Browsing by Supervisor "Shieff, Sarah"
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Austerity Measures: Presenting Food in British Writing, 1939-1954
(University of Waikato, 2016)Rationing measures in force in the United Kingdom from the beginning of the Second World War in December of 1939 until July of 1954 ostensibly ensured an egalitarian access to food and resulted in a general levelling-up ... -
Detection, Desire and Contamination: The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes
(University of Waikato, 2013)Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, is often viewed as a fictional embodiment of justice and order in nineteenth-century Britain, a fantasy of epistemological mastery precisely calibrated against the ... -
'Entitled to a History': The World of Alice Tawhai's Short Stories and the Maori Literary Tradition
(University of Waikato, 2014)New Zealand short story writer Alice Tawhai is one of the latest additions to the Maori literary tradition. Her three collections of short stories, Festival of Miracles, Luminous and Dark Jelly, deal with issues not entirely ... -
From the Unknowing to the Sexualised Subject: The Development of Childhood Sexuality within the Modernist Era through the works of Henry James, Anais Nin, and Vladimir Nabokov.
(University of Waikato, 2016)Through the works of Henry James, Anais Nin and Vladimir Nabokov, this project shows how the modernist child develops from the unknowing to the sexualised subject. It begins with Henry James’s proto-modernist conceptualisation ... -
Imaging and Imagining the Waikato: A Spatial History c.1800-c.1914
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis reframes the history of the Waikato from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries through a spatial history approach using a visual archive. I argue that Pākehā images of the Waikato were both ... -
Men Without Limits: Exploring the subversive potential of hypermasculinity in transgressive fiction
(University of Waikato, 2016)(Hyper)masculinity is a universal and ostensibly rewarding concept, but only when performed within cultural limits. If these limits are violated, hypermasculine performances cease to be rewarding and instead begin to subvert ... -
Reading the feral woman: Female werewolves and liminality in fantasy fiction
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Previously representing the threat of infection, invasion and the possibility of an internal Other, the werewolf, traditionally male, has recently been joined by a subgroup of wolf-women in fantasy literature. I intend to ... -
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 ... -
The First World War in New Zealand Fiction
(University of Waikato, 2016)New Zealand fiction in which the First World War features either directly or indirectly has steadily grown in volume since the end of the war in 1918. Well-known texts, such as Passport to Hell (1936) and Once on Chunuk ...
