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Burns, Kathryn E. "This other Eden exploring a sense of place in twentieth-century reconstructions of Australian childhoods /." Connect to full text, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1691.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2007.<br>Title from title screen (viewed 25 March 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2007; thesis submitted 2006. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

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Smith, Yvonne J. "Brightness under our shoes the redress of the poetic imagination in the poetry and prose of David Malouf 1960-1982 /." Connect to full text, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5139.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2009.<br>Title from title screen (viewed July 13, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2009; thesis submitted 2008. Includes appendices. Includes bibliography. Also available in print form.

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Grossman, Michèle 1957. "Entangled subjects : talk and text in collaborative indigenous Australian life-writing." Monash University, School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies, 2004. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5269.

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Taaffe, Benjamin James Stewart Douglas. "Douglas Stewart poet, editor, man of letters /." Connect to full text, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5765.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 1996.<br>Title from title screen (viewed December 9, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 1996; thesis submitted 1995. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

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Lindsey, Travis B. "Arthur William Upfield : a biography /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20051003.113934.

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Burns, Kathryn E. "This Other Eden: Exploring a Sense of Place in Twentieth-Century Reconstructions of Australian Childhoods." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1691.

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This thesis explores the sense of place formed during childhood, as remembered by adult Australians who reconstruct their youth through various forms of life writing. While Australian writers do utilize traditional tropes of Western autobiography, such as the mythology of Eden and the Wordsworthian image of the child communing with Nature, these themes are frequently transformed to meet a uniquely Australian context. Isolation and distance from Europe, and the apparent indifference of our landscape towards white settlement, have received much critical attention in Australian studies generally

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McDonell, Margaret. "The invisible hand : cross-cultural influence on editorial practice /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18021.pdf.

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Sun, Christine Yunn-Yu. "The construction of "Chinese" cultural identity : English-language writing by Australian and other authors with Chinese ancestry." Monash University, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, 2004. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5438.

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Steggall, Stephany. "Colin Thiele : double vision : a biographical study of an Australian writer and educator / Stephany Evans Steggall." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18600.pdf.

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Kynoch, Hope. "The life and works of Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson." Monash University, National Centre for Australian Studies, 1999. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8564.

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Miley, Linda. "White writing black : issues of authorship and authenticity in non-indigenous representations of Australian Aboriginal fictional characters." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16485/1/Linda_Miley_Thesis.pdf.

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This creative practice-led thesis is in two parts - a novella entitled Leaning into the Light and an exegesis dealing with issues for creative writers who are non-Indigenous engaging with Indigenous characters and inter-cultural relationships. The novella is based on a woman's tale of a cross cultural friendship and is set in a Queensland Cape York Aboriginal community over a period of fifteen years. Leaning into the Light is for the most part set in the late 1960s, and as such tracks some of the social and personal cost of colonisation through its depiction of Indigenous and non-Indigenous r

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Miley, Linda. "White writing black : issues of authorship and authenticity in non-indigenous representations of Australian Aboriginal fictional characters." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16485/.

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This creative practice-led thesis is in two parts - a novella entitled Leaning into the Light and an exegesis dealing with issues for creative writers who are non-Indigenous engaging with Indigenous characters and inter-cultural relationships. The novella is based on a woman's tale of a cross cultural friendship and is set in a Queensland Cape York Aboriginal community over a period of fifteen years. Leaning into the Light is for the most part set in the late 1960s, and as such tracks some of the social and personal cost of colonisation through its depiction of Indigenous and non-Indigenous r

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Skyes, Gillian E. "The new woman in the new world : fin-de-siècle writing and feminism in Australia." Phd thesis, Faculty of Arts, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16473.

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Muller, Vivienne. "Imagining Brisbane : narratives of the city 1975-1995 / by Vivienne Muller." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18488.pdf.

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Hawryluk, Lynda J., University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and of Communication Design and Media School. "Call waiting." THESIS_CAESS_CDM_Hawryluk_L.xml, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/6.

