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Letters of Frank Sargeson

Sarah Shieff
Letters of Frank Sargeson Book PDF

Author : Sarah Shieff
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781869793340

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Letters of Frank Sargeson by Sarah Shieff Pdf

A rich and riveting record of both literary and social value. Frank Sargeson is one of New Zealand's best-loved and most important writers. Besides the ground-breaking short stories, he wrote memoirs, novels, and plays. He encouraged at least three generations of younger writers and, for most of his adult life, the famous bach behind the hedge at 14 Esmonde Road was at the heart of New Zealand's artistic and literary world. Sargeson was also a prolific letter writer, and this selection of 500 of the most fascinating ranges over half a century, from 1927 to 1981. The letters are immensely readable, vividly capturing his life and times, his milieu and his personality. Frank loved gossip, could be bitchy and peevish, but also kind, affectionate, funny, ribald, astute. This collection, selected, edited and annotated by Sarah Shieff, is a document of extraordinary significance for all those interested in New Zealand's literary and social history.

Picking Up the Traces

Lawrence Jones
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Author : Lawrence Jones
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0864734557

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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.

A Book in the Hand

Penelope Griffith,Penny Griffith,Peter Hughes,Alan Loney
A Book in the Hand Book PDF

Author : Penelope Griffith,Penny Griffith,Peter Hughes,Alan Loney
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1869402316

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A Book in the Hand by Penelope Griffith,Penny Griffith,Peter Hughes,Alan Loney Pdf

As we find ourselves in a technological revolution and the computer screen takes over the printed page, the history of the book has become a subject of study throughout the world. This collection of 15 essays looks at at a wide variety of topics from the history of the printed word in New Zealand.

Katherine Mansfield and Literary Influence

Sarah Ailwood
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Author : Sarah Ailwood
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748694426

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Katherine Mansfield and Literary Influence by Sarah Ailwood Pdf

This book maps the ecologies of Mansfield's influences beyond her modernist and postcolonial contexts, observing that it roams wildly over six centuries, across three continents and beyond cultural and linguistic boundaries.

Bloomsbury South

Peter Simpson
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Author : Peter Simpson
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781775588535

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Bloomsbury South by Peter Simpson Pdf

‘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.

Downfall

Paul Diamond
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Author : Paul Diamond
Publisher : Massey University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781991016201

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Downfall by Paul Diamond Pdf

In 1920 New Zealanders were shocked by the news that the brilliant, well-connected mayor of genteel Whanganui had shot a young gay poet, D' Arcy Cresswell, who was blackmailing him. They were then riveted by the trial that followed. Mackay was sentenced to hard labour and later left the country, only to be shot by a police sniper during street unrest in Berlin during the rise of the Nazis. Mackay had married into Whanganui high society, and the story has long been the town' s dark secret. The outcome of years of digging by historian Paul Diamond, this book shines a clear light on the vengeful impulses behind the blackmail and Mackay' s ruination. The cast of this tale includes the Prince of Wales, the president of the RSA, Sir Robert Stout, Blanche Baughan . . . even Lady Ottoline Morrell. But it is much more than an extraordinary story of scandal. At its heart, the Mackay affair reveals the perilous existence of homosexual men and how society conspired to control and punish them.

You have a Lot to Lose

C. K. Stead
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Author : C. K. Stead
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781776710577

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You have a Lot to Lose by C. K. Stead Pdf

New Zealand's most extraordinary literary everyman—poet, novelist, critic, activist. C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his memoirs, Stead takes us from the moment he left New Zealand for a job in rural Australia, through study abroad, writing and a university career, until he left the University of Auckland to write full time aged fifty-three. It is a tumultuous tale of literary friends and foes (Curnow and Baxter, A. S. Byatt and Barry Humphries, and many more) and of navigating a personal and political life through the social change of the 1960s and 70s. And, at its heart, it is an account of a remarkable life among books—of writing and reading, critics and authors, students and professors. From Booloominbah to Menton, The New Poetic to All Visitors Ashore, from Vietnam to the Springbok Tour, C. K. Stead's You Have a Lot to Lose takes readers on a remarkable voyage through New Zealand's intellectual and cultural history.

