel and exegesis
This thesis is divided into two volumes, the creative work and the exegesis. The creative work, My ornament, is an Australian novel set in India. It explores - from a feminist perspective - issues of desire, subjectivity, agency and connection among three women and their moving, sexual bodies …
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From Hope to Disillusion? A Literary and Cultural History of the Whitlam Period, 1966-1975
It is argued in this thesis that Australian history between 1966 and 1975 can usefully be termed 'the Whitlam period' because the 1972-1975 ALP government of E.G. Whitlam represented the culmination of a wider set of movements for progressive social change, activated primarily by post-1965 …
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Open Silence: An Application of the Perennial Philosophy to Literary Creation
Open Silence: An Application of the Perennial Philosophy to Literary Creation is a dissertation that combines a creative component, which is a long, narrative poem, with a framing essay that is an exegesis on the creative component. The poem, entitled The Silence Inside the World, tells the story …
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Peripato Telematikos: walking, cartography and software art
… began with walking as a means to explore and investigate the places and spaces we inhabit and our relationships with them. The research asked how can peripatetic art practices inform the methodologies used by individuals to (re)present their environs and what media art practices would be …
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Advertising and media literacy : young people and their understanding of the world of advertising in Australia and Thailand
This thesis demonstrates that Thai, Thai-Australian, and Asian international participants have a stronger knowledge of advertising industry operation compared with Australian participants. Thai and Thai-Australian participants were more sceptical of the rhetorical claims of advertising and aware of …
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Child care in the retail industry in Victoria
The aim of this research is to investigate the child care experiences and attitudes of those who work within the retail industry in Victoria and it concentrates on the needs of parents with children aged under 13 years old. A number of issues are presented as part of the background information for …
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Course climate, student stress and practitioner burnout
The central issue of this thesis is the problem of stress in social work education, and its contribution to subsequent burnout in social work practitioners. To investigate this problem, the study was structured according to five interrelated key research questions, as outlined in Chapter One. The …
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Contested identity : Macedonians in contemporary Australia
As argued in this thesis, a Macedonian-Australian identity is an elusive and evolving category. Nonetheless, the various Macedonian-Australian institutions and organisations, as well as the activities that they perform, described in this thesis, give definition and shape to a distinctive Macedonian …
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Transnational variation in linguistic politeness in Vietnamese : Australia and Vietnam
Over the past three decades, the Vietnamese language has undergone substantial changes, both in Vietnam, and in diasporic contexts such as Australia. Yet the nature of the variation resulting from those changes at the sociopragmatic level in expressing politeness is little researched. The question …
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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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Womanhood 'under terror': an investigation into the embodied experience of Jewish-Israeli women living in a protracted conflict zone
This thesis constructs femininity within secular Jewish-Israeli socio-culture and considers the influence of 'living under terror' on models of womanhood within this culture. It is my contention that as a Western affiliated culture, Jewish-Israeli mainstream culture tends to deploy its women to …
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An ecological approach to researching biliteracy development of Indonesian bilingual children in Australian social contexts
This dissertation reports a study of how literacy in English language impacts on the process and experience of acquiring literacy in an Indonesian language within an ecological approach to language development in the three intersecting of Australian social context: schools, homes, and community. …
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Cultural translation from Chinese to English: a case study of the problems in the translation and interpretation of selected contemporary texts
The present thesis argues for an "extended (cross-)cultural approach to literary translation". It proposes that socio-cultural elements pertaining to a literary text extend beyond the commonly understood scope and depth of literary translation into the macro-contextual sphere, as they arise before …
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Threat or thrill in Grovedale : an artist's response to the changing nature of place
… or Thrill in Grovedale: An Artist’s Response to the Changing Nature of Place’ has developed out of my realisation that ‘my’ space has changed. I was conscious of an unsettling, something not quite right as I moved around my neighbourhood seeking an explanation for my sense of unease. I examine …
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