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The siren song: Identity, belonging and Australian artists abroad, 1890-1914
Published 2013-01-01
This thesis is concerned with the siren-call that lured Australian artists abroad between 1890 and 1914, and the considerations of both identity and belonging that this travel allowed, instigated and perhaps demanded. This ...
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PhD Doctorate
Shanghai cosmo-politics: the young middle class in the global city
Published 2013-01-01
This thesis explores how class and the cosmopolitan intersect in Shanghai as a city globalising under the gaze of the developmental state. Shanghai brands itself as a city successfully anticipating the demands of global ...
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PhD Doctorate
Germany, Palestine, Israel and the (Post-)Colonial Imagination
Published 2013-01-01
This thesis explores the complex and multifaceted relationship between Germany and Palestine from the mid-nineteenth century to 1948 and its effect on the post-war relationship between West Germany and Israel until 1967. ...
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PhD Doctorate
Contemporary Chilean-Australian Relations: Transpacific Connections and Discursive Trajectories
Published 2013-01-01
This thesis breaks fresh ground as a comparative study between contemporary Australia and Chile from a socio-historical, cultural and geopolitical point of view within the focus of the Free Trade Agreement – FTA – signed ...
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PhD Doctorate
Amniotic fluid cell-free RNA: A novel source of information about human development
Published 2013-01-01
Amniotic fluid (AF) is a complex, dynamic solution that surrounds the fetus and contains cell-free fetal (cff) RNA. Study aims The overall objective of this thesis was to investigate AF cff RNA as a source of fetal gene ...
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PhD Doctorate
Characteristics of the Supranormal Speaking Voice: Radio Performers
Published 2013-01-01
Characteristics of the Supranormal Speaking Voice: Radio Performers Radio performers use their voices to communicate with their audiences and compete in the radio marketplace. This thesis aimed to investigate what makes a ...
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PhD Doctorate
Response to Language Choice in Advertising targeting Italian English Bilinguals: the role of Language Dominance and Language Attitudes
Published 2013-01-01
This thesis explores response to advertising in English and in Italian among Italian English bilinguals in Australia. More specifically, it investigates whether bilinguals respond in a different way to advertising in Italian ...
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PhD Doctorate
Finding Religion in Popular Culture: An Examination of Old and New Media and the Dissemination of Information about pre-Christian and Minority Religions
Published 2013-01-01
This thesis will address the representation of pre-Christian and minority religions in three popular culture media. It sketches the rise of ‘re-enchantment’ in the eighteenth century and its elevation of Romantic pre-Christian ...
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PhD Doctorate
Subverting narrative: unreliability and textual ethics in Atwood, McEwan, Rushdie and Foer
Published 2013-01-01
In order to define an aesthetics of ethical, self-aware fiction, and to outline the ethics implicit in an aesthetic understanding of narrative, this thesis utilizes narrative theory in a close analysis of four relatively ...
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PhD Doctorate
Venom and vivisection in the colonial antipodes, 1788–1914
Published 2013-01-01
This thesis tracks venomous animals across the colonial landscape, from European arrival to World War I. It explores how these creatures and their toxins were known in the antipodes, from Indigenous testimony and folkbiology ...
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PhD Doctorate