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Quarrels with himself : essays on James K. Baxter as prose writer / edited by Peter Whiteford and Geoffrey Miles.
- Title
- Quarrels with himself : essays on James K. Baxter as prose writer / edited by Peter Whiteford and Geoffrey Miles.
- Publication
- Wellington [New Zealand] : Victoria University Press, 2017.
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| Text | Request in advance | PR9686.B35 Z825 2017 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 319 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "A dozen essays that uncover how much more complicated Baxter is than his popular stereotype, and how his prose writing (like his poetry) wrestles with contradictions, anxieties and competing impulses just as he wrestled with the society in which he lived, or from which he withdrew"--Back cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Essays
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Essays.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / John Weir -- Introduction / Geoffrey Miles -- No middle ground: Baxter's writing of the self / Janet Wilson -- 'Women are all mothers to him': displacing fear in James K. Baxter's short stories / Sharon Matthews -- 'There may be something wrong with my mind': the difficult journey of James K. Baxter's 'Ghost in Trousers' / Paul Millar -- 'Conversations with an ancestor': James K. Baxter's prose exploration of his personal poetic situation, 1966 / Lawrence Jones -- Baxter, academia and academic writing / John Davidson -- The incarnational formalist: the known habits of association in Baxter's criticism of poetry / Nicholas Wright -- Invisible boulder: Baxter among the Nationalists / Hugh Roberts -- That 'austere anti-aesthetic angel': Kames K. Baxter and Puritanism / Kristine Moffat -- Baxter and God: reflections / Paul Morris -- Kenosis: the difficult spirituality of James K. Baxter / Doreen D'Cruz -- Becoming the sore thumb of the tribe: the development of James K. Baxter's social voice / Peter Whiteford -- A Green Baxter: James K. Baxter and environmentalism / Greg O'Brien -- 'The rich and the poor': an unpublished essay by James K. Baxter / James K. Baxter.
- ISBN
- 9781776561711
- 1776561716
- OCLC
- 1006515373
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library