Arts: Theses and Dissertations
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HMNZS Royalist : a vessel of compliance : New Zealand and the Suez Canal crisis of 1956
(2000)This thesis illustrates a case study of New Zealand's political and naval involvement during the Suez Canal crisis of 1956, and examines the consequences of small state 'compliance' with the policies of a larger power ... -
Daughters fight the empire : cinematic allegory, family breakdown, and the empire-settler colony relationship
(2000)'Settler' post-colonial theory attributes an importance to the study of white settler cultures struggling to assert their identity from within the double bind of confronting past and present relationships with the indigenous ... -
L.N. Tolstoy's "The Kreutzer sonata" as a work on the body politic
(1999)This thesis examines L. N. Tolstoy's representation of sexuality in late nineteenth-century Russia through his novella, The Kreutzer Sonata (1889).* I draw on recent theoretical works of Michel Foucault and Alphonso Lingis ... -
Seeing Friday : problems of perception and reception in post-colonial theatre
(1998)Through his spy-glass, a man watches naked savages dancing on the beach far below. This thesis centres on this iconic scene from Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, used as a paradigm for the problems of perception in the theatre. ... -
The rift within : conflicts within the mother-daughter relationship in Indo-English fictional works by selected women authors from 1970 to 2000
(2000)This thesis researches the fictional portrayals of the conflicts, active and present in mother-daughter relationships, in the works of Indian women authors in English, within the last three decades. A brief socio-historical ... -
The Spartans in Thucydides
(1999)This study will analyse Thucydides' presentation of the Spartans. Does Thucydides present a consistent portrayal of the Spartans or does he evaluate the Spartans' performance case by case? If Thucydides does indeed present ... -
Civic and ethnic nationalism in Pakistan.
(2022)In this thesis, Pakistan's experience with nationalism is studied by highlighting the interplay of civic, ethnic, and religious nationalism. This study also focuses on understanding education's role in creating a shared ... -
Redeveloping Cathedral Square, Christchurch : the English landscape and the maintenance of social control
(1998)Changes in the central city of Christchurch over the last decade have followed a similar form to urban trends throughout the capitalist world. These changes include: inner city enhancement, investment into tourism and ... -
Watching the savages dance : problems and possibilities of creating post-colonial performance in a bi-cultural country
(1998)This thesis will examine the question of how to perform the cultural Other in New Zealand, utilising Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as the text for performance. This text provides a relevance to New Zealand through various ... -
Celebrating women and the goddess : six women's perceptions of goddess spirituality
(2000)Goddess Spirituality is both a new social movement and a form of spirituality. It has increased in terms of the numbers of members and also in influence. This influence can be measured by its impact on mainstream contemporary ... -
Analysing the EU’s global regulatory actorness and influence : a China case.
(2022)This thesis is an attempt to contribute to the discussion of the European Union’s (EU) global regulatory actorness and what it means to the current world. It argues that the EU has transcended the role of an influential ... -
The art of meditation : the development of the Book of Hours and its use in private prayer
(2000)The Book of Hours was the prayer book of the laity during the Middle Ages. Its core was the Little Office of Our Lady, a set of devotional texts to be recited at each of the canonical hours, which became part of the Psalter ... -
Public relations in central government in New Zealand
(1994)James Grunig (1989) argues that public relations with the goal of mutual understanding (the two-way symmetrical model) is the most ethical, moral and effective. This model was used as an ideal to analyse public relations ... -
Divya astras (divine weapons) and tejas (fiery energy) in the Mahābhārata and Rāmāya
(1998)Hinduism's two major epics, the Mahilbhiirata and the Riimiiya,:ia, are full of divine weapon (divya astra) combat, quests, and histories. The divine weapons are governed by an identifiable set of principles, which pertain ... -
Troubled journeys : an analysis of women's reality and experience within New Zealand gangs
(2000)New Zealand's gangs are known as staunch male domains, yet women have been involved since gangs were conceived, as partners of gang members or unattached associates. Research in this area is sporadic and limited, with focus ... -
Octavius Hadfield and the Waitara dispute
(1972)The “causes” of the Anglo-Maori Wars have long provided, and doubtless will continue to provide, a fruitful topic for debate and contention among historians. Perhaps the most valuable contributions to this debate have ... -
Aristotle's account of ethical development
(2000)What is it to be a person of good character? And how do we develop a good character? In answer to these questions I will trace Aristotle's account of ethical development, the development of a person's character. My principal ... -
Deprivation to destruction? : a look at Reich, Azari and the Iranian Revolution
(1999)In 1933 Wilhelm Reich wrote The Mass Psychology of fascism to psychologically explain the attraction of Hitler to the people of Germany, claiming that the combination of sexual suppression, religiosity and authoritarian ... -
Revealing the language of thought
(2000)Language of thought theories fall primarily into two views. The first view sees the language of thought as an innate language known as mentalese, which is hypothesized to operate at a level below conscious awareness while ...
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