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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)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)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)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, 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)The relationship between metaphor, language, and thought, as hypothesised by cognitive linguists, requires detailed investigation of actual metaphor use in different situations and contexts. Researchers have examined ...
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(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, 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, 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, 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)The bulk of this thesis takes the form of an annotated edition of Geoffrey Hill’s Speech! Speech! (2000), a long poem comprised of 120 twelve-line stanzas, and renowned for its density of reference and allusion, rebarbative ...
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(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, 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)The principle of end-weight has frequently been applied to the word order patterns of Old English (e.g. Colman, 1991; Kohonen, 1978; Reszkiewicz, 1966, 1971; Strang, 1970). Although there are strong indications that heavier ...
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(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, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)This study investigates the rhetorical organisation of the introduction section of English and Chinese research articles in the field of educational psychology using Swales’s (1990 & 2004) framework of move analysis. A ...
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(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 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 ...
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