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Carfoot, Gavin. "Deleuze and music : a creative approach to the study of music." Thesis, University of Queensland, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/69425/1/69425.pdf.

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The work of Gilles Deleuze has influenced an increasing number of music scholars and practicing musicians, particularly those interested in experimental, electronic and popular music. This is despite the notoriously complex nature of his writings, and the specialised theoretical vocabulary that he employs. This thesis both demystifies some of the key terms and concepts of this vocabulary, before demonstrating how Deleuze’s ideas may be put to work in new and fruitful ways; this is achieved with specific reference to the relationships that music has with thought, time and machines. In Chapter 1

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Bemelmans, Josephus Wilhelmus Maria. "Charlotte Bronte and the uses of creative writing : a study in function and form." Thesis, University of Hull, 1988. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:7027.

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This study examines the functions of Bronte's "scribblemania" at each stage of her intellectual and emotional development, as well as the narrative forms, many originating in the exceptional visual qualities of her imagination, which she employed to shape her thoughts into fictional correlatives. Young Bronte, while indifferent to contemporary fiction, aspired to become a painter, and looked upon her prose writings as a diary. Between 1829 and 1833, she recorded her visions of the realm of artists and poets in which she hoped one day to participate. In 1834 and early 1835, while the career in

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Holland-Batt, Sarah. "The Gurney: Poetry, Ekphrasis and the Abject Image." Thesis, The University of Queensland, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/134345/1/s40063672_final_thesis.pdf.

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This research project, situated in the field of creative writing, comprises a creative project, my third book-length collection of lyric poems, The Gurney, and an accompanying exegetical essay, “The Unmistakable Topography of a Body: Poetry, Ekphrasis and the Abject Image.” In The Gurney, I pursue themes and subjects that have preoccupied me as a poet to date, including ekphrasis, travel, violence and extinction in the natural world, the end of love, and the intersections between place, landscape, and history, as well as the new personal and confessional territory of my father’s descent into P

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La, Follette Tavia. "Sites of Passage: Art as Action in Egypt and the US-- Creating an Autoethnography Through Performance Writing, Revolution, and Social Practice." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1365450771.

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Lewis, Madeline B. "MillefleurFrom Description to Dialogue: A Pedagogical Approach to Ekphrastic Writing." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564431243399891.

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Riber, Henrik, and Pontus Sjögren. "Motivation in Creative Writing." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-35292.

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This paper aims to investigate to what extent creative writing promotes motivation for EFL learners to write. A report published by the National Assessment Project (NAFS) commissioned by The Swedish National Agency for Education evaluated the national tests in English for Swedish students during 2018/2019, documenting that the Swedish students obtained the lowest English scores on writing. This result corresponds with the national test scores in English from earlier years. According to The Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket, 2019) motivation is a necessary component for L2 learn

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Minor, Sarah M. "Beasts of the Interior: Visual Essays." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1554390195795843.

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De, Maci Lola De Julio. "Curriculum design in creative writing." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1012.

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Armstrong, Keith M. "Towards an Ecosophical Praxis of New Media Space design." Thesis, QUT, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/9073/1/PHDTHESISKMAsmall.pdf.

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This study is an investigation in and through media arts practice. It set out to develop a novel type of new media artistic praxis built upon concepts drawn from the disciplines of scientific and cultural ecology. The rationale for this research was based upon my observation as a practising new media artist that existing praxis in the new media domain appeared to operate largely without awareness of the ecological implications of those practices. The thesis begins by explaining key concepts of ecology, spanning the arts and the sciences. It then outlines the thinking of contem

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Loehr, Dustin. "It's Something about the Shoes| A Creative Thesis through Practice." Thesis, Prescott College, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1590266.

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<p>It?s Something About the Shoes: A Creative Thesis through Practice is an in depth, project-based study that follows the development and implementation of an intercultural and interdisciplinary collaboration. This paper illustrates how the Practice-led Research paradigm, when coupled with the Expressive Arts, can promote empowerment and transformation for all participants including audience members. Artistic practices and rehearsals realized through performance and analyzed through constant participant reflection constitute the research data. It?s Something About the Shoes is composed of a l

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Mbowa, Aida N. S. "The making of the black woman : writing and performing race and gender during the Black Arts Movement /." Connect to online version, 2007. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2007/230.pdf.

