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Author
Publisher
NonStop Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (288 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by David Pringle's landmark 1985 work Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, this volume supplements the earlier selection with the present authors' choices for the best English-language science fiction novels during the past quarter century. Employing a critical slant, the book provides a discussion of the novels and the writers in the context of popular literature. Moreover, each entry features a cover image of the novel, a plot synopsis,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Filling an important gap in the literary world, The Richard Peabody Reader is a wide-ranging selection of this great writer's poetry and prose. As a publisher, Peabody's steadfast dedication to that which is new, challenging, innovative, and dynamic has won him a wide reputation among writers whose work he has championed. This volume demonstrates those same values, embodied in nearly four decades of fiercely smart, sophisticated, and often very funny...
Author
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (220 pages)
Language
English
Description
Frank Sargeson wrote fiction for over half a century as well as occasional criticism in many forms and on many topics. Writers considered include D. H. Lawrence, Sherwood Anderson, Henry Lawson and Olive Schreiner besides fellow New Zealanders such as Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame, Dan Davin, James Courage, Bill Pearson, and Ronald Hugh Morrieson. He was particularly concerned with societies which grew on the nineteenth-century European colonial...
Author
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (232 pages)
Language
English
Description
From Owls do Cry to The Carpathians, the novels of Janet Frame have challenged our understanding of what fiction does. In The Frame Function, Jan Cronin traces the operation of a prescriptive authorial presence within the novels to offer an engaging "inside-out' guide to a great writer's work. Drawing on Frame's personal and professional correspondence and the dynamic between that Frame and the various Frames of the novels, Cronin explores key issues:...
Author
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (392 pages)
Language
English
Description
This collection of 28 critical essays provides provocative comment on the work of 20 New Zealand writers, including Elizabeth Knox, Katherine Mansfield, Kendrick Smithyman, Allen Curnow, and Janet Frame.--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (294 pages)
Language
English
Description
Over a quarter of a century, C. K. Stead has built up a widely accessible collection of reviews and critical essays on New Zealand literature. In the Glass Case covers a wide spectrum of New Zealand writers, who are examined from a remarkably consistent viewpoint. The title is symbolic: New Zealand books were once held in a glass-fronted bookcase at the University of Auckland library. These were considered rare, although they are now out on the open...
Author
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (312 pages)
Language
English
Description
A study of the relationship between writing, place, and the history of the Pakeha/European settlement in New Zealand, this book explores the most frequently chosen settings in classic New Zealand literature--the beach, the farm, the bush, and the suburb--and reflects on the plots and storylines that go with them. Through fascinating and unpredictable readings of some of the country's greatest works, writers such as Curnow, Frame, Mansfield, and Sargeson...
Author
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (382 pages)
Language
English
Description
Maurice Duggan's Collected Stories is a powerful collection of short stories from one of New Zealand's finest writers of the genre. Duggan's lyrical power and exceptional style come to the fore in these brilliant stories, which are tinged with undercurrents and ambivalences. The variety of language gives great vitality to tales of a Catholic boyhood, troubled marriage, loneliness, small town ambitions and sexuality. Maurice Duggan destroyed his unpublished...
Author
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (208 pages)
Language
English
Description
Looking outwards, into the past, and to the natural landscape for inspiration, these masterful essays offer elegant ruminations on the experience of living. Divided into four distinct sections, the collection explores memories of a small-town childhood, examines subjects such as the Rosetta Stone, and investigates the meaning of dreams before delivering its grand finale: a meditation on the mysterious identity of a writer.--Provided by the publisher....
Author
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1248 pages)
Language
English
Description
From the earliest records of exploration and encounter to the globalized, multicultural present, this compilation features New Zealand's major writing, from Polynesian mythology to the Yates' Garden Guide, from Allen Curnow to Alice Tawhai, and from Wiremu Te Rangikaheke's letters to Katherine Mansfield's notebooks. Including fiction, nonfiction, letters, speeches, novels, stories, comics, and songs, this imaginative selection provides new paths into...
Author
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (96 pages)
Language
English
Description
The Pacific Islands began to appear in Western literature soon after European navigators made landfall there. From the first, there was seldom a statement of plain facts. Explorers brought their own viewpoints while editors, poets and novelists went on to interpret and moralise the first accounts. Portraying Pacific peoples as sensual, indolent, childlike and - frequently - wicked, such stories implied the duty of Europeans to rule and of the natives...
Author
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (338 pages)
Language
English
Description
The collected critical writings of one of New Zealand's major poets and critics, covering half a century of his work. Of the thirty-eight items (reviews, essays, lectures, interviews, and letters) included, his controversial introductions to his anthologies of New Zealand verse are the best known. There are also incisive essays on Curnow's New Zealand contemporaries, and on writers from further afield, such as Olson and Thomas. For students of English...
Author
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (329 pages)
Language
English
Description
A sequel to the successful books Kin of Place and The Writer at Work, this collection of critical writing takes the reader on a personal journey from the author's earliest discovery of poetry as a young man to his latest experiences on the literary trail. This trip through literary history involves many writers, including Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, Michael King, and Elizabeth Knox. The book also includes a series of journal extracts that allow...
Author
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (240 pages)
Language
English
Description
The major New Zealand novelists of the 1980s have begun to receive international acclaim. This first critical study of Janet Frame, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera, Maurice Gee, Ian Wedde, and C.K. Stead concentrates on their important works to explore how deeply-rooted anxieties about New Zealand'scultural situation and national identity are articulated in New Zealand fiction.--Provided by the publisher.
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Language
English
Description
"Part intimate profile, part detailed discography, this music compilation explores the life and work of Tori Amos, one of the most prolific alternative rock artists of the past few decades. Known for her piano-driven music and emotional, intense lyrics that delve into such topics as sexuality, religion, and personal tragedy, Amos has sold more than 12 million albums worldwide. The artistic process behind the creation of these albums is revealed through...
Author
Language
English
Description
The rage for crime fiction today mysteriously includes, a wide and enduring attraction to the few remaining wholly admirable role models, still available to readers. The iconic Miss Marple, 'faved' by traditionalists and pop fans alike, deftly models her love of God and neighbor in concrete terms, and stands boldly for Truth and Good. This beloved, enigmatic, mild-mannered spinster, champions the triumph of order over chaos in society, through her...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"This book describes in detail how music and sound function as a constituent part of the prestige combat film's larger work of memorialization in the cultural realm of commercial cinema. As Rikke Schubart and Anne Gjelsvik note, historians must deal with 'the complexity of history, war, heroism, patriotism, memory, and the process of their representation.' Hymns for the Fallen traces an expressive sonic continuity in this 'process of representation'...
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Publisher
Wits University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (488 pages)
Language
English
Description
This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives-historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as varied as: the role of print cultures in contests over the nature of the colonial public sphere in the nineteenth century; orthography; iimbongi, orature...
Author
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (89 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Poetry talks to the heart as well as the head. It can move us, make us think and guide us. This book explores how poetry can help develop a Pathworking through exploring wisdom hidden in plain view. It is a look at creative processes, inspirations, how nature and the Divine move us - and how to apply this on a personal level to Pagan Pathworking."--
Author
Publisher
Wits University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (344 pages)
Language
English
Description
The Bleek and Lloyd Collection consists of the notebooks in which William Bleek and Lucy Lloyd transcribed and translated the narratives, cultural information and personal histories told to them in the 1870's by a number of /Xam informants. It represents a rare and rich record of an indigenous language and culture that no longer exists. The /Xam materials have exerted a fascination for anthropologists and poets alike. They are compromised, mysterious,...
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