Picking Up the Traces

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Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780864734556
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (345 download)

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Book Synopsis Picking Up the Traces by : Lawrence Jones

Download or read book Picking Up the Traces written by Lawrence Jones and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the generation of New Zealand writers who came of age in the 1930s and who deliberately and decisively changed the course of literature is told in this book, shedding important new light on the key participants, including Allen Curnow, Denis Glover, and Robin Hyde. The movement is traced through small circulation magazines and small press publications from 1932 to 1941. The repudiations and loyalties by which the movement defined itself are explored, including its opposition to the literary establishment and to late Georgian verse, its naming of its precursors and allies from the 1920s, and its choice of overseas models such as the British Moderns and the new American short-story writers for the creation of a new literature. oppose the cultural myths supported by the literary establishment and the writers' responses to the world-wide social upheavals of the period -- the Depression, the international crises of 1935 to 1939, and World War II.

Selected Poems

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Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780864732934
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (329 download)

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Book Synopsis Selected Poems by : Arthur Rex Dugard Fairburn

Download or read book Selected Poems written by Arthur Rex Dugard Fairburn and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mason

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Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780864734631
Total Pages : 482 pages
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Book Synopsis Mason by : Rachel Barrowman

Download or read book Mason written by Rachel Barrowman and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full story of the gifted but troubled R. A. K. Mason is told for the first time in this accessible biography. The puzzling reasons after his extraordinary beginning that Mason almost completely stopped writing poetry are investigated. The legendary story of how Mason dumped 200 copies of his first book, The Beggar, into Auckland harbor in disappointment, disgust, or despair because no one would buy it is explored as a symbol of a time--the 1920s and 1930s--when a true, vital, native literature struggled to be written or heard in a provincial and puritanical country. Also explored are how Mason's political beliefs prompted him to turn his creative energies to left-wing theater movements in the 1930s, the impact that family pressures had on his life, and his late-in-life diagnosis with manic depression.

Fairburn

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Fairburn by : Denys Trussell

Download or read book Fairburn written by Denys Trussell and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Never a Soul at Home

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Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780864733412
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis Never a Soul at Home by : Stuart Murray

Download or read book Never a Soul at Home written by Stuart Murray and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The generation of writers that came to prominence in the 1930s laid down the framework for modern New Zealand literature. This book looks at the beginnings of those writers' careers, at the influences of events like the Depression and the onset of war, and at the role of cultural institutions. Ultimately, it is about the myths that surround the 1930s writers, and the myths they made.

Look Back Harder

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Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1775581144
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Book Synopsis Look Back Harder by : Allen Curnow

Download or read book Look Back Harder written by Allen Curnow and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collected critical writings of one of New Zealand's major poets and critics, covering half a century of his work. Of the thirty-eight items (reviews, essays, lectures, interviews, and letters) included, his controversial introductions to his anthologies of New Zealand verse are the best known. There are also incisive essays on Curnow's New Zealand contemporaries, and on writers from further afield, such as Olson and Thomas. For students of English literature, particularly of New Zealand.

Global Modernists on Modernism

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474242332
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis Global Modernists on Modernism by : Alys Moody

Download or read book Global Modernists on Modernism written by Alys Moody and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Edited Volume Prize Bringing together works by writers from sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, central Europe, the Muslim world, Asia, South America and Australia – many translated into English for the first time – this is the first collection of statements on modernism by writers, artists and practitioners from across the world. Annotated throughout, the texts are supported by critical essays from leading modernist scholars exploring major issues in the contemporary study of global modernism. Global Modernists on Modernism is an essential resource for students and scholars of modernism and world literature and one that opens up a dazzling new array of perspectives on the field.

Bloomsbury South

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Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 177558853X
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Book Synopsis Bloomsbury South by : Peter Simpson

Download or read book Bloomsbury South written by Peter Simpson and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Why was it then that out of the hundreds of towns and universities in the English-speaking lands scattered over the seven seas, only one should at that time act as a focus of creative literature of more than local significance; that it should be in Christchurch, New Zealand, that a group of young writers had appeared who were eager to assimilate the pioneer developments in style and technique that were being made in England and America since the beginning of the century...and to give their country a new conscience and spiritual perspective?’ – John Lehmann For two decades in Christchurch, New Zealand, a cast of extraordinary men and women remade the arts. Variously between 1933 and 1953, Christchurch was the home of Angus and Bensemann and McCahon, Curnow and Glover and Baxter, the Group, the Caxton Press and the Little Theatre, Landfall and Tomorrow, Ngaio Marsh and Douglas Lilburn. It was a city in which painters lived with writers, writers promoted musicians, in which the arts and artists from different forms were deeply intertwined. And it was a city where artists developed a powerful synthesis of European modernist influences and an assertive New Zealand nationalism that gave mid-century New Zealand cultural life its particular shape. In this book, Simpson tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of this ‘Bloomsbury South’ and the arts and artists that made it. Simpson brings to life the individual talents and their passions, but he also takes us inside the scenes that they created together: Bethell and her visiting coterie of younger poets; Glover and Bensemann’s exacting typography at the Caxton Press; the yearly exhibitions and aesthetic clashes of the Group; McCahon and Baxter’s developing friendship; the effects of Brasch’s patronage; Marsh’s Shakespearian re-creations at the Little Theatre. Simpson recreates a Christchurch we have lost, where a group of artists collaborated to create a distinctively New Zealand art which spoke to the condition of their country as it emerged into the modern era.

