Browsing by Supervisor "Moffat, Kirstine"
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Believable Worlds: The Rules, Role and Function of Magic in Fantasy Novels
(University of Waikato, 2016)Contemporary fantasy fiction is a genre that has captured the minds of readers and authors for many decades. It places stories about fantastical events and peoples in the realms of an imaginary world that follows its own ... -
Breaking Binaries: Transgressing Sexualities in Japanese Animation
(University of Waikato, 2012)As a visual medium that articulates all genres of fiction, from children’s card games to extreme pornography, Japanese animation, better known simply as ‘anime’, is an art form that has gained international recognition ... -
British Women Travellers And The Harems: Liberties, Enslavement and Domesticity
(University of Waikato, 2013)This thesis examines the complex perspective of a woman traveller. Wortley Montagu, Martineau, Burton and their contemporaries, represented the harem through various lenses. The Oriental harem has fascinated Western ... -
Hegemony, marginalisation, and hierarchies: Masculinities in contemporary Pakistani anglophone fiction
(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. ... -
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 ... -
Holding Out For a Heroine: Representations of Voice, Silence and Adolescent Girls’ Identity in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
(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 ... -
Inscribing traumatic experience: Allusion and satire in poetry
(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 ... -
Let the Real Scheherazade Stand: Literary Representations of Middle Eastern Women
(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 ... -
Lifting the Silence: Ethical Representation of Mental Illness in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
(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 ... -
Limitations and possibilities: Representations of gender transition in Western fiction, 1928-2018
(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 ... -
'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 ... -
‘Novels are not Nonsense’: 1920s and 1930s New Zealand reflected through the Fiction of Jean Devanny and John A. Lee.
(University of Waikato, 2013)John Mulgan’s Man Alone (1939) has often been considered by historians and literary scholars as ‘the fullest prose rendering of what the New Zealand twenties and thirties felt like.’¹ This thesis argues that other contemporary ... -
“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 ... -
Representations and Manifestations of Madness in Victorian Fiction
(University of Waikato, 2015)This thesis explores the complex ways in which mental illness was portrayed in Victorian fiction. It situates the literature within historical contexts, but primarily focuses on fictional representations of madness. At ... -
Resisting captivity: An analysis of the New Zealand POW experience during World War Two
(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 ... -
Searching for happiness in ‘other worlds’: Utopias and dystopias in Japanese isekai
(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 ... -
Silent No More: Servant Voices in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights
(The University of Waikato, 2023)The names Catherine Earnshaw and Jane Eyre are synonymous with the narratives of which they are the heroine. Yet, under the presence of these well-known characters sit others who are less immediately recognisable, but ... -
Singing 'A Tune Beyond Ourselves': An Investigation into the Diverse Voices of Childhood and Poetry
(University of Waikato, 2015)Over the past 300 years the ‘World of Children’ has evolved and along with it so has poetry written for, and about, children. This thesis focuses on the poetic portrayal of children in Great Britain from 1715 to 1885, ... -
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 ...
