Cultural diplomacy increased in importance in German foreign policy following World War II (WWII) and reunification in 1989. The German model of cultural diplomacy emerged out of the need for a separation of powers between ...

This thesis is the first to draw on witnessing theories explore the renegotiation of traumatic memory in a representative corpus of recent Italian trauma novels. The novels I have selected for this study are Regina di fiori ...

Seventeenth-century Venetian writer Lucrezia Marinella (c. 1579-1653) is a pivotal figure in the history of women’s writing in Italy, and in the history of women’s use of the pen to defend their sex. Her provocative and ...

Having made twenty feature films since his punk-inflected debut, Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (1980), Pedro Almodóvar is, internationally, the best-known contemporary Spanish director. His filmography defies ...

As part of the prerequisite to obtain professional registration and practice in Australia, International Medical Graduates (IMGs) must satisfy requirements that include satisfactory clinical knowledge and competent English ...

In Wubuy, a highly endangered polysynthetic language from northern Australia, there are a number of morphosyntactic phenomena that can manipulate how verbal arguments are realised, including causative, affectedness and ...

This thesis explores interactional behaviours related to achieving intersubjectivity in clinical interactions involving children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Intersubjectivity is shared understanding ...

This thesis examines the expressive dimensions and courtly codes of the seventeenth century French lute air de cour through an examination of the patterns and resources within its texts and music. A review of primary and ...

Loanwords (外来語・カタカナ語), which are words ‘borrowed’ from other languages, are an integral part of the Japanese language, and are estimated to account for around 10% of the modern Japanese lexicon. While loanwords are ...

Oscar Wilde’s 1891 radical tragedy Salomé is infused with symbolism, decadence and erotic transgression. Ambiguity is also a key characteristic that enhances and extends the aesthetic and textual analysis of Wilde’s rare ...