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This thesis examines the life and career of Bret Easton Ellis, and the influences of his work on the author's development as a writer. Part one encapsulates a novel written specifically for this thesis. 'Call waiting' is a harsh look at modern friendships, the role of work in these relationships and the proliferation of shallow communication through the advent of email. A critical reflection follows, examining the process that led to the novel's creation. Three specific areas are focussed on: the direct influence of Ellis' novel 'The rules of attraction' on the overall themes of 'Call waiting'

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Bode, Katherine. "In/visibility : women looking at men's bodies in and through contemporary Australian women's fiction /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://adt.library.uq.edu.au/public/adt-QU20060120.161127/index.html.

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Hawryluk, Lynda J. "Call waiting." Thesis, View thesis View thesis, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/6.

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This thesis examines the life and career of Bret Easton Ellis, and the influences of his work on the author's development as a writer. Part one encapsulates a novel written specifically for this thesis. 'Call waiting' is a harsh look at modern friendships, the role of work in these relationships and the proliferation of shallow communication through the advent of email. A critical reflection follows, examining the process that led to the novel's creation. Three specific areas are focussed on: the direct influence of Ellis' novel 'The rules of attraction' on the overall themes of 'Call waiting'

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Hawryluk, Lynda J. "Call waiting /." View thesis View thesis, 2001. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030422.094611/index.html.

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Nanlohy, Elizabeth Mavis, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Fundamentalism meets feminism: Postmodern confrontation in the work of Janette Turner Hospital." Deakin University. School of Literary and Communication Studies, 2000. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20060720.090953.

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Spear, Peta. "Libertine : a novel & A writer's reflection : the Libertine dynamic : existential erotic and apocalyptic Gothic /." View thesis, 1998. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030909.143230/index.html.

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Anderson, Emma Kate School of English UNSW. "Representations of female sexuality in chick-lit texts and reading Anais Nin on the train." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/27319.

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My critical essay uses Foucault???s theory of discursive formation to chart the emergence of the figure of the single modern woman as she is created by the various discourses surrounding her. It argues that representations of the single modern woman continue a tradition of perceiving the female body as a source of social anxiety. The project explores ???chick-lit??? as a site within the discursive formation from which the single modern woman emerges as a paradoxical figure; the paradoxes fundamentally linked to her sexuality. This essay, then, essentially seeks to investigate representations o

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Kato, Megumi Humanities &amp Social Sciences Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Representations of Japan and Japanese people in Australian literature." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38718.

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This thesis is a broadly chronological study of representations of Japan and the Japanese in Australian novels, stories and memoirs from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. Adopting Edward Said???s Orientalist notion of the `Other???, it attempts to elaborate patterns in which Australian authors describe and evaluate the Japanese. As well as examining these patterns of representation, this thesis outlines the course of their development and change over the years, how they relate to the context in which they occur, and how they contribute to the formation of wider Austral

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Brooklyn, Bridget. "Something old, something new : divorce and divorce law in South Australia, 1859-1918." Title page, contents and summary only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phb872.pdf.

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McFarland, Michele. "The intellectual life of Catherine Helen Spence." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2004. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/60437.

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This thesis will argue that Catherine Helen Spence, a writer, preacher and reformer who migrated from Scotland to Australia in 1839, performed the role of a public intellectual in Australia similar to that played by a number of women of letters in Victorian England. While her ideas were strongly influenced by important British and European nineteenth-century intellectual figures and movements, as well as by Enlightenment thought, her work also reflects the different socio-political, historical and cultural environment of Australia. These connections and influences can be seen in her engagement

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Spear, Peta. "Libertine : a novel and A writer's reflection : the Libertine dynamic: existential erotic and apocalyptic Gothic." Thesis, View thesis, 1998. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/26115.

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This thesis comprises two works: a novel ‘Libertine’ and a monograph ‘A writer’s reflection’. ‘Libertine’contemplates the eroticising and brutalising of being, and sex as currency, as need and as sacrament. It is set in a city where war is the norm, nightmare the standard, and ancient deities are called upon to witness the new order of killing technologies. The story is narrated by a woman chosen to be the consort of the General, a despostic war leader who believes that he has been chosen by the goddess Kali. She journeys deep into a horror which exists not only around her, but also within her

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Watkins, Catherine, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Celebrating difference." Deakin University. School of Communication and Creative Arts, 2004. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050915.120943.

