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Presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English
at Massey University
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ANTON PETER GOODWIN '
1993
ILLUSTRATIONS ... i
INTRODUCTION ... ii
CHAPTER 1: WHY START WITH THE PHYSICAL? ... 1
CHAPTER 2: WHAT'S HOLY ABOUT KAREKARE? ... 6
CHAPTER 3: COLLISIONS AND COLLUSIONS ... 19
CHAPTER 4: FROM KAREKARE TO DUOM0 ... 23
CHAPTER 5: MEDICI AND MOR0 ... 30
CHAPTER 6: SCEPTICISM: "THINGS TO DO WITH MOONLIGHT" ... 36
CHAPTER 7: REALISM AND BEYOND: "ORGANO AD LIBITUM" ... 39
CHAPTER 8: MAKING THE CONNECTIONS WORK ... : ... 46
APPENDIX 1. Plants and trees ... .48
APPENDIX 2. Exact measures ... 52
APPENDIX 3. Bodily matters ... 53
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ... 59
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS:
PAGE 5: Figures 1 and 2: Dr. Rayner's advertising campaign. Source: Scott, D. Fire on the Clay. Auckland: Southern Cross books, 1979. pp 91-2.
PAGE 10: Map 1 : Detail from the Auckland Regional Council Parks Dept. map of Waitakere Ranges Centennial Memorial Park showing Karekare and some of the walking tracks of the area.
PAGE 12: Map 2: Karekare, place of Maori legend, showing The Watchman (Te Matua) and the disposition of his two children. Te Tokapiri stands close to the parent while the disobedient Paratahi is 'the sibling that stands apart'. Wharengarahi may be seen slightly inland.
Source: Northcote- Bade, J (ed.) West Auckland Remembers. Vol.2. Auckland: W. Auckland Hist. Soc.(lnc.), 1992. p.20.
PAGE 12: Figure 3 : 'The three rocks'. Source: Northcote-Bade, J (ed.) West Auckland Remembers. Vol.2.
PAGE 14: Figure 4 : Wharengarahi: 'The large overhanging rock shelf', reminiscent of a duomo with its shell shape. Possibly not the basis of the Karekare duomo concept.
PAGE 14: Figure 5 : Te Kawa rimurapa: 'Reef of the Bull Kelp', north of which lies the seacave Te ane areare ('the cave with the cavernous and vaulted exterior') which is most likely to be the basis for the Karekare duomo setting.
PAGE 18: Figure 6 : Detail from an Auckland A.A. map of 1958 of the West Coast. The wording of the warnings might have been almost ready-made for Curnow.
PAGE 26: Figure 7: "Slaty grey strata/ angled ... " ("In the Duomo": part v: "An Old Hand .")
PAGE 42: Figure 8 : Liberated Sisters? Clovis Trouille: Dialogue at the Carmel (1944). Source: Alexandrian, S. Surrealist Art. London: Thames and Hudson, 1970. p.210.
PAGE 42: Figure 9 : Soulful photograph of Dr Rayner at his desk. Source: Scott, D.
Fire on the Clay. p.89. Refer to the appendix on Body Parts p. 56.