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Longley, Alys. "Moving words : five instances of dance writing." Thesis, 2011. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/19355/.

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Writing has been cast as monstrous – or at least violent – in its ability to disfigure, maim and destroy the life of live arts. Yet for many dance practitioners, writing is an integral part of studio-based dance processes, a necessary form of reflection and a site for creative experimentation and planning. In recognition of this positive value of writing for dance, this study explores writing that is coextensive with dance practice, in relation to critical theory that engages with writing as performance.

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Nix, Heather. "Treasure : an exploration in the writing of the self." Thesis, 2000. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15425/.

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This thesis consists of (Vol. 1) the critical component and (Vol. 2) the auto/biographical-based novel TREASURE. The title of the overall project is TREASURE: An Exploration in the Writing of the Self. The critical component addresses issues of feminist theorists seeking a 'new' space for women's auto/biographical writing, and includes a discussion of the novel TREASURE. The project digresses from the conventional doctoral thesis and reflects the central underlying assumption in my research: women's writing has been relegated to boundaries and excluded from canonical literature; the underlyin

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Holmes, Susan. "First Impressions: Writing a contemporary Australian adaptation of Pride and Prejudice." Thesis, 2013. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/27713/.

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This thesis consists of two components, the novel, which is 70% of the total and the exegesis, which is 30% of the thesis. Together, the novel and the exegesis are an exploration of Pride and Prejudice from the point of view of a creative writer working to understand and adapt Austen’s writing style. The focus on the concept of Emotional Intelligence is a deliberate strategy with two objectives, firstly to bring new insights into the reading and analyses of the novel and secondly to use this form of analysis to enhance the writing of a contemporary Australian adaptation. Thus this modern conc

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Brown, Janet M. "The writing and research of the novel 'The Shaded Side'." Thesis, 1998. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/18146/.

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The purpose of this project has been to research and write the novel The Shaded Side and a critical commentary. The novel is based on the fictitious events that take place in an Australian tuberculosis sanatorium in the 1940s. The story locates and reflects the consequences of relationships, experiences, morals and attitudes of this early period against the present day story of an adult adoptee searching for the identity of her birth mother. Research into the history of TB treatment in Australia and into broader representations of illness and disease has been required for the project

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Reilly, Edward. "Deluge : a collection of original poetry with exegesis." Thesis, 2000. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15453/.

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This thesis consists of two distinct sections. The first section consists of the two books of original poems, the first being The Camden Poems, a set of fifty-two quatorzains. These unthymed sonnets have as their focus the immediate human environment of my life in Geelong and the Western Districts over the past twenty years. In many ways they are celebrations and observations, although some of the poems are critical in their stance. The second book of poems. Deluge, is a collection of twenty-three long poems set in Geelong during the flood of 1995. It utilises two urban myths of drowning to

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Saulwick, Tamara. "Connective Moments: Dramaturgy of Sound in Live Performance." Thesis, 2015. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/41773/.

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Herbertson, Helen. "Morphia series." Thesis, 2004. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/18174/.

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Morphia Series continues an examination of the self to the surrounding world, working with the notion that life hovers somewhere between the ordinary and the metaphysical. A lone figure and a place the size of an ordinary room contrast an on-going sense of seclusion and solitude with the potential for action and disturbance.

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Joy, Rosemary. "The Appearance of Sound: Listening to Sculptural Percussion." Thesis, 2015. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/33030/.

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This practice-led research inquiry explores the field of ‘Sculptural Percussion’ as defined in a series of works created by Rosemary Joy between 2008-2014. Taking the form of a performance and an accompanying exegesis, the research investigates sculptural percussion as a means of creating subtle and transformative effects on the musician and the audience. Performed by percussionists on sculptures that primarily comprise handmade elements and found objects, the works are mostly performed in front of a deliberately small audience. The research explores a number of artistic strategies, whic

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Smith, Gary. "Who am I and why? : pressures on the writing self." Thesis, 2004. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15693/.

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This thesis firstly comprises of (SNAPSHOTS) Snapshots of Broken Things : a collection of poetry and short prose fiction. Secondly, a critical and exegetical study which represents a concurrent and retrospective analysis and reflection of the creative work in relation to the central research questions, plus a literary-critical study of issues of identity and function pertaining to writers of literary fiction and poetry. The broad thematic concerns for the subject matter of SNAPSHOTS are personal and societal notions of identity: perceptions regarding the roles and functions of individuals wit

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Snowball, Georgia. "Memos: the imagination of memory." Thesis, 2011. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/19364/.

