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The textual inscription of self : place in the retrospective childhood.
(University of Canterbury. Department of English, 2000)
This thesis is a study of five retrospective childhoods; namely, Frank
McCourt's Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, Harry Crews' A Childhood: The
Biography of a Place, Wole Soyinka's Ake: The Years of Childhood, Maxine
Hong ...
Inherit the world, devour the earth : representations of western meat production and consumption in contemporary fiction.
(University of Canterbury. English, 2015)
A quick survey of reality television offerings, news articles, and advertisements are enough to show the ubiquity of meat on the screens and in the diets, homes, and psyches of many Western consumers. However, the animals ...
The influence of Japanese noh, Balinese dance-drama and the Kathakali on four twentieth century western playwrights
(University of Canterbury, 1982)
Oriental drama has influenced twentieth century western
drama in many ways. I have chosen to look at four ways that
prove valuable in appreciating plays and productions of four
western playwrights. Yeats's oriental ...
School reports : university fiction in the masculine tradition of New Zealand literature.
(University of Canterbury. English, 2011)
This thesis will investigate the fictional discourse that has developed around academia and how this discourse has manifested itself in the New Zealand literary tradition, primarily in the works of M.K. Joseph, Dan Davin ...
Illness and the construction of femininity in the English novel, 1840-1870
(University of Canterbury. English, 1993)
This thesis investigates the part played by the idea of illness in the mid-nineteenth-
century construction of femininity and women's sexuality. I have
investigated a variety of discourses - medical writing, the debate ...
Foreskin's legacy : Gender, Sex and Violence in Contemporary New Zealand Theatre
(University of Canterbury. English, 1993)
In the early 1980s Foreskin's Lament swept the country as a major artistic and commercial success. In this play dramatist Greg McGee challenges the traditional New Zealand male role and associated behaviour. Foreskin ends ...
The postmodern toon : (Totalitarian) "Fascism", violence, and cartoons in postmodernist literature about America.
(University of Canterbury. English, 2001)
This thesis sets out to investigate the representation of politics as a cartoon in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and Vineland, and to apply what we find to Bret Easton Ellis's controversial American Psycho. This ...
When Words Take Lives: The Role of Language in the Dehumanization and Devastation of Jews in the Holocaust
(University of Canterbury. School of Humanities, 2009)
This thesis will examine the ways in which anti-Semitic and more generalized racial theories were powerfully and effectively mobilized under Hitler and his Nazi regime. In the establishment of Nazi ideology and the practice ...
The farrago: An Elizabethan genre outlined and examined in selected works by William Bullein, Sir John Harington and Thomas Nashe
(University of Canterbury. English, 1980)
In the face of the generic confusion in the field of English Renaissance non-fictional prose, this thesis outlines a particular type of writing not before acknowledged as belonging to a genre. This kind of writing I call ...
From Foreskin's Lament to Skin and Bone: Challenging Perceptions Of Masculinity in New Zealand, 1980-2003
(University of Canterbury. English, 2005)
This thesis begins by arguing that the defining moment of New Zealand nationalism occurred not at Gallipoli but in Britain in 1905 with the triumphant tour of the All Blacks. The myths were later strengthened in the 1930s ...
