Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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Humanism, Social Realism and Normative Ethics in John Sayles' Casa de los Babys
Published 2013The filmmaker John Sayles has often been described as a humanist, and his works "humanistic dramas." This dissertation inquires into contemporary humanism and its use in cinematic narrative, foregrounding the work of ...Open AccessThesis -
Term structure modelling using the Nelson-Siegel framework
Published 2012Nelson and Siegel [1987] introduce a smooth exponential function to analyze the term structure of interest rates. This greatly facilitates the literature in the Nelson-Siegel model family. In this thesis, the Nelson- Siegel ...Open AccessThesis -
Breakage mechanics in large granular flow problems
Published 2012This thesis makes a first attempt to tackle large granular flow problems with grain crushing within a continuum mechanics framework. That is, a special finite element (FE) technique, the Eulerian method, is employed to ...Open AccessThesis -
Of being and becoming
Published 2013My Master of Fine Arts work titled Of being and becoming will be exhibited at the Sydney College of the Arts Graduate Exhibition in December 2012. The series explores mimesis in the re-staging of intergenerational ...Open AccessThesis -
'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