Nicoll Antipas, Philippa(Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
Critics have recognised folk‐tales as being among the varied sources Shakespeare has mined for the plots of his plays. However, this recognition has often formed the basis of an argument which seeks to excuse what are ...
Sautter, Lilja Mareike(Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
This thesis uses diaspora theory to analyse late-nineteenth-century texts written by women in
New Zealand. The texts include a number of novels as well as non-fictional journals and
memoirs. Robin Cohen‟s definition of ...
Herrera, Maria Lujan(Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
The Victorian era has become a fashionable setting for contemporary young adult fiction. Studies of the contemporary pseudo-Victorian novel have focussed almost entirely upon fiction for adults. Scarcely any attention has ...
Swallow, Catherine(Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
When Captain Hook has the lost boys tied up on his ship he cannot recognise that the sparkle on the ‘faces of the captives’ is the thrill of mimesis. It has been suggested that if young children cannot distinguish between ...
Biggs, Patrick(Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
This thesis takes as its starting point Coleridge’s assertion that “[t]he common end of all . . . Poems is . . . to make those events which in real or imagined History move in a strait [sic] Line, assume to our Understandings ...