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Literary contradictions, Alistair Fox
Striding Both Worlds: Witi Ihimaera and New Zealand’s Literary Traditions Melissa Kennedy Rodopi ISBN 9789042033573 Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber and Delia da Sousa Correa (eds) Edinburgh University Press ISBN 9780748669097 In Striding Both Worlds, Melissa…
Tagged with: Alistair Fox, Delia da Sousa Correa, Edinburgh University Press, Gerri Kimber, Issue 107, Janet Wilson, Melissa Kennedy, Rodopi, Spring 2014
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
Only the lonely, Timothy G Jones
The Lonely and the Alone: The Poetics of Isolation in New Zealand Fiction Doreen D’Cruz and John C Ross Rodopi, €85.00, ISBN 9789042034747 Loneliness holds a special place in New Zealand literature. If there is a single image that casts…
Tagged with: Doreen D’Cruz, Issue 100, John C Ross, Rodopi, Summer 2012, Timothy G Jones
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Taking high tea, Tim Jones
Reading Pakeha? Fiction and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand Christina Stachurski Rodopi, $77.50, ISBN 9789042026445 It was E M Forster who told us that study is only a serious form of gossip. I sometimes think the study of literature is…
Avoiding the cookie-cutter, Jennifer Lawn
Manifold Utopia: The Novels of Janet Frame Marc Delrez Rodopi, $59.95 approx, ISBN 904201508X The appearance of the term “manifold” in the titles of two recent books on Janet Frame’s fiction suggests a current fascination with the multiple modes of…
Tagged with: Issue 59, Janet Frame, Jennifer Lawn, Marc Delrez, Rodopi, Spring 2002
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction