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Author : James K. Baxter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : New Zealand poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015030855749
Author : Te Miringa Hohaia,Gregory O'Brien,Lara Strongman
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0864735200
"Drawing on previously unpublished manuscripts, many of the teachings and sayings of Te Whiti and Tohu - in Maori and English - are reproduced in full with extensive annotation by Te Miringa Hohaia. Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance reaches beyond the art and literary worlds to engage with cultural issues important to all citizens of Aotearoa New Zealand."--Jacket.
Author : James Merchant
Publisher : Namaskar Book
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Vol. 2: Insights into a Naturalist's Legacy and Victorian Scientific Adventure Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Vol. 2: Immerse yourself in the extraordinary life and adventures of Alfred Russel Wallace with Letters and Reminiscences Vol. 2. This compelling collection unveils the personal letters and reflections of a pioneering naturalist who navigated the uncharted territories of science and exploration during the Victorian era. Wallace's words come alive, offering a unique perspective on his groundbreaking contributions to evolutionary thought and his encounters with the wonders of the natural world. Why This Book? Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Vol. 2 provides an intimate look into the mind of a scientific luminary. Through his letters and reminiscences, readers gain insight into Wallace's unwavering curiosity, his relentless pursuit of knowledge, and the profound impact of his discoveries on the fields of biology and anthropology. Alfred Russel Wallace, a Victorian naturalist and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection, is a figure of enduring significance. This collection allows readers to connect with the man behind the scientific achievements, exploring the depth of his intellect and the spirit of adventure that defined his life.
Author : C. K. Stead
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781775580928
Over a quarter of a century, C. K. Stead has built up a widely accessible collection of reviews and critical essays on New Zealand literature. In the Glass Case covers a wide spectrum of New Zealand writers, who are examined from a remarkably consistent viewpoint. The title is symbolic: New Zealand books were once held in a glass-fronted bookcase at the University of Auckland library. These were considered rare, although they are now out on the open shelves. Stead's views are often controversial and provoke discussion and passionate debate from other critics. This is not only an enlightening look into New Zealand literature and C. K. Stead, it is also a very enjoyable read.
Author : C. K. Stead
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781775581000
This collection of 28 critical essays provides provocative comment on the work of 20 New Zealand writers, including Elizabeth Knox, Katherine Mansfield, Kendrick Smithyman, Allen Curnow, and Janet Frame.
Author : Douglas J Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317318194
The essays in this collection examine religion, politics and commerce in Scotland during a time of crisis and turmoil. Contributors look at the effect of the Union on Scottish trade and commerce, the Scottish role in tobacco and sugar plantations, Robert Burns’s early poetry on his planned emigration to Jamaica and Scottish anti-abolitionists.
Author : Bill Manhire
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0864733704
Bill Manhire takes the books and poems he loves out of the pupil and lecture hall and returns them to their readers. In these pages unlikely people rub shoulders - Ralph Hotere and Philip Larkin, Sylivia Plath and James K. Baxter, Maurice Gee and Laura Ranger - Then along the way Manhire investigates why the world's best poems sound like dirty songs, tell outrageous lies, and thrive on their own mistakes. These essays and interviews will not tell you what to think, but they will probably inspire you to do your own thinking.
Author : Kai Jensen
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Masculinity in literature
ISBN : 186940145X
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.
Author : D. L. Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Saint James Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015025284509
Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of writers from Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and English-speaking Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Written by subject experts.
Author : Michael D. Jackson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231541992
How are we to think of works of art? Rather than treat art as an expression of individual genius, market forces, or aesthetic principles, Michael Jackson focuses on how art effects transformations in our lives. Art opens up transitional, ritual, or utopian spaces that enable us to reconcile inward imperatives and outward constraints, thereby making our lives more manageable and meaningful. Art allows us to strike a balance between being actors and being acted upon. Drawing on his ethnographic fieldwork in Aboriginal Australia and West Africa, as well as insights from psychoanalysis, religious studies, literature, and the philosophy of art, Jackson deploys an extraordinary range of references—from Bruegel to Beuys, Paleolithic art to performance art, Michelangelo to Munch—to explore the symbolic labor whereby human beings make themselves, both individually and socially, out of the environmental, biographical, and physical materials that affect them: a process that connects art with gestation, storytelling, and dreaming and illuminates the elementary forms of religious life.
Author : Ian Richards
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781775582212
This volume examines the life and work of New Zealand author Maurice Duggan. His life was turbulent and difficult as he suffered from a "black Irish" personality, the lifelong trauma of an amputated leg, and battles with alcoholism, relationships and employment. This biography looks at the complexity of his life and offers a picture of literary life in New Zealand, and especially Auckland, in the 1950's and 1960's.
Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780191652479
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry offers thirty-eight chapters of ground breaking research that form a collaborative guide to the many groupings and movements, the locations and styles, as well as concerns (aesthetic, political, cultural and ethical) that have helped shape contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. The book's introduction offers an anthropological participant-observer approach to its variously conflicted subjects, while exploring the limits and openness of the contemporary as a shifting and never wholly knowable category. The five ensuing sections explore: a history of the period's poetic movements; its engagement with form, technique, and the other arts; its association with particular locations and places; its connection with, and difference from, poetry in other parts of the world; and its circling around such ethical issues as whether poetry can perform actions in the world, can atone, redress, or repair, and how its significance is inseparable from acts of evaluation in both poets and readers. Though the book is not structured to feature chapters on authors thought to be canonical, on the principle that contemporary writers are by definition not yet canonical, the volume contains commentary on many prominent poets, as well as finding space for its contributors' enthusiasms for numerous less familiar figures. It has been organized to be read from cover to cover as an ever deepening exploration of a complex field, to be read in one or more of its five thematically structured sections, or indeed to be read by picking out single chapters or discussions of poets that particularly interest its individual readers.
Author : Michael J. H. Godfrey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620329672
To read Revelation for meaning today we need to recognize and accept that the Christian community itself has often become the wearer of Babylon's Cap of oppression. This is a reading of Revelation that seeks to hear the voices of postcolonial pain, while never pretending to be a postcolonial analysis.
Author : Paul Brown
Publisher : Superelastic
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780995541214
Messages from the Sea is a collection of letters and notes found washed ashore on beaches and bobbing in water, in corked bottles and wax-sealed boxes, carved onto wreckage and in the bellies of sharks. They tell of foundering ships, missing ocean liners and shipwrecked sailors, and contain moving farewells, romantic declarations and intriguing confessions. Some solve the mysteries of lost vessels and crews, while others create new mysteries yet to be solved. Dating from a lost era of seafaring, they demonstrate the brave, lonely and fragile nature of life on the ocean waves. Included among these 100 messages are: a clue to the fate of the missing White Star liner Naronic; a murder confession found in a bottle off the White Cliffs of Dover; an update from John Franklin’s lost Arctic expedition; a poem about a newborn baby found inside an 11ft shark; an unlikely apology from fleeing fraudster Violet Charlesworth; evidence for the unnecessary loss of the steamship London with 220 souls; the truth behind the mysterious grave robbery of the Earl of Crawford; and a message from the deck of the sinking Titanic.
Author : Simon Trussler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1983-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349170647
A compendium of information on all the main events, individuals, political groupings and issues of the 20th century. It provides a guide to current thinking on important historical topics and personalities within the period, and offers a guide to further reading.
