• 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 ...

  

• "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 ...

  

• New Zealand 

  Moffat, Kirstine; Lavën, Helen (Sage, 2011)

  The New Zealand section of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature’s 2011 bibliographical issue.

• Resisting captivity: An analysis of the New Zealand POW experience during World War Two 

  Johnson, Matthew (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  During World War Two more than 9,000 New Zealand servicemen were captured and imprisoned. Many of these men were confronted by the challenges of disempowerment and a prolonged imprisonment. However, histories of captivity ...

  

• Holding Out For a Heroine: Representations of Voice, Silence and Adolescent Girls’ Identity in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction 

  Wilkinson, Melody Julianne May (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  Today, teenage girls are told they can do anything. However, this is not reflected in the images they see and the books they read, which often reinforce messages of passivity, weakness, objectification, and undermine the ...

  

• Lifting the Silence: Ethical Representation of Mental Illness in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction 

  Thomas, Loren (University of Waikato, 2017)

  Young adult (YA) fiction is a fast-growing area of literature that is constantly responding to commercial pressures and the demands of its growing audience. Although it has a large commercial popularity, the critical focus ...

  

• The Ethics of Reading: Levinas and Gadamer on encountering the other in literature 

  Dougan, Melanie Jane (University of Waikato, 2016)

  This dissertation explores the question ‘can we encounter the Other through the mediation of literature?’ The question reflects an increasing interest in ethics by literary theorists and particularly in the application of ...

  

• Let the Real Scheherazade Stand: Literary Representations of Middle Eastern Women 

  Al-Hadban, Leen Mustafa Naji (University of Waikato, 2016)

  This thesis considers the multiple and complex ways in which Arab and Middle Eastern women have been conceived in literature written by both Western and Arab male and female authors. It covers almost a millennium of ...

  

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