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The Absurd Representations of Pinter’s Women: A study into the representation of female characters in the plays of Harold Pinter

Clarke, Andrew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

This thesis is concerned with analysing the representation of the female characters found in a sample of Harold Pinter’s plays. The plays examined are The Homecoming (1964), Betrayal (1978) and Celebration (1999). Through ...
"Acquire and Beget a Temperance": The Virtue of Temperance in The Faerie Queene Book II and Hamlet

Hubbard, Gillian Chell (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Shakespeare's Hamlet, like Spenser's The Faerie Queene Book II, is a work systematically concerned with the virtue of temperance. This conclusion is reached partly from comparison between Spenser and Shakespeare. But I ...
The Acquisition of English as a Second Language by Young Tokelau Children Living in New Zealand

Jamieson, Penelope (Victoria University of Wellington, 1976)

Young Tokelau children living in New Zealand are members of one of the smallest linguistic minorities in the country. Many speak the Tokelau language at home, and so their first sustained contact with the English language ...
Actors and Aliens: Representations of Teenage Protagonists in Bestselling YA Fiction

Ball, Rebecca (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This project explores the representation of teenagers in some of the most popular Young Adult Fiction (YA) books of the early 2010s. A dominant assumption within the scholarly discussion of YA is that YA books are books ...
The Aeneid with Rabbits: Children's Fantasy as Modern Epic

Parry, Hannah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Despite their apparent dissimilarity, children's literature and the epic tradition are often intertwined. This is seen perhaps most clearly in the frequent retelling and repackaging of epics such as Beowulf and the Odyssey ...
After Scotland's literary "Golden Age": Locating Agnes Owens

Pirie-Hunter, Rupert Alexander (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Celebrations of Scottish literature in the last decades of the twentieth century have neglected one of Scotland’s most important writers: Agnes Owens. Owens’ work and its influence is far more complex, and far greater in ...
Alexander Pope and the tracts advising women of the long eighteenth century

Williams, Eve (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This thesis contextualises the treatment of women in Alexander Pope's Epistle to a Lady (1743) against three conduct manuals from the eighteenth century. These three texts are The Whole Duty of a Woman by A Lady (1696), ...
All the juicy pastures: Greville Texidor, Frank Sargeson and New Zealand literary culture in the 1940s

Schwass, Margot (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

The cultural nationalist narrative, and the myths of origin and invention associated with it, cast a long shadow over the mid-twentieth century literary landscape. But since at least the 1980s, scholars have turned their ...
Along Came Greedy Cat: Exploring the “Ready to Read” instructional reading series 1963-1988 as New Zealand children’s literature

Hancock, Kay (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Ready to Read is a graded instructional reading series that has been provided free-of-charge since 1963 by the New Zealand government for students in the first three years of school. It has therefore been a key part of the ...
'Always think of the objects': Ekphrasis as aesthetics in the contemporary novel

Alston, Lucy Eleanor (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

It is a commonplace that ekphrasis – the description in literature of a visual work of art – brings to the fore questions of representation and reference. Such questions are particularly associated with the ‘postmodern’; ...
And did those hooves: Pan and the Edwardians

Toland, Eleanor (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

A surprisingly high number of the novels, short stories and plays produced in Britain during the Edwardian era (defined in the terms of this thesis as the period of time between 1900 and the beginning of World War One) use ...
André Brink, Dissenter

Dixon, Shelley May (Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)

This thesis provides a survey of the novels written in English by Afrikaans author, André Brink. It contextualises these texts in terms of the political and social issues of the era in which each was written. Specifically, ...
Animating Ephemeral Surfaces: Transparency, Translucency and Disney’s World of Color

Thompson, Kirsten Moana (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This paper examines the unusual theatrical and exhibition dimensions of Disney’s World of Color, an outdoor night time entertainment spectacle which screens animated films on ephemeral materials: the water spray and light ...
Anthropology of the Working-class: Documentary Literature of 1930s Britain

Grgec, Timothy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Bookmarked neatly by the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the 1930s are often characterised as the decade in which writers felt compelled to engage in politics. According to one ...
Archaeologies of Gossip: AIDS in Contemporary Gay Fiction

Sutton, Emily (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Queer criticism is now in its third decade and, as critical orthodoxy, running up against its own limitations. What, for example, is a discipline preoccupied with the unspoken, the marginal and the blurring of gender ...
Athlete of Emotion - Examining the Perdekamp Emotional Method

Slinn, Vaughan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

The Perdekamp Emotional Method (PEM) is an emerging psychophysiological acting system that claims to allow actors ‘safe, reliable and repeatable access’ to emotion, with no recourse to their own psychology, imagination or ...
"Beautiful External Life to Watch and Ponder": Katherine Mansfield Confronting the Material

McDaniels, Ivy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Throughout her famously short, disrupted career, Katherine Mansfield chased the idea of "warm, eager living life,"attempting to translate this vivid experience of being in the world into fiction. This passage, written in ...
Becoming-Posthuman: The Sexualized, Racialized and Naturalized Others of Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood

Dunkley, Kitty (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This thesis explores the extent to which Octavia Butler’s use of the Other, in her trilogy Lilith’s Brood, problematizes the construct of the Human subject as established under Humanism. Adopting the protean field of ...
Between attention and mobilisation: Proletariat political activation in a mediated Aotearoa/New Zealand

Pickering, Dani (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Stagnant pay, increased work hours and other increasingly precarious working conditions are restricting the capacity of the working class to meaningfully participate in political processes, worsening its economic ...
"Between two worlds become much like each other": Liminal spaces in the poetry of David Jones and T.S. Eliot

Chimirri, Cara Cordelia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

T. S Eliot remains a literary giant close to fifty years after his death while David Jones, in contrast, is undeniably a marginal figure in the world of poetry but one who is slowly gaining a larger profile. Jones has from ...