Browsing by Author "Moffat, Kirstine"

• Five imperial adventures in the Waikato 

  Moffat, Kirstine (University of Waikato, 2013)

  Some late nineteenth-century exponents of the 'Novel of Adventure', or imperial adventure-romance, regarded colonial New Zealand as an attractive canvas for their tales of masculine daring in an exotic, rugged environment.3 ...

  

• Instrument or object? The New Zealand piano on display 

  Moffat, Kirstine (University of Waikato, 2011)

  The piano is rather a unique display item in the museum or the historic house. Firstly, whether an upright or a grand, the piano is an imposing, substantial object that occupies significant space within a setting and ...

  

• Louisa Alice Baker 

  Moffat, Kirstine (The Literary Dictionary Company Ltd, 2019)

  Louisa Alice Baker was the first professional New Zealand woman novelist, publishing seventeen books between 1894 and 1913. Most of her fiction was set in the New Zealand she lived in from the ages of 7 to 38, but all of ...

  

• "The manliest and noblest of all pursuits and professions": Two preacher novelists 

  Moffat, Kirstine (Victoria University Press, 2016)

  The secular character of New Zealand has become an accepted `facts of our time. Nevertheless, Christian organizations and discourses have played an important role in framing New Zealand's life and identity.

  

• Multiple reading: text and theory 

  Moffat, Kirstine (New Zealand Association for the Teaching of English, 2009-10)

  It was with great pleasure that I accepted an invitation to run a workshop at the recent NZATE Conference. The topic of my session was an overview of the use of literary theory in the teaching of English and that same focus ...

  

• Searching for happiness in ‘other worlds’: Utopias and dystopias in Japanese isekai 

  Wang, Xueqian (Amy) (The University of Waikato, 2022)

  This thesis focuses on the popular, but under-researched genre, of isekai. Although the wider medium umbrella under which isekai falls — anime, manga and light novels — have received increasing critical attention, the ...

  

• Limitations and possibilities: Representations of gender transition in Western fiction, 1928-2018 

  Bowden, Chelsea Anne (The University of Waikato, 2022)

  This thesis seeks to understand how fictional texts encounter queer genders and what they have to say about what it means to be trans* or have nonconforming gender. Identifying and critiquing the tropes and conventions at ...

  

• 'We turned it into a play': Transmedial adaptations in contemporary theatre 

  Simes, David Edward John (The University of Waikato, 2022)

  Adaptation is an ever-expanding field of study, with new trends and terms established in response to the proliferation of media. This thesis investigates how theatrical adaptation fits into emerging adaptation discourses, ...

  

• Inscribing traumatic experience: Allusion and satire in poetry 

  Rose, Brittany Melinda (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  That rape trauma is unspeakable is a damaging myth for those who experience sexual assault. The work of poets Pascale Petit, Fiona Benson, Vanessa Place and Patricia Lockwood showcases the broad range of strategies that ...

  

• Hegemony, marginalisation, and hierarchies: Masculinities in contemporary Pakistani anglophone fiction 

  Ali, Sara (The University of Waikato, 2022)

  By being empowered as subjects, authors of Pakistani anglophone fiction present a more nuanced, layered, and complex picture of Pakistan than the Western hegemonic discursive construction of the country as a hub of terror. ...

  

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