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This thesis examines short fiction and some poetry by writers from four different Australian cultural communities, the Indigenous community, and the Jewish, Chinese and Middle-Eastern communities. I have chosen to study the most recent short fiction available from a selection of writing which originates from each culture. In the chapters on Chinese-Australian and Middle-Eastern Australian fiction I have examined some poetry if it contributes to the subject matter under discussion. In this study I show how the short story form is used as a platform for these writers to express views on their ow

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Sawada, Keiji. "From The floating world to The 7 stages of grieving the presentation of contemporary Australian plays in Japan /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/13213.

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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Society, Culture, Media & Philosophy, Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, 2005.<br>Bibliography: p. 274-291.<br>Introduction -- The emergence of "honyakugeki" -- Shôgekijô and the quest for national identity -- "Honyakugeki" after the rise of Shôgekijô -- The presentation of Australian plays as "honyakugeki" -- Representations of Aborigines in Japan -- Minorities in Japan and theatre -- The Japanese productions of translated Aboriginal plays -- Significance of the productions of Aboriginal plays in Japan -- Conclusion.<br>Many Austra

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Ribas, Segura Catalina. "“Neither here and nor there does water quench our thirst”: Duty, Obedience and Identity in Greek-Australian and Chinese Australian Prose Fiction, 1971-2005." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/132804.

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This thesis presents original research: it examines the constructs of duty and obedience in post-World War II Greek-Australian and Chinese Australian literature and compares the strategies these first- and second-generation authors use to make their fictional characters deal with these concepts while living in Australia, the problems their characters face and the solutions they encounter. This thesis analyses ten texts: six written by Greek-Australian authors and four by Chinese Australian writers. It aims to examine how the above-mentioned cultural concepts appear in these texts and influe

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Thoday, Heather Frances. "Lived spaces of representation : thirdspace and Janette Turner Hospital's political praxis of postmodernism /." Title page, abstract and table of contents only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09pht449.pdf.

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Taaffe, Benjamin James. "Douglas Stewart : poet, editor, man of letters." Phd thesis, Department of English, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5765.

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Pratt, Catherine Cecilia English Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Gender ideology and narrative form in the novels of Henry Handel Richardson." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of English, 1994. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38688.

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This thesis is a feminist reading of the work of Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946), which considers her four major novels: Maurice Guest (1908), The Getting of Wisdom (1910), The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1930), and The Young Cosima (1939). It proposes that Richardson foregrounds the work of gender ideology in her novels, and that her work is also conscious about its own fictional procedures. This thesis argues that Richardson consciously examines the ideological aspect of narrative modes, such as naturalism, the Bildungsroman, and popular romance. Moreover, it illustrates her attempts to

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Rukavina, Alison Jane. "Cultural Darwinism and the literary canon, a comparative study of Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the Bush and Caroline Leakey's The broad arrow." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ61491.pdf.

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Hawryluk, Lynda J. "Semi-detached." Thesis, View thesis, 1997. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/28403.

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This collection of short stories is about being a twenty-something in the 90s, trying to get by, have a little fun and make somewhat of a mark in the process. It’s about the process of growing up, and the seemingly desperate need to hold onto all those youthful pursuits. It’s about finding out that life as an adult tries to suck the life out of you, rather than allowing you to suck the life out of it. That constant struggle, the battle of wills between attending to your needs or just satisfying your wants. This is a time for you when your needs and wants are siblings, bickering in the back of

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Clarke, Patricia, and n/a. "Life Lines to Life Stories: Some Publications About Women in Nineteenth-Century Australia." Griffith University. School of Arts, Media and Culture, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040719.150756.

