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The Ocular Paradigm of Frontier Fiction

Theoretical Perspectives of New Zealand / Aotearoa

A different lens on the early New Zealand novel. An exploration of how seeing, art, and colonial experience shape the stories of a place.

The Ocular Paradigm brings literary criticism into conversation with art and media theory. Its focus is the early New Zealand novel: how the visual imagination, Victorian diaspora, and settlement narratives inform the way a landscape is represented and understood.

  • Visual culture
  • Frontier fiction
  • Colonial narratives
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