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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
'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 ... -
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, ... -
Steampunk: The Inner Workings
(University of Waikato, 2013)Steampunk, as a literary genre and cultural phenomena, is a relatively recent innovation that is increasingly receiving critical attention. From the proto-steampunk of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, through the novels of its ... -
The Darwin Continuum: The Influence of Charles Darwin on Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction
(University of Waikato, 2015)Abstract In 1859 Charles Darwin challenged the Victorian worldview with his first controversial publication, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. The Victorian understanding of species-relatedness had ... -
'The Doors of Perception': Science, Religion, and Literature in Britain's Long-Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
(University of Waikato, 2013)In Britain’s long-nineteenth century (1789-1914), religious explanations of the world were challenged with the rise of science, leading to the question of how religion survived. Both fiction and non-fiction explored this ... -
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 Modern Dragon: Contemporary Representations from Tolkein to Present
(University of Waikato, 2015)‘Every century has its dragons.’ I intend to examine depiction of dragons from 1937 onwards to try to determine how we perceive the dragon in the modern world. To this end I will examine dragons in a variety of contemporary ... -
'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 ...
