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The Albanian And An Accompanying Exegesis : Place And Form In The Albanian, Donna J. Mazza
The Albanian And An Accompanying Exegesis : Place And Form In The Albanian, Donna J. Mazza
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This thesis takes the form of a novel titled The Albanian and an exegesis, “Place and Form in The Albanian". The novel spans the period from October 1989 to the end of 1991 and is set against a backdrop of Eastern European change and its effect on a small group of Albanian refugees and Rosa, a young woman from Western Australia. Rosa narrates the tale in first person, present tense. The novel begins with her arrival in Dubrovnik, where she meets a young Albanian man on the verge of exiling himself in order to survive ethnic persecution. He fascinates Rosa, …
Visions Must Be Re-Visioned : Gender Politics In Earthsea, Audrey Barton
Visions Must Be Re-Visioned : Gender Politics In Earthsea, Audrey Barton
Theses : Honours
This thesis analyses Ursula Le Guin's interpretation of gender and genre in her Earthsea novels, A Wizarf of Earthsea (1968) and Teha1111 (1990). Examining Le Guin's assertion for the need to "re-vision" her former work with the latter, I interrogate the ways in which she attempts to "break free" from the ideologies that impose themselves upon her work. Part one explores the mode of the hero quest used in A Wizard of Earthsea and examines the significance of this in terms of "gendering" the text. Part two examines the revisioned text Tehanu and the ways in which the …
In The Space Behind His Eyes : Donald R. Stuart : A Biography, Sally Clarke
In The Space Behind His Eyes : Donald R. Stuart : A Biography, Sally Clarke
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
The major part of this thesis, In the Space Behind His Eyes, is a biography of Western Australian author, Donald Robert Stuart (1913-1983), a colourful life story woven around accepted and persistent myths found in the Australian psyche. In his childhood, Donald Stuart listened to stories about his Scottish immigrant grandfather finding gold on the Victorian fields and his father's part in the 1891 Queensland Shearers strike. His poverty-stricken, but peaceful, upbringing in suburban Perth, Western Australia, was overtaken by the 1930s Depression and, as a rebellious fourteen-year old, he left home and took to the road. In the next …