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The Reader As Writer and the Writer As Critic
Published on 1. October 2013
448 pages
978-1-77558-028-7 (ISBN)
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 readers to get closer to the mind of the writer, his strong personal views about other writers, and his deep commitment to the role of criticism in literary life.
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Auckland University Press
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C. K. Stead is a leading figure in New Zealand literature. He is the author of The Black River, The New Poetic, The Singing Whakapapa, Visitors Ashor, and Yeats to Eliot. His novel, Smith's Dream, won a Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award and was later adapted as the film Sleeping Dogs.
Content
- Cover
- By the same author
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Epigraph
- Contents
- The Function of Criticism
- Part One: Shelf Life
- Fifty Years Ago: Some Images of the Young Poet and his Elders: Brasch, Curnow, Sargeson
- Janet Frame
- Discovering Poetry
- The Sweetshop Window: One New Zealand Writer's Engagement with French Language, Literature and Society
- A Poet's View
- Colin McCahon
- Ken Gill in Cancale
- On Reading and Writing
- On Teaching English
- Poetry and Politics (and a beating)
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- An Academic Colleague
- History as it Happens
- Men and Mansfield in Mansfield
- Two Parochial Pieces and a Postscript
- Christianity and Culture
- Letter from New Zealand
- Part Two: Third Person
- Michael King's History of New Zealand
- The Hoaxers Hoaxed: Ern Malley's Poems
- O'Harashbery!
- Robert Lowell - History as Happening
- A Life of David Ballantyne
- Proust meets Joyce (and some others)
- Thom Gunn - the Man in the Iron Mask
- Knox's Kiss
- Rushdie the Clown
- Craig Raine and History
- A Good War on the Inarticulate
- A Life of John Mulgan
- Part Three: First Person
- Travel Notes, 1999
- An Interview with a Croatian Journalist
- Travel Notes, 2000
- Travel Notes, 2003
- A War Story
- At Home and Abroad, 2006
- Interview with Gerri Kimber
- At Home, 2007
- Part Four: Lit Crit and Lit Hist
- The Actor and the Man of Action: Andrew Marvell's 'An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'
- Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Nineteenth-Century Sonneteer
- From Wystan to Carlos: Modern and Modernism in New Zealand Poetry
- Index
- A
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- C
- D
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- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
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