Research Catalog

Title

Barbed wire & mirrors : essays on New Zealand prose / Lawrence Jones.

Author

Jones, Lawrence

Publication

Dunedin, N.Z. : University of Otago Press, 1990.

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Details

Description

388 p.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Te Whenua series: Pacific people, land, and literature ; no. 3.

Uniform Title

Whenua series no. 3.

Alternative Title

Barbed wire and mirrors.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1900-1990
• New Zealand fiction > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-370) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The persistence of realism : Dan Davin, Noel Hilliard, and recent New Zealand stories -- New Zealand realism : retrospect and prospect -- Frank Sargeson and the making of the tradition -- The Sargeson tradition. Out from under my uncle's hat : Gaskell, Middleton and the Sargeson tradition ; O.E. Middleton's short novels ; Owen Marshall and the Sargeson tradition -- Dan Davin -- Maurice Duggan -- Maurice Shadbolt -- Maurice Gee -- Ronald Hugh Morrieson and post-provincial fiction -- Simple realism : history and autobiography -- Some recent domestic realism -- Helen Shaw, Russell Haley, and the other tradition -- Janet Frame : no cowslip's bell in Waimaru : the personal vision of Owls do cry -- Michael Morrissey and postmodernism -- James McNeish's Mackenzie -- Robert de Roo's Through the eye of the thorn -- Modernism, myth, and postmodernism : Keri Hulme and C.K. Stead -- The bone people and All visitors ashore -- Stanley Graham and the several faces of man alone -- Autobiography 1973-85 : the one story, the two ways of telling, and the three perspectives.

ISBN

• 090856953X
• 090856953x (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 25564589
• SCSB-11388778

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library