Author: Arthur Rex Dugard FairburnPublisher: Auckland, N.Z. : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Letters of A.R.D. Fairburn
Author: Arthur Rex Dugard FairburnPublisher: Auckland, N.Z. : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Picking Up the Traces
Author: Lawrence JonesPublisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864734556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
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.
Never a Soul at Home
Author: Stuart MurrayPublisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864733412
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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.
A Book in the Hand
Author: Penelope GriffithPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 9781869402310
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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.
Selected Poems
Author: Arthur Rex Dugard FairburnPublisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864732934
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Letters of Frank Sargeson
Author: Sarah ShieffPublisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 186979334X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
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.
A.R.D. Fairburn, 1904-1957
Author: Olive A. JohnsonPublisher: [Auckland] : University of Auckland
ISBN:
Category : Fairburn, Arthur Rex Dugard, 1904-1957
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Disputed Ground
Author: Robin HydePublisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864732040
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
"... This book brings together for the first time the best of Hyde's journalism. Alongside extracts from the now out of print Journalese (1934) are previously uncollected articles and reviews from newspapers and magazines, ranging in subject matter from the Treaty of Waitangi to the Spanish Civil War, from China in the thirties to the Queen Street Riots. These detailed and vivid accounts of aspects of New Zealand society and the international situation have an urgency with makes them relevant to us all.The biographical introduction offers a fuller picture than we have had of this remarkable writer, drawing on interviews, letters and the work itself." -- Back cover.
Whole Men
Author: Kai JensenPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 9781869401450
Category : Masculinity in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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.
Flight of the Phoenix
Author: James M. BertramPublisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864730121
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description