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This work involves various systems and methods of trying to remember and looking and searching for memory in many real and imagined places. In this book I will be discussing my research process, inspirations and how I arrived at the final performance. This writing is an excursion in and around the work and is an insight into the myriad of paths and diversions I have taken to arrive at this performance. It does not reflect what will or has happened in the performance of Memos: the Imagination of Memory, though it is a meandering towards and away from it. The images are derived from perform

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Allen, Delia Frances. "This town, last town, next town: the women of sideshow alley and the boxing tents: a novel and exegesis." Thesis, 2014. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/25868/.

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This doctoral creative thesis comprises a novel This town, last town, next town, and an accompanying exegesis. The novel is set in Western Australia in the 1950s in sideshow alley, a unique part of Australian culture that has not previously been represented in Australian fiction. It is a period in which the sideshow is coming to the end of its heyday as a place of carnival and spectacle. The three main characters are: Joan Tiernan, a dancer and married to the owner of an entertainment show; Rose Jackson, the wife of a boxing tent owner; and Corrie Cooper, married to an Aboriginal boxer.

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Gandolfo, Enza. "My life is over now : a novel and critical commentary." Thesis, 1998. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15420/.

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My aim in writing this novel is to give readers a new experience, one that will force them to reassess their views, opinions and beliefs, so that they will alter the way they look at the world - specifically here, how they look at family relationships and conflicts, at women and mothering, and at migrants. This critical component of my thesis focuses on these questions exploring in particular the genre of 'migrant' or 'multicultural' literature. I will argue that this genre classification, developed by literary theorists and not by novelists, can have a negative effect on the way the novels o

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Sastradipradja, Linda. "Agency, Authorship and Embodied Aesthetics: The Dancer as Auteur." Thesis, 2018. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/40012/.

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The substance of this thesis is to be found in its performative iteration, held at The Substation, Newport, Saturday July 15th, 2017. The performance work aimed to present an opportunity to encounter dancing that reveals the innermost nuances of a dancer’s mode of moving. Five dancers from New York and Australia – Stuart Shugg, Ori Flomin, Rachel Doust, Victoria Chiu and Alexandra Petrarca - each brought their substantial depth of embodied knowledge and aesthetic determination to examine their role as potential auteurs of their dancing. Throughout a series of solos that overlapped and i

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Sargent-Wishart, Kimberley. "Making nothing out of something: emptiness, embodiment, and creative activity." Thesis, 2016. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/34848/.

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Making nothing out of something: emptiness, embodiment, and creative activity presents an anthology of practice, the fruition of an interdisciplinary and practice-led path of somatic and artistic research. The research engages with questions of creative activity—the making of ‘something’ out of ‘nothing,’ as well as questions of perception—the recognition of the ‘nothing’ in the ‘something’ made. This inquiry is grounded in the embodiment practices of Body-Mind Centering® (BMC) somatics, Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and meditation practices, Miksang contemplative photography, and the com

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Clifford, Rohan. "Food, water, shelter, fresh air ... and stories: teachers’ creative writing in the classroom." Thesis, 2011. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/19380/.

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This thesis takes the form of a written analytical exegesis (30%) followed by a novel (70%), entitled Frank Davies’ Amazing Frog Catapult, to satisfy the requirements of this degree. The contention of the exegesis is that the meat of writing lies in the creative nature of how a text comes to be constructed, the journeys that ideas may take and the maturation and realisation of characters along the way. In doing so, this exegesis highlights how classroom English teachers, as a profession, could benefit from adopting the methods that writers use as they develop their art. In an era in wh

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Daw, Josephine. "Beyond the studio: the creative process in local, site-related dance." Thesis, 2009. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/16102/.

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This practice–led research thesis comprises a dance performance and a written exegesis that will make salient and analyse the creative process in site-related choreography. The work explores the repercussions of moving dance making activities away from the traditional studio and considers how choreographic practice might be challenged or transformed when it is pursued ‘on location’ to allow for other understandings of site and location to permeate the choreography. The research includes an ethnographic study on a Northern Territory dance company, Tracks Dance. The object is to illuminat

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Brennand, John. "Voice Lab: Songs of being as embodied philosophical inquiry." Thesis, 2017. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/36763/.

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This PhD by Creative Project consists of three distinct but interwoven parts – the development and investigation of a wordless vocal performance practice with volunteer participants, a culminating performance ‘product’ which creatively documents, elucidates and illuminates the investigation, and a written exegesis which contextualises and complements the investigation and culminating production. The project sets out to cultivate an original voice practice and performance practice philosophy through an innovative re-interpretation and application of established practices and ideas. I locate the

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Hegarty, Kathryn. "From mountains to molehills : episodes from the life of a survivor : incorporating the exegetical essay, A mirror cracked : women, writing, healing." Thesis, 1998. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15298/.

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This thesis is presented in two parts: a novella and an exegetical essay. The novella, an autobiography structured episodically, comprises the major part of the work. It is followed by a long essay that critically comments on and contextualises the creative work. The exegesis seeks to explicate and weave theoretical and critical writings about autobiography, particularly those from a feminist perspective, with the life writings of women who have experienced intra-familial child sexual assault. Finally, the exegesis explores and examines my own incest autobiography in light of research on wom

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Pelosi, Ligia. "Whispering into knowing: teachers as creative beings." Thesis, 2017. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/34675/.

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This study (re)presents how teachers enact pedagogy in order to become transformative agents of change in their students’ lives. The importance of teacher agency and creative, arts-based practices in the teaching and learning of literacy was explored during interviews with a small sample of Australian primary school practitioners. The field texts are (re)presented in the form of a novel that interrogates the contemporary landscape of schooling as a datadriven, political instrument. The novel, which should be read first, looks at the impact of creativity in classrooms and on teachers’ li

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Dumas, Russell. "Necessary incursions : rethinking the unstable body in dance." Thesis, 2014. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/28776/.

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Necessary Incursions explores the practice of dancing and the agency of the dancer in a choreographic elaboration of the unstable body. It seeks to contextualize, integrate and expand on three related arenas (technique, practice and theatrical presentation) and to throw light on the conditions that have led to the demise of choreographic practices in western concert dance during the past thirty years. As a theoretical enquiry articulated from the position of ‘an expert practitioner’ (Melrose 2005), Necessary Incursions will include reflections on my own artistic work written as a series of pol

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Cerne, Helen. "Shifting: the creation and theoretical exploration of a collaborative autobiographical novel." Thesis, 1998. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15448/.

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This Master of Arts thesis has two parts: a collaborative autobiographical novel Shifting, written by Helen and Serge Cerne, and a theoretical commentary which explores aspects of collaborative writing. The research material in this thesis has come from a variety of resources: primary and secondary sources, literature data bases, a journal I kept while writing the novel, interviews with family members, discussions with my partner and field visits to places represented in the novel. Only my part of the novel has been submitted for examination but the whole of Shifting has been included becaus

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Woodhead, Jacinda. "The Abortion Game: Writing a Consciously Political Narrative Nonfiction Work." Thesis, 2015. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/29791/.

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In this creative‐writing research project, I set out to create a narrative nonfiction manuscript that investigates the contemporary politics surrounding abortion. The fundamental question driving the creative manuscript was, ‘Why is abortion largely invisible in Australia?’ Abortion is the second‐most common therapeutic surgical procedure in Australia, yet the history, the politics and the practice of abortion remain hidden from view. This invisibility allows us to avoid grappling with and confronting the complicated issues abortion raises. Using techniques commonly associated with fict

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Watkins, Jennifer. "'Hidden stitches, silent chords : a play in monologues' and 'Exegesis : a stitching from the inside out (including an audio CD featuring my original song, None Can Name)." Thesis, 2012. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/21722/.

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This MA consists of a performance script entitled, Hidden Stitches,Silent Chords (including an audio CD featuring my original song, None Can Name) and an accompanying exegesis, Stitching from the Inside Out. The playscript was written in acknowledgement of my grandmothers and is inspired by my only tangible connection with them, their needlework. Hidden Stitches, Silent Chords is aimed at addressing, in some measure, the silences around their lives and their omissions from familial, historical documentation. Although the playscript could be adapted to suit performance by an ensemble cast, it

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Matthews, Rachel. "Siren: A Novel and Exegesis Exploring Sexual Violence in Australian Rules Football." Thesis, 2016. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/36461/.

