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Cooked up, Stuart Murray
The Long Forgetting: Post-colonial Literary Culture in New Zealand Patrick Evans Canterbury University Press, $34.50, ISBN 9781877257698 Approximately halfway through Patrick Evans’ study comes a paragraph that, upon reflection, more or less sums up the way the book works. The…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Issue 83, Patrick Evans, Spring 2008, Stuart Murray
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
On display, Stuart Murray
Making Ends Meet: Essays and Talks 1992-2004 Ian Wedde Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 086473503 In the title essay of this wonderful collection, originally given as a talk on issues of research and archiving at the National Library of New…
Tagged with: Ian Wedde, Issue 72, Stuart Murray, Summer 2005, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Local and special, Stuart Murray
Picking Up the Traces: The Making of a New Zealand Literary Culture 1932-1945 Lawrence Jones Victoria University Press, $49.94, ISBN 0864734557 Nationalism, and especially cultural nationalism, inhabits a position in contemporary culture that seems peculiarly complex. Easy to identify, yet…
Tagged with: Issue 63, Lawrence Jones, Spring 2003, Stuart Murray, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
“The muddled dailiness of things”, Stuart Murray
Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $34.95, ISBN 0 86473 370 4 The Canadian poet Douglas Barbour once wrote that Bill Manhire’s poetry displays a “duplicitous unwillingness to guarantee anything”, a feature he felt to be…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Issue 43, Stuart Murray, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Literature
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Back to the 30s, Vincent O’Sullivan
Never a Soul at Home: New Zealand Literary Nationalism and the 1930s Stuart Murray Victoria University Press, $44.95, ISBN 0 86473 341 0 An Englishman, teaching in Dublin, who takes our most carefully constructed decade, insinuates himself into one of…
Tagged with: Issue 38, Stuart Murray, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Local practice v wider trends, Stuart Murray
Opening the Book: New Essays on New Zealand Writing Mark Williams and Michele Leggott (eds) Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1869401158 Ending the Silences: Critical Essays on the Works of Maurice Shadbolt Ralph J Crane (ed) Hodder Moa Beckett, $24.95,…
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National revolutionary, Stuart Murray
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