Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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'Bear up, my heart!' : endurance in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Published 2013Homeric man endures by resolutely facing death, and by cautiously fleeing from it. He endures by standing his ground in battle, and by retreating from it; by steeling himself to act, and by remaining passive; by daring ...Open AccessThesis -
Manifesto 87
Published 2012As we wizz through Space-time, aboard this tiny and fragile little rock called Earth, we often look up into the Universe and speculate to ourselves as to what may be out there, why we are here and quite literally, what ...Open AccessThesis -
Self-representation and Respectability as Instruments of Empire in the Life and Works of Ellen Augusta Chads (E.A.C.)
Published 2012In 1891 a book of romantic short stories was published in Melbourne by George Robertson and Company. Its title was Tracked by Bushrangers and Other Stories, and it was bound together with Work for the Master; a Series o ...Open AccessThesis -
The Organic Grotesque in the Visual arts : The visual representation of abnormal organic growth found in nature, the graphic arts, painting, assemblage and the human body
Published 2013The dissertation takes the porosity of human skin as a starting point for a series of investigations into an aesthetic category that I have termed, the ‘organic grotesque’. The neologism was devised as an orienting device ...Open AccessThesis -
Comparative Freedoms : Conceptions of Personal Freedom in post 1950 American, Australian and Chinese fiction
Published 2013My thesis, ‘Comparative Freedoms: Conceptions of Freedom in post-1950 American, Australian and Chinese Fiction’ seeks to investigate the transcultural continuities and discontinuities in liberal thinking concerning ...Open AccessThesis