English and Linguistics
Recent Deposits
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Life sentences: Articulating recoveries in fiction and nonfiction narrative prose
This hybrid critical-creative thesis explores representations of mobility and immobility in complex narrative literary prose, to assess how these representations contribute to the development of critical thought concerning ... -
Animal Languages: The Human-Animal Binary in the Works of Clarice Lispector and Jorie Graham
This thesis argues that the human-animal divide plays a key role in the work of the writers Clarice Lispector and Jorie Graham, and that their explorations and complications of the divide in turn shed light on its persistence ... -
A Study of London, British Library Harley MS 2320: its Social, Cultural and Economic Environment
My thesis is a report of my research into a manuscript book of the early fifteenth century, in Middle English: London, British Library, Harley MS 2320. This book includes a calendar, a zodiac prognosticatory text in prose, ... -
The settler colonial family as a site of trauma for women in selected novels by New Zealand women writers
This thesis examines the depiction of the settler colonial family as a site of trauma from a female-gendered perspective in selected novels by New Zealand women writers. I argue that women are vulnerable to psychic trauma ... -
Causative alternation licensing in Urdu: An event structure account
Given the central role of the verb in clause structure, it is vital to understand the properties of the SEMANTIC ROOT and the EVENT SCHEMA, two constituent aspects of verb meaning, in order to understand how lexical semantic ... -
Ruth France and the male monolith
This thesis explores how a promising writer of the 1950s and 1960s did not fulfill her promise because the literary climate of New Zealand was controlled by male writers who were mostly out of sympathy with women's writing. ... -
The colours of that place: setting and memory in Irish short fiction
This creative-practice thesis explores the interplay of memory and setting in the short fiction of Colum McCann, with a view to illuminating my own collection of short stories. In Chapter one I have chosen four fundamental ... -
Paradoxical paradises: The poetic and lived utopias of James K. Baxter and Gu Cheng
This thesis develops a framework for understanding modern utopianism as both a literary and life practice. The thesis advances and tests this framework through readings of the writings and lives of the New Zealand poet ... -
Mediation and Reciprocity: ESL Learner Writing Development through Error Correction
The provision of corrective feedback (CF) on errors in essay writing is a controversial topic. In second language acquisition (SLA), the controversy focuses whether CF contributes to the development of language systems, ... -
Being Polite in Conversation: Power, Distance, and Self-Esteem in Persian Requests
Polite linguistic behaviour is concerned with how society and individuals interact. Speakers modify their linguistic choices based on a sociocultural context. Most research on politeness examines social variables such as ... -
A study of the family in New Zealand young-adult fiction, 1914-1996
This thesis explores 82 years of fiction written in New Zealand for adolescents. It has a particular emphasis on the portrayal of the immediate family and relationships within the extended or adopted family. The sample ... -
Translation technique and the moral theme : Gregory I's Libellus Responsionum in Book III of the Old English Bede
This thesis focusses upon a sample section of the Old English Historia Ecclesiastica Centis Anglorum, Gregory's Libellus Responsionum, in order to examine the technique of Bede's Old English translator and to argue that ... -
Mask & masquerade, performance & promise : carnival meets postmodernism in New Zealand women's theatre
Important connections between carnival spectacle and postmodern theatre are revealed when texts are explored from the perspective of performance. In performance ostensible stage 'realities' are created in which theatrical ... -
Literary Sophias: The Esoteric Female in Romanticism
This thesis explores the Romantic representation of femininity in relation to elements of the Western esoteric tradition. In particular, it discusses the presence of Gnostic themes and gender imagery and the ways in which ... -
/Ju:z/ are in the paddock eating grass : a study of the acceptance of grammatical variants among adolescents from Southland and Otago
A field experiment was undertaken to determine the usage of various grammatical and morphological variants in the speech of adolescents in the provinces of Otago and Southland, New Zealand. Eleven schools throughout the ... -
Becoming-Mystic: The Posthuman in Contemporary Fiction
The Posthuman in Contemporary Fiction is a full-length study of contemporary fiction from the perspective of critical posthumanism. Moving beyond the limitations of humanism, critical posthumanism is a discourse that builds ... -
God in the Machine: Depicting Religion in Video Games
This thesis shows that Dark Souls uses representations of fictive religion to comment on real religion. These representations are rooted in the affordances of the video game medium, meaning that even as Dark Souls comments ... -
Cultivating Place and Space: Seamus Heaney's Landscape Poetics
In its broadest terms, this thesis proposes reading Seamus Heaney’s landscape poetics through the lenses of cultivation, resistance, linguistic cartography, and memory. I assert that Heaney writes the landscape using ... -
Tom Hungerford: A Story of the Early Days of the Otago Goldfields
Tom Hungerford was inspired by the Otago gold rush of 1861, but is practically unknown as it was published only as a serial in the Tuapeka Times. The author, William Baldwin, a larger-than-life figure who was a runholder, ... -
Don DeLillo's White Noise and the Postmodern Economics of Displacement
The primary aim of this work is to investigate the definitively postmodern economy of Don DeLillo's novel, White Noise. Methodologically, this thesis creates a dialogue by comparatively analysing DeLillo's text, its ...