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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1989)The Derzhavin-L'vov circle was the most productive literary society in eighteenth-century Russia. It consisted primarily of four members, four poets who were drawn together by friendship, family ties and shared interests: ...
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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 ... -
(Dissertation, Bachelor of Arts with Honours, 1993)
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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, 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)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, 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)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, 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, 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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(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, 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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