Metafiction and the Postwar Novel

Andrew Dean
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Author : Andrew Dean
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192644824

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Metafiction and the Postwar Novel by Andrew Dean Pdf

Metafiction and the Postwar Novel is a full-length reassessment of one of the definitive literary forms of the postwar period, sometimes known as 'postmodern metafiction'. In the place of large-scale theorizing, this book centres on the intimacies of writing situations - metafiction as it responds to readers, literary reception, and earlier works in a career. The emergence of archival materials and posthumously published works helps to bring into view the stakes of different moments of writing. It develops new terms for discussing literary self-reflexivity, derived from a reading of Don Quixote and its reception by J.L. Borges - the 'self of writing' and the 'public author as signature'. Across three comprehensive chapters, Metafiction and Postwar Fiction shows how some of the most highly-regarded postwar writers were motivated to incorporate reflexive elements into their writing - and to what ends. The first chapter, on South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, shows with a new clarity how his fictions drew from and relativized academic literary theory and the conditions of writing in apartheid South Africa. The second chapter, on New Zealand writer Janet Frame, draws widely from her fictions, autobiographies, and posthumously published materials. It demonstrates the terms in which her writing addresses a readership seemingly convinced that her work expressed the interior experience of 'madness'. The final chapter, on American writer Philip Roth, shows how his early reception led to his later, and often explosive, reconsiderations of identity and literary value in postwar America.

Conversation in a Train and Other Critical Writings

Frank Sargeson
Conversation in a Train and Other Critical Writings Book PDF

Author : Frank Sargeson
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781775580515

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Conversation in a Train and Other Critical Writings by Frank Sargeson Pdf

Frank Sargeson wrote fiction for over half a century as well as occasional criticism in many forms and on many topics. Writers considered include D. H. Lawrence, Sherwood Anderson, Henry Lawson and Olive Schreiner besides fellow New Zealanders such as Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame, Dan Davin, James Courage, Bill Pearson, and Ronald Hugh Morrieson. He was particularly concerned with societies which grew on the nineteenth-century European colonial frontiers, and with the writers they produced. A comprehensive bibliography of Sargeson's non-fiction prose is included.

No Fretful Sleeper

Paul Millar
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Author : Paul Millar
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781775581314

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No Fretful Sleeper by Paul Millar Pdf

Outlining the career of one of New Zealand's most distinguished fiction writers and sharpest critics, this fascinating narrative details the life and work of Bill Pearson. Beginning with his difficult childhood in a society dominated by the New Zealand working man, this gripping biography follows Pearson through his long and distinguished academic career, the penning of his one major and celebrated novel, and his momentous decision to trade a dental career for World War II combat. Touching on his time in London and the native &“fretful sleepers,&” this engrossing account is emblematic of the intellectual culture, left-wing politics, and growing acceptance of both homosexual identity and Maori and Pacific Island culture in 20th-century New Zealand.

Wrestling with the Angel

Michael King
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Author : Michael King
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781582431857

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Wrestling with the Angel by Michael King Pdf

Janet Frame, born in 1924, is New Zealand's most celebrated and least public author. Her early life in small South Island towns seemed, at times, engulfed in a tide of doom: one brother still-born, another epileptic; two sisters dead of heart failure while swimming; Frame herself committed to mental hospitals for the best part of a decade. Later, her surviving sister was temporarily felled in adulthood by a stroke, an uncle cut his throat and a cousin shot his lover, his lover's parents and then himself. This, then, is an inspiring biography of a woman who climbed out of an abyss of unhappiness to take control of her life and become one of the great writers of her time. And to enable her biographer to write this book scrupulously and honestly, Janet Frame spoke for the first time about her whole life. She also made available her personal papers and directed her family and friends to be equally communicative. The result is a biography of astonishing intimacy and frankness, written by multi-award-winning author, Dr Michael King.

