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Another Modernism: Māoritanga and Māori Modernism in the 20th Century

Skinner, Damian Hugh. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)

The 20th century has been a rich breeding ground for artistic practices in Aotearoa that grapple with modernity in the settler colonial context. What I have termed Māori Modernism emerged from the rapid urbanisation of ...
Cultural Fields of the Canterbury Plains: Women and Cultural Citizenship in Canterbury c.1890-1940

Gush, Nadia Joanne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

Drawing on the historiography of imperial and national women's citizenships, the citizenship debates of social scientists and the structural analysis of cultural production developed by Pierre Bourdieu, this thesis creates ...
An Historical Examination of the Evolving Environment of Regulated Financial Disclosure in Britain since 1844: With Special Reference to the Pre-Eminence of the Income Statement in Business Affairs

Jones, Stewart (Victoria University of Wellington, 1991)

This historical study traces the environment of regulated financial disclosure in Britain since the mid-nineteenth century. In particular, it attempts to trace the evolutionary or developmental nature of accounting measurement ...
‘Passionate Uncertainty’: Locating Autobiography in the Poems of Lauris Edmond

Lentle, Samantha Anne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

This thesis explores the possibility of reading a selective body of poems by Lauris Edmond as autobiography. Though poetry and autobiography have long been considered to possess conflicting impulses, this thesis argues ...
The Puritan Paradox The Puritan Legacy in the Intellectual, Cultural, and Social Life of New Zealand, Focusing Primarily on the Works of Novelists Writing Between 1862 and 1940.

Moffat, Kirstine E. (Victoria University of Wellington, 1999)

The broad contention of this thesis, that Puritanism is a dominant social, cultural, and literary influence in New Zealand, is supported by statements made by a range of social historians, popular polemical writers, and ...
Sex and Stories: How Storytelling Makes Storytellers as Sexual Characters, Conscious Observers and Moral Agents

Barwell, Ismay (Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)

Stories are told to make sense of events where the sense to be made involves evaluation as well as explanation. Stories are told to explain how things happened and how they are significant. Stories which makes this type ...
The Sex Problem Femininity, Class and Contradiction in Late Colonial New Zealand Novels

Lawless, Daphne Antonia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2003)

This thesis re-evaluates ideas of the depiction of women in New Zealand novels of the late colonial period (1890s-1930s) in light of a Marxist-feminist critical approach. Starting from a rejection of the usefulness of ...
The Triumph of the Vast Green Ring: English Literature and the Ideology of the Countryside, 1870-1914.

Morrow, Diana (Victoria University of Wellington, 1997)

This thesis focuses on four authors who wrote about English rural life in the 1870-1914 period: Richard Jefferies, Thomas Hardy, Henry Rider Haggard and George Sturt. Manuscript, published primary and secondary sources are ...
Tropes of Vision: a Study of Colonial and Postcolonial Fictions

O'Brien, Louise Katherine (Victoria University of Wellington, 1999)

This thesis is a study of narratives which use tropes of vision to articulate the relationships between subjects and their social space. The figure of the sightseer and her field-glasses, in E. M. Forster's A Passage to ...

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