Commonwealth Literature

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349861014
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (498 download)

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Book Synopsis Commonwealth Literature by : NA NA

Download or read book Commonwealth Literature written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Poetic Eye: Occasional Writings 1982-2012

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004336478
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis The Poetic Eye: Occasional Writings 1982-2012 by : Michael Sharkey

Download or read book The Poetic Eye: Occasional Writings 1982-2012 written by Michael Sharkey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of the Australian poet Michael Sharkey’s uncollected essays and occasional writings on poetics and poets, chiefly Australian and New Zealand. Reviews and conversations with other poets highlight Sharkey’s concern with preserving and interrogating cultural memory and his engagement with the practice and championing of poetry. Poets discussed range from Lord Byron to colonial-era and early-twentieth-century poets (Francis Adams, David McKee Wright, and Zora Cross), under-represented Australian women poets of World War I, traditionalists and experimentalists, including several ‘New Australian Poetry’ activists of the 1970s, and contemporary Australian and New Zealand poets. Writings on poetics address form and tradition, the teaching and reception of poetry, and canon-formation. The collection is culled from commissioned and occasional contributions to anthologies of practical poetics, journals devoted to literary and cultural history and book reviewing, as well as newspaper and small-magazine features from the 1980s to the present. The writing reflects Sharkey’s poetic practice and pedagogy relating to the teaching of literature, rhetorical analysis, cultural studies, and writing in universities, schools, and cultural organizations in Australia, New Zealand, China, and Germany. It also evidences Sharkey’s familiarity with literatures written in English and his wider career in publishing, editing, free-lance journalism, and the promotion of Australian and New Zealand literature, especially poetry.

Whole Men

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Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781869401450
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Whole Men by : Kai Jensen

Download or read book Whole Men written by Kai Jensen and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kai Jensen takes a provocative look at masculinity in New Zealand literature. He argues that New Zealand writing around the Second World War was shaped by excitement about masculinity as a way of challenging society. Inspired partly by Marxism, writers such as A.R.D. Fairburn, Denis Glover, John Mulgan and Frank Sargeson linked national identity to the ordinary working man or soldier, and attempted to merge artistic activity and manliness in a new ideal, the whole man. This masculine excitement forged a literary and intellectual culture which was powerful for thirty years, and which discouraged women writers. Jensen suggests that the aftermath of masculinism still influences the way New Zealand intellectuals see themselves, and that the masculine tradition survives in the writing of Owen Marshall, Sam Hunt, Maurice Shadbolt and even Maurice Gee. At the same time he argues that masculinism underwent a process of change after its high point in the 1940s: Frank Sargeson's closeted homosexuality posed a complex problem for the masculine tradition and its historians, and James K. Baxter's symbolic, Jungian poetry was also hard to reconcile with the idea that men's writing must be based on robust experience. Yet Baxter prepared the masculine tradition for the 1960s and 1970s by renovating the whole man as bohemian lover. Whole Men is not just about one literary movement, but about how literary culture works, and how New Zealand intellectuals construct their identities.

Simply by Sailing in a New Direction

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Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 177558870X
Total Pages : 929 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Book Synopsis Simply by Sailing in a New Direction by : Terry Sturm

Download or read book Simply by Sailing in a New Direction written by Terry Sturm and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allen Curnow (1911–2001) was at the time of his death regarded as one of the greatest of all poets writing in English. For seventy years, from Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel's (2001), Curnow's poetry was always on the move – from his early approaches to New Zealand identity and myth to later work concerned with the philosophical encounter between word and world. Curnow also played a major role in New Zealand life as editor, critic, commentator and anthologist, as well as a much-loved writer of light verse under the penname of Whim Wham. In his later years he acquired an impressive international reputation, winning the Commonwealth Prize for Poetry and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Throughout his lifetime, Allen Curnow revised, selected and collected his poetry in various ways. For the first time, this collection brings together all of the poems that Curnow collected in his lifetime grouped in their original volumes. The notes reproduce Curnow's comments on individual poems and include relevant editorial guidance. This is the definitive collection of work by New Zealand's most distinguished poet.

