| Description |
1 online resource (452 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; By the Same Author; Title page; Dedication and copyright; Contents; Introduction: Afternoon Work; 1. The Mansfield File; Meetings with 'The Great Ghost'; Katherine Mansfield and the Fictions of Continental Europe; First Person as Third Person: Mansfield's Married Man; Tom & Viv and Murry & Mansfield; A Note on Larkin on Mansfield; Janet Bites the Hand . . .; Margaret Scott, 1928-2014; Some Railway Journeys in New Zealand Literature; The Murry-Mansfield Muddle; 2. Book Talk: Sixteen Reviews; An Important Modern Critic; Kiwi Kevin; Roddick is Back -- A Celebration |
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Virginia Woolf's Nightmare?Colm Tóibín's Mary; Not Part of the Entertainment Industry; Golding's Booker; Author Obsession; The Man who Wished to be Other; 'Moss'; 'Sleeplessness, disquiet, ardour' -Zbigniew Herbert's Grand Claim; T.S. Eliot as Letter-writer; The Trophy Husband; The Sky is Falling; Drawn to the Green Light; 3. First Person; My First Book/s; Comprehensive: The Lawrence Jones Interview; My Parnell; Dear Chris; One Thing Leads to Another; Sylvia and her Editor; Why Catullus?; Poetry: Formalists and Freedom Fighters; Small Talk Questions; The Case of David Bain |
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A Talented TransientThe Takahē Interview; World War I -- Close Up from a Distance; Hawke's Bay Answers; At the Molino a Sesta, Gaiole, in Chianti; 'Yes T.S.'; What's Going On Here?; Twelve Questions; Only Connect . . .; 4. The Laureate Reflects; Allen Curnow -- 'Poet Laureate'?; Irish Poets and Poetry; Ezra Pound: One to Be Reckoned With; 'Taddeo Grande' -- Ted Hughes; W.B., T.S. and W.H. -- 'Our clients at least can rune'; Big Spender and Little Matthew; Index |
| Summary |
A collection of reviews, interviews, opinion pieces, essays and lectures, many of which were previously published |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
New Zealand literature -- History and criticism
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New Zealand literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781775588603 |
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1775588602 |
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9781775588573 |
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1775588572 |
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