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This thesis consists of an introduction and six of my books, published between 1985 and 1999, on aspects of the history of women in nineteenth-century Australia. The books are The Governesses: Letters from the Colonies 1862-1882 (1985); A Colonial Woman: The Life and Times of Mary Braidwood Mowle 1827-1857 (1986); Pen Portraits: Women Writers and Journalists in Nineteenth Century Australia (1988); Pioneer Writer: The Life of Louisa Atkinson, Novelist, Journalist, Naturalist (1990); Tasma: The Life of Jessie Couvreur (1994); and Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist (1999)

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Clarke, Patricia. "Life Lines to Life Stories: Some Publications About Women in Nineteenth-Century Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365578.

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This thesis consists of an introduction and six of my books, published between 1985 and 1999, on aspects of the history of women in nineteenth-century Australia. The books are The Governesses: Letters from the Colonies 1862-1882 (1985); A Colonial Woman: The Life and Times of Mary Braidwood Mowle 1827-1857 (1986); Pen Portraits: Women Writers and Journalists in Nineteenth Century Australia (1988); Pioneer Writer: The Life of Louisa Atkinson, Novelist, Journalist, Naturalist (1990); Tasma: The Life of Jessie Couvreur (1994); and Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist (1999)

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Williams, Carol. "Whose story is it anyway? : the screenwriter as author in the process of adaptation." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/74500/1/Carol_Williams_Thesis.pdf.

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This project explores issues confronted when authoring a previously authored story, one received from history. Using the defection of Soviet spies, Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov as its focal point, it details how a screenwriter addresses issues arising in the adaptation of both fictional and biographical representations suitable for contemporary cinema. Textual fidelity and concepts of interpretation, aesthetics and audience, negotiating factual and fictional imperatives, authorial visibility and invisibility, moral and ethical conundrums are negotiated and a set of guiding principles emerge fr

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Pavis, Mathilde Goizane Alice. "The author-performer divide in intellectual property law : a comparative analysis of the American, Australian, British and French legal frameworks." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/23692.

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Western intellectual property frameworks have at least one feature in common: performers are less protected than authors. This situation knows many justifications, although all but one have been dismissed by the literature: performers are simply less creative than authors. As a result, the legal protection covering their work has been proportionally reduced compared to that of their authorial peers. This thesis investigates this phenomenon that it calls the 'author-performer divide'. It uncovers the culturally-rooted principles and legal reasoning that policy-makers and judges of Australia, Fr

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Brown, Diane. "Publishing Culture : Commissioning Books in Australia, 1970-2000." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/304/1/Brown_Diane.pdf.

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This study primarily examines the cultural and commercial practices of editors and publishers who commission and acquire content in independent Australian publishing houses. My research spans a 30-year transitional period in book publishing from 1970 to 2000 - a period marked by rapid and unstable shifts in publishing culture, reflecting wider social, political, economic and technological change. In a global market economy, more than ever before, the acquisition of local content is critical in fostering original ideas and works by Australian authors. A series of semi-structured interviews with

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Brown, K. "The Effects of Teaching a Specific Top-Level Structure on the Organization of Written Texts." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1994. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1697.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching a specific top-level structure on students' recall and organization of expository text. The hypothesis to be investigated was that students explicitly taught the scientific report text structure schema would show improved recall and organization of written report text protocols. The report text structure utilized in this study was derived from Sloan and Latham's top-level structure of text organization devised from schema theory and semantic memory models.

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Conte, Susannah. "The Fifth Sparrow: In Memory of Mollie Skinner." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2018. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2080.

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This thesis offers a case study in adapting Australian literary biography to the theatre, specifically in the form of a one woman show or monologue performance. The thesis consists of a novel play script, together with exegetical writing which outlines the source materials used and the process and themes under consideration. These themes include those of family (specifically a difficult relationship with her mother), love (including a lesbian affair), life as an aspiring writer, and the protagonist’s difficult to shake sense of damage, pain and struggle. The play offers a portrait of West Aust

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Brown, Diane. "Publishing Culture : Commissioning Books in Australia, 1970-2000." Thesis, Connect to this title online, 2003. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/304/.

