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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2013)This study examines how Jane Austen’s knowledge of theatricality and performance influenced her work. Scholarship of the last two decades has revised the once popular opinion that Austen was suspicious and critical of the ... -
(Journal Article, Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2012) -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)Research on the pragmatic device like has primarily focused on like as a quotative. The overall distribution of like has received comparatively little attention. Particularly lacking are accounts which show how like may ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)The collection of books and manuscripts by and about Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) brought together primarily by Alfred Hamish Reed and held by the Dunedin Public Library, New Zealand, is the largest collection of Johnsoniana ...
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)Previous critical commentary has considered the plays of James K. Baxter to be predominantly vehicles for his social criticism. They possess, however, a compelling subjective force, and female characters which appear to ...
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)This study investigated whether teachers at a New Zealand full primary school considered it important for culture generally, and the cultures of their English Second Language (ESL) learners’ specifically, to feature in ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2011)This thesis investigates how the prevalent tendency in scholarship on Mansfield diminishes and simplifies her treatment of intersubjectivity. Recurrently, critics analyse this theme by referring to the author’s own life; ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)This thesis examines how two authors of fantasy fiction attempt to re-imagine Paradise Lost in their works and analyses how they each deal with Miltonic influence in a markedly different way. The two works that are the ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2011)This study considers the importance of clowning in Shakespeare’s drama. In order to establish the foundations of my study I analyse the clown roles in three anonymous plays: Dericke in The Famous Victories of Henry the ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)This thesis provides a new way of reading the Romantic inheritance and spiritual themes in Mary Oliver’s poetry, through a framework that accommodates her paradoxical poetical and spiritual subjectivities. Existing scholarship ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)This quasi-experimental study researches the efficacy of strategies-based instruction on the L2 and L1 reading proficiency and reading strategy use of Thai students. The subjects were 164 tertiary students of scientific ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2011)The detrimental consequence that an inadequate, unloving and abusive childhood can have on the psychological development and psychic stability of a child or teenager is a prevalent theme in Duff’s writing. All of Duff’s ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2011)This thesis examines the figure of the philosophical traveller in Oliver Goldsmith’s poems The Traveller (1764) and The Deserted Village (1770), and his pseudo-oriental letter collection, The Citizen of the World (1762). ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2011)What does it mean to speak for a non-human? The following thesis addresses this question by looking at how prosopopoeia—the trope that confers a human voice on a non-human speaker—operates in poem sequences by three poets: ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)'A Time for Ethics: Janet Frame and W. G. Sebald' identifies how literary texts which both respond to a traumatic past and adopt an openness towards the future enact an ethical stance. The recent "ethical turn" in a range ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)Early modern English biblical verse at times seems clumsy or repetitious. This thesis argues that some of this poetic and narrative dissonance originates in the biblical events that poets and versifiers turned into verse. ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)This thesis provides a survey of four writers who created fictional fantasy worlds as settings for their stories. Before the widespread success of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in the 1960s, there was no obviously ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)Numerous studies on extensive reading have demonstrated its positive effects on language development. However, qualitative studies that reveal L2 learners' perceptions of extensive reading are limited. Learners’ motivation ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)Frequently referred to as New Zealand’s most famous and least public author, Janet Frame occupies a curious place in the nation’s literary and cultural history. With her feted literary production largely overshadowed by ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)This thesis provides an edition of the first part of The Myrrour or Glasse of Christes Passion (STC 14553). No modern critical edition has previously been made of this text, which was published in 1534 in a single edition. ...
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