In the Glass Case
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Poet, novelist, critic and recorder C. K. Stead was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1932. From the late 1950s, he began to earn an international reputation as a poet and literary critic - his book The New Poetic (1964) has sold over 100,000 copies - and, later, as a novelist. He has published more than 40 books and received numerous honours recognising his contribution to literature, including a CBE (1974), an Honorary DLitt from the University of Bristol (2001), the Creative New Zealand Michael King Fellowship (2005), the Order of New Zealand (2007) and in 2009 the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction and the Montana New Zealand Book Award (Reference and Anthology) for his Collected Poems. In 2010 he won the world's richest short story award, the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award worth £25,000, and his poem 'Ischaemia' won the Hippocrates Prize (open section).
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Fiction
- Preliminary: What is Fiction? (1966)
- Katherine Mansfield: The Letters and Journals (1973/77)
- Katherine Mansfield: The Art of the 'Fiction' (1977)
- Frank Sargeson: Two Small Tributes (1965 and 1978)
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner: Living on the Grand (1981)
- John Mulgan: A Question of Identity (1979)
- Ronald Hugh Morrieson: The Man from Hawera (1971)
- Maurice Duggan: Language is Humanity (1980)
- David Ballantyne: Whimsical Losers (1979)
- Janet Frame: Language is the Hawk (1979)
- Part II: Poetry
- Preliminary: From Wystan to Carlos-Modern and Modernism in Recent New Zealand Poetry (1979)
- A. R. D. Fairburn: The Argument Against (1966)
- R. A. K. Mason: Bringing Disorder to Life (1963)
- Charles Brasch: A Lack of Umbrellas (1957)
- Allen Curnow: Poet of the Real (1963)
- Denis Glover: The Colony Lives On (1964)
- James K. Baxter
- (1) A Loss of Direction (1959)
- (2) Towards Jerusalem (1972)
- Hubert Witheford: Rhetoric and Wit (1968)
- Fleur Adcock: A Cool Intelligence (1971)
- David Mitchell: He Sing fr You (1972)
- Part III: A Poet's View
- For the Hulk of the World's Between (1961)
- A Poet's View (1974)
- On Quesada (1979)
- Dates of Authors who are the Subject of Individual Essays
- References
- Index
- Footnotes
- Introduction
- Chapter 02
- Chapter 03
- Chapter 05
- Chapter 06
- Chapter 07
- Chapter 09
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 22
- About the Author
- Back Cover