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This study primarily examines the cultural and commercial practices of editors and publishers who commission and acquire content in independent Australian publishing houses. My research spans a 30-year transitional period in book publishing from 1970 to 2000 - a period marked by rapid and unstable shifts in publishing culture, reflecting wider social, political, economic and technological change. In a global market economy, more than ever before, the acquisition of local content is critical in fostering original ideas and works by Australian authors. A series of semi-structured interviews with

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Clarke, Sally. "In the space behind his eyes : Donald R. Stuart : a biography." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2004. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/857.

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The major part of this thesis, In the Space Behind His Eyes, is a biography of Western Australian author, Donald Robert Stuart (1913-1983), a colourful life story woven around accepted and persistent myths found in the Australian psyche. In his childhood, Donald Stuart listened to stories about his Scottish immigrant grandfather finding gold on the Victorian fields and his father's part in the 1891 Queensland Shearers strike. His poverty-stricken, but peaceful, upbringing in suburban Perth, Western Australia, was overtaken by the 1930s Depression and, as a rebellious fourteen-year old, he left

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Carroll, Richard J. "Re-presenting the past : authenticity and the historical novel." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/68033/1/Richard_Carroll_Thesis.pdf.

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This project involved writing Turrwan (great man), a novel set in Queensland in the nineteenth century, and an investigation into the way historical novels portray the past. Turrwan tells the story of Tom Petrie, who was six when he arrived with his family at the notorious Moreton Bay Penal Colony in 1837. The thesis examines historical fiction as a genre with particular focus on notions of historical authenticity. It analyses the complexities involved in a non-Indigenous person writing about the Australian Aboriginal people, and reflects on the process of researching, planning and writing a h

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Holzer, Valarie. "Unveiling the female `I' : autobiographies by Australian women born in the 1920s." Thesis, 1991. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/20353/1/whole_HolzerValarie1992_thesis.pdf.

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This study fulfils the need for research into autobiographies of writers who have a number ot common traits which will provide specific conclusions about the art of autobiography. Unveiling the Female ' I' ; Autobiographies by Australian Women Born in the 1920s looks at works by fourteen writers who share the same nationality, gender and decade of birth. The Introduction documents the elusiveness of women's autobiographies and briefly surveys the critical situation to date, noting the lack of consensus in just what an autobiography is. Criteria have been established for extracting w

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Court, David Compton. "Shakespeare's Fortune: how copyright has failed authors and why it matters." Phd thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/12432.

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A key policy rationale for the system of copyright is to give authors an incentive to create new works. But what if actual financial returns to authors were very poor — so poor that no rational agent could be expected to respond to the incentive? In this thesis I present data from a large sample of Australian films showing that returns are consistently poor even for ‘hit’ films. Data from other countries confirms the finding and there is evidence that returns from other forms of copyright asset such as literary works are also poor. The thesis explores how this situation can have persisted fo

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Waese, Rebecca. "When novels perform history : dramatic modes in Australian and Canadian fiction /." 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR51491.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2008. Graduate Programme in English.<br>Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 218-234). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR51491

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Shoemaker, Adam. "Black words, white page : the nature and history of Aboriginal literature, 1929-1984." Phd thesis, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/139397.

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Capili, Jose Wendell P. "Migrations and mediations : the emergence of Southeast Asian diaspora writers in Australia, 1972-2006." Phd thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150957.

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Tan, Yvette Ek Hiang. "Discourses of multiculturalism and contemporary Asian-Australian literature / Yvette Ek Hiang Tan." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/22044.

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"April 2003"<br>Bibliography: leaves 233-258.<br>vii, 258 leaves ; 30 cm.<br>Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.<br>Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, Discipline of English, 2004

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Vines, HMM. "The secret life of us : Eve Langley and her family." Thesis, 2008. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/22212/1/whole_VinesHelenMargaretMcDonald2008_thesis.pdf.

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Eve Langley (1904-1974) is an enigmatic figure who made her mark on Australian literature with the publication of The Pea Pickers (1942). As Eve destroyed the original journals and letters upon which The Pea Pickers-and subsequent fiction-was based, her two published and ten unpublished novels stand as the only existing account of her life up until 1942. Although all researchers have been mindful of the hazards of reading the fiction as autobiography, in the absence of an alternative account of her "self," the fiction has segued into her biography and her biography has leached into readings of

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