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Juan Marsé: Broadening the Definition of the Catalan Nation

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 ...
We Can Be Heroes: A Study of Mythistoric Genealogies in the Roman Republic

Thomas, Steven (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Mythistoric genealogies, the claims of divine or heroic ancestry made by the Roman elite during the Republic, provide an alternative lens through which to understand social constructs and political experiences of Romans. ...
Bog Bodies: Archaeological Narratives and Modern Identity.

Stewart, Lydia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Lindow Man, the British Bog Body discovered in 1984, and the Danish examples Tollund and Grauballe Men, discovered in 1950 and 1952, represent quite literally the violent face of a confrontational past. But what exactly ...
The prophet, the mother, the avenger: An examination of Gaia's cult worship and the "bricolage" in her myth

Draper, Eilish (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis is a study of the cult of the Greek goddess Gaia (Gē). Gaia’s cult has long been interpreted by scholars though the lens of her mythical roles. She featured in literature as the mother of the Titans, as an ...
Wāhine: antologia annotata di poetesse neozelandesi contemporanee in traduzione italiana

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 ...
The Making of Minjian: Yi Sha's Poetics and Poetry Activities

Liang, Yujing (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis investigates and critiques the notion of minjian through a case study of Yi Sha 伊沙 (b. 1966), a key figure of Chinese minjian poetry since its emergence in the 1990s. The term minjian became a focal point during ...
The Impact Of Pac Policy On Pacific Women’s Health And Wellbeing: The Experiences Of Kiribati Migrants

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 ...
Thanks for the Memories: The Athenian Agora as a Lieu de Mémoire

Liu, Ziming (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The relationship between memory and place can often be expressed through association. When one thinks of the birthplace of democracy, it does not tax the imagination for Athens and the Athenian Agora to spring to mind. The ...
The Evolution of Tyrant Tropes in Greek Tragedy

Hann, Charlie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Tyranny (tyrannis) is a name given to a type of Greek monarchy that came into being in the seventh century B.C.E. The democratisation of Greece and the transference of aristocratic ideas of equality and liberty to the whole ...
Agencies in English Translations of Contemporary Chinese Women Writers: A Contextual, Paratextual and Textual Study

Jiang, Mengying (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The concept of agency has been frequently applied in translation studies (TS), especially in sociology of translation, but is still ill-defined, with no agreement on what it is precisely. This research discusses agency ...
Translating Contemporary New Zealand Poetry into French: Anna Jackson and Robert Sullivan

Arnault, Luc (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis aims to explore the translation process through an in-depth analysis of a large corpus of texts: the works of two contemporary New Zealand poets, Anna Jackson and Robert Sullivan, which I translate into French. ...
AIDŌS did not prevent her: An intertextual approach to Komnene's depictions of women in positions of power

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, ...
Drawing on the Past, Regenerating the Present: A Comparison of the Works of Ayi Kwei Armah and Nicolás Guillén

Novieto, Setor Donné (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Novelist Ayi Kwei Armah and poet Nicolás Guillén are, respectively, Ghanaian and Cuban writers who embody the efforts of mid-twentieth-century artists to depict the day-to-day socio-political conditions and struggles of ...
'O li'ili'I 'o lisega 'o le fanaa'e: Missionary and government influences on Samoan language change 1906-2014

Tuimuaiava, Sadat Petelo (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The arrival of the missionaries and foreign administrations¹ in Sāmoa in 1830 and 1900, respectively, initiated a surge in the integration of foreign types (words) in the gagana Sāmoa (Samoan language). To date, research ...
"Facci Lei!": Subtitling Humour in 'Fantozzi' (1975)

McKenzie, Rory (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Subtitling provides scholars and translators alike with the challenge of negotiating meaning across languages and cultures in an extremely limited space. The subtitler faces many restrictions than can severely affect a ...
YA Literature: A Genre on the Rise. Challenges and Strategies in Translating the Imaginary World of Elizabeth Knox’s Southland Saga

Bell, Florencia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Young Adult (YA) literature has taken the publishing industry by storm since J.K. Rowling published the first novel of her Harry Potter saga (1997-2007). From then on, the genre has exponentially grown expanding to other ...
Modernity through syncretism and eclecticism: Wu Guanzhong's artistic practice in the cultural and political environment of the PRC (1949-1989)

Liu, Wenwen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This thesis examines Wu Guanzhong’s 吴冠中 (1919-2010) art and art theory in the context of socialist and post-socialist China. Wu’s art came to maturation through a sophisticated syncretism of Chinese and Western painting ...
Aegean diffusions - Diffusions of power: Cultural connections between Minoan Crete and Pharaonic Egypt

Kerr-Harris, Vinko (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

The development of Minoan society has traditionally been considered by scholars to have been an insular phenomenon unique to the southern Aegean. Such assumptions, however, fail to acknowledge the wider context of the ...
Memories of the Manicomio: Representations of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Institutions in Contemporary Italian Writing

Bello, Eleonora (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

In the long-standing relationship between mental illness and literature in Italy, where historically literary and medical discourses on neurosis have been intertwined, the criticism of mental institutions has stood out as ...
(Re)Viewing the Other: Gender Subversions in IndoFijian Performances

Shandil, Vicky (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Cultural performances are more than forms of entertainment and vehicles for conveying social and religious traditions. These acts are political acts that can exceed their role of promulgating hegemonic formations and instead ...