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Part(s) (w)hole: Manifestations of shame in lesbian poetry from Ireland and New Zealand since 1982
This creative/critical PhD examines the work of lesbian poets from Ireland and Aotearoa/New Zealand in order to demonstrate the creative energy made possible by their shared experience of and response to shame. The ... -
Morganeering
Morganeering is a satire on capitalism in the era of the "Robber Barons" like John Rockefeller, Henry Ford and John Pierpont Morgan. Their success at consolidating industries is taken to extremes by the novel's capitalist ... -
The Two Lawyers
Southan's novel is set in the fledgling New Zealand town of Timaru and the boisterous goldfields of 1860's Victoria. One lawyer, Frank Perry, is a pillar of manly rectitude, while the other, John Hobart, is a dastardly ... -
Alone in the World
Orphaned and alone, the young governess Annie Barrington sail to New Zealand in search of her lost brother. In Auckland, she finds instead a man who offers her happiness, but whose past hides a dark crime. Also, trying to ... -
The Passionate Puritan
Set in 1912, The Passionate Puritan follows young teacher Sidney Carey to an isolated kauri-milling community in the far north. She discovers romance there, but will she be able to seize it, or will puritanical conventions ... -
Lenore Divine
Lenore Divine follows the romantic and political adventures of the title character and her friend Lafe Osgood. Will Lenore find happiness with dissolute Holly Virtue or with Waikato farmer Kowhatu Ngatoro? Can Lafe redeem ... -
BARDS Otago
BARDS is a browser-based remix engine for three different textual versions and four graphic novel interpretations of Hamlet, allowing students and researchers to act as an editor of a visual text. Between 1603 and 1623, ... -
Utilising concept-based instruction in teaching pragmatics: Exploring the development of requesting behaviour of Iraqi Arabic-speaking EFL learners
This thesis explores the effect of concept-based pragmatic instruction (CBPI) in developing Iraqi Arabic-speaking EFL university students’ conceptual knowledge and performance abilities in English requests. Requests have ... -
Teacher cognition in EFL teaching: A study of non-native English- speaking teachers of English for Arabic-speaking students in Egypt with a particular focus on vocabulary
Starting in the 1990s (Borg, 2003; Burns et al., 2015), studies on language teacher cognition and its role in language teaching and learning drew more on the cognitivist paradigm to investigate teachers’ mental processes ... -
A sociocultural approach to language teacher identity: Iranian public school and private language institute EFL teachers
The story of English language education in Iran has long been politicized. Political decision-makers considered English as the language of the enemy, which has been reflected in the inadequate attention to English language ... -
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 ... -
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 ...