Telling the Real Story
Genre and New Zealand Literature
Published on 14. December 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
386 pages
978-1-77656-085-1 (ISBN)
Description
By rereading canonical texts and exploring writers who have been sidelined because of their use of non-realist elements, this book exposes the interplay of realism, Gothic, fantasy, romance and melodrama within New Zealand narratives and demonstrates that the realist monolith of the national literature is infinitely more exciting than it may seem.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wellington
New Zealand
Publishing group
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77656-085-1 (9781776560851)
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Erin Mercer is Lecturer in the School of English and Media Studies at Massey University where she teaches courses on American and New Zealand literature, and Young Adult Fiction. She is the author of Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature (Palgrave 2011) and In Johnsonville or Geraldine: An Introduction to New Zealand Literature (Pearson 2013). Erin is the New Zealand Deputy Officer for the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (GANZA) and sits on the Advisory Board for the Popular Culture Research Centre at AUT.