Strangers Arrive

Leonard Bell
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Author : Leonard Bell
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781775589556

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"None of us had the faintest idea where we were going [but] during 1938–39 . . . the town [Christchurch] was made strangely interesting for anyone like myself, [with the] scattered arrival of ‘the refugees'. All at once there were people among us who were actually from Vienna, or Chemnitz, or Berlin . . . who knew the work of Schoenberg and Gropius." —Anthony Alpers, 1985 From the 1930s through the 1950s, a substantial number of forced migrants – refugees from Nazism, displaced people after World War II and escapees from Communist countries – arrived in New Zealand from Europe. Among them were an extraordinary group of artists and writers, photographers and architects whose European modernism radically reshaped the arts in this country. In words and pictures, Strangers Arrive tells their story. Ranging across the arts from photographer Irene Koppel to art dealer and printmaker Kees Hos, architect Imric Porsolt to writer Antigone Kefala, Leonard Bell takes us inside New Zealand's bookstores and coffeehouses, studios and galleries to introduce us to a compelling body of artistic work. He asks key questions. How were migrants received by New Zealanders? How did displacement and settlement in New Zealand transform their work? How did the arrival of European modernists intersect with the burgeoning nationalist movement in the arts in New Zealand? Strangers Arrive introduces us to a talented group of ‘aliens' who were critical catalysts for change in New Zealand culture.

Letters of Frances Hodgkins

Frances Hodgkins
Letters of Frances Hodgkins Book PDF

Author : Frances Hodgkins
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781775581123

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Letters of Frances Hodgkins by Frances Hodgkins Pdf

Letters of Frances Hodgkins is a generous selection of letters written by New Zealand's most internationally well-known artist. It shows that Hodgkins deserves not only her considerable reputation as a painter, but also that of a brilliant and engaging writer. The letters reveal Hodgkins' changing moods, impressions and fortunes and provide vivid sketches of the people and landscapes she came across. Spanning from colonial Dunedin to her travels across Europe and North Africa, the letters continue through her final flowering in her 60s and 70s. Linda Gill's careful scholarship and sensitive appreciation of Hodgkins' talents and personality make her introduction and notes the perfect framework for the artist's own words. A chronology, an in-depth bibliography and an index of letter recipients complement the work. Extensively illustrated, with eight pages of color reproductions of Hodgkins' paintings, Letters of Frances Hodgkins is central to understanding Hodgkins as artist and woman.

Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe

Gerri Kimber,Janka Kascakova
Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe Book PDF

Author : Gerri Kimber,Janka Kascakova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137429971

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Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe by Gerri Kimber,Janka Kascakova Pdf

This volume offers new interpretations of Katherine Mansfield's work by bringing together recent biographical and critical-theoretical approaches to her life and art in the context of Continental Europe. It features chapters on Mansfield's reception in several European countries together with her own translations of other European writers.

My Father's Island

Adam Dudding
My Father s Island Book PDF

Author : Adam Dudding
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781776561209

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My Father's Island by Adam Dudding Pdf

After the death of his brilliant, eccentric father, Adam Dudding went in search of the stories and secrets of a man who had been a loving parent and husband, but was also a tormented, controlling and at times cruel man.Robin Dudding was the greatest New Zealand literary editor of his generation – friend and mentor of many of our best-known writers. At his peak he published the country’s finest literary journal on the smell of an oily rag from a falling-down house overflowing with books, long-haired children and chickens – an island of nonconformity in the heart of 1970s Auckland suburbia. Yet when Robin’s uncompromising integrity tipped into something much more self-destructive, a dark shadow fell over his career and personal life.In My Father’s Island, Adam Dudding writes frankly about the rise and fall of an unconventional cultural figure. But this is also a moving, funny and deeply personal story of a family, of a marriage, of feuds and secret loves – and of a son’s dawning understanding of his father.