Touchstones

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Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 186979933X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Book Synopsis Touchstones by : James McNeish

Download or read book Touchstones written by James McNeish and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir that is at once a self-portrait, a hymn to a vanishing New Zealand, and a record of a varied cast of influential people. A young man leaves home a deckhand on a Norwegian freighter, to travel the world. He returns to New Zealand changed almost beyond recognition. Along the way he meets nine people who influence his life and help make him the writer he becomes. James McNeish's Touchstones has a cast of characters who include 'the Mother Courage of the English theatre', an anti-Mafia reformer in Sicily, a Kanak revolutionary who is assassinated, a rejected cousin and 'Mr Punch in naval uniform', the New Zealand poet Denis Glover. All are larger than life. Some of them, like the author's mysterious Maori aunt, are good enough to bottle. The book is witty, poignant and in the words of its editor, Emma Neale, 'rich in astonishing anecdote'.

Studies in Commonwealth Literature

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Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126901487
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Studies in Commonwealth Literature by : Mohit Kumar Ray

Download or read book Studies in Commonwealth Literature written by Mohit Kumar Ray and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commonwealth Literature Today Stands For Literature(S) In English Written In The Commonwealth Countries Outside The Anglo-American Tradition. What Is Common Between The Diverse Members Of The Commonwealth In Spite Of Their Different Calendars Of Independence And Ethnological, Cultural, Political As Also Topographical Set-Ups Is That All These Countries Shared The Common Colonial Experience. So, From India To Nigeria, Canada To Kenya, Australia To Pakistan We Can Discern The Varying Patterns Of A Common Human Experience And Emergence Of Cultural Nationalism Leading To An Emphasis On Their Distinctiveness In Literary Heritage And Assertion Of Cultural Identity. Commonwealth Literature Thus Presents A Rich Variety Of Aesthetic And Cultural Experience.The Essays Collected In This Volume Spanning Different Countries And Periods Try To Offer A Taste Of This Interesting Variety. The Range Covered Here Stretches From West African Drama To South African Fiction, Australian And Caribbean Literature To That Of Indian Diaspora And South Asian Poetry Of The Saarc Countries. Discussions On Indian Literature Cover The Varied Areas From Devotional Mysticism To Realistic Social Satire, Myth-Oriented Novel To Feminism, Dialogism And Reassessment Of Postcolonial Theories.The Authors Focused In This Discussion Promises A Colourful Spectrum; They Include Wole Soyinka, Ahmed Essop, Salman Rushdie, David Malouf, Wilson Harris, Patrick White, Rohinton Mistry, G.V. Desani, Aurobindo, Manohar Magonkar, R.K. Narayan, Gurcharan Das, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kamala Das, K.V. Venkataramani, Margaret Craven, Along With A Host Of Saarc Poets.The Volume Will Be Useful For The Students And Scholars Of Commonwealth Literature, And Will Also Prove Interesting To The Common Reader.

The Book of Iris

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Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781869402679
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of Iris by : Derek Challis

Download or read book The Book of Iris written by Derek Challis and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brilliant, beautiful, difficult and doomed, Iris Wilkinson (known as the writer Robin Hyde) led a short, tumultuous and incredibly productive life. Here her story is told for the first time in a dramatic and deeply moving narrative. Researched by both authors from 1965 to 1971, it was written in a first draft by Iris Wilkinson's friend, Gloria Rawlinson; since Rawlinson's death in 1995 it has been revised and completed by Derek Challis, Wilkinson's son. It includes appalling accounts of hidden pregnancies, harsh experience as a solo mother, dependence on drugs, intimate acquaintance with sexism and poverty, mental breakdown, and a perilous trip to China in wartime. There are deep friendships and hurtful betrayals. Always there is a dedicated and determined commitment to writing. ..."--Jacket.

New Zealand's London

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Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1775581292
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Book Synopsis New Zealand's London by : Felicity Barnes

Download or read book New Zealand's London written by Felicity Barnes and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antipodean soldiers and writers, meat carcasses and moa, British films and Kiwi tourists—throughout the last 150 years, people, objects and ideas have gone back and forth between New Zealand and London, defining and redefining the relationship between this country and the colonial center that many New Zealanders once called home. Exploring the relationship between a colony and its metropolis from Wakefield to the Wombles, it answers questions, including How did New Zealanders define themselves in relation to the center of British culture? and How did New Zealanders view London when they walked through King's Cross or saw the city in movies? By focusing on particular themes—from agricultural marketing to expatriate writers—this discussion develops a larger story about the construction of colonial and national identities.

A Popular Vision

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Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780864732170
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis A Popular Vision by : Rachel Barrowman

Download or read book A Popular Vision written by Rachel Barrowman and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: