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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"The Secret Garden"”.
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From the Secret Garden to the Panopticon? Changing freedoms and the growing crisis in primary school headteacher recruitment.
A headteacher recruitment crisis continues in the primary education sector (Howson & Sprigate, 2011; Rhodes et al., 2008). This research offers a voice for an increasingly marginalised group and synthesises the experiences of 15 primary headteachers, including retired, experienced and new school …
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Child as Cure: The Idealized Child in the Works of Frances Hodgson Burnett
This thesis traces the figure of the idealized child through three of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's books: Editha's Burglar (1888), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), and The Secret Garden (1911). In all three books Frances Hodgson Burnett introduces child characters who have a nuanced …
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`I had imagined myself into being': storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century
This thesis is a text-based study of storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century, providing close readings of three texts from each of these periods. Books in Part One are drawn from the canon of classic girls' stories: Ethel Turner's Seven Little …
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Spatial Practice : The politics of "activating" public space in the State of Kuwait
My thesis examines the socio-spatial dialectics that unfold throughout the development of public spaces in Kuwait. In my thesis, public space is understood as a space of urban dialogue between the state, the city, and the people. This dialogue can be understood by examining the spatial dynamics …
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In plane sight: theories of film spectatorship and animation
This dissertation undertakes to assess the pertinence of established theories of cinematic spectatorship to understanding viewers’ perception of animation, particularly cel and other animating cinematic practices (like claymation) that do not attempt to approximate the look of live action filming. …
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Advent of Denial of Death in Children's Literature
… society begins to protect children from the dangers that supposedly exist exclusively in adult reality, particularly death. Taking into consideration society's attitude towards childhood, this thesis closely examines the different ways in which authors deny death in children's literature. …