Guisasola, Dana(Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
This thesis argues that Catalan writer Juan Marsé (1933-2020) proposes, in a number of his novels, a postmodern construction of concepts of national identity in the case of Catalonia. The novels which are analysed in this ...
Namoori-Sinclair, Rose(Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
This research examines in-depth the health and wellbeing experiences of 30 Kiribati migrant women navigating their way to achieve New Zealand permanent residency under the Pacific Access Category (PAC) policy. The political ...
Hayden, Kassy(Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
Honoré de Balzac is most often celebrated for his realist fiction, but what is less well-known is that he also had philosophical aspirations, and published numerous analytical works which have largely been overlooked by ...
Benocci, Francesca(Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
This thesis is a case study in literary translation. It consists of a creative component (60%) — an anthology of contemporary New Zealand women poetry translated into Italian — and a critical component (40%) — an ...
Jardine, Claudia(Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
Anna Komnene depicts several women in positions of power in the Alexiad, the earliest extant historiographical text written by a woman from the Byzantine period. The intertextual qualities of these depictions of women, ...