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This thesis examines fictional representations of sexual assault (and specifically rape) in novels that are set within or explore as a central theme the culture of Australian Rules football (termed ‘Australian football’). This thesis comprises two components: an exegesis and a novel, Siren. The exegesis is an examination of the way sexual assault in Australian football culture has been approached by the Australian media, and Australian adult novels written between 1964 and 2013 in which Australian football culture is a central theme. The exegesis is also an exploration of the challenges of wr

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Veltheim, Erkki. "Shifting sounds: music as a ritual of transformation." Thesis, 2010. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/16002/.

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This project explores music performance as a ritual, arguing that its performative form reflects and reinforces a particular worldview and its concomitant social structures and relations. It proposes a definition of a standard Western form of music performance, identifying it to be based on a duality of an active performer and passive audience, and suggests ways in which this form sponsors ‘everyday’ social structures and relations, emphasizing rationality and individuality. It follows this by proposing an alternative form of performance, one of active participation, that is seen to sponsor s

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Boyack, Neil Anthony. "More than lust in the dust: M.C. William Willshire’s writings and frontier journey as a demonstration of traditional culture." Thesis, 2020. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/42166/.

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My research investigates and analyses the four published works (between 1888-1896) of South Australian Policeman, Mounted Constable William Willshire (1852-1925). This Masters by Research thesis project will include a theoretical exegesis, based on the written works of Mounted Constable William Willshire, as well as a creative, fiction component based on Willshire’s life, his writings and history. Previous research on this colonial character almost exclusively focuses on Willshire the rogue policeman, the murderer, however there is little understanding of the role Willshire played as an early

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Brett, Doris. "Eating the underworld : a memoir in three voices." Thesis, 2002. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15430/.

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Cesare Pavese, the Italian poet, said 'We do not remember days, we remember moments.' In creating the story of our days, some of us will remember different moments from the same events and others will remember the same moments differently. To decide to tell one's story publicly, is a difficult decision. To decide to tell a story that involves others is even more difficult. Despite the fact that my sister and later my father have put themselves into the public arena with regard to family matters, I have felt intense discomfort in writing about my family. I am still wrestling with the ethical

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Mitchell, Tracie. "Moving pictures: dance screen making as a choreographic process." Thesis, 2013. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/24382/.

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Moving Pictures: dance screen making as choreographic process is a practice led enquiry made up of two parts: a work for screen entitled Under the Weather, and an exegesis. The purpose of the research is to identify key meeting points between the disciplines of dance and film in the creation of a dance screen work, and to illuminate the possibilities for further development of the form.

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Romano, Paul Dominic. "History of a particular it: a fictional narrative of practice." Thesis, 2012. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/19423/.

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Throughout the duration of the research I have been concerned with finding ways to present, interrogate and speak about practice – through, in and as practice. Encompassing the practices of dancing and writing, the inquiry seeks to resist the codification, definition and traditions of formal discourse, and to unsettle the hold of the conceptual. The research concerns the ontology and genealogy of performance - what is a work, where does it begin and where does it end? History of a particular it isn’t a search for or about something; it is something, something the project repeatedly atte

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al-Qassas, Adil. "Displace or Be Displaced Narratives of Multiple Exile in the Sudanese Communities in Australia." Thesis, 2015. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/32313/.

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This thesis consists of two parts. Both parts navigate the experience of displacement, in both realist and metaphorical modes, of a number of Sudanese expatriates to Australia. The first part, a fictional account in the form of a novella, employs different points of view to explore a range of diasporic encounters undergone by diverse Sudanese migrants and refugees prior to and during resettlement in Australia. Taking the events of the author’s life as its focus, the second part delves into narratives of personal, inner displacement that have deep roots in the history of Sudan and the question

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Foster, Duncan. "Music and community development: perspectives on relationships, roles and structures in music in community." Thesis, 2010. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/16061/.

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This thesis explores sites where music occurs in community in Melbourne’s West by examining perspectives around the various inherent relationships, roles and structures involved. It does so through a prism of the researcher’s own collaborative work with others in educational, professional and community settings via the collection of respondent data around general questions about music, culture, education, technology and community. Arguments for the intrinsically beneficial impact of music in community are presented as well as critical assessment as to the possibilities for structures and strat

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Cortese, Raimondo. "Hyperrealism and the everyday in creative practice : exegesis, play, novel." Thesis, 2014. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/25842/.

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The aim of this exegesis, play and novel is to develop a practice-led poetics of everyday theatre and literature. This emerged from a research question about the way the everyday is constituted within my own practice and within contemporary theatre in Melbourne and overseas. The major component of the exegesis is to analyse my development as a writer and dramaturg of performance texts with Ranters Theatre over a twenty-two-year period, covering three phases of work, each of which engage everydayness as part of its methodology. A key focus is text dramaturgy, how the text is constructed,

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Cerne, Helen. "Circling Lina: alternative narratives exploring Lina Bryans, the Darebin artists and the self." Thesis, 2013. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/25414/.

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Carroll, Brian Frank. "A riotous black man from way down south: an historical novel, exegesis and response to examiners." Thesis, 2001. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15447/.

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This creative writing thesis is comprised of: a) a short exegesis describing and reflecting on the research, technical concerns and issues informing the writing of the novel b) A Riotous Black Man From Way Down South. This is an historical novel which comprises the first volume of a projected trilogy. It is a bildungsroman based loosely upon the life of John Joseph, the first man of thirteen prisoners tried for High treason following the Eureka Stockade uprising.

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Broadbent, Lianne Rose. "Portrait with Still Life: Re-imagining Silenced Women’s Stories Through Historiographical Metafiction." Thesis, 2017. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/40538/.

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This thesis is made up of two separate components: a creative manuscript titled Portrait with Still Life and its accompanying exegesis. The project as a whole problematizes the links between life and fiction, examines the power of female artistic ‘voice’, in both imagery and text, and discusses the significance of this voice in re- imagining silenced women’s stories. Furthermore, the intersection of image and text used throughout is central to the development of the overall structure of this thesis and its attempt to answer key questions: What is the potential of historiographical metafiction

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Trail, Margaret. "'There's the siren! aurality and respresentation of the sounds of (Australian) football." Thesis, 2009. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15477/.

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The aim of this research project in performance studies is to consider the aurality of (Australian) football: the sounds that are heard and produced by those who play (considering all participants to be players). In so doing it addresses problems that arise when sound is approached as the object of understanding, and experiments with ways to re/present sound without distorting or reducing it within conventional textual, visual or musical modes of representation.

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Thoraval, Yannick. "Race, Place and Grace: Cosmopolitanism in Small Town Australia." Thesis, 2019. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/42240/.

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This multidisciplinary PhD comprises a novel and exegesis, which, together, explore the idea that some small Australian towns may promote the likelihood of residents having intercultural experiences associated with cosmopolitanism. The exegesis examines social, political and economic conditions which may support cosmopolitan experience. The novel dramatizes how the lived social environment can influence one’s emotional experience of cultural difference. Together, the novel and exegesis conclude that small towns present social conditions, which can promote empathy and cultural curiosity. The c

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Weldon, John. "The text doesn’t stop at the end of the page (or does it?) : an exploration of how the novel form responds to digital interactivity through the cross-sited novel ‘Once in a lifetime’." Thesis, 2014. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/28813/.

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Change is a constant of storytelling, in terms of both form and content. Many scholars and commentators have argued, however, that the effects currently being wrought on fiction texts as a result of the influence of digital technology and interactivity are the most monumental that storytelling has undergone since the invention of moveable type in the mid-1400s. Writers have wrestled with ways to include digital technology in their work since its introduction in the late 1960s. It has been used as subject matter and as a tool to shape, contain and present their work to readers. This experiment

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Cervini, Erica. "Reading the Silence of My Great-Grandmother: The Role of Life-Writing in Locating the Hidden Life of a Jewish Woman." Thesis, 2019. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/40049/.

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Family history has become a significant cultural, academic and economic pursuit giving rise to television shows, university degrees and DNA testing. Family historians grapple with epistemological questions about the extent to which a life can ever be known to someone else – limited resources exacerbate the problem. This thesis, by creative project and exegesis, focuses on Rose Pearlman, my Great-Grandmother [1875 – 1956], and explores how the genre of life-writing contributes to our understanding of an ‘ordinary’ Jewish woman who migrated to Australia from England leaving no traditional sourc

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