Previous critical commentary has considered the plays of James K. Baxter to be predominantly vehicles for his social criticism. They possess, however, a compelling subjective force, and female characters which appear to ...

This thesis examines William Blake’s engagement with Western esoteric tradition, specifically the beliefs and ideas of the Gnostics, as a form of political activism during the Revolution. In particular, it considers Blake’s ...

The relationship between metaphor, language, and thought, as hypothesised by cognitive linguists, requires detailed investigation of actual metaphor use in different situations and contexts. Researchers have examined ...

This thesis situates fin-de-siècle fairy tales, and the figure of the child, as pivotal discursive approaches through which to consider industrial modernity, with all its attendant anxieties about temporality, gender, ...

This thesis proposes the existence of a stereotypical character in early modern drama that, having failed to mature, is defined by effeminate, immature, and prodigal behaviour. The figure, labelled the Effeminate Prodigal, ...

This thesis proposes a reading of the migration impulse in contemporary Irish poetry, arguing for a distinctive nexus of memory and an ethic of reinvention. It sets out how contemporary poets reinvent inherited tropes of ...

This thesis builds on the ongoing transnational turn in modernist studies by highlighting the key nature of specific relationships at the level of personal collaboration, thereby complicating theoretical models based on ...

The thesis investigates the concepts of the French writer Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), who is often studied for his theatre work or for his sensational life story – addiction, madness, and intense literary personality. This ...

The collection of books and manuscripts by and about Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) brought together primarily by Alfred Hamish Reed and held by the Dunedin Public Library, New Zealand, is the largest collection of Johnsoniana ...

Frequently referred to as New Zealand’s most famous and least public author, Janet Frame occupies a curious place in the nation’s literary and cultural history. With her feted literary production largely overshadowed by ...