Browsing by Supervisor "Houlahan, Mark"
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A body of one's own: Representations of women's bodies in the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Anne Sexton, and breaking free of the gendering patriarchy
(The University of Waikato, 2019)Waxing, shaving, plucking, eye-brow tinting, hair dying, makeup, diets, plastic surgery – if all women were instantaneously in love with their natural bodies, millions of people would be out of work. For centuries, women’s ... -
A Literary and Cultural History of Military Science Fiction and the United States of America, 1870s-2010s
(University of Waikato, 2016)This thesis is both a literary history of the military science fiction (military SF) subgenre and a cultural history of the United States of America during the twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. This thesis ... -
Grotesque Inversions On Stage, In Film: Horrid Yet Curious, Fascinating Yet Alarming
(University of Waikato, 2012)Grotesque theatre is not a genre but a style of theatre made up of many strands which has been employed over many centuries beginning in Ancient Greece, particularly with Aristophanes and moving through time to the present. ... -
Heyer's heroes: An investigation into Georgette Heyer and her literary 'mark' on the Regency hero
(The University of Waikato, 2010)Georgette Heyer, a writer most famous for her Regency romances, has not entered the portals of any literary canon, yet her writing has had an impact on the literary world in terms of her contribution to popular fiction. ... -
'His great heart remained behind': Constructions of Identity in Alistair MacLeod's Fiction
(University of Waikato, 2011)Alistair MacLeod’s short stories and novel (No Great Mischief) are widely read and critically praised. His writing focuses on the lives of the people of 20th century Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, and many of his characters ... -
History in multimodal gameplay: A new language and model for constructing, experiencing, and studying the past
(The University of Waikato, 2022)This doctoral study examines how historical gameplay constructs and provides ways of experiencing history within (historical) video games. Historical gameplay is examined and defined as an expression of history within ... -
The Life and Letters of the Lady Arbella Stuart
(University of Waikato, 2010)Lady Arbella Stuart, a woman nearly forgotten in history and literature and yet a woman who lived a full and exciting life which is well documented in her letters to her family, friends and royalty (both Queen Elizabeth I ... -
Magic as a Tool of Social Construction: Cultural and Gender Identity in Contemporary Fantasy
(University of Waikato, 2015)Contemporary fantasy is a genre that exists outside the boundaries of what consensus society constructs as socially normative. It re-appropriates and subverts facets of reality in order to place the reader in a position ... -
'Morbid Exhilarations': Dying Words in Early Modern English Drama
(University of Waikato, 2010)In Renaissance England, dying a good death helped to ensure that the soul was prepared for the afterlife. In the theatre, however, playwrights disrupt and challenge the conventional formulas for last words, creating death ... -
“On and On It Goes”: Representations of the New Zealand Wars in novels, film, and theatre
(The University of Waikato, 2019)This thesis considers fictional representations of the New Zealand Wars. Through the media of novels, feature films, and drama with links to Shakespeare, it explores common features between representations. It examines how ... -
Poetic lives: Verse biography in Aotearoa New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Bringing together a selection of Aotearoa New Zealand verse biographies, and drawing on perspectives deriving from decolonizing methodologies, and from historical and feminist revision and reclamation, as well as my own ... -
Removing the ‘Cloak of Invisibility’: New Zealand Directors Discuss Theatre Directing Praxis
(University of Waikato, 2015)This thesis reveals central thematic concerns relating to directing text-based professional theatre in New Zealand. How does a select cohort of professional New Zealand theatre directors bring texts dynamically to life? ... -
Speaking Through Sacrifice: Rhetorical and Social Functions of Sacrifice within Long-Form Contemporary Fantasy Literature
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Long-form contemporary fantasy narratives present the opportunity for readers to immerse themselves in worlds both different from and resonant with our own. These narratives are fundamentally invested in questions of how ... -
Takitoru: creative practice toward the development of a trilingual dramaturgical kaupapa
(The University of Waikato, 2020)I have focused on writing a play in the three languages of Aotearoa: New Zealand Sign Language, te reo Māori, and NZ English. Through the development of this script with three actors I have found techniques for performance ... -
The Ethics of Reading: Levinas and Gadamer on encountering the other in literature
(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 ... -
The othering othered: English female travel writers in Arabia
(The University of Waikato, 2021)This thesis examines female travel writing in Arabia. Travel writing as an Orientalist discourse influenced both ordinary and well-educated people in the West to look at the Orient through Orientalist stereotypes: “primitive” ... -
'The Remorseless Fangs of the Law': The Newgate Novel, 1722-2012
(University of Waikato, 2013)The Newgate novel is a fascinating sub-genre of crime fiction which emerged in the 1830s as a response to contemporary issues within the social, legal and penal systems of Victorian London. This thesis is split into four ... -
Travel Writing, Self and Other: Finding Reciprocal Space
(The University of Waikato, 2017)My thesis engages with the complex relationships between self and other as these are constructed in the travel writing of five authors: the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in ...
