Shelf Life : Reviews, Replies and Reminiscences.

Shelf Life : Reviews, Replies and Reminiscences.

A collection of reviews, interviews, opinion pieces, essays and lectures, many of which were previously published.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stead, Karl
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Auckland University Press, 2016.
©2016
Subjects:
New Zealand literature > History and criticism.
New Zealand literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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
  • 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
  • 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

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