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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2013)This thesis explores the actual impact of neoliberal or free market policies on the real lives of people in Europe from the 1980s onwards as refracted in cinema. The critical framework in Chapter One will summarise the ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)This study aims to find solutions for the problems of ‘how much vocabulary’ and ‘what vocabulary’ when creating curriculum for the learning of Mandarin as a Foreign Language (hereafter MFL). Both the HSK Vocabulary List ...
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)Music has a fundamental role in the popular culture of contemporary Brazil. Not only does music represent Brazilian national cultural identity, or brasilidade, to the international community, it is also a vehicle for ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)Despite the fact that alternative discourses have been located in recent Chinese TV dramas, scholars have tended to overlook and rarely consider the questions of resistance and the operation of resistance. In contrast, ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)In the present study, I articulate an interactionist model of power relations using the sociological framework of Symbolic Interactionism. After presenting a model of power relations, I identify instances of power in ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)Marguerite Duras was born in Indochina in 1914 and died in Paris in 1996. Between these two polarities of her life all the major themes of her work find their place. Duras inscribed the condition of one who could never ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)My PhD is a systematic structural and textual analysis of Dou E yuan 竇娥冤 [Injustice to Dou E], one of the extant Yuan zaju 雜劇 (variety plays) originally composed by the Yuan playwright Guan Hanqing 關漢卿 (fl. 1260). My ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)This thesis is mainly concerned with the cultural discourses in the literary works of two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral. Their discourses are studied from the perspective of ...
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2010)This thesis is an analysis of the life and poetry of Cao Zhi 曹植. It will seek to prove that Cao Zhi was a transitional poet during a transitional era. It will demonstrate how he revived the poetic traditions of the past, ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2010)My thesis explores the nature of the fictional world of L’Ane Culotte and examines how the two main characters, Constantin and Cyprien, succeed or fail in their endeavours as a result of their decisions, and their actions. ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2008)This thesis examines the increasing centrality of surveillance devices, themes and concepts from varying social, theoretical and philosophical points of view by analysing and comparing three films. These films examine the ...
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2007)Summary: The destruction and reaffirmation of nationalist ideology in contemporary Mexican cinema Film is an accessible means of communication whose influence far surpasses that of literature, the theatre and exbibitions ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007)In the wake of Francisco Franco's long dictatorship, various new forms of literature emerged in Spain. A new period of transformation, the so-called Spanish Transition, fostered an environment of experimentation and ...
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(Dissertation, Bachelor of Arts with Honours, 2006)
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006)This thesis offers a typology of Postmodern women's discourse from a sociological perspective. By focusing on the reading of Gioconda Belli's Sofia de los presagios, Isabel Allende's Paula, and Anacristina Rossi's La loca ...
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(Dissertation, Postgraduate Diploma in Arts, 2006)
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(Dissertation, Bachelor of Arts with Honours, 2005)Sinopsis: "Salsa" is a musical genre that was popularised by the hybrid culture of the Latin American immigrants to New York in the 1970's and 80's combining Puerto Rican, Cuban and North American musical influences. ...
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(Dissertation, Bachelor of Arts with Honours, 2002)
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(Dissertation, Bachelor of Arts with Honours, 2000)
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(Dissertation, Bachelor of Arts with Honours, 1998)
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